Muscle Heat and Shinobi: Heart Under Blade director Ten Shimoyama is back with a brand new drift-racing thriller with Alivehoon. The film stars Shuhei Nomura, Ai Yoshikawa and Takanori Jinnai, and is set to open in Japan from June 16 from Aeon Entertainment.
Liz Shackleton at Screen International Magazine reports that actress Yu Aoi will star in an untitled war drama from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata, To The Ends Of The Earth). Sales outlet Nikkatsu has the rights for the project set in Kobe, Japan in 1940 when a merchant witnesses a conspiracy and decides to take action, and his wife tries to stop him in order for his protection.
Just above is the first official photo out of FilMart for Nikkatsu’s latest world sales acquisition, Rise Of The Machine Girls. This one has nostalgia written all over it if you’re like me living in America and were once enraptured by the all-consuming line-up of gonzo Japanese sci-fi action and gore titles fresh from Media Blasters and its niche shingles – It’s the label that got me started on collecting DVDs in the early 2000s before the company dissolved in 2012, and yeah, I miss it.
Celebrated auteur Tsukamoto Shinya’s latest Kaijyu Theater offering, Zan, is currently poised for a Japan release later this year. In the meantime, attendees for the 75th Venice International Film Festival will get first dibs following the festival’s August 31 launch.
Remember the first teaser for Killers, the latest Indo-Japanese action horror thriller from co-directors Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto (dubbed accordingly as “The ‘Mo’ Brothers”) from October? Well, December is here as we are just weeks away from the film’s upcoming four-night premiere at next month’s Sundance Film Festival, and Twitchfilm just forwarded one of two new posters, in addition to the latest trailer from co-production company Nikkatsu, which, among other things, delivers in terrific, gut-wrenching, skin-slicing, repeat-stabbing, vehicular manslaughtering, freefalling and blood-letting fashion.
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