Exclusive: Tetsuya Nakashima’s mystery is set to open in UK cinemas in early 2015.
London-based Third Window Films has announced it picked up Japanese mystery The World of Kanako for UK and Ireland from Wild Bunch in Cannes.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, the film stars Koji Yakusho as an ex-cop searching for his missing daughter whose straight-a student façade hid the secret life she led in a hellish underworld.
Third Window Films previously released the director’s Kamikaze Girls, Memories of Matsuko and Confessions as well as Lalapipo, for which he wrote the screenplay.
“All four were released in cinemas, with Confessions, Kamikaze and Matsuko all having massive video sales plus all sold to FilmFour,” noted Adam Torel, CEO of the company.
“Director Nakashima is a real talent in [the] fact that he tackles a completely different genre each time, taking time and passion to mix both entertainment and depth in each. From buddy girl...
London-based Third Window Films has announced it picked up Japanese mystery The World of Kanako for UK and Ireland from Wild Bunch in Cannes.
Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, the film stars Koji Yakusho as an ex-cop searching for his missing daughter whose straight-a student façade hid the secret life she led in a hellish underworld.
Third Window Films previously released the director’s Kamikaze Girls, Memories of Matsuko and Confessions as well as Lalapipo, for which he wrote the screenplay.
“All four were released in cinemas, with Confessions, Kamikaze and Matsuko all having massive video sales plus all sold to FilmFour,” noted Adam Torel, CEO of the company.
“Director Nakashima is a real talent in [the] fact that he tackles a completely different genre each time, taking time and passion to mix both entertainment and depth in each. From buddy girl...
- 6/9/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
[Our thanks to Renzo Adler for the following review.]
If you described the plot of Lalapipo without mentioning the film’s jovial candy colored style, it would sound incredibly depressing—and I mean on Requiem for a Dream like scale (I guess Nobody Knows would be the better comparison since we’re talking Japanese films). Lalapipo, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, is written by Kamikaze Girls scribe Tetsuya Nakashima and is based on the novel by Hideo Okuda. The film deals with the oft lampooned, speculated, and analyzed subject of sexuality in contemporary Tokyo. Unlike films like Love & Pop or Bounce Kogals, Lalapipo is vibrant, full of humor, and is generally light hearted for the most part; yet still manages to sneak in some heavy scenes and deals with themes like alienation, sexual de-sensitization, violence, and then some.
If you described the plot of Lalapipo without mentioning the film’s jovial candy colored style, it would sound incredibly depressing—and I mean on Requiem for a Dream like scale (I guess Nobody Knows would be the better comparison since we’re talking Japanese films). Lalapipo, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, is written by Kamikaze Girls scribe Tetsuya Nakashima and is based on the novel by Hideo Okuda. The film deals with the oft lampooned, speculated, and analyzed subject of sexuality in contemporary Tokyo. Unlike films like Love & Pop or Bounce Kogals, Lalapipo is vibrant, full of humor, and is generally light hearted for the most part; yet still manages to sneak in some heavy scenes and deals with themes like alienation, sexual de-sensitization, violence, and then some.
- 6/27/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Good news for fans of Asian cult cinema with news out that the UK’s Third Window Films have bought rights to Miki Satoshi’s Instant Numa and Lalapipo, from director Masayuki Miyano, from a script from Kamikaze Girls director Tetsuya Nakashima. I had to duck out early from Satoshi’s Numa earlier this week in Cannes but what I saw was very fun and this will definitely be finding it’s way on to my shelf ...
- 5/19/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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