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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:11 am Post subject:
Matsu Takako, Abe Sadao star as swindlers in Nishikawa Miwa�fs �gYume Uru Futari�h August 15, 2011
Director Nishikawa Miwa (�gDear Doctor,�h �gYureru�h) is working on a new movie titled �gYume Uru Futari,�h starring Matsu Takako and Abe Sadao.
Matsu and Abe play a married couple who run a small restaurant, but one day they lose their shop and all of their assets in a fire. Unable to give up their dream of running a restaurant, they are determined to do whatever it takes to raise enough money to start over. They ultimately decide to get that money through a series of marriage frauds, with the wife (Matsu) picking out the target women and devising the plans, while the husband (Abe) actually carries out the fraud.
Nishikawa has reportedly been working on the story since about 5 years ago. She researched for the movie by talking to women who had actually encountered marriage fraud and detectives who had investigated the incidents. She began writing the screenplay at the start of this year.
Filming will begin on August 20 and is expected to finish in early October. The movie is scheduled for release in Japan in autumn 2012.
In the past couple years, Matsu starred in the award-winning films �gKokuhaku�h and �gViyon no Tsuma.�h Abe�fs last starring movie role was in �gNakumonka�h in 2009, but he also had one of the lead roles in the hit television drama �gMarumo no Okite�h this past spring.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:40 pm Post subject:
gaijinmark wrote:
Matsu Takako, Abe Sadao star as swindlers in Nishikawa Miwa�fs �gYume Uru Futari�h August 15, 2011
Good for Matsu! I just caught an Eiga Sai 2011 screening of VILLON'S WIFE last night, and Matsu was even better here than in CONFESSIONS. Terrific ensemble cast, all the perfs blew me away. (But I'd never want to be any of the characters they portrayed, that's for sure. ) The whole movie feels like an existentialist play, a post-War Japan reimagining of "No Exit" or something. "Hell is other people," you know? Still, I could not rec this movie enufff
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject:
Ender's Girl wrote:
Good for Matsu! I just caught an Eiga Sai 2011 screening of VILLON'S WIFE last night, and Matsu was even better here than in CONFESSIONS. Terrific ensemble cast, all the perfs blew me away. (But I'd never want to be any of the characters they portrayed, that's for sure. ) The whole movie feels like an existentialist play, a post-War Japan reimagining of "No Exit" or something. "Hell is other people," you know? Still, I could not rec this movie enufff
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:04 am Post subject:
Watanabe Ken�fs supporting cast for �gHayabusa�h revealed
August 22, 2011
A press conference was held on Monday to reveal the main cast for the big-budget movie �gHayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan,�h which stars actor Watanabe Ken. Watanabe, who plays the project manager of the Hayabusa space probe, was on hand to introduce his fellow cast members.
Besides Watanabe, the film brings together Eguchi Yosuke, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Natsukawa Yui, Ozawa Yukiyoshi, Ishibashi Renji, Nakamura Yuri, Fuji Tatsuya, and Yamazaki Tsutomu.
Toei first announced details about the �gHayabusa�h movie this past May. Takimoto Tomoyuki is directing the film, which reportedly has a budget of 1.5 billion yen.
�gHayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan�h is scheduled to premiere in Japan on February 11, 2012.
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject:
Takakura Ken reunites with director Furuhata Yasuo for first film in 6 years
August 24, 2011
Takakura Ken is coming back to the big screen with his first film in roughly 6 years. He will play the lead role in �gAnata e,�h the latest movie from director Furuhata Yasuo. Furuhata previously directed several of Takakura�fs best known works, including �gPoppoya,�h �gYasha,�h and �gA, Un.�h
�gAnata e�h will be Takakura�fs 205th film, and his 19th working with Furuhata. The movie is based on a draft left behind by �gYasha�h and �gA, Un�h producer Ichiko Seichi, who died in 2008. Furuhata and screenwriter Aoshima Takeshi reworked the story, resulting in the current script.
Takakura plays the part of Kurashima Eiji, a guidance officer at a prison in the Hokuriku region. Believing that he would go through life single, he unexpectedly gets married just before the age of 50 to a singer named Yoko who visited the prison. However, the happy marriage ends 15 years later as Yoko passes away at the young age of 53. Eiji then receives a letter left by his wife, asking him to scatter her ashes in the sea of her hometown. Wondering why she never told him of her wish while she was alive, he sets out on a journey across Japan to Kyushu, driving in the camping car that they had planned to use for a trip around the country.
Cameras will begin rolling on September 7, and filming is expected to wrap up in mid-November. Theatrical release is planned for fall 2012.
Takakura Ken reunites with director Furuhata Yasuo for first film in 6 years
August 24, 2011
Takakura Ken is coming back to the big screen with his first film in roughly 6 years. He will play the lead role in �gAnata e,�h the latest movie from director Furuhata Yasuo. Furuhata previously directed several of Takakura�fs best known works, including �gPoppoya,�h �gYasha,�h and �gA, Un.�h
His role in Poppoya, a wistful elegaic film, was made-to-order for him, so much so that he won the Japan Academy award for Best Actor for his performance.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:21 am Post subject:
On August 30th, a special party celebrating the completion of the film adaptation of �gMoteki�h was held in Roppongi, Tokyo.
The movie stars actors Moriyama Mirai, who will play the movie�fs protagonist, as well as his co-stars Nagasawa Masami, Asou Kumiko, Naka Riisa, and Maki Youko. The story chronicles the experience of Fujimoto Yukiyo, a thirty-year-old temporary worker who has never had much luck with women but suddenly finds himself becoming very popular with the ladies. �gLast year up until this year was the most popular with ladies I�fd been in my entire life,�h Moriyama said jokingly.
�gMoteki�h was a regular series in the Kodansha serialization �gEvening�h from 2008 to 2010, and ended with a total of 180 chapter across four volumes. The manga inspired a successful drama series of the same name that aired for several months last year, and also featured Moriyama as the lead. For the movie adaptation, Fujimoto graduates from being a temporary work and starts a new life as a writer on a news site utilizing a completely original story written by Kobo Mitsurou himself. Now thirty-one years old, Fujimoto experiences yet another �gmoteki�h (period of time when one is popular with the opposite sex) and attracts four completely different women.
In the movie, Nagasawa Masami plays a cute magazine editor named Matsuo Miyuki who gets to know Fujimoto over Twitter, and also possesses a �gmurderous smile�h. Asou Kumiko will join in as Miyuki�fs close friend Masumoto Rumiko, a simple and naive woman who �greverse confesses�h to Fujimoto. Ai, a mysterious woman who works at a girls bar and �greverse proposes�h to the lucky main character, will be played by Naka Riisa. Lastly, Maki Youko will charm viewers with her character Karaki Motoko, a woman with a vicious mouth and a propensity for dirty jokes.
The main theme song is titled �gDisco�g, and will be provided by Jooubachi. �gYoake no BEAT�g, the FUJIFABRIC song that served as the opening theme to the drama, will return for a reprise role as the opening track for the movie. �gIt�fs a movie so packed with J-POP and J-ROCK that you�fll enjoy how we ended up whittling it down,�h Moriyama said brightly about the upcoming film.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:40 am Post subject:
Takakura Ken�fs supporting cast in �gAnata e�h announced
Posted on September 26, 2011 by tokyograph
In August, it was revealed that legendary actor Takakura Ken is starring in a new film by director Furuhata Yasuo, titled �gAnate e.�h Today, his main supporting cast members were revealed, including Beat Takeshi, Tanaka Yuko, and SMAP member Kusanagi Tsuyoshi.
�gAnata e�h is a road movie about a guidance officer named Eiji (Takakura) at a prison in the Hokuriku region whose wife (Tanaka) passes away. Through a letter left behind, he learns of her wish to have her ashes scattered in the sea of her hometown in Kyushu. Wondering why she never mentioned it to him while she was alive, he sets out for Kyushu in their camping car.
Kusanagi and Sato Koichi play ika-meshi (squid stuffed with rice) merchants whom Eiji meets along the way. Yo Kimiko and Ayase Haruka play a mother and daughter working at a dining hall in a fishing village. Beat Takeshi has been given a mysterious role as a former middle school teacher.
The other announced cast members are Miura Takahiro, Otaki Hideji, Nagatsuka Kyozo, Harada Mieko, and Asano Tadanobu.
Beat Takeshi and Takakura�fs last movie together was in Furuhata�fs 1985 film �gYasha.�h Tanaka also appeared in that movie, and she later worked with Takakura and Furuhata again in the 2001 film �gHotaru.�h Sato previously acted with Takakura in the hit �gNankyoku Monogatari.�h Otaki has had the most acting experience with Takakura, as this will be their 11th film together.
�gAnata e�h is scheduled for release in fall 2012.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:02 am Post subject:
Tabe Mikako replaces Toda Erika in new �gLIAR GAME�h movie
October 5, 2011
The popular live-action drama series �gLIAR GAME�h is getting another theatrical film, it has been revealed. Matsuda Shota will reprise his role as the brilliant swindler Akiyama Shinichi. Although Toda Erika was the star of the drama series and the previous movie, Tabe Mikako will be playing the heroine of the new film.
Based on a manga by Kaitani Shinobu, the �gLIAR GAME�h drama series has had two seasons in 2007 and 2009. A theatrical movie was released in March 2010.
The new movie will retain the same basic concept of the series, but the lead character Kanzaki Nao (played by Toda) is being replaced with a similar character named Shinomiya (Tabe). Like Kanzaki, Shinomiya is an innocent college student who gets involved in a high-stakes game of deception. This time, the story is set on a deserted island where 19 players are competing for 2 billion yen.
Matsuyama Hiroaki will direct again. Filming starts on October 10, and theatrical release is scheduled for March 3, 2012.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject:
shin2 wrote:
Mediocre actors = mediocre results
This fits also the 2 movies I watched recently, Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe) and Gantz part one, both based on mangas.
Now the good thing about Ashita is that there is little dialogue (Yamashita Tomohisa has perhaps 15 lines - trust me that's a good thing) and lots of nicely filmed boxing scenes. The plot is so tired though, you can watch it regularly on National Geographic: the older bull gets killed by the younger hungry one.
Now Gantz, same thing great action scenes, terrible dialogues. Also it was super-softened down - the original is quite crude and cynical (slightly porn too), but instead we have the Johnny du jour saving the day Not sure if I will watch the second one.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:37 am Post subject:
Shida Mirai, Kawaguchi Haruna star in horror film �gPOV�h
October 11, 2011
Actresses Shida Mirai and Kawaguchi Haruna will co-star in a new horror film titled �gPOV ~Norowareta Film~,�h directed by Tsuruta Norio (�gRing 0: Birthday,�h �gOrochi�h). This is Kawaguchi�fs first time playing a lead role in a movie.
Shida and Kawaguchi will play themselves. The story begins to unfold during a taping for a TV show about spiritual phenomena, when an unplanned video begins playing on the monitors.
Settings for the movie include the actual junior high school that Kawaguchi graduated from.
The movie is scheduled for release in Japan on February 18, 2012. However, it has already been decided that the film will be screened in film festivals in Argentina and South Africa, and several offers have also come in from countries in southeast Asia.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:07 am Post subject:
Speaking of Ryoko and movies (which we were in another thread):
Uchida Kenji�fs next film stars Sakai Masato, Kagawa Teruyuki, Hirosue Ryoko
October 12, 2011
Movie director Uchida Kenji is working on his first film since �gAfter School�h in 2008, titled �gKagi Dorobou no Method.�h �gAfter School�h star Sakai Masato will again take on the lead role, this time supported by Kagawa Teruyuki and Hirosue Ryoko.
Described as a �gscrewball comedy,�h Uchida�fs new work revolves around a 35-year-old unemployed, aspiring actor named Sakurai who contemplates suicide after constantly facing setbacks. Before heading off to kill himself, he stops at a public bathhouse, where a well-to-do man named Kondo (Kagawa) collapses in front of his eyes and loses his memory. On a sudden impulse, he decides to swap their locker keys and assume Kondo�fs identity. But with his new identity, he soon finds himself involved in some trouble with the yakuza.
Meanwhile, the real Kondo, who now believes that he is Sakurai, meets a woman named Kanae (Hirosue) at the hospital, and their encounter gives him the opportunity to rebuild his life.
Uchida previously won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival with his 2005 film �gUnmei Janai Hito�h (�gA Stranger of Mine�h). His next film, �gAfter School,�h was a big success, grossing approximately 600 million yen at the box office even though it played in only 78 theaters.
�gKagi Dorobou no Method�h started filming on October 12 and will wrap up in late November. The movie is currently planned for a fall 2012 release.
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(But I'd never want to be any of the characters they portrayed, that's for sure. 
) The whole movie feels like an existentialist play, a post-War Japan reimagining of "No Exit" or something. 
Still, I could not rec this movie enufff 
