Japanese Movies/Discussion/Recommendations

pcmodem wrote:Howdy,
This is perhaps the only Japanese film for which I'll say this, but I do recommend watching Howl's Moving Castle in the English language dub.

The reason for this is that the English voice recordings are of extremely high quality, recorded at Skywalker Ranch (as in George Lucas' studios), by the legendary Jean Simmons and Lauren Bacall. The irrepressible Billy Crystal and Christian Bale round out the American voice talent.

In particular, Billy Crystal stole the show. He was unbelievably funny.

FYI, that's KimuTaku's voice as Haru (Howl) in the Japanese version.



Cheers, :drink:
PCM

did christian bale speak in a normal voice or was it his deep growly batman one? :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:Okay i don't know if this is taboo..but i've provided links here on more than one occassion for doramas or films.....i've been looking for a torrent for the movie "Haru no Yuki" starring Yuko Takeuchi & Satoshi Tsumabuki.

anybody got any leads on that tip? the only torrent i found was for a RMVB file of the movie which i'm not interested in....

im also looking for this..
can some1 help? :shamefulcry:

Tu_triky wrote:Nana the Sequel


All shy and modest now


FANS of Aoi Miyazaki can forget about seeing her reprise her role in the sequel of the hit movie Nana.

In it, she played a naive girl, Nana, who met a rocker babe also named Nana (Mika Nakashima) in Tokyo.

Talk has it that Aoi, 21, turned down the sequel as she was uncomfortable with doing too many bed scenes.

Ironically, Aoi had already stripped for a film in 1999, but only her bare back was shown as she ran through a field.

Actress Yui Ichikawa will take her place as Nana in the sequel.

But Aoi probably doesn't mind missing out on Nana 2 as she already has six films on hand.

That's a shame because Aoi Miyazaki is a good actress, but hey... we get Yui Ichikawa. :hehe:

I was looking at movies to see cause I'm lucky enough to live in a town with a weird Asian Film Festival called Fantasia. :mrgreen: :woot: I wanted to see something called Meatball Machine (Miitobooru mashiin) until I saw the trailer. The most violent movie I've ever seen. Check the trailer if you want to. (If you don't mind blood) :dead:

The filmfs absurdist premise concerns the less-than-happy arrival of alien life on our planet, not quite new terrain for cinema butc wait. The good news is that the aliens have not come to Earth with grandiose plans for world domination or anything of that magnitude. No, these particularly bent extraterrestrials have come to our planet with only one purpose – to eat each other! The bad news, as far as citizens of Earth are concerned, is that in their quest to do this, the aliens violently (and very invasively) take control of human bodies in order to mutate them into shrieking, bleeding weapons of mass destruction through which to wage street fights with one another!

**Ultra violent*** 18 or older.
http://www.cinebel.be/video/hig/fr15725.asx

Director: Yudai Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamamoto
Cast: Aoba Kawai, Ayano Yamamoto, Issei Takahashi, Shoichiro Masumoto, Toru Tezuka.

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tabana wrote:I was looking at movies to see cause I'm lucky enough to live in a town with a weird Asian Film Festival called Fantasia. :mrgreen: :woot: I wanted to see something called Meatball Machine (Miitobooru mashiin) until I saw the trailer. The most violent movie I've ever seen. Check the trailer if you want to. (If you don't mind blood) :dead:

The filmfs absurdist premise concerns the less-than-happy arrival of alien life on our planet, not quite new terrain for cinema butc wait. The good news is that the aliens have not come to Earth with grandiose plans for world domination or anything of that magnitude. No, these particularly bent extraterrestrials have come to our planet with only one purpose – to eat each other! The bad news, as far as citizens of Earth are concerned, is that in their quest to do this, the aliens violently (and very invasively) take control of human bodies in order to mutate them into shrieking, bleeding weapons of mass destruction through which to wage street fights with one another!

**Ultra violent*** 18 or older.
http://www.cinebel.be/video/hig/fr15725.asx

Director: Yudai Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamamoto
Cast: Aoba Kawai, Ayano Yamamoto, Issei Takahashi, Shoichiro Masumoto, Toru Tezuka.

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yeah, kowaii...

they showed Azumi at the AX'06, and had a panel disccusion of the director in one of the conference rooms, but i missed out on it....

By the way, have you guys heard of the upcoming horror flick of Erika Sawajiri? I saw the trailer and it looks good, should give you some scare :mrgreen:

Saito_Hajime wrote:By the way, have you guys herd of the upcoming horror flick of Erika Sawajiri? I saw the trailer and it looks good, should give you some scare :mrgreen:

no, haven't yet...i cannot stand horror flicks, even if it is a japanese film....too kowaii.... :sweat:

qilver wrote:

no, haven't yet...i cannot stand horror flicks, even if it is a japanese film....too kowaii.... :sweat:

Even if there is a kawaii girl in a kowaii movie? :bonk:

Tu_triky wrote:i've been looking for a torrent for the movie "Haru no Yuki" ...

It looks like a nice 2 CD rip w/ Eng subs is currently at Fantastic Super Seeders (a members only site), with 9 seeds. http://fst.omnilounge.co.uk/

can anyone give me the torrent for the movie Suicide Circle? I've already found a torrent but it's only 702.88 MB big and that's not really enough to be the whole movie, right?

suave_yamapi wrote:can anyone give me the torrent for the movie Suicide Circle? I've already found a torrent but it's only 702.88 MB big and that's not really enough to be the whole movie, right?

That's big enough for the whole movie. The 1.36 gb versions, however, are better quality of course but it's definitely not bad.

Okay, so I FINALLY saw All About Lily Chou-Chou. Easily one of my favorite movies of all time.

š wrote:

It looks like a nice 2 CD rip w/ Eng subs is currently at Fantastic Super Seeders (a members only site), with 9 seeds. http://fst.omnilounge.co.uk/

only for members??
hihxixhxihxix :shamefulcry:

thanks anyway

Iv3_imt wrote:only for members??
hihxixhxihxix :shamefulcry:

It's not impossible to become a member :)
I don't know if membership is open at the moment, but they do open it and close it from time to time. So if you can't get in now, try again later.
It's probably one of the better trackers for asian movies.

i went there just now
and it closed for new members
it said that the quote was exceeded..
hihixhxihxxix

US Residents, Azumi is getting a limited release in theaters (~500) this weekend (Jul 21). In case you wanted to watch it on a large screen.

Watched Synesthesia last night. It was good and everybody with me liked it, as well as people in the subway. :mrgreen:

(Some copy/paste)
Director: Toru Matsuura
Screenplay: Yuji Sakamoto
Cast: Yosuke Eguchi, Aoi Miyazaki, Masanobu Ando, Ryuhei Matsuda, Hijiri Kojima
Producers: Kenzo Horikoshi, Atsuko Ono
Distributor: Shochiku Films

Description

"What you see is not what I see." Synesthesia is a statistically rare sensorial disorder in which the stimulation of one sense invokes the response of another. A person with this condition can taste a sound, smell a colour and so on. It is impossible for anyone who does not have this affliction to understand what synesthetes experience, condemning sufferers to perpetual feelings of alienation. Shinsuke (Swallowtail Butterflyfs Eguchi Yosuke) has been dealing with synesthesia his entire life, but has adapted enough social survival skills to mostly hide his condition from those around him. He has long held a fascination with a notorious killer who christened himself Picasso (Ryuhei Matsuda). Picasso has become legendary among certain underground subcultures for releasing a hypnotic video game through which players can be lulled into a trance state. He has used the game to induce a string of murders and suicides, and has at times even made deaths available for download online at the exact moment they were occurring. What particularly fascinates Shinsuke is the unusual visual signature the killer has left on his crime scenes. Shinsuke sees the mark quite differently than others do. He is convinced that it is a message designed to contact synesthetes. Shinsuke and his roommate take in a teenage runaway named Mari (Aoi Miyazaki) who arrives with a history of foster parents - each having died under mysterious circumstances. Everyonefs senses are about to be distorted.

Fans of early Kiyoshi Kurosawa, take note. First-time director Toru Matsuura has made one of the strongest and most poetic existential crime dramas in recent years. Synethesia is a film that challenges its audience and isnft afraid to take risks in its provocative explorations. It is an unusual, dream-like work, whose whisper-quiet tones create an almost otherworldly state of tranquility in the midst of continual, sometimes homicidal, disorder. Matsuurafs casting of Ryuhei Matsuda - a regular on the Fantasia screen of late, with unforgettable performances in Blue Spring, Otakus In Love, Izo and 9 Souls - as the filmfs shattered cyber-killer is nothing short of brilliant. Aoi Miyazakifs angelically melancholic performance is every bit as captivating. A mesmerizing and haunting discourse on loneliness, Synethesia marks the arrival of a fascinating new auteur. It will linger in your memory like the smell of purple, the taste of a rectangle or the colour of tears.

\Mitch Davis

source and trailer
Official page

Anyone watched or heard of Koala Kacho (Executive Koala)? link for more info

It looks really weird, but I don't know if it's weird funny or just plain weird.

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tabana wrote:Anyone watched or heard of Koala Kacho (Executive Koala)? link for more info

It looks really weird, but I don't know if it's weird funny or just plain weird.

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:hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

wha tha fug is that?????? that is hilarious looking...reminds me of a character on the anime Yakitate Japan....


edit: I'd love to get high and watch that...i bet i'd laugh for fuggin' dayssssss

tabana wrote:Anyone watched or heard of Koala Kacho (Executive Koala)? link for more info

It looks really weird, but I don't know if it's weird funny or just plain weird.

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:lol: :rofl:
I thought it was a cosplay :beaten: :hehe:

Weird isn't it? There's a rabbit and a frog too. :hehe:

I don't really understand what they say in the trailer, but there seems to be murders... I don't know why the guy is a koala. He must be ugly. :sweat: