With the rise of the encroaching Toronto, the domestic competition offered by Rome and a hugely successful Cannes this year, the 70th Venice Film Festival - which begins on 28 August - is facing some pretty stiff competition. The lineup, however, is on the face of it relatively low-key, though there are some very interesting possibilities and potential surprises. Regular attendee George Clooney opens proceedings with Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, whilst in the main competition lie a mix of old hands - Errol Morris with his Donald Rumsfeld documentary, Hayao Miyazaki's last fable - along with fresh talents such as Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves) and Jonathan Glazer (with his Birth follow-up, Under the Skin).
Terry Gilliam also returns after an elongated absence, his The Zero Theorem starring Christoph Waltz as a hacker searching for the meaning of existence. The film hopefully marks a return to form for a filmmaker who...
Terry Gilliam also returns after an elongated absence, his The Zero Theorem starring Christoph Waltz as a hacker searching for the meaning of existence. The film hopefully marks a return to form for a filmmaker who...
- 8/28/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Toronto Film Festival has 12 Years A Slave and Gravity, but the Venice Film Festival does not intend to be outdone. Gravity will open the festival, yes, but Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem will also put in an appearance. Plus there are new films from Stephen Frears, Paul Schrader and James Franco, who brings his Child Of God to play at Venice. Hayao Miyazaki’s latest The Wind Rises will show up at Venice too, after its Japanese tour. Then there are films from Errol Morris, Kelly Reichardt, and Frederick Wiseman. Oh, and the Japanese Unforgiven remake Yurusarezaru mono.
All in all, it’s not a bad line-up for Venice this year. Lots of films that we’ve already heard of and, as usual, a whole slew that we probably haven’t. Festival season is always an exciting time, less for the major works and more for the ones...
All in all, it’s not a bad line-up for Venice this year. Lots of films that we’ve already heard of and, as usual, a whole slew that we probably haven’t. Festival season is always an exciting time, less for the major works and more for the ones...
- 7/25/2013
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
The films screened at the 70th Venice film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more information comes in
The 70th Venice film festival runs from 28 August until 7 September
Opening night film
Gravity, Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Closing night film
Amazonia, Dir: Thierry Ragobert
Competition
Ana Arabia, Dir: Amos Gitai
Child of God, Dir: James Franco
Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer's Wife), Dir: Philip Groning
L'intrepido, Dir: Gianni Amelio
La Jalousie, Dir: Philippe Garrel
Jiaoyou,, Dir: (Stray Dogs), Tsai Ming-liang
Joe, Dir: David Gordon Green
Kaze Tachinu, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Miss Violence, Dir: Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves, Dir: Kelly Reichardt
Parkland, Dir: Peter Landesman
Philomena, Dir: Stephen Frears
Sacro Gra, Dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Es-Stouh (The Rooftops), Dir: Merzak Allouache
Tom at the Farm, Dir: Xavier Dolan
Tracks, Dir: John Curran
Under the Skin, Dir: Jonathan Glazer
The Unknown Known: the Life and Times of...
The 70th Venice film festival runs from 28 August until 7 September
Opening night film
Gravity, Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Closing night film
Amazonia, Dir: Thierry Ragobert
Competition
Ana Arabia, Dir: Amos Gitai
Child of God, Dir: James Franco
Die Frau des Polizisten (The Police Officer's Wife), Dir: Philip Groning
L'intrepido, Dir: Gianni Amelio
La Jalousie, Dir: Philippe Garrel
Jiaoyou,, Dir: (Stray Dogs), Tsai Ming-liang
Joe, Dir: David Gordon Green
Kaze Tachinu, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
Miss Violence, Dir: Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves, Dir: Kelly Reichardt
Parkland, Dir: Peter Landesman
Philomena, Dir: Stephen Frears
Sacro Gra, Dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Es-Stouh (The Rooftops), Dir: Merzak Allouache
Tom at the Farm, Dir: Xavier Dolan
Tracks, Dir: John Curran
Under the Skin, Dir: Jonathan Glazer
The Unknown Known: the Life and Times of...
- 7/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Back in August, we reported that Ken Watanabe, best known for his roles in The Last Samurai, Inception and Letters from Iwo Jima, would be headlining a Japanese remake of the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood movie Unforgiven, titled Yurusarezaru Mono. Production has been moving along and the film is currently being shot in northern Japan in a remote area of Hokkaido. Press was recently invited to the set and today we get our first look at Watanabe as a samurai with a violent past named Kamata Juube, courtesy of Tokyo Hive. Pictured in the first look image below with Watanabe is Sato Koichi (Sukiyaki Western Django) as the feared local police cheif portrayed by Gene Hackman in the original. The film takes place after the collapse of the Edo shogunate in 1880 and follows Juube, who...
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- 10/25/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven.
There will be a Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's Oscar winning 1992 Western classic Unforgiven. Eastwood's star-making role in director Sergio Leone's 1964 Western A Fistful of Dollars was an unauthorized remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Director Lee Sang-il is a die hard fan of Eastwood's film and will helm the Japanese remake, to be titled Yurusarezaru Mono. For more click here...
- 8/29/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Ken Watanabe (Inception) has signed on for a Japanese remake of "Unforgiven" to be made by Warner Entertainment Japan. He will take a role played by Clint Eastwood. The new film is called "Yurusarezaru Mono (A Thing That Can't Be Forgiven)" and will be directed by Lee Sang-Il (Hula Girls, Villain). The plan is to start shooting in the fall for a 2013 release. Watanabe will play a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido with his Ainu (the aboriginal people of the island) wife, but is brought out of retirement for one last job. Koichi Sato (The Magic Hour) will play the Gene Hackman role, while veteran Akira Emoto (Villain) will take the part played by Morgan Freeman in the multi-Academy Award-winning original.
- 8/20/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Easily one of the most well-recognized Japanese actors working in the Hollywood studio system, Ken Watanabe has been able to balance big budget films like Inception, The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima and Memoirs of a Geisha with a steady line of television series and films in his native Japan. Now, the Japanese studio system is taking a page out of the Hollywood playbook by remaking the 1992 Clint Eastwood award-winning western Unforgiven with Watanabe in the Eastwood role. Well, a version of it anyway. The remake will be a samurai film helmed by Lee Sang-Il (Hula Girls) and be titled Yurusarezaru Mono, which roughly translates to A Thing That Cannot Be Forgiven. The story will follow a samurai in 19th-century Japan with a troubled past, who is forced out of retirement...
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- 8/20/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Bucking the trend of an American remake of a foreign film, Warner Bros. will be financing a remake of Best Picture winner Unforgiven in Japan. Ken Watanabe will star in Yurusarezaru Mono (A Thing That Can't Be Forgiven) for director Lee Sang-Il. The film will take place in 1880, just like Unforgiven, but the backdrop will shift from cowboys to samurai warriors. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Watanabe will play a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan.s northern island of...
- 8/20/2012
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
The Western and Samurai genres have a proud history of twisting and remaking each others’ stories, thanks mainly in part to films such as The Magnificent Seven and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars remaking Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, respectively.
Now that relationship seems set to take another turn with news coming from Variety that Ken Watanabe has signed on to star in a samurai period remake of the western classic Unforgiven, with Watanabe taking on the central role originally played by Clint Eastwood in the original.
Korean helmer Lee San-Il, who made 2010′s Villain, will direct the project, now titled Yurusarezaru Mono. Like the original, the film will be set in 1880 with the action now being transposed from Wyoming to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Watanabe will play a Samurai with a somewhat violent reputation and morally questionable past as a master swordsman now living...
Now that relationship seems set to take another turn with news coming from Variety that Ken Watanabe has signed on to star in a samurai period remake of the western classic Unforgiven, with Watanabe taking on the central role originally played by Clint Eastwood in the original.
Korean helmer Lee San-Il, who made 2010′s Villain, will direct the project, now titled Yurusarezaru Mono. Like the original, the film will be set in 1880 with the action now being transposed from Wyoming to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Watanabe will play a Samurai with a somewhat violent reputation and morally questionable past as a master swordsman now living...
- 8/20/2012
- by Nick Savvides
- We Got This Covered
It isn’t the first time a Western and a Samurai movie have been linked - The Magnificent Seven (1960) started as The Seven Samurai (1954) and Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars (1964) was infamously an almost shot for shot remake of Yojimbo (1961) – but now the favour is to be returned as Warner Japan plan to remake Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece Unforgiven (1992), relocating it to on a small Northern Japanese island.
Variety reports that Ken Watanabe, famous to Western audiences from his appearances in Christopher Nolan films and The Last Samurai, takes on the Eastwood role of the famed warrior–now swordsman rather than gunslinger–who is called back to the violent ways he had renounced. Villain director (2010), Li Sang-il directs the remake which begins filming in a couple of months and will be released in Japan under the title Yurusarezaru mono in 2013.
With an internationally recognisable star and a director of high critical standing,...
Variety reports that Ken Watanabe, famous to Western audiences from his appearances in Christopher Nolan films and The Last Samurai, takes on the Eastwood role of the famed warrior–now swordsman rather than gunslinger–who is called back to the violent ways he had renounced. Villain director (2010), Li Sang-il directs the remake which begins filming in a couple of months and will be released in Japan under the title Yurusarezaru mono in 2013.
With an internationally recognisable star and a director of high critical standing,...
- 8/20/2012
- by John Bleasdale
- We Got This Covered
As the old saying goes — “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Taking a page out of Hollywood, Japan is set to remake Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Western “Unforgiven”, but set in the world of the Samurai. This, we’re told, is the first time Japan has ever remade a Hollywood film (yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but they’ve remade plenty of Hollywood films in the past) of “Unforgiven’s” Oscar-winning pedigree. The remake rights were probably pretty easy to obtain, seeing as how Warner Bros.’ Japanese arm is producing and will distribute the film, and the studio owns rights to the 1992 original that won Eastwood an Oscar for Best Director and Gene Hackman for Best Supporting Actor. The film also took home Best Picture for the year. The remake, to be called “Yurusarezaru Mono” locally, which literally translates to, “A Thing...
- 8/20/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
1992s Unforgiven, the pinnacle of Clint Eastwood as the Gunfighter will have its setting swapped out for the East as a Japanese samurai period drama, with none other than Inception’s Ken Watanabe taking Eastwood’s role as the main character.
Korean-Japanese helmer Lee Sang-Il (Hula Girls, Villain) will direct the remake Yurusarezaru Mono (Japanese for ‘unforgiven’) for Warner Japan.
Veteran actors Akira Emoto playing the Morgan Freeman role, and Koichi Sato as Gene Hackman’s character are also starring in the film that will shoot from September to November in Hokkaido, scheduled for a fall 2013 release in Japan.
As in the Oscar-winning original the remake will be set in 1880, but on the northernmost of Japan’s four major islands after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate; Watanabe will take on the Eastwood role as a samurai with a fearsome reputation as a swordsman who is living in retirement and...
Korean-Japanese helmer Lee Sang-Il (Hula Girls, Villain) will direct the remake Yurusarezaru Mono (Japanese for ‘unforgiven’) for Warner Japan.
Veteran actors Akira Emoto playing the Morgan Freeman role, and Koichi Sato as Gene Hackman’s character are also starring in the film that will shoot from September to November in Hokkaido, scheduled for a fall 2013 release in Japan.
As in the Oscar-winning original the remake will be set in 1880, but on the northernmost of Japan’s four major islands after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate; Watanabe will take on the Eastwood role as a samurai with a fearsome reputation as a swordsman who is living in retirement and...
- 8/20/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
It's not uncommon for a western to get remade into a samurai movie or a samurai movie to get remade into a western. For example the movie Seven Samurai was remade into the classic western The Magnificent Seven, and both films ended up being incredible classics. Even Clint Eastwood's 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai classic Yojimbo.
Warner Bros. Japan is planning to turn Eastwood's Academy Award winning western Unforgiven into a period samurai film. The best part about this news is that Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception, Batman Begins) will be taking on the lead role in the film, which was played by Eastwood who's character was a retired gunman that takes one final job. Watanabe also starred in Eastwood's WWII film Letters From Iwo Jima.
Variety reports that the story of the film will follow the original film and, "will...
Warner Bros. Japan is planning to turn Eastwood's Academy Award winning western Unforgiven into a period samurai film. The best part about this news is that Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception, Batman Begins) will be taking on the lead role in the film, which was played by Eastwood who's character was a retired gunman that takes one final job. Watanabe also starred in Eastwood's WWII film Letters From Iwo Jima.
Variety reports that the story of the film will follow the original film and, "will...
- 8/20/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Ken Watanabe (Inception, The Last Samurai), arguably the most famous Japanese actor on international shores, is set to take the lead in Warner Japan’s upcoming remake of Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Unforgiven, Yurusarezaru Mono.
Korean-Japanese filmmaker Lee Sang-Il will be behind the camera, following up from his award-winning latest feature, Villain, which took five awards at last year’s Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Like the original, the film will be set in 1880, relocating the setting to Hokkaido, Japan, at time when Japanese settlers were displacing the local Ainu people.
Watanabe will star in the lead originally played by Eastwood, playing a samurai with a fearsome reputation living in retirement with his Ainu wife, brought out of retirement for one last job.
Kōichi Satō (When the Last Sword is Drawn) will take the role originally played by Gene Hackman, with veteran Akira Emoto (Villain) cast in the role played by Morgan Freeman.
Korean-Japanese filmmaker Lee Sang-Il will be behind the camera, following up from his award-winning latest feature, Villain, which took five awards at last year’s Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards.
Like the original, the film will be set in 1880, relocating the setting to Hokkaido, Japan, at time when Japanese settlers were displacing the local Ainu people.
Watanabe will star in the lead originally played by Eastwood, playing a samurai with a fearsome reputation living in retirement with his Ainu wife, brought out of retirement for one last job.
Kōichi Satō (When the Last Sword is Drawn) will take the role originally played by Gene Hackman, with veteran Akira Emoto (Villain) cast in the role played by Morgan Freeman.
- 8/20/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Twenty years ago this month Clint Eastwood‘s western Unforgiven was released, which went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture and now it’s time for Japan’s take. Just as Seven Samurai was flipped into the western Magnificent Seven for the Us, the process will be reversed for a remake of the 1992 film, Variety reports.
Inception star Ken Watanabe, who actually worked with Eastwood on Letters from Iwo Jima, will lead the remake from WB’s Japanese division. Set in the same time period of 1880, Watanabe will instead be a “a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido with his aboriginal wife, but is brought out of retirement for one last job.” Titled Yurusarezaru Mono, which translates to the more expounded A Thing That Can’t Be Forgiven, Lee Sang-Il will be directing and his Villain star Akira Emoto will take the Morgan Freeman role,...
Inception star Ken Watanabe, who actually worked with Eastwood on Letters from Iwo Jima, will lead the remake from WB’s Japanese division. Set in the same time period of 1880, Watanabe will instead be a “a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido with his aboriginal wife, but is brought out of retirement for one last job.” Titled Yurusarezaru Mono, which translates to the more expounded A Thing That Can’t Be Forgiven, Lee Sang-Il will be directing and his Villain star Akira Emoto will take the Morgan Freeman role,...
- 8/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
For years Hollywood has remade foreign films to varying degrees, with some of the most successful examples being genre-swaps: John Sturges’ classic western “The Magnificent Seven” was based on Akira Kurosawa’s landmark “Seven Samurai.” And now a western film will have its setting swapped out for the East as Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” is being remade under the tutelage of “Villain” helmer Lee Sang-il with Ken Watanabe set to star. The original 1992 western was set in 1880 and followed Eastwood’s William Munny, an old gunslinger that retired for a family and farming life, as he takes on one last job after being recruited by a young man to claim a bounty. The Warner Japan-produced remake, “Yurusarezaru mono,” will retain the period setting but will instead take place in “the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, [at] a time when Japanese settlers were displacing the native Aniu people....
- 8/20/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Ken Watanabe ( Inception , Memoirs of a Geisha , Batman Begins , The Last Samurai ) is set to play the Clint Eastwood role in a Japanese remake of Unforgiven . Warner Entertainment Japan is behind the project, which will be directed by Lee Sang-Il and titled Yurusarezaru Mono ("A Thing That Can.t Be Forgiven"). In the film, set in 1880, "Watanabe will play a samurai with a violent past, who lives on Japan.s northern island of Hokkaido with his Ainu (the aboriginal people of the island) wife, but is brought out of retirement for one last job." Koichi Sato has been cast in the Gene Hackman role and Akira Emoto is set to play the Morgan Freeman part. Shooting will take place in Hokkaido this fall for a fall 2013 release date. Eastwood's 1992...
- 8/20/2012
- Comingsoon.net
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