Based on the novel “Real Onigokko” by Yusuke Yamada, which has spawned six other films, “Tag” is another bloodthirsty trip by one of the masters of the category, Sion Sono.
The film starts in a fashion expected from Sion Sono, as a bus filled with schoolgirls is torn in half along with them, by something that seems like wind, in a bloodbath that leaves only Mitsuko standing. The cutting in half of schoolgirls continues for a while, until Mitsuko arrives in a school where Aki greets her, although she cannot remember who she is. The story continues in that fashion, with the protagonist finding herself in different settings, in one as Keiko, a woman who is about to get married, and in another as Izumi, a runner. The rest of the movies is a sequence of battles and constant running, in a story that is quite hard to follow.
The film starts in a fashion expected from Sion Sono, as a bus filled with schoolgirls is torn in half along with them, by something that seems like wind, in a bloodbath that leaves only Mitsuko standing. The cutting in half of schoolgirls continues for a while, until Mitsuko arrives in a school where Aki greets her, although she cannot remember who she is. The story continues in that fashion, with the protagonist finding herself in different settings, in one as Keiko, a woman who is about to get married, and in another as Izumi, a runner. The rest of the movies is a sequence of battles and constant running, in a story that is quite hard to follow.
- 7/27/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Yuji Shimomura has worked as a stunt co-ordinator on films such as “Shinobi: Heart under Blade” (2005) and “Flashpoint” (2007), as well as directing cinematics for the video game “Bayonetta” (2009). The influence of his earlier work in stunts is clear in this film, which features fast and frantic action sequences and is sure to appeal to fans of the martial-arts genre.
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The film opens with a crack team of soldiers performing a military exercise in a large abandoned building. The group is tasked with taking down the “Ghost”, another soldier who is evading them. A problem soon becomes apparent when a third party appears in the building and begins brutally executing the soldiers one-by-one before disappearing into the shadows. We then meet a young girl, Sachi (Yura Kondo), living with her uncle Toshiro (Tak Sakaguchi), who manages a convenience store. It is clear that Toshiro has a dark and violent past.
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The film opens with a crack team of soldiers performing a military exercise in a large abandoned building. The group is tasked with taking down the “Ghost”, another soldier who is evading them. A problem soon becomes apparent when a third party appears in the building and begins brutally executing the soldiers one-by-one before disappearing into the shadows. We then meet a young girl, Sachi (Yura Kondo), living with her uncle Toshiro (Tak Sakaguchi), who manages a convenience store. It is clear that Toshiro has a dark and violent past.
- 5/10/2019
- by Matthew Cooper
- AsianMoviePulse
Yuji Shimomura has worked as a stunt co-ordinator on films such as “Shinobi: Heart under Blade” (2005) and “Flashpoint” (2007), as well as directing cinematics for the video game “Bayonetta” (2009). The influence of his earlier work in stunts is clear in this film, which features fast and frantic action sequences and is sure to appeal to fans of the martial-arts genre.
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The film opens with a crack team of soldiers performing a military exercise in a large abandoned building. The group is tasked with taking down the “Ghost”, another soldier who is evading them. A problem soon becomes apparent when a third party appears in the building and begins brutally executing the soldiers one-by-one before disappearing into the shadows. We then meet a young girl, Sachi (Yura Kondo), living with her uncle Toshiro (Tak Sakaguchi), who manages a convenience store. It is clear that Toshiro has a dark and violent past.
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The film opens with a crack team of soldiers performing a military exercise in a large abandoned building. The group is tasked with taking down the “Ghost”, another soldier who is evading them. A problem soon becomes apparent when a third party appears in the building and begins brutally executing the soldiers one-by-one before disappearing into the shadows. We then meet a young girl, Sachi (Yura Kondo), living with her uncle Toshiro (Tak Sakaguchi), who manages a convenience store. It is clear that Toshiro has a dark and violent past.
- 5/21/2018
- by Matthew Cooper
- AsianMoviePulse
Eureka Entertainment has announced the release of Japanese martial arts film ‘Re:Born‘ to be March 12, 2018 throughout the UK.
The film, directed by Yuji Shimomura, follows a legendary soldier with a mysterious past who now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about. Starring Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Issei Ishida, Mariko Shinoda, Takumi Saito, Hitomi Hasebe, and Akio Otsuka.
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The film, directed by Yuji Shimomura, follows a legendary soldier with a mysterious past who now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about. Starring Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Issei Ishida, Mariko Shinoda, Takumi Saito, Hitomi Hasebe, and Akio Otsuka.
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- 1/19/2018
- by Angelina Kurganska
- AsianMoviePulse
Eureka Entertainment has announced the release of Japanese martial arts film ‘Re:Born‘ to be March 12, 2018 throughout the UK.
The film, directed by Yuji Shimomura, follows a legendary soldier with a mysterious past who now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about. Starring Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Issei Ishida, Mariko Shinoda, Takumi Saito, Hitomi Hasebe, and Akio Otsuka.
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The film, directed by Yuji Shimomura, follows a legendary soldier with a mysterious past who now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about. Starring Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Issei Ishida, Mariko Shinoda, Takumi Saito, Hitomi Hasebe, and Akio Otsuka.
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- 1/19/2018
- by Angelina Kurganska
- AsianMoviePulse
Nick Aldwinckle Nov 27, 2017
Our latest round-up of genre DVDs and Blu-rays covers George A Romero, Damnation Alley and more...
With real life’s ridiculous news stories almost beyond parody, it seems fitting that 2017 was the year we saw George A. Romero, the master of satirical zombie tomfoolery, responsible for horror classics from Dawn Of The Dead through to Tales From The Dark Side, shuffle off this mortal coil. To commemorate three of Romero’s less celebrated early movies, Arrow Video has released the intriguing Between Night And Dawn set on Bluray, with ample extras to sate the most eager fanboy/girl.
First up, and by far the movie most will know (perhaps due to its 2010 remake), 1973's The Crazies plays out almost like a retread of Romero's 1968 debut Night Of The Living Dead, with a group of townsfolk again subject to a dodgy violence-inducing substance whilst military jackanapes try and control the epidemic.
Our latest round-up of genre DVDs and Blu-rays covers George A Romero, Damnation Alley and more...
With real life’s ridiculous news stories almost beyond parody, it seems fitting that 2017 was the year we saw George A. Romero, the master of satirical zombie tomfoolery, responsible for horror classics from Dawn Of The Dead through to Tales From The Dark Side, shuffle off this mortal coil. To commemorate three of Romero’s less celebrated early movies, Arrow Video has released the intriguing Between Night And Dawn set on Bluray, with ample extras to sate the most eager fanboy/girl.
First up, and by far the movie most will know (perhaps due to its 2010 remake), 1973's The Crazies plays out almost like a retread of Romero's 1968 debut Night Of The Living Dead, with a group of townsfolk again subject to a dodgy violence-inducing substance whilst military jackanapes try and control the epidemic.
- 11/15/2017
- Den of Geek
"If you want my blood... come and get it!" Eureka Entertainment has debuted a new official UK trailer for a Japanese action thriller titled Re:Born, which premiered at a few genre film festivals last year. Re:Born features a hand-to-hand fighting technique called "Zero-Range Combat", originally developed by combat strategist and master fight instructor Yoshitaka Inagawa. The film's story follows a covert soldier with a mysterious past who decides to once again unleash the "beast inside of him" to stand up for what he cares about. The cast includes Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Takumi Saitô, Mariko Shinoda, and Akio Ôtsuka. This trailer has hints at some of the badass action in this film, which looks like a lot of very close-range fighting, including inside a phone booth at one point. I don't know much about this, but it looks cool. Here's the new UK trailer (+ international poster) for Yûji Shimomura's Re:Born,...
- 9/25/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s the tail end of the twenty-first century and Earth has nearly overstayed its welcome with dwindling resources and over-population. Scientists believe they can release the CO2 pockets underneath Mars’ surface and move the Red Planet from -50 degrees Celsius into a human-friendly temperature and atmosphere. So mankind sends rockets of moss and cockroaches to commence the process, a half-century passing before a team of colonists can finally journey forth. Everything should be ready for this hand-selected group under Ko Honda’s (Shun Oguri) supervision: go to Mars, kill the cockroaches, and return home with stories of our salvation via a new frontier. It sounds so simple and yet no one is prepared for what they’ll find because no one but Honda and the Japanese government know the truth.
That itself is a wild premise ripe for science fiction fun, but manga creators Yû Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana are hardly finished.
That itself is a wild premise ripe for science fiction fun, but manga creators Yû Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana are hardly finished.
- 8/4/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
dTv, Japan’s biggest streaming service released a preview for “Terraformars:A New Hope” series, a three-episode prequel of Takashi Miike’s adaptation, that will premiere on April 24, with the actual film scheduled for April 29.
The prequel will center on the research institute responsible for screening candidates for the Mars mission. The candidates will cheat and betray each other in a mental battle to be chosen as part of the crew, and it will reveal why the 15 crew members in the film were the ones chosen.
Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Mariko Shinoda, Rina Ota, Rinko Kikuchi, and Masaya Kato are reprising their roles from the film. Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kōji Matoba, Ken Aoki, Takahiro Kuroishi, Kento Hayashi, Tetsuya Sugaya, Takemi Fujii, and Saki Takaoka are playing other characters who are unique to the prequel.
Takashi Miike supervises the production, with Yoshitaka Yamaguchi directing. Yamaguchi has worked before with Miike as assistant...
The prequel will center on the research institute responsible for screening candidates for the Mars mission. The candidates will cheat and betray each other in a mental battle to be chosen as part of the crew, and it will reveal why the 15 crew members in the film were the ones chosen.
Hideaki Ito, Emi Takei, Mariko Shinoda, Rina Ota, Rinko Kikuchi, and Masaya Kato are reprising their roles from the film. Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kōji Matoba, Ken Aoki, Takahiro Kuroishi, Kento Hayashi, Tetsuya Sugaya, Takemi Fujii, and Saki Takaoka are playing other characters who are unique to the prequel.
Takashi Miike supervises the production, with Yoshitaka Yamaguchi directing. Yamaguchi has worked before with Miike as assistant...
- 4/10/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Female of the Species: Sono’s Pseudo-Allegory Reifies the Male Gaze
Superficially, there’s not too much new on hand in Sion Sono’s Tag, credited as the third of a whopping six features due out in 2015, each to most likely be juggled around the film festival circuit before a little luck sees them reach theatrical release next year thanks to the auteur’s continually growing cult audience (it’s fair to say he’s browbeating the output of native prolific provocateur, Takashi Miike). This latest lands somewhere on the more bizarro end of Sono’s eclectic spectrum, though is nowhere near as gonzo, batshit crazy as Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) or last year’s gangster musical Tokyo Tribe. However, neither is this on par with the director’s more sterling titles, like the magnum opus Love Exposure (2008), the first chapter of his daunting “Hate” trilogy. Instead,...
Superficially, there’s not too much new on hand in Sion Sono’s Tag, credited as the third of a whopping six features due out in 2015, each to most likely be juggled around the film festival circuit before a little luck sees them reach theatrical release next year thanks to the auteur’s continually growing cult audience (it’s fair to say he’s browbeating the output of native prolific provocateur, Takashi Miike). This latest lands somewhere on the more bizarro end of Sono’s eclectic spectrum, though is nowhere near as gonzo, batshit crazy as Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013) or last year’s gangster musical Tokyo Tribe. However, neither is this on par with the director’s more sterling titles, like the magnum opus Love Exposure (2008), the first chapter of his daunting “Hate” trilogy. Instead,...
- 8/10/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
One director not going to Cannes this year is Sion Sono, though with four films and one TV movie due for release in 2015, you would think something from the director would hit the Croisette. But one could understand how he might be too damn busy to walk down the red carpet, so we'll just have to take the movies as they come. And as per usual, Sono has a way of stoking excitement, and "Tag" fits right in the vein of his wilder, wackier films. Starring Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano, and based on the novel "Real Onigokko" by Yusuke Yamada, the story follows high school girls who become the target of a shape-shifting ghost. But if this trailer is anything to go by, this is far, far beyond your average flick about supernatural entities, with tons of bodies, lots of blood, and plenty of machine gun fire.
- 5/12/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Prolific Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono has released multiple feature films in each calendar year for a number of years, and 2015 is poised to be no different, as Sono is slated to release six films during the years. With trailers for his Shinjuku Swan and Love & Peace already having been released, another feature of Sono’s now has a trailer.
Titled Tag, aka Riaru Oniggoko, Sono adapts the screenplay from the novel by Yûsuke Yamada, which also bears the same title, and takes on directing duties as well, working with a cast that includes Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano. The plot synopsis is as follow.
A bus full of high school girls are on their way to a school trip. A sudden gust of wind slices the bus in half, length-wise killing 40 girls in the blink of an eye, except Mitsuko our protagonist, who ducked just in time. The Wind,...
Titled Tag, aka Riaru Oniggoko, Sono adapts the screenplay from the novel by Yûsuke Yamada, which also bears the same title, and takes on directing duties as well, working with a cast that includes Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano. The plot synopsis is as follow.
A bus full of high school girls are on their way to a school trip. A sudden gust of wind slices the bus in half, length-wise killing 40 girls in the blink of an eye, except Mitsuko our protagonist, who ducked just in time. The Wind,...
- 4/26/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Ouran High School Host Club is one of the funniest and most enjoyable animes I have ever seen. Based on the manga of the same name, the story surrounds a group of wealthy and handsome boys from the Ouran Host Club and Haruhi, the school's poorest student. Now Ouran has been turned into a live action movie. The cast is full of young idols, and includes Mariko Shinoda from AKB48 and Nichkhun from Korea's 2Pm. The trailer certainly looks colorful, and I am really hoping it will be as entertaining as the anime series. Ouran High School Host Club will be in Japanese cinema on March 17. Related LINKTrailer via Ann...
- 3/2/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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