Battles Without Honor And Humanity from director Kinji Fukasaku will be available from Arrow Academy on August 28th
In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku’s three-film Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director’s chair for this unconnected, follow-up trilogy of films, each starring Battles leading man Bunta Sugawara and telling separate, but fictional stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan. In the first film, Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki (Lone Wolf and Cub‘s Tomisaburo Wakayama) attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the...
In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku’s three-film Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director’s chair for this unconnected, follow-up trilogy of films, each starring Battles leading man Bunta Sugawara and telling separate, but fictional stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan. In the first film, Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki (Lone Wolf and Cub‘s Tomisaburo Wakayama) attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the...
- 8/7/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Above: From left to right, Tokyo FilmEx festival directors Kanako Hayashi and Shozo Ichiyama; and Nobuteru Uchida's prize-winning film, Love Addition.
Last November, I had a conversation with Tokyo FilmEx Festival directors Shozo Ichiyama and Kanako Hayashi. For more than a decade, this duo has helmed Japan’s most serious festival, one dedicated to independent cinema from Asia. Office Kitano, Takeshi Kitano’s production company, has remained its key partner over the years, and helped Japan’s support of Iranian directors as well as groundbreaking figures from China, most notably Jia Zhangke, a regular at FilmEx from the beginning. The festival also revealed the fragile state of art cinema in and from Japan and how a very small, centralized community that has been determining what fits into this category, and what is not allowed in; a community that’s aged while being unable to neither find nor form new heirs.
Last November, I had a conversation with Tokyo FilmEx Festival directors Shozo Ichiyama and Kanako Hayashi. For more than a decade, this duo has helmed Japan’s most serious festival, one dedicated to independent cinema from Asia. Office Kitano, Takeshi Kitano’s production company, has remained its key partner over the years, and helped Japan’s support of Iranian directors as well as groundbreaking figures from China, most notably Jia Zhangke, a regular at FilmEx from the beginning. The festival also revealed the fragile state of art cinema in and from Japan and how a very small, centralized community that has been determining what fits into this category, and what is not allowed in; a community that’s aged while being unable to neither find nor form new heirs.
- 3/9/2011
- MUBI
Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' sci-fi action film opens On Demand on Jan 19, Jan 21 in theaters. Check out the trailer for the film written by Tsukamoto (Nightmare Detective) alongside Hisakatsu Kuroki which stars Eric Bossick Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain and Tsukamoto. The sci-fi action film follows calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony's mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals...
- 1/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' sci-fi action film opens On Demand on Jan 19, Jan 21 in theaters. Check out the trailer for the film written by Tsukamoto (Nightmare Detective) alongside Hisakatsu Kuroki which stars Eric Bossick Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain and Tsukamoto. The sci-fi action film follows calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony's mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals...
- 1/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
Tetsuo, the Iron Man is one of the most gleefully insane films I’ve seen. The director is back with his latest film and our own Raffi Asdourian quite liked Shinya Tsukamoto‘s new entry into his Tetsuo series when he saw at Tribeca. He even had a chance to sit down with the director himself and talk about the project. You can read his review and interview here. The film is now gearing up for a limited release via IFC this month and we have the first domestic trailer. Chud provides it below for the film that stars Eric Bossick, Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, and Stephen Sarrazin. It also features new music from Trent Reznor, who gave us one of the best scores of the year.
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man hits the IFC Center in NYC on Friday, January 21st and on VOD on the 19th.
Are you a fan of the series?...
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man hits the IFC Center in NYC on Friday, January 21st and on VOD on the 19th.
Are you a fan of the series?...
- 1/7/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Flaming Beefcake
The Forgotten: Remember You Must Die
The Forgotten: That Glaring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Forgotten: Forty Million Frenchmen
The Forgotten: April 29
Fernando F. Croce
Now on DVD: “Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950)
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Punch-Drunk Love"
Movie Poster of the Week: "La Salamandre"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Band of Ninja"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Oh, That Nastya!"
David D'Arcy
Podcast. David D'Arcy and Alexei Popogrebsky
Podcast. Bahman Ghobadi, Roxana Saberi and Obash of The Yellow Dogs
The Ferroni Brigade
The Way to the Golden Donkey
Sex and Politics: Jack Stevenson's "Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s"
Daniel Kasman
Video Sundays: Music Videos by An Older Generation
Image of the Day: Damsels in Distress #3
Video Sundays. From Hollywood to New German Cinema, The Impressionist Whirligig Camera...
The Forgotten: Flaming Beefcake
The Forgotten: Remember You Must Die
The Forgotten: That Glaring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Forgotten: Forty Million Frenchmen
The Forgotten: April 29
Fernando F. Croce
Now on DVD: “Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950)
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Punch-Drunk Love"
Movie Poster of the Week: "La Salamandre"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Band of Ninja"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Oh, That Nastya!"
David D'Arcy
Podcast. David D'Arcy and Alexei Popogrebsky
Podcast. Bahman Ghobadi, Roxana Saberi and Obash of The Yellow Dogs
The Ferroni Brigade
The Way to the Golden Donkey
Sex and Politics: Jack Stevenson's "Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s"
Daniel Kasman
Video Sundays: Music Videos by An Older Generation
Image of the Day: Damsels in Distress #3
Video Sundays. From Hollywood to New German Cinema, The Impressionist Whirligig Camera...
- 5/2/2010
- MUBI
Acquarello
Notes on Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Trousering the Ghost
The Forgotten: Vessel of Wrath
The Forgotten: Is My Face Red
The Forgotten: Lock-Up
Zach Campbell
Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Andrew Chan
Sinophilic Cinephilia: Asia Society's "China’s Past Present, Future on Film"
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Glory to the Filmmaker" or: Kitano in Posters
Movie Poster of the Week: "Feeder" and the SXSW Poster Award Winners
Movie Poster of the Week: "Everyone Else"
David Hudson
Berlinale. Cons and Ex-Cons
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: Unrequited Love #1
The Potential of the Mobile Film Festival: Rotterdam@Bam
Images of the Day: Joan Alone: Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door..."
At the Cinematheque: "The Prowler" (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Jean-Luc Godard's Homage to Eric Rohmer
Now in Theaters: "Shutter Island" (Martin Scorsese,...
Notes on Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Trousering the Ghost
The Forgotten: Vessel of Wrath
The Forgotten: Is My Face Red
The Forgotten: Lock-Up
Zach Campbell
Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Andrew Chan
Sinophilic Cinephilia: Asia Society's "China’s Past Present, Future on Film"
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Glory to the Filmmaker" or: Kitano in Posters
Movie Poster of the Week: "Feeder" and the SXSW Poster Award Winners
Movie Poster of the Week: "Everyone Else"
David Hudson
Berlinale. Cons and Ex-Cons
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: Unrequited Love #1
The Potential of the Mobile Film Festival: Rotterdam@Bam
Images of the Day: Joan Alone: Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door..."
At the Cinematheque: "The Prowler" (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Jean-Luc Godard's Homage to Eric Rohmer
Now in Theaters: "Shutter Island" (Martin Scorsese,...
- 4/1/2010
- MUBI
Acquarello:
Now on DVD: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
David Cairns:
The Forgotten: Sunday, Lovely Sunday
The Forgotten: The Dumb Bomb
The Forgotten: The Man Who Never Was
The Forgotten: It Was So Nice Inside His Head
Fernando F. Croce:
“One for Them”? Scorsese’s “Cape Fear”
Now on DVD: “Il posto” (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Now on DVD: “Point Blank” (John Boorman, 1967)
Adrian Curry:
Movie Poster of the Week: "Do It Again"
Movie Posters of the Week: The Best of Rotterdam
Movie Poster of the Week: "The Art of the Steal"
Movie Poster of the Week: "I Am Love" and the Curious Case of Tilda Swinton
Marie-Pierre Duhamel:
Berlinale: Zhang Yimou's "A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop" Review
Berlinale. Philip Scheffner's "Day of the Sparrow" Review
David Hudson:
Rotterdam 2010: 4 in the Running for Vpro Tiger Awards
Berlinale. "Apart Together" Review + Roundup
Berlinale. "The Ghost Writer" Review + Roundup
Berlinale.
Now on DVD: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
David Cairns:
The Forgotten: Sunday, Lovely Sunday
The Forgotten: The Dumb Bomb
The Forgotten: The Man Who Never Was
The Forgotten: It Was So Nice Inside His Head
Fernando F. Croce:
“One for Them”? Scorsese’s “Cape Fear”
Now on DVD: “Il posto” (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Now on DVD: “Point Blank” (John Boorman, 1967)
Adrian Curry:
Movie Poster of the Week: "Do It Again"
Movie Posters of the Week: The Best of Rotterdam
Movie Poster of the Week: "The Art of the Steal"
Movie Poster of the Week: "I Am Love" and the Curious Case of Tilda Swinton
Marie-Pierre Duhamel:
Berlinale: Zhang Yimou's "A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop" Review
Berlinale. Philip Scheffner's "Day of the Sparrow" Review
David Hudson:
Rotterdam 2010: 4 in the Running for Vpro Tiger Awards
Berlinale. "Apart Together" Review + Roundup
Berlinale. "The Ghost Writer" Review + Roundup
Berlinale.
- 3/1/2010
- MUBI
David Cairns:
The Forgotten: Slow Poison
The Forgotten: Death by Light
The Forgotten: The Phantom of Puberty
The Forgotten: The New Medium
Adam Cook
Abandoned Spaces: An Interview with Jeon Soo-il
Adrian Curry:
Movie Posters of the Year
Movie Poster of the Week: "Teorema"
Movie Poster of the Week: An Interview with "Funny Games" Poster Designer Akiko Stehrenberger
Movie Poster of the Week: "Robocop"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Shutter Island"
Daniel Kasman:
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, Part III
Avatarcraft
Video Sundays: The Rhythm of the Night
The Art of the Trailer: "From Paris with Love"
Rotterdam 2010: Asian Excitement
Rotterdam 2010: Textures of the Morning
Glenn Kenny:
Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Boom!" (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—8 January 2010
Tuesday Morning Foreign Blu-ray disc Report: "The Iron Petticoat" (Ralph Thomas, 1956)
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—15 January...
The Forgotten: Slow Poison
The Forgotten: Death by Light
The Forgotten: The Phantom of Puberty
The Forgotten: The New Medium
Adam Cook
Abandoned Spaces: An Interview with Jeon Soo-il
Adrian Curry:
Movie Posters of the Year
Movie Poster of the Week: "Teorema"
Movie Poster of the Week: An Interview with "Funny Games" Poster Designer Akiko Stehrenberger
Movie Poster of the Week: "Robocop"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Shutter Island"
Daniel Kasman:
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, Part III
Avatarcraft
Video Sundays: The Rhythm of the Night
The Art of the Trailer: "From Paris with Love"
Rotterdam 2010: Asian Excitement
Rotterdam 2010: Textures of the Morning
Glenn Kenny:
Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Boom!" (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—8 January 2010
Tuesday Morning Foreign Blu-ray disc Report: "The Iron Petticoat" (Ralph Thomas, 1956)
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—15 January...
- 1/31/2010
- MUBI
Movies are made up of images, even the bad ones. But the bad movies rarely leave any images lingering in your brain. The great films are the ones making great images. A great image is many things, by nature diffuse, and we might agree that any great image moves even when stopped still, opening its own cinematic world. Thus, The Notebook's decision to celebrate our recent decade not with a list but with this stream. Each contributor was asked to pick 1 film he or she wants to remember from the 2000s, select 1 image from that film to remember it by, and write one sentence to supplement their selection. We've done our best to craft not simply a grab bag but a cogent flow of the indelible, one image speaking to the next on a variety of registers: from film to film, between color and compositional rhymes, and, as you'll read,...
- 1/16/2010
- MUBI
Zach Campbell
The Book He Never Wrote
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Head Shots
The Forgotten: The Radio Dicks
The Forgotten: The Dance of the Bread Rolls
The Forgotten: Who Killed Santa?
Images of the Day: Damsel in Distress #2
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Small Change"
Movie Posters of the Decade
Movie Posters of the Decade: A Follow-Up
Manny Farber
Nervous from the Service
Films at Canadian Artists ’68: Art Gallery of Ontario
The New Breed of Filmmakers: A Multiplication of Myths
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: The Many Faces of Dr. Mabuse
Video Sundays: The Modern Charade Continued, Video Games Edition
Video Sundays: Flip Six Three Hole, or Football and The Great American Pastiche
Video Sundays, The Art of the Trailer Edition: "The Crazies" vs. "Green Zone"
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, Part I
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double...
The Book He Never Wrote
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Head Shots
The Forgotten: The Radio Dicks
The Forgotten: The Dance of the Bread Rolls
The Forgotten: Who Killed Santa?
Images of the Day: Damsel in Distress #2
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Small Change"
Movie Posters of the Decade
Movie Posters of the Decade: A Follow-Up
Manny Farber
Nervous from the Service
Films at Canadian Artists ’68: Art Gallery of Ontario
The New Breed of Filmmakers: A Multiplication of Myths
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: The Many Faces of Dr. Mabuse
Video Sundays: The Modern Charade Continued, Video Games Edition
Video Sundays: Flip Six Three Hole, or Football and The Great American Pastiche
Video Sundays, The Art of the Trailer Edition: "The Crazies" vs. "Green Zone"
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, Part I
The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers' Poll: Fantasy Double...
- 1/7/2010
- MUBI
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