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Two of most renowned characteristics of the Japanese people are their love for manga/anime and their inherent persistence and methodic way of doing things that lets them go to “places” others would not even dream of going. In case you have not heard, these two aspects are now coming together in the construction of a real life Gundam robot, but this is not the only example. The Maeda Corporation Fantasy Marketing Department is a team of five engineers from the aforementioned civil engineering company, whose members, back in 2004, released an essay online outlining what it would take to build Mazinger Z’s iconic hangar—which includes an elevator rising up through a swimming pool that splits in half. Now, more than 15 years later, their effort has been turned into a movie, that also features the creator of the original manga, Go Nagai, in a cameo.

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The Tokyo Revengers live-action movie franchise returns in 2023 with a two-part sequel: Chi no Halloween -Unmei- (Bloody Halloween -Fate-) will be released in Japan on April 21, while Chi no Halloween -Kessen- (Bloody Halloween -Decisive Battle-) will be released on June 30. All movies are based on the manga series by Ken Wakui published from March 1, 2017 to November 16, 2022 in Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Continuing after events from the first movie, Takemichi (Takumi Kitamura) returns to the present timeline, meets Hinata but soon discovers the even more vicious Tokyo Manji Gang has murdered her again. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi has to travel ten years back in time to investigate and change a “sad incident” that affected six men, who happen to be the founding members of the Tokyo Manji Gang.

Cast members from the first movie including Takumi Kitamura, Yuki Yamada and Ryo Yoshizawa will once again reprise their roles. New cast...

“How to Find Happiness”. A great question, that this film attempts to provide an answer for in a rather unique production about an unlikely relationship forming between a doctor and a patient.

How To Find Happiness is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam

Shunichi Nagasaki’s film features Toshihide (Mahiro Takasugi), a young doctor living at his clinic. When Ako (Nagisa Sekimizu) drops into his clinic, and looks exactly like the woman he has a crush on, he’s clueless. Ako then is forced to stay around due to medical reasons, and starts temporarily living with Toshihide and his family. He soon realizes that Ako is not the woman he hoped she was, but that does not stop them from bonding anyways, and gives both of the characters the development they so necessarily needed.

The film does a lot of things well, but excels in showing two less-than-whole characters in pretty unique ways.

Two of most renowned characteristics of the Japanese people are their love for manga/anime and their inherent persistence and methodic way of doing things that lets them go to “places” others would not even dream of going. In case you have not heard, these two aspects are now coming together in the construction of a real life Gundam robot, but this is not the only example. The Maeda Corporation Fantasy Marketing Department is a team of five engineers from the aforementioned civil engineering company, whose members, back in 2004, released an essay online outlining what it would take to build Mazinger Z’s iconic hangar—which includes an elevator rising up through a swimming pool that splits in half. Now, more than 15 years later, their effort has been turned into a movie, that also features the creator of the original manga, Go Nagai, in a cameo.

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By Shikhar Verma

Cult J-Horror filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been on a hiatus for around a decade now. While he keeps churning out interesting looking films every other year, most of them fizz out becoming a bloated mess or fail to garn the kind of initial promise they show. With “Before We Vanish,” a sci-fi riff about an alien-invasion, he delves into a similar kind of mess indulging in a low-key, genre balancing act. Thankfully, there’s an abundance of charm in the film. One that really touches you before it vanishes into the end credits.

First screened under the Un Certain Regard at Kurosawa’s favorite Cannes Film Festival, “Before We Vanish” can be best described as a cross between “The Invasion of Body Snatchers” (1956) & “Arrival” (2016). Mixed with Kurosawa’s brand of absurdist satire and an investigation of human nature, the film is ultimately too charming...

Prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse) returned to Cannes with this genre-bending mashup, both a darkly comedic sci-fi and a slow-paced action spectacle. Three aliens on a reconnaissance mission to Earth take over the bodies of human hosts to explore the world they’re about to invade. On the way they steal individual concepts from the minds of anyone who crosses their path, from work, to free will, to love, leaving behind them a trail of soulless bodies. In doing so they start to unwittingly define the essential aspects of what it means to be human.

The film follows Narumi, whose husband, Shinji (Ryuhei Matsuda), becomes one of the three hosts. As the invasion grows nearer, Narumi’s attempts to save humanity from extinction become increasingly entwined with Shinji’s decision on whether to save the humanity within himself.

Combining the best of Kurosawa’s genre stylings...

Catch the uplifting, coming-of-age tale that has captured the hearts of millions in Japan,I Want to Eat Your Pancreas when it comes to more than 400 U.S. cinemas subtitled on Thursday, February 7 at 7:00pm (local time) and English-dubbed on Sunday, February 10 at 12:55pm (local time). Based on the bestselling, award-winning novel by Yoru Sumino, the anime adaptation of I want to eat your pancreas beautifully explores the relationship between the terminally ill Sakura and the unnamed protagonist, "Me," as they embark on an emotional journey during an unforgettable spring.

As these two opposites try to learn to find happiness, they in turn discover the true meaning of compassion. In addition to the poignant feature, attendees will also view exclusive extra footage, including interviews with the cast and crew.

The special two day event includes the world premiere of the English dub featuring cast members Robbie Daymond and...

Leave it to Kiyoshi Kurosawa, our favorite director of B movies that look like art films (or are they the other way around?), to upturn the nostalgia for American blockbusters of the 1980s. Japan’s modern day Don Siegel or Robert Aldrich, who admires in equal parts Jean-Luc Godard and, based on his new film Before We Vanish, John Carpenter, does Super 8, Midnight Special and Stranger Things one better by jumping off from 30-year-old conventions and making a damn good film.A bloody prologue of a massacred family and the dazzled schoolgirl culprit (Yuri Tsunematsu) suggests Kurosawa is squarely back in the horror-thriller genre he is best known for, but the film’s tone and our expectations are suddenly taken an entirely other way by Yusuke Hayashi’s soundtrack shifting to a plucky comic theme. We learn that the girl is one of three aliens who have arrived on earth and inhabit human bodies,...

Before We Vanish (Sanpo suru shinryakusha) Neon Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Screenwriter: Sachiko Tanaka, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, based on the play by Tomohiro Maekawa Cast: Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Yuri Tsunematsu, Mahiro Takasugi, Masahiro Higashide Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 1/25/18 Opens: February 2, 2018 If you’re looking for […]

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Super Ltd has released the trailer for “Before We Vanish,” Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s alien-invasion drama that premiered at Cannes last year. About three visitors from another planet on a scouting mission, the “Pulse” and “Cure” director’s latest is due in theaters next month courtesy of Neon’s newly launched boutique label. Watch the trailer below.

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Here’s the synopsis: “In his twentieth film, acclaimed horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa reinvents the alien movie as a unique and profoundly human tale of love and mystery. Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob the hosts of their essence — good, evil, property, family, belonging — leaving only hollow shells, which are all but unrecognizable to their loved ones. Equally hilarious,...

When it comes to the U.S. distribution of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films, we often learn about their arrival just before they debut. Following the VOD-only release of Daguerrotype last fall, this is certainly the case for his sci-fi invasion feature Before We Vanish. Following a Cannes premiere and ahead of a February release, a new trailer and poster have now arrived.

Rory O’Connor said in our review, “There are few directors who would choose to take a semi-sincere approach to a lengthy pseudo-philosophical science-fiction film — especially not one that lightly pries into our fundamental psychological foibles — but there are few directors quite like Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The prolific Japanese filmmaker behind such varied genre gems as Pulse and Tokyo Sonata has constructed a sort of skittish and overlong, albeit pleasantly existential oddity in Before We Vanish, an alien-invasion B-movie packed with A-grade ideas and craft. Nail down your windows. Lock your doors.

Watching the dreadful and painfully distended films Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa made over the last 10 years, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he was abducted in 2008 and hijacked by a clueless alien parasite trying to keep up appearances. A major figure during the early days of J-horror, Kurosawa distilled the entropy creeping into the digital age before most other artists even felt it — modern classics like “Cure,” “Pulse,” and even the less-horrifying likes of “Bright Future” continue to serve as invaluable time capsules from the era that we’re still trying to escape.

As recently as “Tokyo Sonata,” which is now almost a decade old, it seemed as though Kurosawa could sublimate his obsessions with societal decay into any genre, and the shattering final scene of that film left fans desperate to see where he would go next.

Then, things got bad. The falloff was subtle at first, and it came in small doses,...