Tuesday, May 30, 2006

LEFT HAND OF MY BUTT, RIGHT HAND ON YOUR BUTT

* UPDATE ON THE UMEZU MOVIE *


As we noted in our previous post, a film is being made of Kazuo Umezu's Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil. My main sources of info on this movie have been the offical site and Twitch Film.

On an earlier entry at Twitch, I posted and ask for updates... A few days later, they posted a huge reply that you should check out: HERE.

The main news: PRODUCTION PHOTOS! TRAILER! The film is set for a JULY 2006 release in Japan, and hopefully soon after it'll make it over to the states.


Director Kaneko Shusuke

Reon Kadena screaming

Reon Kadena tied up and bloody

Scary bloody kid

Getting the axe

Check the trailer out by clicking the lower right link on the official page (WMV format). Let us know in the comments what you think so far!

ps. The always awesome (and personal favorite of ours) Tomoro Taguchi is playing the killer! RAD!!

Saturday, May 27, 2006

ME & SUZUKI-SENSEI

...catching up on old posts this weekend...

I MET KOJI SUZUKI, author of the Ring series & Dark Water!


The weekend before last, My gf & I were shopping at Kinokuniya in San Francisco for comics (picking up Cromartie 3, Scary Book 2 - will post on these soon) when an announcement came over the spearkers that KOJI SUZUKI was there for a signing!!

I had no idea about this, but happily got in line and got a copy of his short story collection, Dark Water, signed!


Turns out Suzuki was in town to attend the World Horror Convention that weekend, and Vertical, publisher of all things awesome Japanese literature and responsible for the publication of Tezuka's Buddha series, had him do a signing.

If you don't know his writing and need convincing, check out this preview of Dark Water over at Vertical's site!

Monday, May 15, 2006

MIYAZAKI X MOEBIUS


(random news of the day)
DID YOU KNOW...
Hayao Miyazaki and Moebius did an art show together?

Check out this small site for details (in french). There's even an art book that came out of the show, available here


Has anyone else heard the rumor that Miyazaki's last film will be an adaptation of ARZAK?


ps: sorry for the scant posting lately. We've been busy with work and springtime business. Many posts in the works for the next 1-2 weeks, WE PROMISE!

Monday, May 01, 2006

THE LAST GOOD HORROR MOVIE YOU SAW?


Just recently re-watched the original ALIEN in all its glory. Have UGESTSU & TOKYO FIST sitting in their Green Cine sleeves waiting to be (re)watched. And then saw the disappointing HARD CANDY yesterday. SO, THE QUESTION IS...

What is the last good horror movie you saw? Post it in the comments and I'll check it out.


To make this post somewhat worthwhile, I wholeheartedly recommend the following sites for all your JHORROR/Japanese Cinema needs:


TWITCH FILMS
SNOWBLOOD APPLE
MIDNIGHT EYE