By the second half of the 1960s, it was obvious that the relationship between director Seijun Suzuki and production company Nikkatsu was more than just a little strained. After years of yakuza-flicks and B-movies, Suzuki had proven with works such as “Youth of the Beast” he was fed up sticking to genre conventions as well as the rules enforced by his employer of what a certain movie has to be, what the story has to be like and essentially playing second fiddle to whatever the main feature his work was supposed to prepare the audience for. Having repeatedly violated that agreement, Suzuki was given another opportunity, resulting in “Carmen from Kawachi”, a B-movie based on themes from Georges Bizet. While the story has certain aspects following the conventions of B-movies, its style and images often transcend its origin, making it a very interesting precursor to Suzuki’s “Branded to Kill...
- 2/5/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Seijun Suzuki the absurdist, the unreal-realist, the aesthete, sadly, has passed away at 93. He was one of the finest maverick craftsmen of popular Japanese cinema, who also created paradoxical, mind bending films. He brought a WWII veteran’s eye, similar to his American alter-ego Sam Fuller, with a no-nonsense approach to dialogue, but tweaking that directness with his ‘entertainment over logic’ idea.
Over the years Suzuki directed many exciting B-Movies for Nikkatsu Studios, all superbly crafted with consummate style, but many rose above their programme picture origins. In ‘The West’ he is considered a cult filmmaker, but his job was to make popular genre B-movies for the Japanese public in the late 50s early 60s. His importance is his influence on Asian Cinema, rather on the usual suspects, Tarantino and Jarmusch in Hollywood. His influence on Takashi Kitano, Takashi Miike and some of Sion Sono’s pictures are evident, and...
Over the years Suzuki directed many exciting B-Movies for Nikkatsu Studios, all superbly crafted with consummate style, but many rose above their programme picture origins. In ‘The West’ he is considered a cult filmmaker, but his job was to make popular genre B-movies for the Japanese public in the late 50s early 60s. His importance is his influence on Asian Cinema, rather on the usual suspects, Tarantino and Jarmusch in Hollywood. His influence on Takashi Kitano, Takashi Miike and some of Sion Sono’s pictures are evident, and...
- 8/2/2020
- by Jonathan Wilson
- AsianMoviePulse
The more emotion-driven a TV series or movie, the more important the soundtrack. And boy is Normal People, the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel of the same name, driven by the emotion of its characters and world.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
- 4/29/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
By Omar Rasya Joenoes
“Are you married?”
“I hate men.”
“Then, you have no hope.”
“My hope is to die.”
The conversation in the search description takes place on a ride home, under the pouring rain. It is initiated by a man, who happens to be Japan’s no. 3 hitman, and answered by a woman, who is a suicidal femme fatale. Witnessing their first exchange is a dead bird, hung between them. And in this weirdest of all film-noir films, the scene belongs to a long line of surreal, mind-boggling, out-of-this-world scene after scene after scene after scene.
“Japanese films are weird” is surely a stereotype most of you, if not all of you, have heard at least once before. It is not entirely true and not entirely mistaken. With cult titles like Funky Forest (2005), Hausu (1977), Big Man Japan (2007), Versus (2000), Tokyo Gore Police (2008), RoboGeisha (2009), Tetsuo the Iron Man...
“Are you married?”
“I hate men.”
“Then, you have no hope.”
“My hope is to die.”
The conversation in the search description takes place on a ride home, under the pouring rain. It is initiated by a man, who happens to be Japan’s no. 3 hitman, and answered by a woman, who is a suicidal femme fatale. Witnessing their first exchange is a dead bird, hung between them. And in this weirdest of all film-noir films, the scene belongs to a long line of surreal, mind-boggling, out-of-this-world scene after scene after scene after scene.
“Japanese films are weird” is surely a stereotype most of you, if not all of you, have heard at least once before. It is not entirely true and not entirely mistaken. With cult titles like Funky Forest (2005), Hausu (1977), Big Man Japan (2007), Versus (2000), Tokyo Gore Police (2008), RoboGeisha (2009), Tetsuo the Iron Man...
- 3/23/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival - Nifff - has long been a favourite European genre celebration round these parts, and is warming up for its 17th edition, scheduled to run from 30 June - 8 July in the picturesque Swiss city. While the full line-up will not be unveiled until 15 June, the festival has announced that this year's festival will include a major 10-film retrospective of Japanese master filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, who tragically passed away on 13 February. Best remembered for his surreal yakuza flick Branded to Kill, which saw him unceremoniously fired from Nikkatsu Studos, Suzuki enjoyed a long and fruitful career that spanned 50 years and brought us such undeniable genre classics as Tokyo Drifter and Youth of the Beast. While the...
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- 4/19/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This April will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.
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Monday, April 3 The Chaos of Cool: A Tribute to Seijun Suzuki
In February, cinema lost an icon of excess, Seijun Suzuki, the Japanese master who took the art of the B movie to sublime new heights with his deliriously inventive approach to narrative and visual style. This series showcases seven of the New Wave renegade’s works from his career breakthrough in the sixties: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), an off-kilter whodunit; Youth of the Beast (1963), an explosive yakuza thriller; Gate of Flesh (1964), a pulpy social critique; Story of a Prostitute (1965), a tragic romance; Tokyo Drifter...
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Monday, April 3 The Chaos of Cool: A Tribute to Seijun Suzuki
In February, cinema lost an icon of excess, Seijun Suzuki, the Japanese master who took the art of the B movie to sublime new heights with his deliriously inventive approach to narrative and visual style. This series showcases seven of the New Wave renegade’s works from his career breakthrough in the sixties: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), an off-kilter whodunit; Youth of the Beast (1963), an explosive yakuza thriller; Gate of Flesh (1964), a pulpy social critique; Story of a Prostitute (1965), a tragic romance; Tokyo Drifter...
- 3/29/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Cult Japanese filmmaker Suzuki Seijun has died at the age of 93. Best known for avant-garde yakuza masterpiece Branded to Kill, the director made his name turning out features for Nikkatsu studio throughout the 1960's. Starting his career at Shochiku, Suzuki moved to Nikkatsu in 1954. Stepping into the director's chair in 1956, he was highly productive over the next decade, putting out several titles a year, including such classics as Youth of the Beast, Gate of Flesh and Tokyo Drifter. The relationship between director and studio would eventually turn sour, with Suzuki earning the ire of his employers for his surreal and wildly imaginative takes on the studio's B-movie and yakuza material. Eventually he was fired and found himself struggling to get work for...
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- 2/22/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Kenji Shimada, Glenn Maynard, Skye Medusa, Cris Cochrane, Kristen Condon, Vlady T, Saya Minami, Tom Liddy | Written by Addison Heath, Glenn Maynard, Kenji Shimada | Directed by Addison Heath
A brand-new take on the Japanese Yakuza films of the 1960s, Mondo Yakuza is clearly inspired by the nihilistic work of Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) in particular. The film tells the story of Ichiro Kataki (Shimada), a violent Yakuza gang member travels to Melbourne, Australia after his beloved sister Yuko is brutally murdered by a group of criminals. Hell bent on vengeance he teams up with Cassidy Arizona (Skye Medusa), a lady of the night with a vendetta of her own…
Seijun Suzuki’s prolific work in the yakuza genre was marked by a few things: his visual flair, the often avant-garde nature of his movies, sheer coolness… and actor Joe Shishido; who appeared in a number of Suzuki’s movies,...
A brand-new take on the Japanese Yakuza films of the 1960s, Mondo Yakuza is clearly inspired by the nihilistic work of Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) in particular. The film tells the story of Ichiro Kataki (Shimada), a violent Yakuza gang member travels to Melbourne, Australia after his beloved sister Yuko is brutally murdered by a group of criminals. Hell bent on vengeance he teams up with Cassidy Arizona (Skye Medusa), a lady of the night with a vendetta of her own…
Seijun Suzuki’s prolific work in the yakuza genre was marked by a few things: his visual flair, the often avant-garde nature of his movies, sheer coolness… and actor Joe Shishido; who appeared in a number of Suzuki’s movies,...
- 2/6/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
By 1967 the dictatorial Nikkatsu studio president Kyusaku Hori had had enough. He approached filmmaking like an auditor going over a company’s finances, there were boxes to be ticked and conventions to be adhered to. His corporation was a factory, mass producing entertainment for the cheaply exploitable youth market. The constant spanner in Hori’s assembly line was Seijun Suzuki. Over the previous twelve years, he had directed thirty-nine films and in that time had developed a canon of hysterical, hallucinatory and heretical works. With each production, the insanity became more liberated, excessive and frenzied. He was the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema and Hori was done with his shit.
As a warning shot, Suzuki’s next film would be given only a shoestring budget with the cautionary note that he was ‘going too far’ and needed to ‘play it straight’. Suzuki responded with Branded to Kill, an expressionist fantasia...
As a warning shot, Suzuki’s next film would be given only a shoestring budget with the cautionary note that he was ‘going too far’ and needed to ‘play it straight’. Suzuki responded with Branded to Kill, an expressionist fantasia...
- 8/31/2015
- by Jamie Lewis
- SoundOnSight
★★★★☆There's a great deal to admire about Seijun Suzuki’s idiosyncratic, jazz-infused gangster thriller Youth of the Beast (1963). Released shortly after the return of the director’s hallucinatory Branded to Kill (1967) to UK screens, this sui generis Yakuza caper arrives courtesy of Eureka’s excellent Masters of Cinema Collection. Even in charge of what is ostensibly straightforward genre fare Suzuki wears his disdain for the formulaic firmly on his sleeve. With Youth of the Beast he lands somewhere between Yojimbo (1961) and its alleged source, Red Harvest, yet sets the narrative alight with his distinct brand of frantic energy.
- 10/27/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Eureka Entertainment unveiled its slate of upcoming titles for the fourth quarter of 2014 earlier today, and it's a magnificent selection of additions to their Masters of Cinema series, as well as a fang-tastic blaxploitation boxset to join their growing selection of Eureka Classics.October sees the release of Fellini's little-known masterpiece I Clowns and Suzuki Seijun's yakuza classic Youth Of The Beast both join the Masters of Cinema series in stacked dual-format releases. Also that month, Blacula - The Complete Collection hits the shelves just in time for Hallowe'en. 1972's Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream, both starring William Marshall, will be released together in a dual-format set on the company's burgeoning Eureka Classics label.In November and December, Masters of Cinema fans will be spoilt...
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- 8/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
For most of the 2000's it seemed like director John Woo had lost his mojo. Sure, he still knew how to throw up some action on screen, but that was about the only thing you could muster up to like about films like Mission Impossible II, Paycheck and Windtalkers. But in 2008 Woo proved that he's still got it with his critically acclaimed period set film Red Cliff. Aside from a Red Cliff sequel the director has stayed pretty low key. Now it is being reported that John Woo is set to helm Day of the Beast, an English language remake of Seijun Suzuki's 1963 classic Youth of the Beast, an action-packed saga of loyalty, revenge and redemption. Scripted by Rob Frisbee, Terence Chang, and Naoki Sato, the Tokyo set Day of the Beast follows a western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war...
- 5/17/2012
- by abefroman
- GeekTyrant
It’s been three years since John Woo’s last film, the sweeping historical epic “Red Cliff,” and after various flirtations, it looks he’s found his next project.
Deadline, among other publications, are reporting from Cannes that the legendary Hong Kong filmmaker has signed on to direct and co-produce an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 yakuza opus, “Youth Of The Beast,” along with the famed Japanese studio Nikkatsu Corporation. The announcement comes as Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest major movie studio, celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Woo, in a statement said “This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu’s 100 years in cinema history. It is exciting for me as well as an honor.” The remake, titled “Day Of The Beast,” will be written by Rob Frisbee and will mark Woo’s first English-language feature film in nearly a decade. His last English film was 2003’s much-maligned “Paycheck,...
Deadline, among other publications, are reporting from Cannes that the legendary Hong Kong filmmaker has signed on to direct and co-produce an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 yakuza opus, “Youth Of The Beast,” along with the famed Japanese studio Nikkatsu Corporation. The announcement comes as Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest major movie studio, celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Woo, in a statement said “This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu’s 100 years in cinema history. It is exciting for me as well as an honor.” The remake, titled “Day Of The Beast,” will be written by Rob Frisbee and will mark Woo’s first English-language feature film in nearly a decade. His last English film was 2003’s much-maligned “Paycheck,...
- 5/17/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Upcoming project is a remake of ’60s Yakuza flick.
I was never more interested in movies and filmmaking than I was in the early ’90s, when I was coming out of high school. As far as movies go, it was an interesting era, in that the major studios were lavishing unheard-of sums of money upon productions that were clearly destined to wind up being utter shit, while off in the periphery, what would become annoyingly known as the “independent film movement” was just starting to catch its footing.
Among the guys at the forefront of this movement were Robert Rodriguez, who had submitted himself to medical testing to raise the money for his first micro-budget movie, El Mariachi, and Quentin Tarantino, who on the heels of Reservoir Dogs, was being pursued by every big-name actor in town for the privilege of providing him their services at union scale.
It was...
I was never more interested in movies and filmmaking than I was in the early ’90s, when I was coming out of high school. As far as movies go, it was an interesting era, in that the major studios were lavishing unheard-of sums of money upon productions that were clearly destined to wind up being utter shit, while off in the periphery, what would become annoyingly known as the “independent film movement” was just starting to catch its footing.
Among the guys at the forefront of this movement were Robert Rodriguez, who had submitted himself to medical testing to raise the money for his first micro-budget movie, El Mariachi, and Quentin Tarantino, who on the heels of Reservoir Dogs, was being pursued by every big-name actor in town for the privilege of providing him their services at union scale.
It was...
- 5/17/2012
- by Josh Converse
- Boomtron
Like a dove symbolically struggling to become airborne while two guys shoot pistols at each other below, John Woo's career continues to try truly taking off in America—a decade-plus-long quest that now seems to mostly involve Woo remaking foreign movies (including his own) for English-speaking audiences. The latest classic tipped to have the subtitles removed so they stop getting in the way of the gun barrels is Seijun Suzuki's acclaimed 1963 Yakuza film Youth Of The Beast, which Woo has announced plans to redo as Day Of The Beast, a film about an American guy with a ...
- 5/16/2012
- avclub.com
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
9.53am: Bonjour mesdames et messieurs, it's Wednesday 16th May and that can only mean one thing: the 2012 Cannes film festival is open for business. They've dusted down the red carpet, springcleaned the cinemas, and installed thousands of metal barriers for the 12-day frenzy of film on the Riviera.
Right around now the world's critics are pushing and shoving their way into the press screening for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the festival opener; in a couple of hours from now we'll know whether it's hot... or not.
We've sent a crack team out to the Croisette to bring you all the news, reviews and reactions: Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard, Charlotte Higgins, Jason Solomons, Henry Barnes and Elliot Smith. We'll also be running a daily live blog to be your one-stop shop for all things Cannes-related.
- 5/16/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
It's been a little while since we've seen anything from action director extraordinaire John Woo, whose last film was split into the one-two punch of Red Cliff and Red Cliff 2 a few years ago. According to ComingSoon, the director of Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2 has chosen his next film, an action-packed crime thriller called Day of the Beast, a remake of a 1963 Japanese film called Youth of the Beast. Set in Tokyo, the story follows a western outsider who gets caught in a turf war between old school Russian gangsters and a new breed of Yakuza. It definitely has potential to be good, especially told with Woo's signature action style. Looks like the Yakuza are becoming hot commodities in movies these days. Safe House director Daniel Espinosa has a movie called The Outsider coming up that heavily involves the gang, and Warrior director Gavin O'Connor is next slated...
- 5/16/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
Apparently everyone has suddenly developed a fascination with the Yakuza, the Japanese criminal underworld. Like Snow White and killer asteroids before them, the Yakuza is the subject of not one, not two, but three major Hollywood production at the moment. Now you can add John Woo to the mix of films about a Westerner infiltrating the notoriously xenophobic world of the violent Yakuza. Woo will direct “Day of the Beast”, a remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 film, “Youth of the Beast”, which followed a violent thug pitting the Yakuza against one another. In the remake, a western outsider “with a grim past … becomes embroiled in a global turf war between a vicious new breed of Yakuza and old school Cold War Russian mobsters.” We are promised “an action-packed saga of loyalty, revenge and redemption which erupts in the heart of Tokyo.” And insane gun-fu, let’s not forget. This is John Woo,...
- 5/16/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
John Woo is set to direct and produce a remake of the 1963 Yakuza film “Youth of the Beast.” Rob Frisbee wrote the adapted screenplay, titled “Day of the Beast,” which Woo will produce with Lion Rock Prods. partner Terence Chang and Nikkatsu Corporation president Naoki Sato. The English-language “Beast” takes place in a Tokyo where a mysterious Westerner gets sucked into a turf war between the Yakuza and old-school Russian mobsters. Seijun Suzuki directed the original film. “Among Nikkatsu’s 6,000+ film library, this is one of our most revered titles,” said Sato. “We have a tremendous amount of respect for Mr. Woo and are excited he is directing this film for the international market. We think this is a great way to start off the next 100 years of filmmaking history!” Lori Tilkin, Aki Sugihara and Yoko Asakura are executive producers. Lion Rock produced “Paycheck,”...
- 5/16/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
According to Deadline Tokyo, John Woo will director his first non-Red Cliff movie since 2003′s Paycheck. Fortunately, he’s chosen something that will definitely facilitate the use of slow motion doves. He’ll be tackling the world of the Yakuza for a remake of the 1963 Seijun Suzuki film Youth of the Beast, which will aptly be titled Day of the Beast. Production will be handled by Lion Rock and Nikkatsu – Japan’s oldest major movie studio which celebrates a full century in business this year. According to the release, the movie “follows a western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war between a vicious new breed of Yakuza and old school Cold War Russian mobsters. It’s an action-packed saga of loyalty, revenge and redemption which erupts in the heart of Tokyo.” Yes, yes, and yes. The original was a 60s-trippy, frantic crime story with a lot of ins...
- 5/16/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
John Woo will direct an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki's Youth of the Beast, to be entitled Day of the Beast. Woo and his longtime partner Terence Chang will produce; the film will be a co-production of Woo and Chang's Lion Rocks Productions and the Nikkatsu Corporation. Rob Frisbee, who does not appear to have any previous credits, wrote the script. In Suzuki's original, Jo Sushido starred as a disgraced former policeman who infiltrates two Yakuka gangs in order to clear his name and that of his boss (borrowing the plot description from Mark Schilling's excellent book No Borders No Limits). It's a variation on the plot idea first established in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, one that has been adapted, officially or otherwise, by...
- 5/16/2012
- Screen Anarchy
John Woo is set to direct "Day of the Beast", an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki's celebrated 1963 film "Youth of the Beast" about the Japanese mafia, for Woo's Lion Rock Productions label says The Hollywood Reporter.
Set in Tokyo, the story follows a Western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war between Yakuza and old-school Cold War Russian mobsters.
Woo and Terence Chang' will produce with the Nikkatsu Corporation from a script by Rob Frisbee.
Set in Tokyo, the story follows a Western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war between Yakuza and old-school Cold War Russian mobsters.
Woo and Terence Chang' will produce with the Nikkatsu Corporation from a script by Rob Frisbee.
- 5/16/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
John Woo will direct a remake of Seijun Suzuki's 1963 Japanese new wave yakuza movie Youth of the Beast, the film's production companies announced today. Woo's English-language version, Day of the Beast, will follow a shady outsider who becomes enmeshed in a turf war between Japanese gangsters and Russian mobsters. The script for this new adaptation comes from Amazing Race season-one winner Rob Frisbee. Really!
- 5/16/2012
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
While John Woo gears up for his next project, the romance epic Love and Let Love starring Zhang Ziyi, the director is adding more potential films to his queue. Variety is reporting he about to head into the Yakuza, just as other similar projects gear up in Hollywood, one with Warrior director Gavin O’Connor and the other with Safe House’s Daniel Espinosa.
Woo’s film would be a remake of Seijun Suzuki‘s Youth of the Beast, which arrived in 1963. Following the Japanese mafia, this update would actually be in English, but there is no telling if it will incorporate the original’s Tokyo setting, as well as the rival gang of Russian mobster. The original film followed the two sides battling it out in the city.
Coming off his epic two-part undertaking of Red Cliff, I’ve been waiting for the director get back to his lean,...
Woo’s film would be a remake of Seijun Suzuki‘s Youth of the Beast, which arrived in 1963. Following the Japanese mafia, this update would actually be in English, but there is no telling if it will incorporate the original’s Tokyo setting, as well as the rival gang of Russian mobster. The original film followed the two sides battling it out in the city.
Coming off his epic two-part undertaking of Red Cliff, I’ve been waiting for the director get back to his lean,...
- 5/16/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions and Nikkatsu Corporation will co-produce Day of the Beast , a remake of Seijun Suzuki's 1963 classic Youth of the Beast centering on the dealings of Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Woo ( Mission: Impossible II , Face/Off ) will direct and produce the script by Rob Frisbee along with Terence Chang, and Nikkatsu's Naoki Sato. Lori Tilkin, Aki Sugihara and Yoko Asakura are executive producing. The English language production was announced as Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest major movie studio, celebrates its 100th Anniversary this year. John Woo said: .This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu.s 100 years in cinema history. It is exciting for me as well as an honor.. Nikkatsu president Naoki Sato said,...
- 5/16/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Cannes -- John Woo will direct Day of the Beast, a remake of Seijun Suzuki's celebrated 1963 film about the Japanese mafia. Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions will produce with the Nikkatsu Corporation, home of Suzuki's Youth of the Beast. Photos: Cannes 2012: Competition Lineup Features 'Cosmopolis,' 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Killing Them Softly' The English-language production was announced as Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest major movie studio, celebrates its 100th Anniversary this year. "This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu's 100 years in cinema history. It is exciting for me as well
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- 5/16/2012
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Didn’t I just write one of these a week ago? Of course I did, because this is your destination for the best coverage of all the new titles Criterion puts up on their Hulu Plus page, and this week is no different. There’s fewer films (unless they decide to throw up another 30 when I least expect it) but in this case, less is more. And the lucky number is 13 this time. With worries of what the future for Hulu is, there are supposed talks that Google is definitely interested, which is interesting. Especially with their roll out of Google+ these past few days. If you like what you see, please sign up via this link. It does wonders for this article. But enough about that, you want to know about the movies. So let’s not make the good people wait.
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- 7/4/2011
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
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