In 1997, a charming little
Japanese movie made its way into American theaters.
The first odd thing about it is that the movie is really
a Japanese movie made by a Chinese director, starring one Chinese man on the run in Japan.
There were a number of equally remarkable
Japanese movies made within a few years of Battle Royale, such as Takeshi Kitano's Hana - bi and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse.
Not exact matches
He found a healthier outlet when his brother introduced him to track (he eventually became the «fastest high school runner in U.S. history,» the
movie claims), and when he
makes it to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, he nods in solidarity at both black and
Japanese competitors.
Virtually all the ingredients that have
made Studio Ghibli
movies so appealing around the world — a wide - eyed young protagonist, a freewheeling supernatural adventure and clean, colorful animation drawn by hand — combine to form the first feature from Studio Ponoc, a new independent
Japanese anime company formed by Ghibli veterans to carry on the -LSB-...]
1», Quentin Tarantino
made one of the best
movies for people who love
Japanese grindhouse, then in «Vol.
1», Tarantino
made one of the best
movies for people who love
Japanese grind - house, then in «Vol.
Scary
Movie 4 (15) Running time: 113 min ** The Scary
Movie franchise all - too - faithfully follows the «rules» of the
movies it spoofs: each sequel gets that bit more unashamedly shoddy.Scary
Movie 4 sees Cindy Campbell (talented Anna Faris, who should fire her agent) return as a care worker haunted by a
Japanese spirit and battling to save the world from alien invasion.How many jokes does it take to
make a multi-million-dollar comedy franchise?
Anderson's creative instincts may have overtaken him as his heavy reliance on
Japanese elements almost
make the story feel like two different
movies.
1 was both a great
movie and a great martial - arts
movie that paid homage to a ton of classic martial - arts flicks (both Chinese and
Japanese) to
make a really visceral, offbeat cinema experience unlike any other (well, at least until Vol.
It stayed in
Japanese theaters for more than ten months when it was released there in July 2001 and
made over $ 234 million, becoming the highest - grossing
movie in the country's box office history.
Based on a
Japanese horror
movie about a mysterious videotape that kills anyone who watches it, the U.S. remake The Ring
made almost $ 250 million worldwide back in 2002.
Best - case scenario: The
movie remembers what
made the first one (and its
Japanese inspiration) so damn scary, and director F. Javier Gutierrez emphasizes tension over jump cuts and jarring sound cues.
A poster child for the idea that
Japanese developers are more interested in
making movies than games, Metal Gear is notorious for
making players spend as much time sitting through long, exposition - heavy cutscenes and codec conversations as they do actually playing the game.
Today's
Japanese news: screenshots for Puzzle & Dragons X and the three Catalyst titles,
making - off video for the third Yo - kai Watch
movie, and trailer for Youkoso!
Don't miss: Bonus offerings include the original
Japanese audio track, two features that take you behind - the - scenes at the
making of the
movie and a look at the New York Comic Con presentation of «Batman Ninja.»
Anderson has
made it no secret that Isle of Dogs is his own idiosyncratic salute to the collective works of iconic
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon), so the hope is that the
movie will also be culturally sensitive in its westernized take on
Japanese cinema tropes.
This two - hour - and -40-minute — long adaptation of a 1966 novel by the
Japanese Catholic convert Shusaku Endo, a
movie Scorsese has wanted to
make for nearly 30 years, moves at a stately, somber pace, unbothered by the earthly demands of typical Hollywood pacing or plot.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That
Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening Thanksgiving 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Australia (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the
Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terrain.
Japanese import, retooled
Making movies can be an international conversation spanning cultural differences and economic divides.
Old - school any way you slice it
Japanese cult director Takashi Miike has a unique problem: He
makes too many damn
movies.
No matter how many neato puzzles you give Croft to solve and hidden rooms to unlock in pursuit of her presumed - dead Dad — he'd been tracking some sort of
Japanese queen and possible world - destroying demon named Himiko — you can't
make a
movie out of a popular globetrotting game by keeping it in Old Blighty.
Released in 1972, Godzilla vs Megalon, has to be one of the most aggressively funny
Japanese Monster
movie ever
made!
The first live - action Gintama
movie — directed by Yuuichi Fukuda and starring Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, and Kanna Hashimoto —
made its theatrical debut in Japan on July 14, and the
Japanese home video release is set for November 22.
On the downside, I think the Sugar Rush segments of the
movie outstayed their welcome and had mismatched art — Sugar Rush is supposed to be a cutesy
Japanese Mario Kart parody but instead of looking
Japanese, it looked like someone trying to
make something look
Japanese and failing badly with the result that it just looks like a Dreamworks take on the classic board game, Candyland.
The narrative frame of the game is executed in a very
Japanese adventure game style — which is to say it has anime
movies, fully voiced cutscenes of characters talking on and on, and occasional interactive decision -
making (in this case, in the form of replying to mail messages from your girlfriend on your phone).
I'm a fan of the live - action Super Mario Bros
movie, but even I have to admit that the
Japanese VHS box art
makes it look 100 times more interesting that it actually is...
The manufacturing firm
making the
movie is
Japanese...
The manufacturing firm
making the
movie is
Japanese but...
E > 1 video CD for Playstation with a «
making of»
movie we're creating for the US release with interviews of the actors,
Japanese development staff, etc, etc..
Naoto Takenaka famed
Japanese writer, director, actor, is the cinematic director and his
making the move from
movies to videogames to explore the horror genre.
It's predecessor, Road to Ninja: Naruto the
Movie (the 9th overall in the series), made it's debut in Japanese theaters in July 2012 as the highest grossing Naruto movie
Movie (the 9th overall in the series),
made it's debut in
Japanese theaters in July 2012 as the highest grossing Naruto
movie movie ever.
What
makes this especially cool is that you're given the option to view these
movies in English or
Japanese — so you don't have to replay a long story scene just to view its insert
movie in another language; instead, you can check it out in the Galari at your convenience.
The Last: Naruto the
Movie will
make it's opening in
Japanese theaters on December 6, 2014.
DezeenTV:
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has sent us a
movie about an exhibition of his work on show in Seoul, which includes this 9 - metre window
made of 500 glass prisms (above).
Japanese corporate giant Sony
makes everything from cameras to TVs to games consoles to smartphones — not to mention its considerable music and
movie portfolio.