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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:12 am Post subject:
in production set for Spring 2006 release...
Hana Yori mo Naho
The time is 1702.
A young samurai, Aoki Sozaemon (Okada Junichi) has left his countryside hometown, and is now living in Edo (now Tokyo), in search of Kanazawa Jubei (Asano Tadanobu), the man who killed his father.
He is living in a dilapidated tenement house, in the poor quarters of the city of Edo. His neighbors in the so-called "row houses" are all good, solid folk who can never even hope to rise out of the squalor of their surroundings. Sozaemon, the provincial samurai, becomes friends with a variety of characters including a habitual drunk, an unsuccessful would-be petty official, a ragman, a perky girl, a doctor, and a scrivener. As the relationships between the characters unfold we are led deeper in the blossoming love story of Sozaemon and the beautiful widow, Osae (Miyazawa Rie).
Although he has never forgot his task to find his father's enemy and to succeed in his vengeance, being around Osae and her son, Sozaemon feels a warm feeling inside, which leads to doubts about the entire act of revenge. However, to walk away from the "revenge-act (ADAUCHI)", could actually bring his entire family down, not only without the reward from the Shogun, but also, as a samurai, to be unsuccessful on revenge would be an act of cowardice, and a disgrace to the entire family name.
Sozaemon, still not being able to decide on if he should take the act of revenge, goes on with his everyday life, teaching the neighborhood children mathematics, reading and writing. He wonders whether he can ever enjoy life without the specter of revenge and swordplay.
With the discovery of the rich meaningful life rather than the meaningless death of a warrior, Sozaemon, together with his strange friends at the tenement row house, decides to plot an act of the lifetime...
A young samurai, Aoki Sozaemon (Okada Junichi) has left his countryside hometown, and is now living in Edo (now Tokyo), in search of Kanazawa Jubei (Asano Tadanobu), the man who killed his father.
He is living in a dilapidated tenement house, in the poor quarters of the city of Edo. His neighbors in the so-called "row houses" are all good, solid folk who can never even hope to rise out of the squalor of their surroundings. Sozaemon, the provincial samurai, becomes friends with a variety of characters including a habitual drunk, an unsuccessful would-be petty official, a ragman, a perky girl, a doctor, and a scrivener. As the relationships between the characters unfold we are led deeper in the blossoming love story of Sozaemon and the beautiful widow, Osae (Miyazawa Rie).
Although he has never forgot his task to find his father's enemy and to succeed in his vengeance, being around Osae and her son, Sozaemon feels a warm feeling inside, which leads to doubts about the entire act of revenge. However, to walk away from the "revenge-act (ADAUCHI)", could actually bring his entire family down, not only without the reward from the Shogun, but also, as a samurai, to be unsuccessful on revenge would be an act of cowardice, and a disgrace to the entire family name.
Sozaemon, still not being able to decide on if he should take the act of revenge, goes on with his everyday life, teaching the neighborhood children mathematics, reading and writing. He wonders whether he can ever enjoy life without the specter of revenge and swordplay.
With the discovery of the rich meaningful life rather than the meaningless death of a warrior, Sozaemon, together with his strange friends at the tenement row house, decides to plot an act of the lifetime...
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:33 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Excellent.
This is a movie, ne? Who's the director?
I love Japanese period films.
yes, a theatrical release film...
well rie miyazawa has proven she "kills" those roles...i love her acting...i STILL think, in my perhaps limited frame of reference, she is the best female actress in japan...
info on the director...
"Nobody Knows" is the fourth feature film directed by Hirozaku Kore-eda. The first,"Maborosi," won the Golden Osella at the 1995 Venice Film Festival. His highly successful follow-up, 1999�fs �gAfter-life,�h is currently being adapted into an American film by 20th Century Fox.
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Kore-eda graduated from the Literature Department of Waseda University in 1987. He joined TV Man Union, an independent television production company, where he directed many prize-winning documentaries. Among them are "However...," a film exploring the suicide of a top government official responsible for the welfare of Minamata mercury poisoning victims, "Another Education," about a class of rural elementary school children whose education is centered around raising a single calf, "August Without Him," a portrait of the first Japanese man to publicly announce his contraction of AIDS, and �gWithout Memory,�h a portrait of a man no longer able to acquire new memories.
Kore-eda is currently working on "Hana Yori Mo Naho," his first period film. Set in the Edo era, "Hana Yori Mo Naho" will explore the world of swordsmen and revenge.
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