shingo soejima

KIGURUMI BLADE Strikes Again With A New Trailer Ahead Of Osaka Screenings!

Director Shingo Soejima and his team have alotted weeklong screenings at Osaka’s Theater Seven venue for his latest whimsical assassin thriller, Kigurumi Blade, from November 18. Soejima, who won the crowd over during last year’s JFFH run for his feature debut, Eleven Greed, directs Kigurumi Blade from a script he wrote with Kunihiko Okamoto, and produced with Kazuki Maeda. Somewhere in sometime in Japan, maybe… A boy “KAKERU” spend to normal life in middle high school. Suddenly he kidnaped by Yakuza. He saved by “Moo” wearing the KIGURUMI in the deep mountain. Why “Moo” saved me? Why the Yakuza to kidnaped me? “KAKERU” has no idea. “Moo” bring around the boy by blue mercedess to the city. They will found the truth and the fate in the city. It’s a fantagic hardcore action movie from Japan, maybe… Kigurumi Blade stars Harumi Kasamatsu and Yasushin Nakazawa, with action sequences by Akira […]

Adorable Cosplay Fashions With Deadly Intent In KIGURUMI BLADE Teaser!

Lee B. Golden III

Director Shingo Soejima continues to make moves this year after winning audiences over with his most recent local release, Eleven Greed. His latest effort, Kigurumi Blade, is now on the way and as of February with teaser footage and poster art that’s all the more menacing for a dark, gritty gangster thriller with killer action and spectacle to cosign. Soejima directs from a script he wrote with Kunihiko Okamoto for a story that centers on a mysterious cosplay assassin who protects a boy being targeted by a major organization. The cast is led by Harumi Kasamatsu and Yasushin Nakazawa, with action sequences by Akira Ogiwara and key stunts by Haruka Kitagaki in the killer suit that serves as titular to the film’s creative direction. The film is due for release sometime close to the Fall in Japan so do stick around and let’s hope more info and opportunities come for […]

ELEVEN GREED: Catch The Latest Trailers For Shingo Soejima’s Debut Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

After circulating audiences for Lighthouse over in New Jersey, as well as at events in Montreal and then in Las Vegas for AOF/MegaFest last year, Japanese independent filmmaker Shingo Soejima’s new movie, Eleven Greed, is currently one in a batch of several films set to screen this summer, just in time for the 23rd Japan Film Fest Hamburg. Dirty police officer Hyodo who is covered in debt. He gets information on stimulant transactions and plans to rob cash from the scene. Around that time, the cordinator “Yuriko” decides to hire a mysterious petite woman as a bodyguard. Transactions with smugglers rampaging in the Asian seas will take place four days later … Heading to the ruins for drugs trading, with their own “greed”. Soejima has multiple shorts to his credit with Eleven Greed marking his first foray in the feature department. Several trailers have already begun making the rounds since […]