Director: Takimoto Tomoyuki. Review: Adam Wing. If you had 24 hours left to live, how would you spend it? That’s the thought provoking question raised in Takimoto Tomoyuki’s bleak futuristic drama Death Notice - Ikigami. To encourage productivity among citizens, the Japanese government has introduced its own process of unnatural selection - all people between the ages of 18 and 24 are eligible for a death lottery. The twist being that you don't have to buy a ticket, an injection at the age of six puts pay to that. Those chosen to die are served an "ikigami", or death notice, 24 hours before their reckoning. Fujimoto Kengo's job is to deliver that ikigami - give me a desk job any day. Matsuda Shota (Hana Yori Dango: Final) plays the modern messenger of death, brought to life from the pages of Mase Motoro's popular manga. Set in a dystopian Japan where Big Brother is always watching,...
- 3/5/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Coming off her performance in Tetsuya Nakashiima’s much discussed 2010 film “Confessions”, 14-year-old model/actress Ai Hashimoto has been cast in the lead role in Atsushi Wada’s Avatar.
The upcoming film is based on a book by Yusuke Yamada, whose stories have repeatedly managed to strike a cord with teens and tweens in recent years. Both the 2008 sleeper hit “Real Onigokko” and this summer’s “Batsu Game” were based on his works.
Yamada’s themes often involve games that turn deadly, a la “Battle Royale”, and Avatar will be in a similar vein. Hashimoto plays an ordinary second-year high school student named Michiko who becomes so obsessed with impersonating her Sns (Social Networking System) alter ego that she eventually blurs the line between fantasy and reality. When she obtains a rare avatar called “Ava Q” (presumably an abbreviation of “Avatar Queen”), she begins committing crimes leading up to and...
The upcoming film is based on a book by Yusuke Yamada, whose stories have repeatedly managed to strike a cord with teens and tweens in recent years. Both the 2008 sleeper hit “Real Onigokko” and this summer’s “Batsu Game” were based on his works.
Yamada’s themes often involve games that turn deadly, a la “Battle Royale”, and Avatar will be in a similar vein. Hashimoto plays an ordinary second-year high school student named Michiko who becomes so obsessed with impersonating her Sns (Social Networking System) alter ego that she eventually blurs the line between fantasy and reality. When she obtains a rare avatar called “Ava Q” (presumably an abbreviation of “Avatar Queen”), she begins committing crimes leading up to and...
- 11/10/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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