Yohta Kawase was born on December 28, 1969 in Kawasaki, Japan. He started his career as assistant director to Shozin Fukui in the 90s, but soon turned into acting. Currently, he has more than 150 films under his belt, most of which belong to the pinku genre. His latest works include “Blank 13” by Takumi Saitoh, “Demolition Girl” by Genta Matsugami and “A Balance” by Yujiro Harumoto, which premiered at the latest Berlinale.
We speak with him about his prolific career, acting in pink films, Takahisa Zeze, Yutaka Ikejima and Daisuke Goto, the latest generation of Japanese directors, his latest work, “Rageaholic” and many other topics.
Translated from Japanese by Lukasz Mankowski
You started your career in pinku films and you have won many awards for your performances. How did that come about and how was your experience of acting in those films? Was it difficult acting in all those sex scenes?
I actually...
We speak with him about his prolific career, acting in pink films, Takahisa Zeze, Yutaka Ikejima and Daisuke Goto, the latest generation of Japanese directors, his latest work, “Rageaholic” and many other topics.
Translated from Japanese by Lukasz Mankowski
You started your career in pinku films and you have won many awards for your performances. How did that come about and how was your experience of acting in those films? Was it difficult acting in all those sex scenes?
I actually...
- 4/4/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Trading platform enables buyers to select films, negotiate rights with sellers, sign contracts and request deliverables directly.
Yokohama-based digital rights trading outfit, Filmination, has launched a platform to provide global VOD acquisitions executives with the ability to buy Japanese films and TV series directly from rights holders.
The site, filmination.jp, builds on the company’s previous browsable catalogue of Japanese films available to global VOD buyers, launched in January 2019. The new platform provides a bilingual marketplace ecosystem, through which buyers can select films, negotiate rights with sellers, sign contracts and request deliverables directly.
Japanese films currently have low penetration on international VOD services,...
Yokohama-based digital rights trading outfit, Filmination, has launched a platform to provide global VOD acquisitions executives with the ability to buy Japanese films and TV series directly from rights holders.
The site, filmination.jp, builds on the company’s previous browsable catalogue of Japanese films available to global VOD buyers, launched in January 2019. The new platform provides a bilingual marketplace ecosystem, through which buyers can select films, negotiate rights with sellers, sign contracts and request deliverables directly.
Japanese films currently have low penetration on international VOD services,...
- 8/18/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Genta Matsugami was born in Hiroshima in 1981, he graduated from the Osaka University of Arts. His diploma film “Sanketsu no umi” received the Spectators Award at Pia Film Festival in 2005. He founded a production company 16 bit. inc. “Demolition Girl” is his feature debut.
On the occasion of “Demolition Girl” screening at Five Flavours, we speak with him about his career, the institution of family, stepping on various objects, ending a film properly and many other topics.
You started your career by winning an award at Pia. How did that help your career?
There was no direct influence to “Demolition Girl” but the main staff of that film was also in this movie, and this relationship was definitely helpful.
The film portrays the institution of family as declining. Can you elaborate on this?
I feel that the whole system revolving around the institution of family is problematic, for example the assistance...
On the occasion of “Demolition Girl” screening at Five Flavours, we speak with him about his career, the institution of family, stepping on various objects, ending a film properly and many other topics.
You started your career by winning an award at Pia. How did that help your career?
There was no direct influence to “Demolition Girl” but the main staff of that film was also in this movie, and this relationship was definitely helpful.
The film portrays the institution of family as declining. Can you elaborate on this?
I feel that the whole system revolving around the institution of family is problematic, for example the assistance...
- 11/27/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Overcoming adversity and learning to stand on your own two feet is far from an original story in cinema and clichés perhaps become a little unavoidable. Genta Matsugami takes on the narrative from a feminist perspective for his debut feature, as a young woman seeks to take control of her life in a world of endlessly feeble men.
“Demolition Girl” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The opening credits look like some sort of foot fetish porn. And that’s exactly what they are. Soon-to-be-eighteen Cocoa (Aya Kitai) has been working with her older brother’s former comedy partner Kazuo (Hiroki Ino) in shooting videos. Largely involving crushing or playing with things with her feet, the shoots themselves are fairly harmless, but once packaged and passed-on to Kazuo’s yakuza contacts, they are sold as fetish porn to willing customers.
It’s a quick buck for Cocoa, who...
“Demolition Girl” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The opening credits look like some sort of foot fetish porn. And that’s exactly what they are. Soon-to-be-eighteen Cocoa (Aya Kitai) has been working with her older brother’s former comedy partner Kazuo (Hiroki Ino) in shooting videos. Largely involving crushing or playing with things with her feet, the shoots themselves are fairly harmless, but once packaged and passed-on to Kazuo’s yakuza contacts, they are sold as fetish porn to willing customers.
It’s a quick buck for Cocoa, who...
- 11/16/2019
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
International premiere of “Flowers of Evil”, Hong Kong “Fagara” as the opening film, and Japanese “Bone Born Bone” at the closure of Five Flavours 13th edition!
This year, as always, the festival will provide an opportunity to discover original voices of young and recognized directors from South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand or Vietnam. We will explore the charms and ills of Japanese peripheries: its harbour cities, outskirts and marginal territories. We will watch films highly appreciated by festival juries. Special consideration will be given to Hong Kong which today is experiencing a serious political crisis: our guest will be Fruit Chan, a star of its independent cinema. However, the Programme has also a place for juicy genre cinema: horror, action, perverse comedies are an ideal remedy for the November weather in Warsaw.
Here is the Programme in its strands:
New Asian Cinema
Like every year the competition section presents challenging, daring films,...
This year, as always, the festival will provide an opportunity to discover original voices of young and recognized directors from South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand or Vietnam. We will explore the charms and ills of Japanese peripheries: its harbour cities, outskirts and marginal territories. We will watch films highly appreciated by festival juries. Special consideration will be given to Hong Kong which today is experiencing a serious political crisis: our guest will be Fruit Chan, a star of its independent cinema. However, the Programme has also a place for juicy genre cinema: horror, action, perverse comedies are an ideal remedy for the November weather in Warsaw.
Here is the Programme in its strands:
New Asian Cinema
Like every year the competition section presents challenging, daring films,...
- 10/25/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Platform will screen features The Elephant Queen, Hala at Sicilian festival.
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in on behalf of Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.
The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and highlight the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
Apple will screen two of its films at the festival. Mark Deeble...
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in on behalf of Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.
The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and highlight the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
Apple will screen two of its films at the festival. Mark Deeble...
- 6/14/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Platform will screen features The Elephant Queen, Hala at Sicilian festival.
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in to discuss Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.
The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and talk about the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in to discuss Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.
The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and talk about the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
- 6/14/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Sicilian festival will screen the first TV series in its 65-year history.
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will screen the first TV series in its 65-year history, Apple TV+’s forthcoming drama Truth Be Told.
Apple will offer a first-look at the series, which will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Octavia Spencer will come to Taormina to present the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
Apple will also show preview footage of See starring Alfre Woodard, and The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston,...
The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will screen the first TV series in its 65-year history, Apple TV+’s forthcoming drama Truth Be Told.
Apple will offer a first-look at the series, which will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Octavia Spencer will come to Taormina to present the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.
Apple will also show preview footage of See starring Alfre Woodard, and The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston,...
- 6/14/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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