The wonderful trilogy based on the homonymous manga series by Yuki Suetsugu reaches its ending and its climax in the third part, in a one of the best adaptations of the recent years.
Chihayafuru 3 is screening at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story of this part takes place 2 years after the second one, when Chihaya is now a high school senior. Her problems, however, seem to be more and more significant, as they surpass the borders of Karuta. The search for new members is more imminent than ever, since a number of the former ones are in their last year in high school. Even more, the new arrivals seem to care more for her and Taichi’s looks than the actual game. Both Chihaya and Taichi also have to think about the future outside of the game, while Taichi’s parents pressure him to quit Karuta in order to...
Chihayafuru 3 is screening at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story of this part takes place 2 years after the second one, when Chihaya is now a high school senior. Her problems, however, seem to be more and more significant, as they surpass the borders of Karuta. The search for new members is more imminent than ever, since a number of the former ones are in their last year in high school. Even more, the new arrivals seem to care more for her and Taichi’s looks than the actual game. Both Chihaya and Taichi also have to think about the future outside of the game, while Taichi’s parents pressure him to quit Karuta in order to...
- 6/17/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The distributor has acquired Us rights to the romantic drama starring Bella Thorne based on Norihiro Koizumi’s 2006 Japanese film Taiyo No Uta.
Mister Smith Entertainment handles international sales on the Us version, which centres on a 17-year-old with a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight who hides her condition from the young man she has secretly admired from afar.
Scott Speer directed Midnight Sun from Eric Kirsten’s adapted screenplay. Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle and Quinn Shephard also star.
John Rickard, Zack Schiller and Jen Gatien produced Midnight Sun, and David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota and Speer served as executive producers.
Boies/Schiller financed and produced the film alongside Rickard’s Wrigley Pictures. Wme Global and Sky Moore at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan represented Boies/Schiller in the deal.
Mister Smith Entertainment handles international sales on the Us version, which centres on a 17-year-old with a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight who hides her condition from the young man she has secretly admired from afar.
Scott Speer directed Midnight Sun from Eric Kirsten’s adapted screenplay. Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle and Quinn Shephard also star.
John Rickard, Zack Schiller and Jen Gatien produced Midnight Sun, and David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota and Speer served as executive producers.
Boies/Schiller financed and produced the film alongside Rickard’s Wrigley Pictures. Wme Global and Sky Moore at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan represented Boies/Schiller in the deal.
- 10/13/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Norihiko Koizumi's Chihayafuru (Part 1&2) screening on Fantasia Film FestivalSTORY70%DIRECTING75%ACTING75%VISUALS75%POSITIVESKaruta makes a wonderful main themeGreat charactersGreat acting and directionNEGATIVESDeep down, it is addressed to teenage girls2016-07-3174%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)0%
Based on the multi-awarded, homonymous manga, written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu, “Chihayafuru” revolves around Karuta and the relationship of a girl with two boys.
Karuda (coming from the word card) is a card game, where each card contains a waka (classical Japanese poetry) poem. It is played one on one, facilitated by a reciter (card reader) and a judge. Each player has a deck placed in front of him, consisting of 25 cards that he places face-up, in three layers in his or her territory. As the reciter reads a poem from a reading card, the players have to touch first the corresponding to the poem playing card, which contains only the last phrases of the poem.
Based on the multi-awarded, homonymous manga, written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu, “Chihayafuru” revolves around Karuta and the relationship of a girl with two boys.
Karuda (coming from the word card) is a card game, where each card contains a waka (classical Japanese poetry) poem. It is played one on one, facilitated by a reciter (card reader) and a judge. Each player has a deck placed in front of him, consisting of 25 cards that he places face-up, in three layers in his or her territory. As the reciter reads a poem from a reading card, the players have to touch first the corresponding to the poem playing card, which contains only the last phrases of the poem.
- 7/31/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The first programming has been revealed for the 20th annual Fantasia International Film Festival. Taking place from July 14th–August 2nd in Montreal, this year’s Fantasia will honor Guillermo del Toro with the Cheval Noir Award, and the newly revealed first wave of programming includes screenings of Lights Out, Abattoir, In a Valley of Violence, Under the Shadow, Trash Fire, Teenage Cocktail, and more:
Press Release: Montreal, May 26, 2016 – The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14-August 2, with its Frontiéres international co-production market and Industry Rendez-Vous weekend being held July 21-24. The full lineup of over 130 feature films will be announced July 5th. In the meantime, the festival is excited to announce a selected first wave of titles, along with several special happenings.
For Fantasia’s 2016 poster, the festival has once again turned to award-winning Quebec visual artist Donald Caron.
Press Release: Montreal, May 26, 2016 – The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14-August 2, with its Frontiéres international co-production market and Industry Rendez-Vous weekend being held July 21-24. The full lineup of over 130 feature films will be announced July 5th. In the meantime, the festival is excited to announce a selected first wave of titles, along with several special happenings.
For Fantasia’s 2016 poster, the festival has once again turned to award-winning Quebec visual artist Donald Caron.
- 5/26/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Montreal’s genre festival also unveils first wave of titles for its upcoming 20th Anniversary edition.Scroll down for first wave of titles
Guillermo del Toro and Takashi Miike are set to attend the 20th anniversary edition of Fantasia International Film Festival (July 14-Aug 2) in Montreal.
In his first-ever appearance at the festival, del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will be presented with the Cheval Noir award.
He will also deliver a masterclass and host the Canadian premiere of documentary Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex, in which he is featured.
Meanwhile, prolific director Miike will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for the mark he has left on the festival over its 20 years. Nearly 30 of his films have been showcased at Fantasia and he has opened the festival three times.
Miike will also host the North American premiere of his latest film Terraformars, about a team of misfits who must fight humanoid cockroaches to colonise Mars, and As The...
Guillermo del Toro and Takashi Miike are set to attend the 20th anniversary edition of Fantasia International Film Festival (July 14-Aug 2) in Montreal.
In his first-ever appearance at the festival, del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will be presented with the Cheval Noir award.
He will also deliver a masterclass and host the Canadian premiere of documentary Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex, in which he is featured.
Meanwhile, prolific director Miike will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for the mark he has left on the festival over its 20 years. Nearly 30 of his films have been showcased at Fantasia and he has opened the festival three times.
Miike will also host the North American premiere of his latest film Terraformars, about a team of misfits who must fight humanoid cockroaches to colonise Mars, and As The...
- 5/26/2016
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger are coupling up in new young adult film Midnight Sun.
The project is based on a 2006 Japanese movie directed by Norihiro Koizumi about two 17-year-olds, Katie and Charlie.
The story follows a young woman (Thorne) who suffers from a rare allergy to sunlight which forces her to stay indoors.
Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance.
Step Up: Revolution's Scott Speer is directing from a script by Eric Kirsten, Deadline reports.
Schwarzenegger can next be seen in Scouts vs. Zombies, which is released in October, while Thorne recently starred in The Duff.
Shooting on Midnight Sun is scheduled to begin in September.
The project is based on a 2006 Japanese movie directed by Norihiro Koizumi about two 17-year-olds, Katie and Charlie.
The story follows a young woman (Thorne) who suffers from a rare allergy to sunlight which forces her to stay indoors.
Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance.
Step Up: Revolution's Scott Speer is directing from a script by Eric Kirsten, Deadline reports.
Schwarzenegger can next be seen in Scouts vs. Zombies, which is released in October, while Thorne recently starred in The Duff.
Shooting on Midnight Sun is scheduled to begin in September.
- 6/22/2015
- Digital Spy
It’s been announced that a live-action movie adaptation of Kotomi Aoki’s Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteiru manga will soon go into production under Fuji TV and the lead role of Riko will be cast through a general audition.
Previous live-action adaptations of Aoki’s work include Hiroshi Ando’s My Sister, My Love (2007) and Takehiko Shinjo’s I Give My First Love to You (2009).
To date, 8 volumes of the story have been published in Shogakukan’s shojo manga magazine “Cheese!” since May 2009. It’s set within the music industry and features a 16-year-old female high school student named Riko who becomes romantically involved with a popular 25-year-old music producer.
From now until June 30, the production will be recruiting amateur and professional actresses over the age of 13 to audition for the role of Riko. Applicants will be required to record themselves singing two songs and submit them to qualify for the audition.
Previous live-action adaptations of Aoki’s work include Hiroshi Ando’s My Sister, My Love (2007) and Takehiko Shinjo’s I Give My First Love to You (2009).
To date, 8 volumes of the story have been published in Shogakukan’s shojo manga magazine “Cheese!” since May 2009. It’s set within the music industry and features a 16-year-old female high school student named Riko who becomes romantically involved with a popular 25-year-old music producer.
From now until June 30, the production will be recruiting amateur and professional actresses over the age of 13 to audition for the role of Riko. Applicants will be required to record themselves singing two songs and submit them to qualify for the audition.
- 3/25/2012
- Nippon Cinema
How do you follow up a film about a college student with memory loss aspiring to become a masked wrestler? This is the dilemma faced by Japan's Norihiro Koizumi, who made his debut a couple years ago with Gachi Boy an outrageously feel-good flick that proved a huge hit on the festival circuit. His solution: do something absolutely, completely different.
Due for release in Japan in June, Koizumi's new film is titled Flowers. An ensemble drama that tracks the lives of six women over three generations it's hard to imagine anything more different from Gachi Boy but given Koizumi's skill with characters - and just how spot on the period elements to this appear in the teaser - I'm happy to go anywhere he cares to take me.
Check the first teaser below!
Due for release in Japan in June, Koizumi's new film is titled Flowers. An ensemble drama that tracks the lives of six women over three generations it's hard to imagine anything more different from Gachi Boy but given Koizumi's skill with characters - and just how spot on the period elements to this appear in the teaser - I'm happy to go anywhere he cares to take me.
Check the first teaser below!
- 3/25/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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