In the latest surge of live action adaptations that Netflix seems to lead, either in movie or series format, an essentially forgotten anime and manga from the 90s, was not exactly something that was expected, considering that the rest were based on all time favorites like “One Piece” and “Rurouni Kenshin” for example. It turns out, though, that the manga being one of the best selling of all times played a crucial role, and that is how we ended up with a version of “Yu Yu Hakusho”.
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The story revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, a misunderstood 14-year-old delinquent junior high school student who spends his days getting into fights, who frequently involve, though, him protecting someone. However, when he dies after saving a child in a car accident, his ghost-self meets Botan, a woman who introduces herself as the pilot of the Sanzu River,...
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The story revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, a misunderstood 14-year-old delinquent junior high school student who spends his days getting into fights, who frequently involve, though, him protecting someone. However, when he dies after saving a child in a car accident, his ghost-self meets Botan, a woman who introduces herself as the pilot of the Sanzu River,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
It seems that the approach Nikkatsu has been implementing for the pinku film through her Roman Porno is creating ripples in the Japanese movie industry, with Toei also following suit, through the same, more sensitive to the times approach, that also focuses on women as much as on men. Haruhiko Arai has been another ‘champion' of the approach, as witnessed in his previous work, “It Feels So Good”. “A Spoiling Rain”, based on the Akutagawa Prize-winning 2000 novella “Hanakutasi” by Hisaki Matsuura, follows in the same footsteps, although the focus on the actual Japanese movie industry gives it a more personal sense, since Arai, as a scriptwriter, got his start as a screenwriter in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno.
A Spoiling Rain is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Two bodies wash on a beach in the winter of 2012, in a lover's suicide involving actress Shoko Kirioka and director Kuwayama. It is left to Suichi Kutani,...
A Spoiling Rain is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Two bodies wash on a beach in the winter of 2012, in a lover's suicide involving actress Shoko Kirioka and director Kuwayama. It is left to Suichi Kutani,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Back in 2013, when the surge of Korean crime/action thrillers, which eventually brought the local industry to the top of the world, was at its peak, Kim Seung-hun managed to come up with “A Hard Day”, a movie that entailed the majority of the elements that made films of the category a success, but also including a very appealing comic aspect, mostly instigated by an impressive performance by Lee Sun-kyun. Ten years later, Michihito Fujii, who has been working like crazy for Netflix recently, coming up with three films just in 2023, presents a Japanese remake of the original, which also doubles as a Christmas movie, in a way.
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On the night of December 29th, Detective Yuji Kudo is driving his car towards the hospital, where his mother is hospitalized with a serious condition. He is a bit drunk, and a...
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On the night of December 29th, Detective Yuji Kudo is driving his car towards the hospital, where his mother is hospitalized with a serious condition. He is a bit drunk, and a...
- 12/16/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review Out(Photo Credit –IMDb)
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Takumi Kitamura, Shuhei Uesugi, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Kotone Furukawa, Keita Machida, and Go Ayano.
Creator: Akira Morii, and Kazutaka Sakamoto
Director: Sho Tsukikawa
Streaming On: Netflix
Language: Japanese (with subtitles)
Runtime: 5 Episodes, Around 1 hour each.
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review Out(Photo Credit –YouTube) Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review: What’s It About:
Yu Yu Hakusho is the newest attempt from Netflix to adapt anime and manga into a live-action series, but this time the adaption is being done in Japanese soil, bringing with it all the characteristics that make a show just like this one unique. The series tells the story of a young criminal who finds himself in death and traveling to the spiritual world, there he will meet countless obstacles as he fights in the name of friendship, justice...
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Takumi Kitamura, Shuhei Uesugi, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Kotone Furukawa, Keita Machida, and Go Ayano.
Creator: Akira Morii, and Kazutaka Sakamoto
Director: Sho Tsukikawa
Streaming On: Netflix
Language: Japanese (with subtitles)
Runtime: 5 Episodes, Around 1 hour each.
Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review Out(Photo Credit –YouTube) Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review: What’s It About:
Yu Yu Hakusho is the newest attempt from Netflix to adapt anime and manga into a live-action series, but this time the adaption is being done in Japanese soil, bringing with it all the characteristics that make a show just like this one unique. The series tells the story of a young criminal who finds himself in death and traveling to the spiritual world, there he will meet countless obstacles as he fights in the name of friendship, justice...
- 12/15/2023
- by Nelson Acosta
- KoiMoi
Yu Yu Hakusho, the legendary smash-hit manga from Weekly Shonen Jump, is finally getting a live-action adaptation! This series of unprecedented scale is brought to life by an all-star cast that includes Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, Shuhei Uesugi, Sei Shiraishi, Kenichi Takito, Goro Inagaki and Go Ayano.
The strength that comes from having something to protect versus the strength that comes from having nothing to lose…
Feast your eyes on this top-class Asian battle action series, featuring world-class, cutting-edge visual effects and presented by a cast and staff who are at the pinnacle of Japanese entertainment!
The Netflix Series Yu Yu Hakusho starts streaming worldwide on Thursday, December 14, 2023, only on Netflix.
The strength that comes from having something to protect versus the strength that comes from having nothing to lose…
Feast your eyes on this top-class Asian battle action series, featuring world-class, cutting-edge visual effects and presented by a cast and staff who are at the pinnacle of Japanese entertainment!
The Netflix Series Yu Yu Hakusho starts streaming worldwide on Thursday, December 14, 2023, only on Netflix.
- 12/14/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix‘s “Geeked Week” isn’t done yet dropping exciting news and teasers: the streaming service debuted a first look at the upcoming “Yu Yu Hakusho” live-action series, promising supernatural action fun based on the popular manga series.
The live-action adaptation will debut exclusively on Netflix on December 14.
The series “revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, who spends his days getting into fights and dies in an accident while trying to protect a young child. As he grapples with the fact that he is looking down on his dead body, a woman named Botan who calls herself a guide to the spirit world relays to him the shocking truth: no one expected a delinquent like Yusuke to die performing an act of goodness, and there was no place for him in either heaven or hell. Thus, Yusuke is given a chance to be revived, and after passing his trial, he becomes an Underworld Detective.
The live-action adaptation will debut exclusively on Netflix on December 14.
The series “revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, who spends his days getting into fights and dies in an accident while trying to protect a young child. As he grapples with the fact that he is looking down on his dead body, a woman named Botan who calls herself a guide to the spirit world relays to him the shocking truth: no one expected a delinquent like Yusuke to die performing an act of goodness, and there was no place for him in either heaven or hell. Thus, Yusuke is given a chance to be revived, and after passing his trial, he becomes an Underworld Detective.
- 11/10/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Go Ayano, Koen Kondo, Masahiro Higashide, Jun Kunimura, Etsushi Toyokawa, Masatoshi Nagase | Written by Kankurô Kudô | Directed by Gakuryû Ishii
”It was a somewhat gloomy day”. Thus begins Punk Samurai, director Gakuryû, formerly Sogo, Ishii and writer Kankurô Kudô’s adaptation of Kou Machida’s supposedly unfilmable novel.
Junoshin Kake wanders into the domain of the Kurokaze clan and promptly kills a beggar who approaches him. He tells Shume Nagaoka a low-level official in the clan, that the man was a member of a dangerous religious cult that only he can save them from. That’s enough to create the opening he needs to find a permanent position in Lord Kuroae’s employ.
Kake plans to exploit the rivalry between two of the clan’s top retainers Shuzen Oura and Tatewaki Naito to rise through the ranks. The only problem is, the cult, The Bellyshaker Party no longer exists and Naito knows it.
”It was a somewhat gloomy day”. Thus begins Punk Samurai, director Gakuryû, formerly Sogo, Ishii and writer Kankurô Kudô’s adaptation of Kou Machida’s supposedly unfilmable novel.
Junoshin Kake wanders into the domain of the Kurokaze clan and promptly kills a beggar who approaches him. He tells Shume Nagaoka a low-level official in the clan, that the man was a member of a dangerous religious cult that only he can save them from. That’s enough to create the opening he needs to find a permanent position in Lord Kuroae’s employ.
Kake plans to exploit the rivalry between two of the clan’s top retainers Shuzen Oura and Tatewaki Naito to rise through the ranks. The only problem is, the cult, The Bellyshaker Party no longer exists and Naito knows it.
- 3/22/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Quick takes from the 25th Raindance Film Festival, with public screenings in London through October 1st, 2017.
Black Hollow Cage
Thirteen-year-old Alice (Lowena McDonell) lives alone with her father (Julian Nicholson) in a striking modernist house in the middle of the woods. She is getting used to her new bionic arm and believes that their dog is actually her dead mother, though Dad insists this is not the case. (What Dad actually believes about the voice synthesizer the dog wears around her neck, which appears to be speaking the dog’s thoughts [the voice of Lucy Tillett], is not something Alice ever asks him. Maybe in this apparently future world, people’s pets talk to them as a matter of course.) And then two very young strangers, siblings Erika (Haydée Lysander) and Paul (Marc Puiggener) — she is badly beaten up, and he is mute — appear out of nowhere and disrupt Alice’s existence. Oh, and there...
Black Hollow Cage
Thirteen-year-old Alice (Lowena McDonell) lives alone with her father (Julian Nicholson) in a striking modernist house in the middle of the woods. She is getting used to her new bionic arm and believes that their dog is actually her dead mother, though Dad insists this is not the case. (What Dad actually believes about the voice synthesizer the dog wears around her neck, which appears to be speaking the dog’s thoughts [the voice of Lucy Tillett], is not something Alice ever asks him. Maybe in this apparently future world, people’s pets talk to them as a matter of course.) And then two very young strangers, siblings Erika (Haydée Lysander) and Paul (Marc Puiggener) — she is badly beaten up, and he is mute — appear out of nowhere and disrupt Alice’s existence. Oh, and there...
- 9/28/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Wgtc Trailer Roundup #1 - Arrival, Hands Of Stone, Moana And More 1 of 28
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Welcome to the very first edition of Wgtc's weekly Trailer Roundup, where we'll be bringing you all the hottest movie and television trailers, clips, TV spots and more!
In this edition, we cover Morgan, Mechanic: Resurrection, American Horror Story, Arrival and Macgyver, among others. Take a look through and check back next week for more.
Arrival Trailer #1
Release Date: November 11th, 2016
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Hidden Figures Trailer #1
Release Date: January 13th, 2017
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Rules Don't Apply Trailer #1
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris
Same Kind Of Different As Me Trailer #1
Release Date: February 3rd, 2017
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou
Moonlight Trailer #1
Release Date: October 21st,...
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Welcome to the very first edition of Wgtc's weekly Trailer Roundup, where we'll be bringing you all the hottest movie and television trailers, clips, TV spots and more!
In this edition, we cover Morgan, Mechanic: Resurrection, American Horror Story, Arrival and Macgyver, among others. Take a look through and check back next week for more.
Arrival Trailer #1
Release Date: November 11th, 2016
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Hidden Figures Trailer #1
Release Date: January 13th, 2017
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Rules Don't Apply Trailer #1
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Haley Bennett, Lily Collins, Steve Coogan, Alden Ehrenreich, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris
Same Kind Of Different As Me Trailer #1
Release Date: February 3rd, 2017
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou
Moonlight Trailer #1
Release Date: October 21st,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
Prolific Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono broke through with stateside arthouse genre fans with his bloody, attention-grabbing "Cold Fish," and wild, four-hour epic "Love Exposure." Like his countryman Takashi Miike, he's shown he's able to switch up styles easily, also directing, among his many pictures, the nuclear crisis drama "The Land Of Hope." All that said, I had yet to sit down with film by Sono until "Shinjuku Swan," and I wish I had a better introduction to his work. While there are flashes of the filmmaker's gonzo style that I had read about, for the most part, "Shinjuku Swan" is a plodding tale about a young man who finds a new lease on life working for the yakuza, but seems to learn very little in this slightly comedic, mostly dramatic, and largely dull picture. With his shock of yellow hair, it's hard to miss Tatsuhiko Shiratori (Gô Ayano), who we...
- 8/1/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The first full trailer for Japan's live-action adaptation of the anime series Gatchaman has been released! The original series was produced in Japan in 1972 and was eventually brought to the states in the '80s and retitled Battle of the Planets. A few years ago a CG animated adaptation of the series was being developed by the animation studio Imagi, but when they went out of business the movie died, which is a shame.
I would have loved to see the animated film they were working on, but the live-action movie still looks cool, and I'm sure it will be really fun, especially for those of us who are fans of the original series. Here's the synopsis:
Set in the near future, Gatchaman follows the story five special agents of the International Science Organization in Tokyo as they try to protect the world from the mysterious terrorist group who call themselves Galactor.
I would have loved to see the animated film they were working on, but the live-action movie still looks cool, and I'm sure it will be really fun, especially for those of us who are fans of the original series. Here's the synopsis:
Set in the near future, Gatchaman follows the story five special agents of the International Science Organization in Tokyo as they try to protect the world from the mysterious terrorist group who call themselves Galactor.
- 6/21/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
There's no subtitles unfortuantely, but this certainly Looks pretty damn impressive. As a fan of the cartoon I'll definitely be checking it out. Set in the near future, Gatchaman follows the story five special agents of the International Science Organization in Tokyo as they try to protect the world from the mysterious terrorist group who call themselves Galactor. With technology that far surpasses that of humans, Galactor has declared war on the entire world and has already subjugated half of it. Trained to draw out the power from the mysterious crystal-like object called a "stone," our five heroes will be called "Gatchaman." Gatchaman stars Tôri Matsuzaka as Ken aka Gatchaman, Gô Ayano as Condor No Joe, Ayame Gôriki as Jun The Swan, Tatsuomi Hamada as Junpei The Swallow, Ryohei Suzuki as Ryu The Owl, Gorô Kishitani as Dr. Nambu and Eriko Hatsune as Naomi. Follow @RorMachine !function(d,s,id){var js,...
- 6/21/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Sneak Peek the first teaser trailer from the Toho live-action film adaptation of creator Tatsunoko's anime "Gatchaman" (aka "Battle of The Planets"), directed by Toya Sato from a script by Yūsuke Watanabe :
"...Tori Matsuzaka is 'Ken Washio', leader of the team and tactical expert, Gô Ayano is 'George Asakura', second-in-command marksman and weapons expert, Ayame Gôriki is 'Jun Ohtsuki', the yoyo-wielding electronics and demolitions expert, Ryohei Suzuki is 'Ryu Nakanishi', the ship's main pilot and Tatsuomi Hamada is 'Jinpei Ohtsuki', reconnaissance expert.
"The team serves as agents of the 'International Science Organization' in Tokyo. 'Galactor', a mysterious group whose technology far surpasses that of humans, has declared war on the entire world and has already subjugated half of it. A mysterious crystal-like object called a 'stone', is now humanity's only hope. Those who are able to draw out the power of the stones are forced to train to become...
"...Tori Matsuzaka is 'Ken Washio', leader of the team and tactical expert, Gô Ayano is 'George Asakura', second-in-command marksman and weapons expert, Ayame Gôriki is 'Jun Ohtsuki', the yoyo-wielding electronics and demolitions expert, Ryohei Suzuki is 'Ryu Nakanishi', the ship's main pilot and Tatsuomi Hamada is 'Jinpei Ohtsuki', reconnaissance expert.
"The team serves as agents of the 'International Science Organization' in Tokyo. 'Galactor', a mysterious group whose technology far surpasses that of humans, has declared war on the entire world and has already subjugated half of it. A mysterious crystal-like object called a 'stone', is now humanity's only hope. Those who are able to draw out the power of the stones are forced to train to become...
- 4/12/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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