SAMURAI FURY Review: A Liberating Win For Yo Oizumi’s First Action Role
The film opens on Digital beginning Tuesday from Well Go USA.
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NYAFF XXIV Review: In SAMURAI FURY, Liberty Or Death!
Samurai Fury enjoyed its U.S. Premiere at the 24th New York Asian Film Festival.
THE LAST MAN: THE MOVIE Reunites Masaharu Fukuyama And Yo Oizumi For The Latest Feature Film Chapter
The film reunites the stars of the hit TBS drama which aired in April of 2023!
MUROMACHI OUTSIDERS: Well Go Acquires Yu Irie’s Latest Samurai Uprising Actioner For 2025 Release
Great news is abound for anyone fond of jidaigeki films and Japanese cinema in whole. That at certainly goes for director Yu Irie whose latest, Muromachi Outsiders, has just been snapped by Well Go USA for North America. Muromachi Outsiders is Irie, and based on the 2016 Shincho Bunko series of novels from multi-award winning author, Ryosuke Kakine. The cast is led by actor Yo Oizumi in his first action role, here as the savvy, vagrant leader of an uprising against the violent and corrupt powers that be in 15th century Kyoto. The film also stars “Naniwa Danshi” member Kento Nagao, and actors Akira Emoto, Wakana Matsumoto, and Shinichi Tsutsumi, along with Yuya Endo, Tomoya Maeno, Ami 201, Hannya, and Rina Takeda, along with Shingo Mizusawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Okito Serizawa, and more. News of the acquisition comes just after Irie’s latest bit of ceremony at the Toyko International Film Festival where […]
MUROMACHI OUTSIDERS: Yo Oizumi Leads Roaring Rebellion With A Smile In The Explosive Trailer
It’s been nearly a year since Toei revealed a behind-the-scenes featurette for 15th century sword slasher Muromachi Outsiders. A small teaser arrived in the summer revealing just a smidget of what’s in store with leading actor Yo Oizumi in his first-ever action role, and now we have an official trailer and poster to help pitch to the global chambara crowds ahead of a January 17 release in Japan. Kyoto, 1461. A devastating famine and plague simultaneously struck this area. The ruling powers remained inept, enjoying their wealth. Seeing the hellish landscape of Kyoto, a vagrant, Hasuda Hyoe, rallied outlaws and orchestrated an unprecedented riot against the colossal authority. Muromachi Outsiders is directed by Nemesis, Joker Game and Confession Of Murder director Yu Irie, and is based on the 2016 Shincho Bunko series of novels from multi-award winning author, Ryosuke Kakine. The movie also stars “Naniwa Danshi” member Kento Nagao, Akira […]
MUROMACHI BURAI: Yo Oizumi Takes On Fighting Form In Yu Irie’s Latest Novel Adaptation Coming In 2025
At least tentatively, Muromachi Burai is the name we can go on as we await the next sword slasher from Nemesis, Joker Game and Confession Of Murder director Yu Irie. The film stars Yo Oizumi (Kiba: The Fangs Of Fiction) in his first-ever action role, along with “Naniwa Danshi” member Kento Nagao (Rohan au Louvre), Akira Emoto (Egoist), Wakana Matsumoto (Pornographer: Playback), and Shinichi Tsutsumi (The Mole Song trilogy). Muromachi Burai is based on the 2016 Shincho Bunko publication, a series of novels from multi-award winning author, Ryosuke Kakine. Set in wartorn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe (Oizumi) a scoundrel whose lethal sword skills place him at the tip of the spear in a deadly uprising against the courrpt Shogunate and its army, led by former friend-turned-archrival, Doken (Tsutsumi). Among those rounding out the […]
Japan Cuts XV Review: KIBA: THE FANGS OF FICTION, The Politics Of Pageturner Pursuits
Author Takeshi Shiota’s titular 2016 novel is brought to life on the big screen in director Daihachi Yoshida’s new film, Kiba: The Fangs Of Fiction, entailing a story of internal scheming and struggle for a major print publishing giant in the wake of economic struggle in the digital era, and a corporate power vacuum ensued by sudden tragedy. It’s 2019, and the death of long-heralded golden age publisher Kunpu’s patriarch, Kinosuke Iba, is the latest addition to the pressure the company now faces in its efforts to get out of the red. Just then, savvy and smooth-talking magazine executive, Teruya Hayami (Yo Oizumi), makes his entrance to take the wheel of Kunpu’s culture imprint, Trinity, though his welcome is not without provocation by Kunpu’s newly installed CEO, Tomatsu (Koichi Sato), who decides to reintroduce Kunpu’s monthly output as a quarterly instead. Furthermore, it appears Tomatsu has other plans of his […]
Sato Shinshuke’s I AM A HERO Lands A U.S. Blu-Ray Combo Pack In July From Funimation
This summer will be a fantastic one for fans of director Sato Shinsuke. The director of Inuyashiki and upcoming Bleach will have some stateside traction with the Blu-Ray package release of I Am A Hero, based on Hanazawa Kengo’s 2009 serial manga and which earned wide acclaim since premiering at Sitges in 2015 before its Japan release the following year. Based on the celebrated horror manga I Am a Hero comes a live-action film adaptation that’s bound to get your blood flowing! Thirty-five-year-old assistant manga artist Hideo Suzuki leads an unsatisfying, tedious life. But when a virus outbreak hits Japan turning the infected into mindless cannibals, it’s his chance to become the hero he’s always daydreamed he could be, even if it kills him. Oizumi Yo (Tokyo Ghoul) stars along with Arimura Kasumi (Sekigahara) and Nagasawa Masami (Gintama, Gintama 2). FYI, it’s a SUB-ONLY deal, so if you’re like me […]