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Teppei Isobe graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka. Started independent filmmaking in 2016. His films have been selected and awarded in many domestic film festivals. In 2019, he established a film production company, belly roll film, with his classmate Jihiko Taniguchi. His first feature film “Mi wa Mirai no Mi (“F is for Future.”) and five other short films were released as “Teppei Isobe's Special Feature” at theaters such as Uplink Kichijoji, Nagoya Cinemascore, and Osaka Cine Nouveau. In 2021, he directed “Tears of Persephone” (starring Shu Watabe and Ayame Goriki), a film commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Shin-Etsu Broadcasting. He also has several other new films in the pipeline for theatrical release.
On the occasion of 3 of his film streaming at TodoiF, we present 5 of his movies we think deserve a watch, in chronological order.
1. Unscripted Life (2018)
The story begins inside a restaurant, where the employees of a company...
On the occasion of 3 of his film streaming at TodoiF, we present 5 of his movies we think deserve a watch, in chronological order.
1. Unscripted Life (2018)
The story begins inside a restaurant, where the employees of a company...
- 5/22/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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by Eleo Billet
After “Believer,” Lee Hae-young returns with a patriotic historical film about Korea's liberation movement in the 1930s. A spin-off of some sort to “The Age of Shadows”, the director mixes his inspirations between film noir, action flick, and “The Handmaiden” through its combative lesbian heroines.
Korea, 1933. The country has been under Japanese rule for more than twenty years. However, organized groups of Koreans are resisting colonization and risking their lives for the independence of their homeland. Park Cha-kyung, an employee in the communication department, is one of their members. She is a Phantom. The spy, with her unit, prepare the assassination of the new Japanese resident-general on his arrival in Seoul for his taking office. Unfortunately, the activist Yoon Nan-young, in charge of assassinating the high-ranking official, misses her target and is hunted down. She dies of several bullets, in the arms of Cha-kyung. Covered in blood,...
After “Believer,” Lee Hae-young returns with a patriotic historical film about Korea's liberation movement in the 1930s. A spin-off of some sort to “The Age of Shadows”, the director mixes his inspirations between film noir, action flick, and “The Handmaiden” through its combative lesbian heroines.
Korea, 1933. The country has been under Japanese rule for more than twenty years. However, organized groups of Koreans are resisting colonization and risking their lives for the independence of their homeland. Park Cha-kyung, an employee in the communication department, is one of their members. She is a Phantom. The spy, with her unit, prepare the assassination of the new Japanese resident-general on his arrival in Seoul for his taking office. Unfortunately, the activist Yoon Nan-young, in charge of assassinating the high-ranking official, misses her target and is hunted down. She dies of several bullets, in the arms of Cha-kyung. Covered in blood,...
- 4/23/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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by Eleo Billet
After “Believer,” Lee Hae-young returns with a patriotic historical film about Korea's liberation movement in the 1930s. A spin-off of some sort to “The Age of Shadows”, the director mixes his inspirations between film noir, action flick, and “The Handmaiden” through its combative lesbian heroines.
Korea, 1933. The country has been under Japanese rule for more than twenty years. However, organized groups of Koreans are resisting colonization and risking their lives for the independence of their homeland. Park Cha-kyung, an employee in the communication department, is one of their members. She is a Phantom. The spy, with her unit, prepare the assassination of the new Japanese resident-general on his arrival in Seoul for his taking office. Unfortunately, the activist Yoon Nan-young, in charge of assassinating the high-ranking official, misses her target and is hunted down. She dies of several bullets, in the arms of Cha-kyung. Covered in blood,...
After “Believer,” Lee Hae-young returns with a patriotic historical film about Korea's liberation movement in the 1930s. A spin-off of some sort to “The Age of Shadows”, the director mixes his inspirations between film noir, action flick, and “The Handmaiden” through its combative lesbian heroines.
Korea, 1933. The country has been under Japanese rule for more than twenty years. However, organized groups of Koreans are resisting colonization and risking their lives for the independence of their homeland. Park Cha-kyung, an employee in the communication department, is one of their members. She is a Phantom. The spy, with her unit, prepare the assassination of the new Japanese resident-general on his arrival in Seoul for his taking office. Unfortunately, the activist Yoon Nan-young, in charge of assassinating the high-ranking official, misses her target and is hunted down. She dies of several bullets, in the arms of Cha-kyung. Covered in blood,...
- 4/3/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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Dementia seems to be the name of the game in cinema over the course of recent years. After Richard Glatzer’s and Wash Westmoreland’s effort “Still Alice” (2014) that took Julianne Moore to her first and so far only Oscar for playing the titular character, an academic who has to deal with the illness that will rapidly take her greatest asset, and even more impressive Florian Zeller’s stage play adaptation “The Father” (2020) that brought Anthony Hopkins his second Academy Award for the role, the Japanese novelist and producer Genki Kawamura took his own novel on the same topic as a source for his feature-length directorial debut. After the premiere at San Sebastian and the tour of festivals in East and Southeast Asia, “A Hundred Flowers” was screened at Belgrade International Film Festival.
On New Year’s Eve, and just before her birthday, retired piano teacher Yuriko Kasai (Mieko Harada...
On New Year’s Eve, and just before her birthday, retired piano teacher Yuriko Kasai (Mieko Harada...
- 2/28/2023
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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by Renee Ng
It is our misfortune that a full scope of Natsuo Kirino’s writing prowess cannot be realized in the English world. Of the dozens of novels she has written since the 1990s, only four have been translated to English. But of these four dark demonstrations of Japanese society and culture, “Grotesque” leaves its most daring mark on female sexuality.
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The story opens with an unnamed narrator, who explains that her younger sister, Yuriko and old classmate, Kazue Sato have been murdered. Coincidentally, both women had become sex workers at some point in their lives, and on separate occasions, were strangled to death by the same customer, a man named Zhang Zhe Zhong. A natural cynic, the narrator promises to explain everything she knows to the reader and begins a long tale from her childhood. Interspersed with diaries,...
It is our misfortune that a full scope of Natsuo Kirino’s writing prowess cannot be realized in the English world. Of the dozens of novels she has written since the 1990s, only four have been translated to English. But of these four dark demonstrations of Japanese society and culture, “Grotesque” leaves its most daring mark on female sexuality.
on Amazon by clicking on the image below
The story opens with an unnamed narrator, who explains that her younger sister, Yuriko and old classmate, Kazue Sato have been murdered. Coincidentally, both women had become sex workers at some point in their lives, and on separate occasions, were strangled to death by the same customer, a man named Zhang Zhe Zhong. A natural cynic, the narrator promises to explain everything she knows to the reader and begins a long tale from her childhood. Interspersed with diaries,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Despite being a remake of Johnnie To classic “Drug War”, Lee Hae-young’s stylish crime thriller “Believer” did just enough to have its own identity and prove to be a success story at the box office. Now, the director is ready with his follow-up, yet another ensemble thriller but this time set in occupied Korea.
Synopsis
In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be “Phantom” spies of the anti-Japanese organization. The five suspects are Junji Murayama, Park Cha-kyung, Yuriko, Baek-ho, and Section Chief Cheon. The Japanese security forces, led by Kaito, work to find the Phantom spies. The 5 suspects are then entrapped in a sting operation and are locked up in a remote hotel. Each of the 5 suspects try to prove that they are not a Phantom spy. They struggle to escape from their imprisonment.
The eclectic cast-list is headed by the multi-faceted Sol Kyung-gu,...
Synopsis
In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be “Phantom” spies of the anti-Japanese organization. The five suspects are Junji Murayama, Park Cha-kyung, Yuriko, Baek-ho, and Section Chief Cheon. The Japanese security forces, led by Kaito, work to find the Phantom spies. The 5 suspects are then entrapped in a sting operation and are locked up in a remote hotel. Each of the 5 suspects try to prove that they are not a Phantom spy. They struggle to escape from their imprisonment.
The eclectic cast-list is headed by the multi-faceted Sol Kyung-gu,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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Continuing exactly where he left off with “Unscripted Life” to the point that “Overnight Walk” looks some sort of sequel, Teppei Isobe expands on the comments he made in the 2018 short, while adding a number of additional ones and a road trip element.
Overnight Walk is streaming on TodoiF
Using another dinner a restaurant as its basis, Isobe introduces us to a theater crew, where the main topic is about nudity in a play, with one actress having already done it, one being completely negative about it, and one of the protagonists, Sakura, pondering whether she should do it. The fact that she is 27-years-old and her career has not picked up at all, weighs heavily, but the decision is still tormenting her. In the meantime, her boyfriend receives an unexpected visit from her older sister, Yuriko, who has come to Tokyo to see her sister, with the man embarrassing...
Overnight Walk is streaming on TodoiF
Using another dinner a restaurant as its basis, Isobe introduces us to a theater crew, where the main topic is about nudity in a play, with one actress having already done it, one being completely negative about it, and one of the protagonists, Sakura, pondering whether she should do it. The fact that she is 27-years-old and her career has not picked up at all, weighs heavily, but the decision is still tormenting her. In the meantime, her boyfriend receives an unexpected visit from her older sister, Yuriko, who has come to Tokyo to see her sister, with the man embarrassing...
- 7/8/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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