Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios is to handle world sales of Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert Of Namibia, which is set to world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
The drama marks the second feature of rising Japanese writer-director Yamanaka, who became the youngest director to premiere in Berlin aged 20 with her debut Amiko in 2018.
Her latest stars Yumi Kawai, whose credits include award-winning Plan 75, which played in Un Certain Regard in 2022, and Venice Horizons 2022 title A Man. A new look at Kawai in the film can be seen above.
She plays Kana, a bipolar 21-year-old who is directionless and...
The drama marks the second feature of rising Japanese writer-director Yamanaka, who became the youngest director to premiere in Berlin aged 20 with her debut Amiko in 2018.
Her latest stars Yumi Kawai, whose credits include award-winning Plan 75, which played in Un Certain Regard in 2022, and Venice Horizons 2022 title A Man. A new look at Kawai in the film can be seen above.
She plays Kana, a bipolar 21-year-old who is directionless and...
- 5/2/2024
- ScreenDaily
Kiyotaka Oshiyama, director of the upcoming anime film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga Look Back, hinted that he is aiming to create the film differently from the manga.
In his comment, Oshiyama acknowledged the similarities in the creative processes between animators/animation directors and manga artists, saying that they approach their works in an identical manner.
He further elaborated on his personal connection to the story, stating, he could resonate with Fujimoto’s inspiration to create Look Back. And because of this, Oshiyama felt that he could create a movie adaptation of the work, which he could personally relate to.
“When I read manga, I was not only deeply moved by the story, but I also resonated with the passion of Tatsuki Fujimoto, the author of Look Back. That’s why I felt that I could make this into a film that I could personally relate to.”
Expressing...
In his comment, Oshiyama acknowledged the similarities in the creative processes between animators/animation directors and manga artists, saying that they approach their works in an identical manner.
He further elaborated on his personal connection to the story, stating, he could resonate with Fujimoto’s inspiration to create Look Back. And because of this, Oshiyama felt that he could create a movie adaptation of the work, which he could personally relate to.
“When I read manga, I was not only deeply moved by the story, but I also resonated with the passion of Tatsuki Fujimoto, the author of Look Back. That’s why I felt that I could make this into a film that I could personally relate to.”
Expressing...
- 4/17/2024
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
Look Back , an upcoming anime movie based on the one-shot manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto ( Chainsaw Man ), released its first new trailer today, alongside a main visual. The trailer also features the movie's main theme " Light song " by haruka nakamura, and sung by urara. The film is scheduled to open in Japan on June 28, 2024. Kiyotaka Oshiyama ( Flip Flappers ) will direct Look Back at Studio Durian. Oshiyama also writes the script and provides the character designs. Kiyoshi Sameshima will be the art director, with haruka nakamura providing the music and Avex Pictures distributing the film. As previously reported , Yumi Kawai will voice Fujino, with Mizuki Yoshida voicing Kyomoto. Look Back visual Related: Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back Anime Film Announces Main Cast Tatsuki Fujimoto originally released the Look Back one-shot in July 2021 on Shonen Jump+. An English language version of the manga is released by Viz Media, who describes Look Back : The...
- 4/16/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Tatsuki Fujimoto is best known as the critically acclaimed author of the Chainsaw Man series, but he has authored several other works, including the one-shot manga Look Back, whose anime film adaptation was announced back in February. The film is set for a June 28, 2024 release in Japan, and while we’re waiting for the premiere, we are happy to announce that the producers have revealed the first cast members of the upcoming movie:
Yūmi Kawai (left) was cast as Fujino, a fourth grader who draws four-panel comics in the school newspaper, while Mizuki Yoshida (right) will be playing Kyomoto, Fujino’s classmate who has been skipping school. So far, the two of them are the only confirmed cast members of Look Back, but they will be voicing the main characters so this is definitely a scoop.
The award-winning one-shot manga by the author of Chainsaw Man is officially described as...
Yūmi Kawai (left) was cast as Fujino, a fourth grader who draws four-panel comics in the school newspaper, while Mizuki Yoshida (right) will be playing Kyomoto, Fujino’s classmate who has been skipping school. So far, the two of them are the only confirmed cast members of Look Back, but they will be voicing the main characters so this is definitely a scoop.
The award-winning one-shot manga by the author of Chainsaw Man is officially described as...
- 3/14/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
The official website of the upcoming anime film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back manga announced the cast for the two main characters on March 14, 2024.
Yumi Kawai, known for her role in Extremely Inappropriate!, will voice Ayumu Fujino. Meanwhile, Mizuki Yoshida, known for Alice in Borderland, will voice Kyomoto.
Yumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida expressed their enthusiasm on being a part of the anime film, as it marks the voice acting debut of both the actors. Checkout their comments below:
Yumi Kawai:
I played the role of Fujino. My name is Yumi Kawai.
“Look Back” is a manga that has moved the hearts of many people. This time, Director Oshiyama and the production team have attempted to bring a new dimension to Fujino and Kyomoto’s living moments by adapting it into an animation, and I contributed by breathing life and voice into it. It was my first time...
Yumi Kawai, known for her role in Extremely Inappropriate!, will voice Ayumu Fujino. Meanwhile, Mizuki Yoshida, known for Alice in Borderland, will voice Kyomoto.
Yumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida expressed their enthusiasm on being a part of the anime film, as it marks the voice acting debut of both the actors. Checkout their comments below:
Yumi Kawai:
I played the role of Fujino. My name is Yumi Kawai.
“Look Back” is a manga that has moved the hearts of many people. This time, Director Oshiyama and the production team have attempted to bring a new dimension to Fujino and Kyomoto’s living moments by adapting it into an animation, and I contributed by breathing life and voice into it. It was my first time...
- 3/14/2024
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
The previously announced anime film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's acclaimed Look Back one-shot manga today announced its main cast, drawing up live-action actresses Yumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida as Fujino and Kyomoto, respectively. Kiyotaka Oshiyama ( Flip Flappers ) is helming the adaptation at Studio Durian as director, scriptwriter and character designer for a June 28, 2024 theatrical release in Japan. Related: Chainsaw Man Author Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back Manga Gets Anime Film Viz Media publishes the original manga and describes the Look Back story: The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forward that only Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, could have crafted. Source: Oricon...
- 3/13/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Chihiro Ito has made a name for herself as a scriptwriter, with her collaborations with Isao Yukisada bringing us titles such as “Before the Vigil”,and “Crying Out Love in the Center of the World”. Recently, she has also taken up the directorial chair for herself, coming up with “Side by Side” and “In Her Room”, the latter of which we will be dealing with in the particular review. The film is based on a novel she wrote, and is produced by Isao Yukisada, while starring Satoru Iguchi, the keyboardist for J-pop sensation King Gnu, in his first starring role.
In Her Room is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Susume is a dentist who has always had difficulty communicating with people. He works at a dental clinic, where he envies the other doctors who are socially adept while constantly worrying about what they think of him. One day,...
In Her Room is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Susume is a dentist who has always had difficulty communicating with people. He works at a dental clinic, where he envies the other doctors who are socially adept while constantly worrying about what they think of him. One day,...
- 7/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
After having its world premiere in October at the Tokyo International Film Festival, “Sayonara, Girls” by Nakagawa Shun has been slated to have its theatrical release in February next year. A coming-of-age movie, it reifies sentiment in memories that make youth an inimitable part of one’s existence and explores the decisions that young people suddenly make at the conjuncture of departure, of bidding goodbye to a point in their lives that they could never go back to.
Based on the 2012 series of short stories by award-winning writer Asai Ryo called “Girls Do Not Graduate”, the movie chronicles the last few days left in the high school lives of four girls, who happen to belong to the final batch of their academy as their school will literally be dismantled and torn down into pieces after their graduation. It’s a setting ripe for reminiscing, jolting realizations and a race against regrets.
Based on the 2012 series of short stories by award-winning writer Asai Ryo called “Girls Do Not Graduate”, the movie chronicles the last few days left in the high school lives of four girls, who happen to belong to the final batch of their academy as their school will literally be dismantled and torn down into pieces after their graduation. It’s a setting ripe for reminiscing, jolting realizations and a race against regrets.
- 12/27/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
While announcing the film before its premiere in Cannes, Salle Debussy, Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure reminded the audience that Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature “Plan 75” was the first Japanese film to be competing in this selection in a very long time. The first screening took place in a packed theatre, and in the presence of the filmmaker and her team, with high expectations from a movie which steps in the domain of unpleasant, and those were mostly met.
“Plan 75“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
In her strong debut, Hayakawa sets the story in a near, dystopian future in which the Japanese government takes a concrete step to beat ‘the surplus of old citizens’. The propaganda machinery motivates them to enter the so called Plan 75 project, using embelished words for something that is simply supposed to end their lives. Painted as a well-meant act of euthanasia...
“Plan 75“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
In her strong debut, Hayakawa sets the story in a near, dystopian future in which the Japanese government takes a concrete step to beat ‘the surplus of old citizens’. The propaganda machinery motivates them to enter the so called Plan 75 project, using embelished words for something that is simply supposed to end their lives. Painted as a well-meant act of euthanasia...
- 11/10/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/5/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/2/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
A diet of rice and tofu, plenty of regular, gentle exercise and excellent hospitals: the Japanese have nailed the formula for getting old prolifically. With a little less than 30 of the population over 65, Japanese society is now officially termed as “super-aged.” Meanwhile, thanks to a low birth rate and an ingrained opposition to immigration, the total number of people is falling dramatically. Each year, there are fewer younger people to look after more older ones. It’s a slow-burn economic crisis.
Of course, there is an obvious solution, unthinkable in real life but very much in working order in Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75, which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The plan of the title is a hypothetical government-funded program that merely offers seniors the chance to be bumped off quietly. It is never acknowledged to be a mass extermination program. On the contrary, it is entirely benevolent.
There...
Of course, there is an obvious solution, unthinkable in real life but very much in working order in Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75, which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The plan of the title is a hypothetical government-funded program that merely offers seniors the chance to be bumped off quietly. It is never acknowledged to be a mass extermination program. On the contrary, it is entirely benevolent.
There...
- 5/28/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
“Love Nonetheless” is one part of the “L/R15” collaborative project produced by Gen Sato (the other being Rikiya Imaizumi’s “Straying”) which aims at a revival of the “pink film” in a fashion, though, that respects current social attitudes, essentially meaning without the sexual violence that also came to define the category in its heydays during the 70s. To achieve this goal, Sato has brought together the two filmmakers, in an effort to combine the romantic style of Imaizumi’s movies with Hideo Jojo’s past in the pink industry. The result is definitely different.
“Love Nonetheless” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The story begins inside a secondhand bookstore, where the 30-year-old introverted, bookworm type owner Koji chases a school student, Misaki, who has run away with a book without paying. Their interaction however ends up in a rather unusual fashion, since the girl soon confesses...
“Love Nonetheless” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
The story begins inside a secondhand bookstore, where the 30-year-old introverted, bookworm type owner Koji chases a school student, Misaki, who has run away with a book without paying. Their interaction however ends up in a rather unusual fashion, since the girl soon confesses...
- 4/26/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Soshi Matsumoto feature-length debut “It’s a Summer Film!” comes after a series of commercials, music videos and TV, and had its world premiere at the 2020 Tokyo International Film Festival. Co-written with Naoyuki Miura, the film is an original mix of genres and a feel-good experience.
It’s a Summer Film! is screening at Nippon Connection
Barefoot (Marika Ito) is a high school student with a passion for Japanese period dramas, more precisely for classic Chanbara, samurai films. After being introduced as a child to “Zatoichi” by her grandmother, her passion grew stronger and stronger. Together with her girlfriends Kickboard (Yumi Kawai) a science fiction geek from the Astronomy Club, and Blue Hawai (Kilala Inori) a fierce Kendo Club member, they spend many afternoons watching samurai movies in their secret den, an abandoned van stuffed full of DVDs, books, posters – and a turtle – discussing passionately about old movies, rating...
It’s a Summer Film! is screening at Nippon Connection
Barefoot (Marika Ito) is a high school student with a passion for Japanese period dramas, more precisely for classic Chanbara, samurai films. After being introduced as a child to “Zatoichi” by her grandmother, her passion grew stronger and stronger. Together with her girlfriends Kickboard (Yumi Kawai) a science fiction geek from the Astronomy Club, and Blue Hawai (Kilala Inori) a fierce Kendo Club member, they spend many afternoons watching samurai movies in their secret den, an abandoned van stuffed full of DVDs, books, posters – and a turtle – discussing passionately about old movies, rating...
- 6/5/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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