LINDA LINDA LINDA Review: A True Modern Masterpiece, Now In 4K
LINDA LINDA LINDA opens in theaters on September 5 from GKIDS!
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LINDA LINDA LINDA Reclaims The Stage In 4K In 2025
The 2005 film is directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine
CONFESSION Presents A Chilling Showdown In The First Trailer For Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Live-Action Suspense Thriller
Taking its cues from Kodansha’s 2001 manga hit, Let’s Go Karaoke! director Nobuhiro Yamashita’s latest is Confession, a wintery murder thriller set to arrive in May from Gaga Corporation. The Mole Song trilogy star Toma Ikuta stars in the film along with #Manhole co-star Nao, and South Korean transplant Yang Ik-joon who’s appeared in Believer 2, and Yoshiyuki Kishi’s back-to-back twofer, Wilderness with Masaki Suda. Jiyong gets seriously injured in a blizzard during a mountain trek with Asai, an old friend from college. Facing death, Jiyong confesses that he killed Asai’s ex-girlfriend Sayuri who went missing 16 years ago. The wind suddenly weakens, however, and the two find an empty hut nearby. Having escaped the freeze, Jiyong now demands Asai to confess his own sins. Altitude-sickened Asai is driven into a corner when he vaguely sees Jiyong approaching him with a knife in hand… Gaga is also handling international sales […]
LET’S GO KARAOKE!: Go Ayano Croons A Screeching Tune In The Hilarious New Teaser Trailer
Manga author Yama Wayama’s 2020 Beam Comics/KADOKAWA publication is now in the hands of distributor Kadokawa for the upcoming January release of live-action comedy adaptation, Let’s Go Karaoke!. Nobuhiro Yamashita directs a cast featuring Go Ayano and Jun Saito, from a script by Akiko Nogi. In Let’s Go Karaoke!, the story centers on Satomi Oka (Saito) a middle schooler petrified for his upcoming choir competition. He soon finds himself in an oddball partnership, giving one-on-one lessons to Kyoji Narita (Ayano), a fearless gangster desperate to win his boss’s karaoke singing competition to avoid a terrifying prospect: a tattoo to be selected and torturously applied by the boss himself. Also starring are Kyoko Yoshine, Jun Hashimoto, Kyosuke Yabe, Shuhei Yoshinaga, Chance Oshiro, Red Rice, Yagi Miki, Hiroki Okabe, Ryotaro Yonemura, and Kazuki Kitamura.
NYAFF Review: Nobuhiro Yamashita’s HARD-CORE Spotlights The Mechanics Of Being Alive
Nobuhiro Yamashita takes on artful drama with a sci-fi twist in Hard-Core, based on Takashi Imashiro’s 1993 manga, and marking Yamashita’s own debut foray into sci-fi. It’s pretty much a slow-burn process to work through but the characters in their iteration here are made interesting enough that you’re compelled for the most part to stick with it to the end. We meet our lead character in Ukon (Takayuki Yamada), a scruffy, down-and-out barfly whose wayward path eventually lands him employment with an aging nationalist named Kaneshiro (Takuzo Kibukukuri), who wants to re-educate today’s youth. He finds friendship in Ushiyama (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa), a kindhearted mute, and the two are then-led to a cave in the Gunma Prefecture where they’re commissioned to dig for Shogun’s buried gold. The two share a room together near an abandoned factory whereupon during one evening, Ushiyama discovers what he thinks at first is a corpse. He […]