Amazon Prime Video has doubled down on its investment in Japan with six local originals greenlit and an additional foray into live boxing.
At an event in Tokyo on Wednesday, Amazon revealed a reboot of “Takeshi’s Castle,” the iconic game show starring Kitano Takeshi that aired on terrestrial network TBS from 1986-1989. The reboot, with the working title “Takeshi’s Castle ProjectModern Love Tokyo," the Japanese adaptation of Prime Video’s original romantic anthology series "Modern Love." The series stars Asami Mizukawa, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Sôsuke Ikematsu, and Naomi Scott, with episodes directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Wife of a Spy"), Naoko Ogigami ("Close-Knit"), Ryuichi Hiroki ("Ride or Die"), Nobuhiro Yamashita ("Matsugane ransha jiken"), and Atsuko Hirayanagi ("Oh Lucy!"), who also serves as showrunner. Set for 2023 is "My Lovely Yokai Girlfriend" a half-hour, young adult romantic horror adventure-comedy series about two outcasts directed by Takahiro Miki and created by Yalun Tu...
At an event in Tokyo on Wednesday, Amazon revealed a reboot of “Takeshi’s Castle,” the iconic game show starring Kitano Takeshi that aired on terrestrial network TBS from 1986-1989. The reboot, with the working title “Takeshi’s Castle ProjectModern Love Tokyo," the Japanese adaptation of Prime Video’s original romantic anthology series "Modern Love." The series stars Asami Mizukawa, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Sôsuke Ikematsu, and Naomi Scott, with episodes directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Wife of a Spy"), Naoko Ogigami ("Close-Knit"), Ryuichi Hiroki ("Ride or Die"), Nobuhiro Yamashita ("Matsugane ransha jiken"), and Atsuko Hirayanagi ("Oh Lucy!"), who also serves as showrunner. Set for 2023 is "My Lovely Yokai Girlfriend" a half-hour, young adult romantic horror adventure-comedy series about two outcasts directed by Takahiro Miki and created by Yalun Tu...
- 3/30/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has set Theater, the feature adaptation of Naoki Matayoshi’s second novel Gekijo, as its first day-and-date release in Japan.
The movie will launch on the service in 200 countries on July 17, and will also play in Japanese theaters, which have started to re-open following the coronavirus lockdown. The pic is expected to play in around 20 venues.
Starring Kento Yamazaki and Mayu Matsuoka, the movie follows a screenwriter who struggles to attract an audience to his theater company. One day, he sees a fashion student who dreams of becoming an actress, wearing the same sneakers as he does, and starts talking to her. A love between the two begins, as Saki supports Nagata in his dreams and becomes more and more involved in theater to fill the gap between ideal and reality.
Isao Yukisada (Go, Parade) directed the movie, Shunsuke Koga produced. Naohiko Sakamoto was executive producer.
“While...
The movie will launch on the service in 200 countries on July 17, and will also play in Japanese theaters, which have started to re-open following the coronavirus lockdown. The pic is expected to play in around 20 venues.
Starring Kento Yamazaki and Mayu Matsuoka, the movie follows a screenwriter who struggles to attract an audience to his theater company. One day, he sees a fashion student who dreams of becoming an actress, wearing the same sneakers as he does, and starts talking to her. A love between the two begins, as Saki supports Nagata in his dreams and becomes more and more involved in theater to fill the gap between ideal and reality.
Isao Yukisada (Go, Parade) directed the movie, Shunsuke Koga produced. Naohiko Sakamoto was executive producer.
“While...
- 6/25/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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