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Gangster Thriller HiGH&LOW: THE RED RAIN Gets A Full Trailer

If there is one international film franchise I would love to see cross over, it’s that of the HiGH&LOW franchise. Having launched last year exclusively in Japan via NTV and Hulu through this past Spring, the folks over at LDH, Inc. and the creatives within Japanese super pop group, EXILE TRIBE, have exhibited nothing short of an amazing array of stunt talent to highlight the action that entails this sprawling gangster drama from director Kubo Shigeaki who directed the July feature film, HiGH&LOW: The Movie. This week, we’re about keep going even further with the latest treatmnent from Deadball and Chromartie High: The Movie helmer Yamaguchi Yudai. HiGH&LOW: The Red Rain follows up the epic action and drama with a spin-off into one other aspect of this latest musical action movieverse – all started from the tale of a town embroiled in gang warfare after splitting into five different gangs. […]

Watch The Teaser For EXILE Gangster Saga Sequel, HiGH&LOW: The Red Rain

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This October, the saga continues the epic action-packed spectacle of EXILE TRIBE’s two season HiGH&LOW: The Story Of S.W.O.R.D. series and the feature film in July. A teaser has already begun circulating for a while now with Deadball and Chinyuki helmer Yamaguchi Yudai in the director’s chair for HiGH&LOW: The Red Rain, and it doesn’t dole out much, but it measures all the same in intensity and excitement as the franchise has done so far. SYNOPSIS: The Amamiya Brothers, Masaki (EXILE Takahiro) and Hiroto (J-Soul Brothers’s Hiroomi Tosaka), keep looking for their older brother Takeru (Takumi Saito) who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost their parents when they were young. Since then, they relied only on each other. On the anniversary of their parents’ death, Masaki and Hiroto expect Takeru to appear. Instead, they meet a person who has a clue on Takeru’s whereabouts. Why did Takeru […]

BIFFF 2015: Watch The Newest Trailer For THE NINJA WAR OF TORAKAGE

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Nishimura Yoshihiro, director of several Sushi Typhoon titles including Tokyo Gore Police (2008) and Mutant Girls Squad (2010) is on par for a June release of his latest period fantasy slasher, The Ninja War Of Torakage. In the meantime, the film will be joined among a slate of others for its forthcoming screening next month at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival between the 7th and the 19th, and as such, the official trailer for the event is up and making the rounds beneath the following description. Retired from ninja duty, Torakage lives a peaceful life in a small village with his wife and son. One day, Torakage’s son is kidnapped by his former master in an attempt to force him to break into a nearby castle and steal the Gold Scroll, the counterpart to her Silver Scroll, the two of which when brought together point the way to a […]