Jidai-geki, chanbara or simply samurai films are probably those that gave Japanese cinema the place it occupies even now in world cinema, with the entries of Akira Kurosawa, Kihachi Okamoto, Masaki Kobayashi and many others being included among the best films of all time. However, and with few exceptions, the majority of international audience are not particularly aware of the entries in the genre that were produced after 2000. This list aims to fill this gap with 25 five great movies presented in chronological order, that cover the whole spectrum of the category, from cult and splatter to arthouse and anime and everything between.
1. Versus
Ryuhei Kitamura directs a film where action is frantic and unrelenting, blending samurai, zombies and Yakuza elements, all of which are connected through extreme gore. “Versus” is evidently low budget; however, the choreography of the swordplay, the martial arts and the gun battles are intricate and the...
1. Versus
Ryuhei Kitamura directs a film where action is frantic and unrelenting, blending samurai, zombies and Yakuza elements, all of which are connected through extreme gore. “Versus” is evidently low budget; however, the choreography of the swordplay, the martial arts and the gun battles are intricate and the...
- 3/16/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post).
This past weekend saw the release of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs,” a movie that was inspired by classic Japanese cinema (even if some feel that it may ultimately have been more informed by its director’s personal worldview).
The film is littered with references to revered old masters like Akira Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki, etc., but movie-lovers the world over may be much less familiar with the more recent history of Japanese cinema.
This week’s question: What is the best Japanese film of the 21st century?
Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf), Time Out New York
The life-long, nourishing adventure of making one’s way through Ozu, Mizoguchi, Imamura and...
This past weekend saw the release of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs,” a movie that was inspired by classic Japanese cinema (even if some feel that it may ultimately have been more informed by its director’s personal worldview).
The film is littered with references to revered old masters like Akira Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki, etc., but movie-lovers the world over may be much less familiar with the more recent history of Japanese cinema.
This week’s question: What is the best Japanese film of the 21st century?
Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf), Time Out New York
The life-long, nourishing adventure of making one’s way through Ozu, Mizoguchi, Imamura and...
- 3/26/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Marvel has announced that they will be reprinting some of Dark Horse’s Star Wars comics which will arrive in stores before the company begins churning out their own all-new Star Wars titles beginning in early 2015.
Revealed via StarWars.com yesterday, the first collection to be released will be titled Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 1 and will include material written by John Ostrander, Randy Stradley, Haden Blackman, and Alexander Freed and artwork by Luke Ross, Douglas Wheatley, Jim Hall, Chris Scalf, Marco Castiello, Andrea Chella and Rick Leonardi.
The complete list of titles in the first volume, all of which take place after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, include “Star Wars: Republic” #78-#80, “Star Wars: Purge” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Hidden Blade” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Tyrant’s Fist...
Revealed via StarWars.com yesterday, the first collection to be released will be titled Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 1 and will include material written by John Ostrander, Randy Stradley, Haden Blackman, and Alexander Freed and artwork by Luke Ross, Douglas Wheatley, Jim Hall, Chris Scalf, Marco Castiello, Andrea Chella and Rick Leonardi.
The complete list of titles in the first volume, all of which take place after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, include “Star Wars: Republic” #78-#80, “Star Wars: Purge” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Hidden Blade” #1, “Star Wars: Purge – The Tyrant’s Fist...
- 8/28/2014
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
Marvel Comics has announced further Star Wars reprints with its Epic Collection.
The publisher will release Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol 1 next year, featuring material original published by Dark Horse Comics.
Set between Episodes III and IV, the comics focus on the rise of the Empire and Darth Vader.
The collection will include Star Wars: Republic #78-#80, Star Wars: Purge #1, Star Wars: Purge - Seconds to Die #1, Star Wars: Purge - The Hidden Blade #1, Star Wars: Purge - The Tyrant's Fist #1-#2, Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1-#5, and Star Wars: Dark Times #1-#5.
These feature work by writers John Ostrander, Randy Stradley, Haden Blackman and Alexander Freed, and artists Luke Ross, Douglas Wheatley, Jim Hall, Chris Scalf, Marco Castiello, Andrea Chella and Rick Leonardi.
The Star Wars licence passed from Dark Horse to Marvel following the...
The publisher will release Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol 1 next year, featuring material original published by Dark Horse Comics.
Set between Episodes III and IV, the comics focus on the rise of the Empire and Darth Vader.
The collection will include Star Wars: Republic #78-#80, Star Wars: Purge #1, Star Wars: Purge - Seconds to Die #1, Star Wars: Purge - The Hidden Blade #1, Star Wars: Purge - The Tyrant's Fist #1-#2, Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1-#5, and Star Wars: Dark Times #1-#5.
These feature work by writers John Ostrander, Randy Stradley, Haden Blackman and Alexander Freed, and artists Luke Ross, Douglas Wheatley, Jim Hall, Chris Scalf, Marco Castiello, Andrea Chella and Rick Leonardi.
The Star Wars licence passed from Dark Horse to Marvel following the...
- 8/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Tons of new casting additions were revealed today for the two sequels to 2012's Rurouni Kenshin. As the two sequel films will deal with the Oniwabanshū, most of the announced roles are for the undercover agents of the Tokugawa era. Min Tanaka (The Twilight Samurai) will portray Okina. Musician Kazufumi Miyazawa will play Toshimichi Ōkubo. Yukiyoshi Ozawa (The Hidden Blade) will portray Hirobumi Itō. Kaito Ōyagi will replace Taketo Tanaka as Yahiko Myōjin in the sequels. Japanese model Maryjun Takahashi will portray the femme-fatale and Shishio love interest, Yumi Komagata. Ryōsuke Miura(Kamen Rider Ooo) will portray Sawagejō Chō. Filming on the two sequels, which will both be released next summer, is already underway. Previously, it was announced that Tatsuya Fujiwara (Light Yagami in Death Note) would portray Kenshin's chief rival, Shishio Makoto. Ryunosuke Kamiki (Big Man Japan, Summer Wars) will play...
- 8/4/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
A Woman and War (Senso No Hitori No Onna), the debut film from director Junichi Inoue is a bold political statement. As I noted in my review, it criticises the crimes Japan committed overseas during the second world war by following the lives of three damaged people in a struggling Tokyo during the final stages of the war. Noriko Eguchi, who has worked on many independent feature films and is a regular on Japanese television screens, plays a former prostitute who is unable to experience pleasure while making love. Masatoshi Nagase has been acting for 30 years and has worked with Jim Jarmusch on Mystery Train and with director Yoji Yamada on My Sons and The Hidden Blade. Here he plays a disenchanted writer sure...
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- 5/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Depending on how you look at it, The Hidden Blade, the 2004 samurai film by Director Yoji Yamada, is either very misleading or very metaphoric in its title. The slow-paced film doesn’t have many instances of samurai exchanging blows or preserving their honor, rather it takes a deeper look into the more everyday occurrences of a samurai’s life at the turn of an era when the firearms of the west were supplanting the traditional role of the samurai in battle. At its center is the peaceful and reserved Munezo Katagiri (Masatoshi Nagase), a samurai renowned for his swordsmanship despite never having used it in true battle. While a conflict does eventually arise and give cause for the use of “the hidden blade”, it’s comes along only in the last quarter of the film after 90-minutes of character building. If that sounds unusual for a samurai film, maybe that...
- 7/11/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
By Allen Gardner
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
- 7/9/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
It's been a few weeks since Ubisoft's full reveal of Assassin's Creed III, its Revolutionary War setting, and most importantly, its new lead, Ratohnhaké:ton, or Connor, a joins the ancient conflict between the Assassins and the Templars for the full extent of the conflict. Ubisoft has set an interesting challenge for itself with its new setting, moving the the action away from the urban bustle of the earlier games in the series to the frontier. Yes, Aciii will still have cities, but 1753 New York has nothing on Jerusalem or 15th century Florence.
But if what myself and other journalists saw at a presentation earlier this month is anything to go by, the team behind Assassin's Creed III is looking to make life outside of the early American cities just as dangerous as within.
The long road to the Revolution
At the top of the presentation, Assassin Creed III's Creative Director,...
But if what myself and other journalists saw at a presentation earlier this month is anything to go by, the team behind Assassin's Creed III is looking to make life outside of the early American cities just as dangerous as within.
The long road to the Revolution
At the top of the presentation, Assassin Creed III's Creative Director,...
- 3/26/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
SyFy has just announced that a new sci-fi web series called The Mercury Men is coming soon to Syfy.com, which is inspired by the same retro serials that gave us Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
Read the official announcement from SyFy:
Marking Major Expansion Of Original Digital Content Following The Success Of Riese: Kingdom Falling, Syfy.Com Announces New Sci-fi Web Series The Mercury Men Debuts In Early 2011
Riese: Kingdom Falling Delivers More Than One Million Streams In Just Two Months
New York - January 21, 2011 - Following the enormous success of the seriesRiese: Kingdom Falling - which generated 1.2 million streams in only two months - Syfy.com will expand its original digital content slate with the 10-part The Mercury Men, it was announced today by Craig Engler, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Syfy Digital.
Created by acclaimed director Christopher Preksta (Captain Blasto), The Mercury Men(each episode...
Read the official announcement from SyFy:
Marking Major Expansion Of Original Digital Content Following The Success Of Riese: Kingdom Falling, Syfy.Com Announces New Sci-fi Web Series The Mercury Men Debuts In Early 2011
Riese: Kingdom Falling Delivers More Than One Million Streams In Just Two Months
New York - January 21, 2011 - Following the enormous success of the seriesRiese: Kingdom Falling - which generated 1.2 million streams in only two months - Syfy.com will expand its original digital content slate with the 10-part The Mercury Men, it was announced today by Craig Engler, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Syfy Digital.
Created by acclaimed director Christopher Preksta (Captain Blasto), The Mercury Men(each episode...
- 1/22/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Titan Comics has announced a four-weekly miniseries set in the Star Wars universe. Slated to arrive later this month, Star Wars Galaxy comprises three short stories that take place at various junctures across the saga's timeline. Issue #1 explores Darth Vader's character in 'Purge: The Hidden Blade', and sees Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo fight off a deadly new enemy in 'Invasion'. The third and final (more)...
- 10/12/2010
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
[Our thanks to Chris Bourne for this review]
Yoji Yamada's About Her Brother is his first contemporary drama in a decade, following his samurai trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor) and his previous film, the WWII reminiscence Kabei: Our Mother. However, despite its modern setting, his latest film has the same feel as Kon Ichikawa's 1960 classic Ototo (Her Brother); Yamada uses the same basic story for his film, which he dedicates to Ichikawa.
As in the earlier version, About Her Brother focuses on the relationship between Ginko (Sayuri Yoshinaga), a long-time widow and pharmacy owner who has never remarried, and her incorrigible younger brother Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei), who causes much embarrassment with his casual approach to personal responsibility and his penchant for drinking and gambling. Ginko has put up with Tetsuro's antics ever since they were children, but Tetsuro severely tests the limits of her patience when he drunkenly wrecks the wedding reception...
Yoji Yamada's About Her Brother is his first contemporary drama in a decade, following his samurai trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor) and his previous film, the WWII reminiscence Kabei: Our Mother. However, despite its modern setting, his latest film has the same feel as Kon Ichikawa's 1960 classic Ototo (Her Brother); Yamada uses the same basic story for his film, which he dedicates to Ichikawa.
As in the earlier version, About Her Brother focuses on the relationship between Ginko (Sayuri Yoshinaga), a long-time widow and pharmacy owner who has never remarried, and her incorrigible younger brother Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei), who causes much embarrassment with his casual approach to personal responsibility and his penchant for drinking and gambling. Ginko has put up with Tetsuro's antics ever since they were children, but Tetsuro severely tests the limits of her patience when he drunkenly wrecks the wedding reception...
- 7/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
House of Five Leaves was snapped up for Us distribution and online streaming by Funimation before it even began airing in Japan, as part of their deal to acquire selected titles in Fuji TV's Noitamina programming. The latest production by Manglobe, the studio behind the smash hit genre mashup Samurai Champloo and the dystopian sci-fi parable Ergo Proxy, House of Five Leaves is the animated adaptation of the manga of the same name. Yet despite the studio's pedigree, this is no easy sell, and even with a fairly conventional premise and setting in some ways it's actually a riskier proposition than either of their recent successes.
The story basically stems from the interaction between two central characters. First is Akitsu, a hapless ronin down on his luck - shy, self-conscious and withdrawn to the point of being phobic, he struggles to find (let alone keep) employment as a bodyguard...
The story basically stems from the interaction between two central characters. First is Akitsu, a hapless ronin down on his luck - shy, self-conscious and withdrawn to the point of being phobic, he struggles to find (let alone keep) employment as a bodyguard...
- 5/18/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Dark Horse published "Star Wars: Purge" in 2005, a one-shot that picked up in the aftermath of Order 66, a.k.a. The Day The Jedi Died. The comic followed Darth Vader as he searched Coruscant for stray Jedi, hoping that one would lead him to his former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Today brings the release of a second "Purge" one-shot, subtitled "The Hidden Blade." The story opens on a remote, newly conquered world. Emperor Palpatine has dispatched the Dark Lord of the Sith to oversee the production of At-at walkers as the Imperial garrison consolidates its strength in the face of continuing assaults from the planet's indigenous people.
When Vader picks up faint traces of a Jedi, he's faced with a choice: stay with the garrison to lead the defense or disobey the Emperor's command and head out to find the rogue Force-wielder.
"The Hidden Blade" is short and sweet. The story is a little predictable,...
Today brings the release of a second "Purge" one-shot, subtitled "The Hidden Blade." The story opens on a remote, newly conquered world. Emperor Palpatine has dispatched the Dark Lord of the Sith to oversee the production of At-at walkers as the Imperial garrison consolidates its strength in the face of continuing assaults from the planet's indigenous people.
When Vader picks up faint traces of a Jedi, he's faced with a choice: stay with the garrison to lead the defense or disobey the Emperor's command and head out to find the rogue Force-wielder.
"The Hidden Blade" is short and sweet. The story is a little predictable,...
- 4/7/2010
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Splash Page
It’s 2010, and while there will be plenty of great anime in the coming weeks and months, AniMania is starting the new year with something a little different by taking a look at the live action sword drama, “Ichi”.
“Ichi” is the latest in the long line of works to draw on the Zatoichi blind swordsman mythos, but with a twist. Ichi, the title character, is a beautiful swords-woman, who travels from village to village in search of the only man to ever show her kindness. Along the way, she meets Toma, who at first comes across as a hopeless bungler, dependent on Ichi to get him out of one sticky situation after another. But as time goes on, we learn that he is hiding a tragic past. There just might be more to this clumsy, would-be samurai than his humorous antics let on.
Live action is nothing new, of course.
“Ichi” is the latest in the long line of works to draw on the Zatoichi blind swordsman mythos, but with a twist. Ichi, the title character, is a beautiful swords-woman, who travels from village to village in search of the only man to ever show her kindness. Along the way, she meets Toma, who at first comes across as a hopeless bungler, dependent on Ichi to get him out of one sticky situation after another. But as time goes on, we learn that he is hiding a tragic past. There just might be more to this clumsy, would-be samurai than his humorous antics let on.
Live action is nothing new, of course.
- 1/8/2010
- by E. Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Nippon Cinemas Kevin has found some (first?) just beautiful stills from Kenji Nakanishi’s Hana no Ato (After the Flowers). The film currently in post-production is based on a short story by Shuhei Fujisawa (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor). Starring Keiko Kitagawa, Hana no Ato will open in Japanese theaters in Spring 2010.
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- 9/22/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
Japanese beauty Kitagawa Keiko takes the lead role in an adaptation of the short story by the late Shuhei Fujisawa. Does that name sound familiar? It should as we have talked about his works a few times around here. You might know some other films that have been adapted from his other works. You know, Yoji Yamada’s superb Samurai Trilogy: The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor. Yes. That Samurai Trilogy. Needless to say I don’t think there will be any question about the quality of the source material. This adaptation will be directed by Kenji Nakanishi.
Kitagawa plays Ito, a skilled swordswoman who is the daughter of a warrior. Ito falls in love with another member of her clan (Shuntaro Miyao), but after he commits suicide due to a plot by the clan’s leader (Kamejiro Ichikawa), she takes up her sword to exact revenge.
Kitagawa plays Ito, a skilled swordswoman who is the daughter of a warrior. Ito falls in love with another member of her clan (Shuntaro Miyao), but after he commits suicide due to a plot by the clan’s leader (Kamejiro Ichikawa), she takes up her sword to exact revenge.
- 8/5/2009
- by Andrew Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Masatoshi Nagase is one of the great unsung heroes of Japanese film, a hugely reliable character actor with seemingly unerring taste in projects who - despite a huge body of work - remains largely unknown by name. Tell people that you’ve got a new movie starring Masatoshi Nagase and you’ll probably get mostly blank looks. Tell them you’ve got a new movie with the guy from Funuke Show Some Love You Losers, Sakuran, The Hidden Blade, and the Mike Hama films - in which he plays the titular detective - and then you’re on to something.
And now Nagase stars with Koji Yakusho in Gelatin Silver, Love, the much awaited debut feature from acclaimed still photographer Kazumi Kurigami. Nagase plays a photographer hired by Yakusho to follow a hired killer played by the beautiful Rie Miyazawa. I’ve been checking the website for this one a...
And now Nagase stars with Koji Yakusho in Gelatin Silver, Love, the much awaited debut feature from acclaimed still photographer Kazumi Kurigami. Nagase plays a photographer hired by Yakusho to follow a hired killer played by the beautiful Rie Miyazawa. I’ve been checking the website for this one a...
- 12/29/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
- Today's nine title announcement for the Berlin Festival’s main competition section (the 58th edition runs between Feb. 7-17.) is an early sign that the 2008 year in film is rich in international film from all corners of the globe and that the upcoming Cannes film festival is going to be loaded once again with heavyweight titles. Out of the titles I'm most looking forward to seeing are the little known Mike Leigh project called Happy-Go-Lucky and Erick Zonca’s French thriller Julia starring Tilda Swinton, and the postponed domestic release of Isabel Coixet’s Elegy. Here is the 9-list:Feuerherz (Heart of Fire) Germany/Austria (adapted from the bestseller by Senait Mehari) by Luigi Falorni (The Story of the Weeping Camel) with Letekidan Micael Julia France by Erick Zonca (The Dreamlife of Angels) with Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saúl Rubinek Lady Jane France By Robert Guédiguian (Le Promeneur du champ de Mars,
- 1/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Tartan USA has picked up all U.S. rights to Festival de Cannes In Competition entry Red Road, which was well-received in Cannes. The British family drama from first-time feature director Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar for her short Wasp, is the first of three projects for Lars von Trier to be shot in Glasgow, Scotland, by different directors on a six-week schedule using the same nine cast members. Tartan USA, the two-year-old U.S. arm of Hamish McAlpine's U.K. distributor Tartan Films, had a busy festival, also picking up all rights for the Danish animated film Princess and Denis Dercourt's Un Certain Regard thriller La Tourneuse de pages. The distributor's upcoming releases include The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Lady Vengeance, Hidden Blade and In My Father's Den. Jane Giles and Marie Therese Guirgis of Tartan USA (formerly of Wellspring) and Natja Rosner, sales executive for Trust Film Sales, negotiated the deal.
- 5/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Out with the old & in with the new… the New Year has finally arrived and the staffers at ioncinema.com are all psyched for the prospects of another eclectic year in film. In our 5-day bonanza, was put together by our panel of 4 (from Canada, the U.S, Europe and Australia). Drum roll please as we give you The Top 50 most anticipated films of 2006! Here are picks 30 thru 50. 31. (tie) Scoop When: Look for this picture to unveil itself at one of the bigger fests – (hint hint Cannes) followed by a possible Holiday release. Who: Woody Allen What: Scarlett Johansson plays an American journalism student visiting London who investigates a series of murders and falls in love with a dashing Englishman (Hugh Jackman). Ian McShane plays a man who eggs her own in her sleuthing and Allen plays a man posing as her father. Why: Welcome to the U.
- 1/12/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
HONG KONG -- Gu Chang-Wei's Berlin Silver Bear winner The Peacock has been chosen as the opening film for this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, which will run March 22-April 6 as part of the eight-event Hong Kong Entertainment Expo, organizers said Thursday. Yamada Yoji's samurai saga The Hidden Blade will be the other film to screen opening night, which will also feature a special gala premiere of JCE Movies' homage to kung fu, House of Fury, by Stephen Fung. A cut in government funding and a last-minute pullout by main sponsor Cathay Pacific has meant a slight downsizing of the program, with the number of films dropping from last year's 260 to 240, with 338 screenings. "But we're very happy with the selection we have now," festival director Peter Tsi said Thursday. "I think it's the best program we've had for some time."...
- 2/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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