IFC Films will be releasing Isabelle Coixet's Map of the Sounds of Tokyo nationwide via its genre film VOD platform, IFC Midnight, this Wednesday, August 25th; and Dread Central has the world premiere of the film's trailer.
Writer/director Coixet (whom you might know from last year's Elegy), is an incredibly talented filmmaker who's trying something new with this foray into the genre world. Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is a super-slick, steamy, and restrained thriller that stars Rinko Kikuchi (Oscar-nominee for Babel).
Synopsis:
Ryu (Kikuchi) is a solitary girl whose fragile appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads, working nights at a Tokyo fishmarket and sporadically taking on jobs as a hit woman. Mr. Nagara (Takeo Nakahara) is a powerful impresario mourning the loss of his daughter, Midori, who has committed suicide. He blames David (Sergi López), a Spaniard who runs a wine business in Tokyo.
Writer/director Coixet (whom you might know from last year's Elegy), is an incredibly talented filmmaker who's trying something new with this foray into the genre world. Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is a super-slick, steamy, and restrained thriller that stars Rinko Kikuchi (Oscar-nominee for Babel).
Synopsis:
Ryu (Kikuchi) is a solitary girl whose fragile appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads, working nights at a Tokyo fishmarket and sporadically taking on jobs as a hit woman. Mr. Nagara (Takeo Nakahara) is a powerful impresario mourning the loss of his daughter, Midori, who has committed suicide. He blames David (Sergi López), a Spaniard who runs a wine business in Tokyo.
- 8/23/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is being theatrically released under the title “Night Tokyo Day” in Japan in a little over a month, and the Japanese distributor Dingo has released a new trailer.
The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Rinko Kikuchi as a solitary girl in Tokyo named Ryu who leads a double life as both a fish market worker and hit-woman. When Midori, the daughter of a powerful impresario named Nagara (Takeo Nakahara), commits suicide, his employee (Hideo Sakaki) hires Ryu to kill the man believed responsible for Midori’s death—a spaniard named David (Sergi López). Meanwhile, a sound engineer (Min Tanaka) obsessed with the sounds of the city and fascinated by Ryu acts as narrator as an unlikely love affair develops between the assassin and her mark.
“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” will be released in...
The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Rinko Kikuchi as a solitary girl in Tokyo named Ryu who leads a double life as both a fish market worker and hit-woman. When Midori, the daughter of a powerful impresario named Nagara (Takeo Nakahara), commits suicide, his employee (Hideo Sakaki) hires Ryu to kill the man believed responsible for Midori’s death—a spaniard named David (Sergi López). Meanwhile, a sound engineer (Min Tanaka) obsessed with the sounds of the city and fascinated by Ryu acts as narrator as an unlikely love affair develops between the assassin and her mark.
“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” will be released in...
- 8/6/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo is being theatrically released under the title “Night Tokyo Day” in Japan in a little over a month, and the Japanese distributor Dingo has released a new trailer.
The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Rinko Kikuchi as a solitary girl in Tokyo named Ryu who leads a double life as both a fish market worker and hit-woman. When Midori, the daughter of a powerful impresario named Nagara (Takeo Nakahara), commits suicide, his employee (Hideo Sakaki) hires Ryu to kill the man believed responsible for Midori’s death—a spaniard named David (Sergi López). Meanwhile, a sound engineer (Min Tanaka) obsessed with the sounds of the city and fascinated by Ryu acts as narrator as an unlikely love affair develops between the assassin and her mark.
“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” will be released in...
The film, which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, stars Rinko Kikuchi as a solitary girl in Tokyo named Ryu who leads a double life as both a fish market worker and hit-woman. When Midori, the daughter of a powerful impresario named Nagara (Takeo Nakahara), commits suicide, his employee (Hideo Sakaki) hires Ryu to kill the man believed responsible for Midori’s death—a spaniard named David (Sergi López). Meanwhile, a sound engineer (Min Tanaka) obsessed with the sounds of the city and fascinated by Ryu acts as narrator as an unlikely love affair develops between the assassin and her mark.
“Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” will be released in...
- 8/6/2010
- Nippon Cinema
A young woman and her friend unknowingly invade a gay beach, where the open displays of affection and naked flesh intrigue pretty, self-sufficient Sayoko. So begins Takehiro Nakajima's accomplished dramatic comedy that ranks as the most thorough examination of gay life in modern Japan.
While non-fatally flawed by an excessive running time -- some viewers will begin to lose interest -- ''Okoge'' transcends its specific milieu to provide the expected high and low points of a screen romance. The soft-core lovemaking scenes and same-sex romantic maneuvering limit its appeal, but Nakajima's film is a fully realized character study that thoughtful audiences of all persuasions will enjoy and ponder.
Sayoko (Misa Shimizu) is an ''Okoge'' -- a woman who seeks the company of gay men -- with no romantic life of her own. She finds the love between young craftsman Goh (Takehiro Murata) and his married lover Tochi (Takeo Nakahara) a thing of beauty and comfort. Indeed, she invites them to use her apartment for their clandestine meetings, then watches their relationship gradually fall apart as Tochi succumbs to pressure at work and home about his closeted homosexuality.
When Sayoko attempts to find a new lover for Goh, she follows his lead with momentous results. Not only is her friendship with Goh temporarily ended, but she is raped and impregnated, a poignant and ironic fate for one we learn was sexually abused as a child. Goh, meanwhile, confesses his gayness to his family with mixed results. His mother, beginning to lose her grip on reality, is particularly unable to accept the situation and blames herself.
''Okoge'' covers a lot of ground with the urgency of a story that must be told. Years pass and characters come and go, but the scattered story never feels less than authentic. Strengthened immeasurably by the performances of Shimizu and Murata, ''Okoge'' is carefully consistent in its approach. Yoshimasa Hakata's cinematography is outstanding as are the rest of the film's technical aspects.
OKOGE
Cinevista
Producer-writer-directorTakehiro Nakajima
Producers Yoshinori Takazawa, Masashi Moromizato
Director of photography Yoshimasa Hakata
Sound Makio Ika
Art direction Kunihiro Inomata
Editor Kenji Goto
Music Hiroshi Ariyoshi
Color
Cast:
Sayoko Misa Shimizu
Goh Takehiro Murata
Tochi Takeo Nakahara
Kurihara Masayuki Shionoya
Kineo, Goh's mother Noriko Sengoku
Yayoi Toshie Negishi
Tamio Atsushi Fukazawa
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA Rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
While non-fatally flawed by an excessive running time -- some viewers will begin to lose interest -- ''Okoge'' transcends its specific milieu to provide the expected high and low points of a screen romance. The soft-core lovemaking scenes and same-sex romantic maneuvering limit its appeal, but Nakajima's film is a fully realized character study that thoughtful audiences of all persuasions will enjoy and ponder.
Sayoko (Misa Shimizu) is an ''Okoge'' -- a woman who seeks the company of gay men -- with no romantic life of her own. She finds the love between young craftsman Goh (Takehiro Murata) and his married lover Tochi (Takeo Nakahara) a thing of beauty and comfort. Indeed, she invites them to use her apartment for their clandestine meetings, then watches their relationship gradually fall apart as Tochi succumbs to pressure at work and home about his closeted homosexuality.
When Sayoko attempts to find a new lover for Goh, she follows his lead with momentous results. Not only is her friendship with Goh temporarily ended, but she is raped and impregnated, a poignant and ironic fate for one we learn was sexually abused as a child. Goh, meanwhile, confesses his gayness to his family with mixed results. His mother, beginning to lose her grip on reality, is particularly unable to accept the situation and blames herself.
''Okoge'' covers a lot of ground with the urgency of a story that must be told. Years pass and characters come and go, but the scattered story never feels less than authentic. Strengthened immeasurably by the performances of Shimizu and Murata, ''Okoge'' is carefully consistent in its approach. Yoshimasa Hakata's cinematography is outstanding as are the rest of the film's technical aspects.
OKOGE
Cinevista
Producer-writer-directorTakehiro Nakajima
Producers Yoshinori Takazawa, Masashi Moromizato
Director of photography Yoshimasa Hakata
Sound Makio Ika
Art direction Kunihiro Inomata
Editor Kenji Goto
Music Hiroshi Ariyoshi
Color
Cast:
Sayoko Misa Shimizu
Goh Takehiro Murata
Tochi Takeo Nakahara
Kurihara Masayuki Shionoya
Kineo, Goh's mother Noriko Sengoku
Yayoi Toshie Negishi
Tamio Atsushi Fukazawa
Running time -- 120 minutes
No MPAA Rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 7/21/1993
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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