Japan’s Free Stone Productions has secured international sales rights to upcoming drama Promised Land and is launching the feature at Hong Kong Filmart.
It marks the feature directorial debut of Masashi Iijima and is based on a novel of the same name written by Kazuichi Iijima.
Set in a mountainous region of northern Japan in 1983, the story is centred on traditional hunters known as the Matagi, who track and kill wildlife every winter. The film follows two young men with opposing views who venture out in search of a bear, despite the introduction of a hunting ban by Japan’s environmental agency.
It marks the feature directorial debut of Masashi Iijima and is based on a novel of the same name written by Kazuichi Iijima.
Set in a mountainous region of northern Japan in 1983, the story is centred on traditional hunters known as the Matagi, who track and kill wildlife every winter. The film follows two young men with opposing views who venture out in search of a bear, despite the introduction of a hunting ban by Japan’s environmental agency.
- 3/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
A number of people in Amp, including this author, have a soft spot for Kiyohiko Shibukawa, an actor who has proven a true chameleon in the way he jumps from one part to another, with equal success. Shibukawa, born July 2, 1974, actually started his career as a fashion model under the name Kee. He started acting in TV with “Twinkle”, in 1998, and he got his first role in cinema in Toshiaki Toyoda's “Pornostar”, with him actually accompanying the director in most of his later works, something that actually happened with the rest of the filmmakers he was casted by over the years. These include, among others, Takashi Miike, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and Eiji Uchida. Currently, his credits number 160, with the majority of them being non-protagonist roles, which, still, though do not prevent him from shining quite brightly, particularly to the more “trained” eye.
Without further ado, here are 10 of his most iconic performances,...
Without further ado, here are 10 of his most iconic performances,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Nomikai aka drinking parties is a phenomenon particular to Japanese culture, mostly taking place in various work fields, from schools to nightclubs, with the employees usually expected to participate to some extent, as it is considered a social aspect of work, although it is not expressly required. Essentially, the nomikai, along the Sns, have replaced a large part of the “normal” social interactions in the country, as “spending superficial time with others cultivates a momentary feeling of inclusion”, as per Riki Ohkanda, the director of “Random Call” words. In a work that started as a novel in 2012, before eventually becoming a script in 2016 and a full movie of just $700 Usd budget by 2022, Ohkanda focuses on this aspect of the local society, and conjunctively, to the human need for social interaction.
Random Call screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ryo’s life is in shambles. It has been years since his...
Random Call screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ryo’s life is in shambles. It has been years since his...
- 3/26/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The story of Sanka is not something from another country. They lived in Japan and had the technical ability to mend tools such as the winnowing baskets used in agriculture. They went from farm to farm and received food such as wheat or rice in exchange for their mending work. They made their homes near riverbeds or in the caves of cliffs, fished in rivers, and washed themselves there also. They were drifters that lived in family units. […] After the 1960s, they suddenly disappeared. […]One of the reasons for their disappearance could be that tools like winnowing baskets and others that were used by cultivators and were their livelihood are no longer used. Also, forests, rivers and plains where they used to live freely had disappeared under the waves of development. They must have started having problems like landowners that wouldn’t allow access to their property to strangers. (source: https://globalvoices.
- 3/17/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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