With “God’s Puzzle” we may have one of the most commercial and perhaps one the most unclassifiable films of Takashi Miike’s filmography at the same time. Adorned with a personal touch and technical care more than notorious, the film tells us all about the origin of the universe and about its destruction.
The plot revolves around two students who get to know each other due to the crazy idea about creating a new universe from scratch. Kiichi Watanuki and Motokazu Watanuki are two twins who live together. One day, Kiichi prepares to go on a trip to India, leaving Motokazu alone. Motokazu then goes to his normal classes and signs up for a physics course, where he has to do a thesis about a subject. His chosen topic is the creation of an universe, which attracts the attention of the young genius Saraka, who has invented the Murgen,...
The plot revolves around two students who get to know each other due to the crazy idea about creating a new universe from scratch. Kiichi Watanuki and Motokazu Watanuki are two twins who live together. One day, Kiichi prepares to go on a trip to India, leaving Motokazu alone. Motokazu then goes to his normal classes and signs up for a physics course, where he has to do a thesis about a subject. His chosen topic is the creation of an universe, which attracts the attention of the young genius Saraka, who has invented the Murgen,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Pedro Morata
- AsianMoviePulse
Here’s the trailer for Tokyo Mujirushi Joshi Monogatari (Tokyo Nameless Girl’s Story), the latest by Tokyo Serendipity director Akiko Ohku.
The film is based on two parts of an anthology manga of the same name which features stories of girls living on their own in Tokyo for the first time.
In the first story, Mitsuki Tanimura plays a college student named Nozomi who’s been trying to find a job. Back in her hometown, she was nicknamed “Noro”, short for “noroma” (gullible, slow-witted) so she’s been having trouble adjusting to the rapid pace of Tokyo. Until recently, she’s been living a the same speed as her boyfriend, Kameyama (Kensuke Owada), but now she feels that starting to change…
In the other story, Megumi Yanagi plays Saeko, a girl who works in advertising, and Shuri plays her lazy sister Kaori. On the one-year anniversary of Saeko’s...
The film is based on two parts of an anthology manga of the same name which features stories of girls living on their own in Tokyo for the first time.
In the first story, Mitsuki Tanimura plays a college student named Nozomi who’s been trying to find a job. Back in her hometown, she was nicknamed “Noro”, short for “noroma” (gullible, slow-witted) so she’s been having trouble adjusting to the rapid pace of Tokyo. Until recently, she’s been living a the same speed as her boyfriend, Kameyama (Kensuke Owada), but now she feels that starting to change…
In the other story, Megumi Yanagi plays Saeko, a girl who works in advertising, and Shuri plays her lazy sister Kaori. On the one-year anniversary of Saeko’s...
- 5/30/2012
- Nippon Cinema
On Monday, a press conference was held at the City Hall of Fujisawa, Kanagawa for a new movie titled Tobidase Shinsengumi!, starring former Morning Musume leader Risa Niigaki.
Niigaki, who mentioned her desire to expand her acting career after her graduation from the group on May 18th, was in attendance along with director Sho Nobushi and co-stars Toshiya Nagasawa and Akira Onodera.
The project will mark Niigaki’s first film role since 2010’s Gekijoban Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 3D.
The film’s story is based on a novel of the same name by Jotaro Kuwahara (Boku no Onna ni Te o Dasu na, Shinjuku Junai Monogatari) and involves an all-female theater troupe’s rehearsal of “Musical Shinsengumi Makoto” in which the real-life members of the of the Shinsengumi suddenly appear on stage from the late Edo period.
Niigaki will play a troupe member named Noriko who’s performing as...
Niigaki, who mentioned her desire to expand her acting career after her graduation from the group on May 18th, was in attendance along with director Sho Nobushi and co-stars Toshiya Nagasawa and Akira Onodera.
The project will mark Niigaki’s first film role since 2010’s Gekijoban Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 3D.
The film’s story is based on a novel of the same name by Jotaro Kuwahara (Boku no Onna ni Te o Dasu na, Shinjuku Junai Monogatari) and involves an all-female theater troupe’s rehearsal of “Musical Shinsengumi Makoto” in which the real-life members of the of the Shinsengumi suddenly appear on stage from the late Edo period.
Niigaki will play a troupe member named Noriko who’s performing as...
- 5/29/2012
- Nippon Cinema
A new trilogy of Real Onigokko movies is set for release in Japan this May. A combined trailer for all three movies was released earlier today.
In 2008, Yusuke Yamada’s popular Real Onigokko novel was adapted as a relatively low budget movie starring Takuya Ishida, Shunsuke Daito, and Mitsuki Tanimura (international English title: The Chasing World). In the story, a teenager named Tsubasa Sato is pulled into a parallel world where anyone with the surname Sato is hunted relentlessly by creepy masked men under orders from a mysterious king. Anyone who dies in the parallel world also dies in Tsubasa’s original world, so he spends the majority of the story protecting the alternate version of his sister.
The movie did surprisingly well with teens and tweens due to repeat after-school viewings, and a sequel followed in 2010.
In the new movies, people with type B blood are victims of the game.
In 2008, Yusuke Yamada’s popular Real Onigokko novel was adapted as a relatively low budget movie starring Takuya Ishida, Shunsuke Daito, and Mitsuki Tanimura (international English title: The Chasing World). In the story, a teenager named Tsubasa Sato is pulled into a parallel world where anyone with the surname Sato is hunted relentlessly by creepy masked men under orders from a mysterious king. Anyone who dies in the parallel world also dies in Tsubasa’s original world, so he spends the majority of the story protecting the alternate version of his sister.
The movie did surprisingly well with teens and tweens due to repeat after-school viewings, and a sequel followed in 2010.
In the new movies, people with type B blood are victims of the game.
- 3/21/2012
- Nippon Cinema
Director Takashi Miike gets that a well-coiffed attorney is an Ace Attorney in the Japanese adaptation of the Capcom series.
Japanese film site Eiga.com released a batch of exclusive cast photos from the live action Ace Attorney film over the weekend, providing our first detailed look at the characters before the movie hits in February. Directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins), the director is in full-on Yatterman/Zebraman-mode, letting loose with the wild colors and exaggerated performances because hey, who's going to see a Phoenix Wright movie done as an understated chamber drama? No, we want him to make objections and we want weird murders and maybe some ghosts (Phoenix Wright games can get exceedingly bizarre).
Hiroki Narimiya as Phoenix Wright
The story sees luck-challenged defense attorney Phoenix Wright (Hiroki Narimiya) coming to the aid of his nemesis, corrupt-ish prosecutor Miles Edgeworth (Takumi Saitou). There will certainly be the collecting of evidence,...
Japanese film site Eiga.com released a batch of exclusive cast photos from the live action Ace Attorney film over the weekend, providing our first detailed look at the characters before the movie hits in February. Directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins), the director is in full-on Yatterman/Zebraman-mode, letting loose with the wild colors and exaggerated performances because hey, who's going to see a Phoenix Wright movie done as an understated chamber drama? No, we want him to make objections and we want weird murders and maybe some ghosts (Phoenix Wright games can get exceedingly bizarre).
Hiroki Narimiya as Phoenix Wright
The story sees luck-challenged defense attorney Phoenix Wright (Hiroki Narimiya) coming to the aid of his nemesis, corrupt-ish prosecutor Miles Edgeworth (Takumi Saitou). There will certainly be the collecting of evidence,...
- 1/2/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Directed by Ryuta Tazaki and starring Mitsuki Tanimura, Julia Nagano and Kai Shishido, Salvage Mice sure looks like a fun action flick! The exciting thing is that filmmaker Fuyuhiko Nishi is serving as the producer, stunt coordinator and action director of the film. Don't know who Nishi is? Well, he was the director of High Kick Girl!, producer of Karate Girl and martial arts choreographer of the classic karate film Black Belt. So I think it is safe to assume there will be some cool action to be found in this new film. The story involves a pair of vigilantes out to catch some art thieves. You can check out the trailer below....
- 9/5/2011
- Screen Anarchy
On Thursday, an official website for Yoshishige Miyake’s upcoming film Hankyu Densha was launched with a teaser and full trailer.
Based on a novel by Hiro Arikawa which sold over 240,000 copies, the film uses the 15-minute, one-way Hankyu Imazu Line as the backdrop for several characters dealing with various issues in their lives. Miki Nakatani stars as an office worker in her 30s whose fiance is stolen away by a younger co-worker while Erika Toda plays a young college student with a good-for-nothing boyfriend. Other cast members include Nobuko Miyamoto, Mana Ashida, Kaho Minami, Mitsuki Tanimura, Kasumi Arimura, Ryo Katsuji, Tetsuji Tamayama, Yu Koyanagi, and Saki Aibu.
Toho will be releasing “Hankyu Densha” in Japan on April 23, 2011.
Based on a novel by Hiro Arikawa which sold over 240,000 copies, the film uses the 15-minute, one-way Hankyu Imazu Line as the backdrop for several characters dealing with various issues in their lives. Miki Nakatani stars as an office worker in her 30s whose fiance is stolen away by a younger co-worker while Erika Toda plays a young college student with a good-for-nothing boyfriend. Other cast members include Nobuko Miyamoto, Mana Ashida, Kaho Minami, Mitsuki Tanimura, Kasumi Arimura, Ryo Katsuji, Tetsuji Tamayama, Yu Koyanagi, and Saki Aibu.
Toho will be releasing “Hankyu Densha” in Japan on April 23, 2011.
- 2/11/2011
- Nippon Cinema
A trailer has finally been released for the latest film by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Antenna, Non-ko), Sketches of Kaitan City.
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
- 9/24/2010
- Nippon Cinema
A trailer has finally been released for the latest film by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Antenna, Non-ko), Sketches of Kaitan City.
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
- 9/24/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Yahoo! Eiga has uploaded a trailer for Masahiro Kunimoto‘s upcoming terminal illness tearjerker Oniichan no Hanabi starring Kengo Kora (Fish Story, Box!) and Mitsuki Tanimura (Canary). The trailer is also available on the film’s official website with an additional intro from both stars.
Originally inspired by a real-life documentary, the film stars Tanimura as a 16-year-old named Hana who moved to a small town in Niigata 5 years ago with her family and has been receiving treatment for leukemia for the past 6 months. Every year, the town hosts “Katakai Matsuri” which is known for being the largest fireworks display in the world. Hana’s older bother Taro (Kora) is a hikikomori, and spends most of his time alone in his room. However, to make his sister happy, he decides to make more of an effort to get out and participate in the festival with her.
Go! Cinema will be...
Originally inspired by a real-life documentary, the film stars Tanimura as a 16-year-old named Hana who moved to a small town in Niigata 5 years ago with her family and has been receiving treatment for leukemia for the past 6 months. Every year, the town hosts “Katakai Matsuri” which is known for being the largest fireworks display in the world. Hana’s older bother Taro (Kora) is a hikikomori, and spends most of his time alone in his room. However, to make his sister happy, he decides to make more of an effort to get out and participate in the festival with her.
Go! Cinema will be...
- 7/29/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Phantom Film has released the first five minutes of Real Onigokko 2, the slightly bigger budget followup to Issei Shibata‘s 2008 sleeper hit The Chasing World.
In the original film, Takuya Ishida played a high school kid named Tsubasa Sato who gets sucked into a parallel world where everyone named Sato are relentlessly hunted by soulless masked soldiers under orders from a malevolent king. Due to circumstances which are never really explained, a death in the parallel world would cause the same person to mysteriously drop dead in Tsubasa’s own world. Thus, he spends the entire film desperately trying to protect the alternate version of his sister, Ai (Mitsuki Tanimura).
In this film, Tsubasa finds himself stuck in yet another world where people named Sato are hunted, but this reality is ruled by a shogun named Suzuki. Tsubasa again tries to protect another version of his sister, this time played by Jun Yoshinaga,...
In the original film, Takuya Ishida played a high school kid named Tsubasa Sato who gets sucked into a parallel world where everyone named Sato are relentlessly hunted by soulless masked soldiers under orders from a malevolent king. Due to circumstances which are never really explained, a death in the parallel world would cause the same person to mysteriously drop dead in Tsubasa’s own world. Thus, he spends the entire film desperately trying to protect the alternate version of his sister, Ai (Mitsuki Tanimura).
In this film, Tsubasa finds himself stuck in yet another world where people named Sato are hunted, but this reality is ruled by a shogun named Suzuki. Tsubasa again tries to protect another version of his sister, this time played by Jun Yoshinaga,...
- 5/25/2010
- Nippon Cinema
In the few short years since making her film debut with an impressively precocious performance in Akihiko Shiota's Canary, 19-year-old Mitsuki Tanimura has established herself as one of the most interesting actresses in her age bracket. While it would be easy for a young idol signed to a major talent agency to just coast by on her looks with modeling gigs and appearances in schmaltzy TV dramas (as most girls of her stature do quite happily), Tanimura keeps jumping clean off the radar, signing on to act in some seriously oddball projects with little potential for press coverage, let alone financial success. And it's not as if her career has stalled -- far from it. In addition to several small films by unestablished directors, she's also slated to appear in Toshio Lee's Box!, Takashi Miike's remake of Thirteen Assassins, and Junji Sakamoto's Yukizuri no Machi, among others.
- 3/25/2010
- Nippon Cinema
By Neil Pedley
With blockbusters taking a week off after "The Dark Knight" so thoroughly conquered the box office and its core audience descends upon Comic-Con in San Diego, an outstanding array from the indie scene offers plenty of alternative viewing.
"American Teen"
Her longtime collaborator Brett Morgen may be out of the picture, but "The Kid Stays in the Picture" co-director Nanette Burstein infiltrated the cliques, classrooms and hallways of an Indiana high school for her first solo doc, which netted her a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. Burstein follows a cross section of Warsaw High's senior class for 10 months in pursuit of their respective ambitions and priorities, and discovers that bonding at the library during Saturday detention is no way to communicate when text messaging and Im can be just as intimate.
Opens in limited release.
"Baghead"
Mumblecore alumni Jay and Mark Duplass celebrate their favorite...
With blockbusters taking a week off after "The Dark Knight" so thoroughly conquered the box office and its core audience descends upon Comic-Con in San Diego, an outstanding array from the indie scene offers plenty of alternative viewing.
"American Teen"
Her longtime collaborator Brett Morgen may be out of the picture, but "The Kid Stays in the Picture" co-director Nanette Burstein infiltrated the cliques, classrooms and hallways of an Indiana high school for her first solo doc, which netted her a directing award at Sundance earlier this year. Burstein follows a cross section of Warsaw High's senior class for 10 months in pursuit of their respective ambitions and priorities, and discovers that bonding at the library during Saturday detention is no way to communicate when text messaging and Im can be just as intimate.
Opens in limited release.
"Baghead"
Mumblecore alumni Jay and Mark Duplass celebrate their favorite...
- 7/21/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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