Coming-of-age dramas often focus on challenges that affect us all and how they can be overcome. But Yusuke Morii's “Amiko” focuses very much on a child that isn't like anyone else, and as such, those around her don't know how to deal with her, as a story of a unique life sees a unique comedy in a strong directorial debut.
Amiko (Kana Osawa) lives in a suburb of Hiroshima with her father (Arata Iura), pregnant mother (Machiko Ono) and older brother. They have what appears to be a very simple life of a young family, with a humble father, diligent mother and caring older brother for his eccentric and enthusiastic little sister. But tragic events strike, and the family all have their lives shaken up. All that is, apart from the naïve and bright-eyed Amiko.
While the rest of the family show clear signs of grief, Amiko is still...
Amiko (Kana Osawa) lives in a suburb of Hiroshima with her father (Arata Iura), pregnant mother (Machiko Ono) and older brother. They have what appears to be a very simple life of a young family, with a humble father, diligent mother and caring older brother for his eccentric and enthusiastic little sister. But tragic events strike, and the family all have their lives shaken up. All that is, apart from the naïve and bright-eyed Amiko.
While the rest of the family show clear signs of grief, Amiko is still...
- 3/9/2023
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
It is always a joyful event whenever a new film by director Shûichi Okita is released; you can count on it, you know you will get a gift of beauty and laugh. His latest work, “Mori, the Artist’s Habitat” is no exception. Based on a day in the real life of the eccentric artist Kumagai Morikazu, the film is a loving portrait of a content man.
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast,...
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
It is amusing to ponder just how stealthily life can imitate art and vice versa, happening right underneath our noses we are blind to its reflection whilst all those around us have grabbed a front row seat just to watch how it unfolds with popcorn in one hand and a beverage in the other. A stark reminder of how blurred the line between fiction and real life can be, one serving as a harbinger for the other, these encounters usually fall into two categories: a devastating disaster of which no one can avert their eyes from, or a heart-warming glimpse into the fairy-tale world we all wish our lives could be. Thankfully for Shuichi Okita’s latest offering, “One Summer Story”, its loveable cast of misfits practically living out their common ground – a tender anime about a magical plasterer – steers its story into the latter and, for the most part,...
- 11/21/2022
- by James Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
Shuichi Okita has made a name for himself by being one of the few filmmakers in Japan who continues to shoot films that are “in the middle”, neither big nor low-budget, and also for his quirky characters and occasional surrealism, both of which, though, are grounded in realism. “The Fish Tale” which is based on the autobiography of Sakana-kun, a celebrity ichthyologist, Youtuber, TV host, illustrator and all-around “fish ambassador” is another title that proves how much he has perfected this style.
“The Fish Tale“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take...
“The Fish Tale“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take...
- 11/18/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kicking off next week, Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan will present an essential look at the remarkable and overlooked contributions of women in contemporary Japanese cinema. “The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from Japan Cuts and Beyond,” which takes place November 11 through 20, focuses on the essential roles that female artists play from behind the camera in Japanese cinema—ranging from directing and screenwriting to production and cinematography. Ahead of the Aca Cinema Project series, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the festival trailer along with the announcement of the Closing Night selection.
Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75, a Cannes winner and Japan’s selection for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, will make its East Coast Premiere to close out the festival. The film imagines a near future in which Japan’s aging crisis has hit critical levels, resulting in a government initiative...
Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75, a Cannes winner and Japan’s selection for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, will make its East Coast Premiere to close out the festival. The film imagines a near future in which Japan’s aging crisis has hit critical levels, resulting in a government initiative...
- 11/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A city enjoying a spectacular growth spur and a metropolis dying out as we speak. A star looking for a way out from a deadly trap and a teenager determined to have a say in her own future. Japanese feel-good movies and terrifying horrors. As always, Five Flavours offers a full spectrum of moods, emotions, and themes. We announce the complete program of the Festival and kick off tickets sales!
Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is the annual review of the best cinema from East, Southeast, and South Asia organized in Poland. Since 2006, it presents the premieres of the newest, carefully selected films from the region, the classics from Asian archives, retrospectives of selected filmmakers, and reviews of national cinemas.
This year’s selection includes 39 meticulously chosen films, 30 of which will be available online, on the territory of Poland only. After the success of last year’s hybrid edition, Five...
Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is the annual review of the best cinema from East, Southeast, and South Asia organized in Poland. Since 2006, it presents the premieres of the newest, carefully selected films from the region, the classics from Asian archives, retrospectives of selected filmmakers, and reviews of national cinemas.
This year’s selection includes 39 meticulously chosen films, 30 of which will be available online, on the territory of Poland only. After the success of last year’s hybrid edition, Five...
- 10/26/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
A survey of the growing prominence and visibility of women in film, the latest Aca Cinema Project series The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers
from Japan Cuts and Beyond focuses on the essential roles that female artists play from behind the camera in Japanese cinema—ranging from directing and screenwriting to production and cinematography. Presenting an exciting array of screenings and premieres—that include
new mainstream and independent works from Japan Cuts alumni and rising talents alongside a classics selection—The Female Gaze offers a much-needed deep dive into the remarkable and overlooked contributions of women in contemporary Japanese cinema.
Kicking off on November 11 with the North American premiere of Japan Cuts favorite Akiko Ohku’s Wedding High followed by a post-screening discussion and Q&a with the filmmaker and an opening night party, The Female Gaze continues with the latest works of Japan Cuts alumni Riho Kudo (Orphan Blues) and...
from Japan Cuts and Beyond focuses on the essential roles that female artists play from behind the camera in Japanese cinema—ranging from directing and screenwriting to production and cinematography. Presenting an exciting array of screenings and premieres—that include
new mainstream and independent works from Japan Cuts alumni and rising talents alongside a classics selection—The Female Gaze offers a much-needed deep dive into the remarkable and overlooked contributions of women in contemporary Japanese cinema.
Kicking off on November 11 with the North American premiere of Japan Cuts favorite Akiko Ohku’s Wedding High followed by a post-screening discussion and Q&a with the filmmaker and an opening night party, The Female Gaze continues with the latest works of Japan Cuts alumni Riho Kudo (Orphan Blues) and...
- 10/22/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Shuichi Okita has made a name for himself by being one of the few filmmakers in Japan who continues to shoot films that are “in the middle”, neither big nor low-budget, and also for his quirky characters and occasional surrealism, both of which, though, are grounded in realism. “The Fish Tale” which is based on the autobiography of Sakana-kun, a celebrity ichthyologist, Youtuber, TV host, illustrator and all-around “fish ambassador” is another title that proves how much he has perfected this style.
The Fish Tale is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take home...
The Fish Tale is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take home...
- 9/11/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 16th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival will be held in a hybrid formula. Films will be screened in Warsaw at cinemas: Muranów and Kinoteka on 16-23rd November; and an online edition will last till December 4th. The program of the 16th edition of the festival is prepared by: Marcin Krasnowolski, Jakub Królikowski, Łukasz Mańkowski, Zofia Niziołek and Maja Pielak.
Water Tiger is a lunar patron of this year’s Five Flavours – it represents yang energy and symbolizes strength, vitality and confidence in action. All graphic projects were designed by Przemysław Ostaszewski.
The event is dedicated to the memory of the Five Flavours Team’s colleague and dearest friend Jagoda Murczyńska.
Here are the festival sections:
Retrospective: Edward Yang Yi Yi – A One and a Two
Retrospective: Edward Yang is the first Polish review of the work of the Taiwanese New Wave master. Still undiscovered by our audience, Yang...
Water Tiger is a lunar patron of this year’s Five Flavours – it represents yang energy and symbolizes strength, vitality and confidence in action. All graphic projects were designed by Przemysław Ostaszewski.
The event is dedicated to the memory of the Five Flavours Team’s colleague and dearest friend Jagoda Murczyńska.
Here are the festival sections:
Retrospective: Edward Yang Yi Yi – A One and a Two
Retrospective: Edward Yang is the first Polish review of the work of the Taiwanese New Wave master. Still undiscovered by our audience, Yang...
- 8/3/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Shuichi Okita, with a very personal style, delicate but assertive at the same time, has been able to make himself known and appreciated in the circuits of festivals and in less mainstream circles with films that are difficult to label, often defined as “dramedy” that is a mixture of drama and comedy. Like in “The Woodsman and The Rain”, “The Chef of South Polar” and “Mori: The Artist’s Habitat”, the backdrop of “The Mohican Comes Home” is also a small community on an imaginary island in the Soto Inland Sea, off the coast of Hiroshima, where Okita places one of his typical characters, always dazed and looking out of place.
on YesAsia
This time it is Eichiki (Ryuhei Matsuda), the titular “Mohican” (because of his haircut), who 7 years earlier had left his hometown for Tokyo, in search of work and fame in a death metal band.
on YesAsia
This time it is Eichiki (Ryuhei Matsuda), the titular “Mohican” (because of his haircut), who 7 years earlier had left his hometown for Tokyo, in search of work and fame in a death metal band.
- 8/2/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Shuichi Okita has made a name for himself by being one of the few filmmakers in Japan who continues to shoot films that are “in the middle”, neither big nor low-budget, and also for his quirky characters and occasional surrealism, both of which, though, are grounded in realism. “The Fish Tale” which is based on the autobiography of Sakana-kun, a celebrity ichthyologist, Youtuber, TV host, illustrator and all-around “fish ambassador” is another title that proves how much he has perfected this style.
“The Fish Tale” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take home...
“The Fish Tale” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Although a guy in reality, in the film “Meebo” is actually a girl, and a really eccentric and intense one for that, as she is obsessed with anything that has to do with fish since childhood, including drawing them and eating them. An incident with an octopus, which she gets from the sea and decides to take home...
- 7/25/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Thirteen North American premieres also added, including Next Sohee for closing night.
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled its third and final wave of titles, including nine world premieres and a closing night slot for Cannes Critics’ Week entry Next Sohee.
The festival has also announced the presentation of its Prix Denis-Heroux, recognising an exceptional contribution to genre and independent cinema in Quebec, to producer Pierre David, known for his collaborations with David Cronenberg, Jean-Claude Lord and other directors.
The new additions complete the line-up of more than 130 features and 200 shorts for this year’s Fantasia festival, which...
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival has unveiled its third and final wave of titles, including nine world premieres and a closing night slot for Cannes Critics’ Week entry Next Sohee.
The festival has also announced the presentation of its Prix Denis-Heroux, recognising an exceptional contribution to genre and independent cinema in Quebec, to producer Pierre David, known for his collaborations with David Cronenberg, Jean-Claude Lord and other directors.
The new additions complete the line-up of more than 130 features and 200 shorts for this year’s Fantasia festival, which...
- 7/1/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival will close its 26th edition with a screening of July Jung’s “Next Sohee,” an interesting take on exploitation starring the Wachowski siblings’ regular collaborator, South Korean actress Bae Doona.
The film, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, won’t be the only title to discover on the closing night, however, with a special screening of A24’s horror comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies” also planned. Directed by Halina Reijn and featuring Amandla Stenberg, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson, the film shows a party game that leads to murder, all the while maintaining “a taut balance of uneasy tension and wicked humor,” teased the festival organizers.
The announcement came alongside Fantasia’s third wave of titles, finally rounding up this year’s varied selection. Among the world premieres, Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez will bring “The Elderly,” Shuichi Okita “The Fish Tale,...
The film, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week, won’t be the only title to discover on the closing night, however, with a special screening of A24’s horror comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies” also planned. Directed by Halina Reijn and featuring Amandla Stenberg, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” breakout Maria Bakalova and Pete Davidson, the film shows a party game that leads to murder, all the while maintaining “a taut balance of uneasy tension and wicked humor,” teased the festival organizers.
The announcement came alongside Fantasia’s third wave of titles, finally rounding up this year’s varied selection. Among the world premieres, Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez will bring “The Elderly,” Shuichi Okita “The Fish Tale,...
- 7/1/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Festival opens with Teppe Isobe’s ’Deadly School’.
Eight local features wiill have their world premiere at Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, which is running as a hybrid event from July 16.
The festival opens with the world premiere of Teppe Isobe’s coming of age drama Deadly School, which is adapted from the play by Kaoru Asakusa about high school girls working hard for their school festival. Teppe Isobe has won prizes at Skip City for three of his films Who Knows about My Life (2018), F is for Future (2019) and Cornflakes (2020).
Held in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, Skip City focuses on emerging talent,...
Eight local features wiill have their world premiere at Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, which is running as a hybrid event from July 16.
The festival opens with the world premiere of Teppe Isobe’s coming of age drama Deadly School, which is adapted from the play by Kaoru Asakusa about high school girls working hard for their school festival. Teppe Isobe has won prizes at Skip City for three of his films Who Knows about My Life (2018), F is for Future (2019) and Cornflakes (2020).
Held in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, Skip City focuses on emerging talent,...
- 6/15/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
It is always a joyful event whenever a new film by director Shûichi Okita is released; you can count on it, you know you will get a gift of beauty and laugh. His latest work, “Mori, the Artist’s Habitat” is no exception. Based on a day in the real life of the eccentric artist Kumagai Morikazu, the film is a loving portrait of a content man.
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” screened at Japan Cuts 2018
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he gets ready...
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” screened at Japan Cuts 2018
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he gets ready...
- 7/1/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
It is always a joyful event whenever a new film by director Shûichi Okita is released; you can count on it, you know you will get a gift of beauty and laugh. His latest work, “Mori, the Artist’s Habitat” is no exception. Based on a day in the real life of the eccentric artist Kumagai Morikazu, the film is a loving portrait of a content man.
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he...
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia 2019
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he...
- 3/14/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“Are we doing this or not?”
There is a story about the making of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” which is something of an interesting tale about the kind of stress and strangeness that goes along with the filmmaking process. As actor Richard Dreyfuss had finished his part, the production had already been through several obstacles, one of which was the electronic model of the shark not working. Stressed and eager to go home, he took the plane home only to find the familiar face of Spielberg sitting only a few seats from him. When the actor asked the director why he was leaving the crew, Spielberg apparently told him he simply had enough and thought the rest of the filming would work just fine without him.
Although an anecdote such as this may be exaggerated at times, and in retrospect highlight or even romanticize the production of a film, in...
There is a story about the making of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” which is something of an interesting tale about the kind of stress and strangeness that goes along with the filmmaking process. As actor Richard Dreyfuss had finished his part, the production had already been through several obstacles, one of which was the electronic model of the shark not working. Stressed and eager to go home, he took the plane home only to find the familiar face of Spielberg sitting only a few seats from him. When the actor asked the director why he was leaving the crew, Spielberg apparently told him he simply had enough and thought the rest of the filming would work just fine without him.
Although an anecdote such as this may be exaggerated at times, and in retrospect highlight or even romanticize the production of a film, in...
- 1/15/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
It is always a joyful event whenever a new film by director Shûichi Okita is released; you can count on it, you know you will get a gift of beauty and laugh. His latest work, “Mori, the Artist’s Habitat” is no exception. Based on a day in the real life of the eccentric artist Kumagai Morikazu, the film is a loving portrait of a content man.
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is screening at Japan Cuts 2018
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he gets...
“Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is screening at Japan Cuts 2018
It’s a summer day of 1974 and 94-year old artist Morikazu Kumagai (Tsutomu Yamazaki) lives with his wife Hideko (Kirin Kiki) and jolly housemaid Mie-chan (Nobuke Iketani) in an old-fashion house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, surrounded by a lush and rather overgrown garden. He is well known for his reclusive life – not having left the house for decades – and for his routine explorations of nature in the yard. Every day after breakfast, he gets...
- 7/28/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
This year’s Pia Film Festival (Pff) was held from 10 to 23 September at the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, in Tokyo, with the award-winning ceremony taking place on the last day. The jury was comprised from Shuichi Okita, Naoko Okigami, (directors), Hitsohi Endo (producer) Yohei Sadoshima (editor) Yojiro Noda (Artist/Musician).
The winners were:
Grand Prize: Out of the Frying Pan (Takashi Komatsu)
Runner-up Award: Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
Special Jury Prize: The Hell of Sisyphus (Shun Ito), Tokeru (Aya Igashi), Let’s Sleep Together Again (Lynn Shuto)
Entertainment Award (Horipro prize): Drill and Messy (Ayuta Yoshikawa)
Audience Award: Vanitas (Takuya Uchiyama)
Cinema Fan Award (Pia Eiga Seikatsu prize): Let’s Sleep Together Again (Lynn Shuto)
Gemstone Award (Nikkatsu prize): Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
The Japan P.E.N Club Award: Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
Out of the Frying Pan Flowering Tokeru The Hell of...
The winners were:
Grand Prize: Out of the Frying Pan (Takashi Komatsu)
Runner-up Award: Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
Special Jury Prize: The Hell of Sisyphus (Shun Ito), Tokeru (Aya Igashi), Let’s Sleep Together Again (Lynn Shuto)
Entertainment Award (Horipro prize): Drill and Messy (Ayuta Yoshikawa)
Audience Award: Vanitas (Takuya Uchiyama)
Cinema Fan Award (Pia Eiga Seikatsu prize): Let’s Sleep Together Again (Lynn Shuto)
Gemstone Award (Nikkatsu prize): Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
The Japan P.E.N Club Award: Flowering (Isora Iwakiri)
Out of the Frying Pan Flowering Tokeru The Hell of...
- 9/26/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
★★★★☆Following specialist distributor Third Windows' past championing of Shûichi Okita's The Woodsman and the Rain (2011), the director's next equally impressive film The Story of Yonosuke (2013) receives a welcome DVD release this week which will hopefully introduce the filmmaker to a broader audience in the UK. Okita seems to be carving a very specific niche in Japanese cinema, with films focused on downtrodden, marginalised men with identity issues struggling to find their place in contemporary society. Such a premise is nothing new, and to draw attention to such male ineptitude for comedy value is now a staple of male centred Hollywood vehicles for the likes of Seth Rogen.
- 4/15/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Woodsman And The Rain
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Shun Oguri, Masatô Ibu, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kengo Kôra, Asami Usuda | Written by Shûichi Okita, Fumio Moriya | Directed by Shûichi Okita
It’s not often that a feel good movie is set in a village that appears to be overrun by zombies, or that the film itself features a film being made about said zombies but then again I’m sure there are not many films like The Woodsman and the Rain. I may have exaggerated about the zombies, but they are integral to the storyline and important to the tale of a Woodsman and a shy film director.
Katsuhiko is the Woodsman, spending his day cutting down trees in a small village in the Japanese mountains. He’s happy with his life and appears to like the serenity that the job provides. When a film crew invade the mountains though to film...
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Shun Oguri, Masatô Ibu, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kengo Kôra, Asami Usuda | Written by Shûichi Okita, Fumio Moriya | Directed by Shûichi Okita
It’s not often that a feel good movie is set in a village that appears to be overrun by zombies, or that the film itself features a film being made about said zombies but then again I’m sure there are not many films like The Woodsman and the Rain. I may have exaggerated about the zombies, but they are integral to the storyline and important to the tale of a Woodsman and a shy film director.
Katsuhiko is the Woodsman, spending his day cutting down trees in a small village in the Japanese mountains. He’s happy with his life and appears to like the serenity that the job provides. When a film crew invade the mountains though to film...
- 1/31/2013
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Seeing as the post holiday malaise has hit us all - full on like a runaway truck - we thought we’d get us back in a feel good mood for new year, with news of a Zombie horror (with a difference!) heading for UK DVD. The film in question is Shûichi Okita’s oddball comedy The Woodsman and the Rain and its coming your way in Brit land, on January 28th. Synopsis: Katsu, a 60 year-old lumberjack who lives in a small, tranquil village in the mountains. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, Katsu finds himself unwittingly roped into assisting the production and becomes increasingly frustrated with the pushy crew, especially the young, seemingly spineless director Koichi. However, an improbable friendship soon develops between Katsu and Koichi, as Katsu comes to see joy in the filmmaking process, and gradually helps Koichi to recover his sense of self.
- 12/27/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
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