Ghost Cat Anzu (known in Japan as Bakeneko Anzu-chan ), an upcoming Japanese and French theatrical anime film co-production, released a new trailer today alongside information on new cast, the official movie poster, and the official theme song performer. The film releases in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2024. Gkids, who executive produced the film, will also distribute the film in North America this year. The film will also host its world premiere at the 77th Cannes International Film Festival this month. The new cast members for Ghost Cat Anzu include: Tetsuya, Karin's Father voiced / motion-captured by Munetaka Aoki Yuzuki, Karin's Mother voiced / motion-captured by Miwako Ichikawa Osho-san, Anzu's Foster Parent voiced / motion-captured by Keiichi Suzuki (of Moonriders) The God of Poverty voiced / motion-captured by Shingo Mizusawa Tanuki voiced / motion-captured by Wataru Sawabe (of Skirt) Actors Mutsuo Yoshioka and Shohei Uno also appear in the film. Actor and musician Chiaki Sato...
- 5/7/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director is Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It’s also safe to say Chime is 45 minutes long, making it feel more like the pilot for a TV series we’ll never see––only adding to the intrigue. Like much of the director’s work, it’s the kind of thing you could have seen late night on television when you were much too young. It would have also left a mark.
The story follows Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka), a strick-ish teacher at a culinary school, where the story begins. We’re in a classroom where nothing seems out-of-the-ordinary, the usual washing and slicing, then Kurosawa draws your attention to one student at the back, Tashiro, who seems to be working erratically, chopping onions in...
The story follows Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka), a strick-ish teacher at a culinary school, where the story begins. We’re in a classroom where nothing seems out-of-the-ordinary, the usual washing and slicing, then Kurosawa draws your attention to one student at the back, Tashiro, who seems to be working erratically, chopping onions in...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
It would’ve been duly appreciated if Kiyoshi Kurosawa only debuted his Serpent’s Path remake in the near-future; it’s icing on the cake that 2024 will be his most prolific year in some time. Per Screen Daily, he’s just shot a new feature, Chime, that stars Mutsuo Yoshioka (Kurosawa’s Foreboding) as “a schoolteacher whose life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.” Which sounds in-tune with many of his films, though producer Hideyuki Okamoto––who says its genesis was asking Kurosawa “to make whatever he wanted”––claims it starts “a whole new genre.”
Lest that sound too much like an investor gumming-up interest, we can find some affirmation in Kurosawa’s own statement, retrieved by the Japanese outlet Nordot:
“This is a work that aims to shock the viewer and leave them with a strong sense of fear after watching it.
Lest that sound too much like an investor gumming-up interest, we can find some affirmation in Kurosawa’s own statement, retrieved by the Japanese outlet Nordot:
“This is a work that aims to shock the viewer and leave them with a strong sense of fear after watching it.
- 12/19/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The film marks the first original feature produced by the Japanese media platform.
Chime, the upcoming film from Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, has been set as the first original production of media platform Roadstead and will be released exclusively on the platform in 2024.
Kurosawa, who won best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy, shot the film in September in Tokyo. It stars Mutsuo Yoshioka as a schoolteacher whose life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
It marks the first film produced by Roadstead, a media platform that was launched in December 2022 by Nekojarashi,...
Chime, the upcoming film from Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, has been set as the first original production of media platform Roadstead and will be released exclusively on the platform in 2024.
Kurosawa, who won best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy, shot the film in September in Tokyo. It stars Mutsuo Yoshioka as a schoolteacher whose life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
It marks the first film produced by Roadstead, a media platform that was launched in December 2022 by Nekojarashi,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Although his work extends much further than erotic films nowadays, Shinji Imaoka’s filmography mostly consists of pinku movies, as part of the latest (and probably the last) group of directors dealing with the category, the Seven Lucky Gods. His productions, however, differ significantly from the rest in the category, particularly due to their absurdly comedic sense and the elements of fantasy/horror, both of which are exemplified in “Uncle’s Paradise”
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Uncle Takashi suddenly appears in the small city his nephew, squid-fishing Haru, is living, and along with him brings his peculiar set of issues: he does not sleep at night, because he always gets horrific nightmares when he does, while when he is awake, he is constantly horny. Expectedly, his appearance has a true impact on local women,...
Uncle’s Paradise is available from Pink Eiga By Using the code AMPFriend, you get a 25% price-off on all products of the website including subscription
Uncle Takashi suddenly appears in the small city his nephew, squid-fishing Haru, is living, and along with him brings his peculiar set of issues: he does not sleep at night, because he always gets horrific nightmares when he does, while when he is awake, he is constantly horny. Expectedly, his appearance has a true impact on local women,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
★★★★☆ 'Pink film' is a Japanese phenomenon that conveys complex political issues of gender and sexuality through sex and sexual violence. However, Underwater Love (2011) is a mixture of surrealist comedy, musical and softcore pornography and happily forgoes the sexual violence route. Directed by Shinji Imaoka and featuring Christopher Doyle as director of photography, Underwater Love tells the story of Asuka (Sawa Masaki) - a middle-aged woman working in a small fish factory who is engaged to the factory's owner Hajime (Mutsuo Yoshioka).
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- 11/21/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Director: Shinji Imaoka. Review: Adam Wing. Just when you thought the Japanese film industry had run out of ideas, along comes Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love, a soft porn symphony complete with jaunty tunes, naked flesh and whimsical flights of fancy. If that’s not strange enough, what do you say to a quirky account of love between a woman and a sea creature? Directed by the pink-film veteran behind tasty treats like Lunch Box and Frog Song, shot by famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Hero, In the Mood for Love), with original music by German duo Stereo Total, Underwater Love is a musical stampede of the likes you have never seen before. With added fleshy bits. Asuka (Sawa Masaki) works in a lakeside fish factory and life seems to be going swimmingly. In fact, she’s just about to marry her doting boss (Mutsuo Yoshioka). One day, she encounters a Kappa,...
- 11/17/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Underwater Love
Written by Tom Mes, Shinji Imaoka and Fumio Moriya
Directed by Shinji Imaoka
Japan/Germany, 2011
Whatever your tastes, there’s a very good chance that Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love is unlike anything you’ve seen before. A self-described “pink musical” – meaning it features sequences of soft-core porn to go with its songs – it’s a silly, tasteless, bewitching, and joyously nonsensical foray into romance, myth and taboo-busting.
Imaoka wastes no time establishing the movie’s go-for-broke giddiness. Asuka (Sawa Masaki) – frequently described as an “old lady” despite being around 30 – works at a fish-processing factory immediately adjoining a seemingly vast swampland. She is engaged to her boss (Mutsuo Yoshioka), who is both creepily possessive and sexually insatiable. Her daily monotony is broken with the appearance of a “kappa” (Yoshiro Umezawa), a swamp-dwelling creature of myth who subsists on cucumbers and usually sticks close to a body of water.
Written by Tom Mes, Shinji Imaoka and Fumio Moriya
Directed by Shinji Imaoka
Japan/Germany, 2011
Whatever your tastes, there’s a very good chance that Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love is unlike anything you’ve seen before. A self-described “pink musical” – meaning it features sequences of soft-core porn to go with its songs – it’s a silly, tasteless, bewitching, and joyously nonsensical foray into romance, myth and taboo-busting.
Imaoka wastes no time establishing the movie’s go-for-broke giddiness. Asuka (Sawa Masaki) – frequently described as an “old lady” despite being around 30 – works at a fish-processing factory immediately adjoining a seemingly vast swampland. She is engaged to her boss (Mutsuo Yoshioka), who is both creepily possessive and sexually insatiable. Her daily monotony is broken with the appearance of a “kappa” (Yoshiro Umezawa), a swamp-dwelling creature of myth who subsists on cucumbers and usually sticks close to a body of water.
- 7/14/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
You'll be forgiven if you found it fantastically strange when word came out that acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle - the man behind the camera for all of Wong Kar Wai's key films - was currently at work in Tokyo as the cinematographer on Japanese pinku picture Underwater Love. Pinku, for the uninitiated, is essentially a form of Japanese soft-porn and the idea of Doyle moving into skin flicks was already weird enough to catch the attention even before we heard that the film was also a musical. Yes, a Japanese sex musical. And now it gets even weirder with the first official plot details:
From Japan's Kokuei Company and Germany's Rapid Eye Movies comes a whimsical pink film (softcore ) musical about a woman and a sea creature. The story involves Asuka, a woman in her thirties who works in a lakeside fish factory. She's about to be married to her boss,...
From Japan's Kokuei Company and Germany's Rapid Eye Movies comes a whimsical pink film (softcore ) musical about a woman and a sea creature. The story involves Asuka, a woman in her thirties who works in a lakeside fish factory. She's about to be married to her boss,...
- 6/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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