The concept of the second chance has always been an audience favorite in cinema, with a plethora of movies having regretful protagonists reliving their lives in an effort to correct their mistakes. Written by Ryuho Okawa (who is also executive producer) and directed by Hiroshi Akabane, “Before the Sunset” implements the trope in a setting that also includes a focus on show business. The film will receive a theatrical release from September 29 at select AMC Theatres across the U.S. and will also be released in more than 250 cinemas across Japan by Nikkatsu Corporation.
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Known as the “God of Management,” Kazunori established an enterprise on his own and earned respect from society, but after his retirement, he is all alone and lonely at a nursing home, after his first wife died and he alienated his second and his three children.
“Before the Sunset” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Known as the “God of Management,” Kazunori established an enterprise on his own and earned respect from society, but after his retirement, he is all alone and lonely at a nursing home, after his first wife died and he alienated his second and his three children.
- 9/22/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired US digital and theatrical rights to Japanese fantasy drama Before The Sunset.
Directed by Hiroshi Akabane, the film revolves around a man known as the ‘God of Management’ who has established a successful business and earned the respect of society, but after retirement finds himself alone and lonely in a nursing home.
He tells his story to a college student volunteer, his only friend, who asks God to grant him one wish. When he wishes he were 20 years old again, he wakes up to find himself as a young man living on a college campus.
Japan’s Hs Productions has produced the film, which stars Hiroaki Tanaka, Masane Tsukayama, Rikako Miura, Syouzou Uesugi, Shugo Nagashima and Mirai Irako.
The original story is by Ryuho Okawa who also serves as Executive Producer.
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Directed by Hiroshi Akabane, the film revolves around a man known as the ‘God of Management’ who has established a successful business and earned the respect of society, but after retirement finds himself alone and lonely in a nursing home.
He tells his story to a college student volunteer, his only friend, who asks God to grant him one wish. When he wishes he were 20 years old again, he wakes up to find himself as a young man living on a college campus.
Japan’s Hs Productions has produced the film, which stars Hiroaki Tanaka, Masane Tsukayama, Rikako Miura, Syouzou Uesugi, Shugo Nagashima and Mirai Irako.
The original story is by Ryuho Okawa who also serves as Executive Producer.
The...
- 9/6/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
An animated series following “The Laws of the Universe” and “The Laws of the Universe-Dawn,” produced by Ryuho Okawa, a religious organization and the science of happiness. Space heroes gather to protect humanity from enemies trying to destroy an earth where earthlings and aliens coexist. Voice casts include Fumika Shimizu of “The Last White Witch,” Sayaka Ohara, Satomi Arai, and Hirohiko Kakegawa. The director is Isamu Imakake, following the previous two films in the series.
- 8/4/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North America rights and set a October 16 theatrical release for Twiceborn, the Hiroshi Akabane-directed inspirational drama. The film, produced by Irh Press, is having its U.S. premiere that week at the San Diego Film Festival and after that screen in Europe at the Raindance Film Festival.
A U.S. digital bow will come January 19.
The pic is based on the true story of executive producer and original story writer Ryuho Okawa from a screenplay by his daughter Sayaka Okawa. It follows Satoru Ichijo, a successful businessman who relinquishes everything to pursue his true calling: the happiness of humankind. Hiroaki Tanaka, Yoshiko Sengen, Nao Hashegawa, Shiro Namiki and Shunsuke Kubozuka star.
Here’s the trailer:
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Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story, the Julie Sokolow documentary charting activist-writer Mark Baumer’s ultimately tragic trek across America to bring awareness to the climate-change debate, is getting an October 27 digital release via 1091 Pictures.
A U.S. digital bow will come January 19.
The pic is based on the true story of executive producer and original story writer Ryuho Okawa from a screenplay by his daughter Sayaka Okawa. It follows Satoru Ichijo, a successful businessman who relinquishes everything to pursue his true calling: the happiness of humankind. Hiroaki Tanaka, Yoshiko Sengen, Nao Hashegawa, Shiro Namiki and Shunsuke Kubozuka star.
Here’s the trailer:
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Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story, the Julie Sokolow documentary charting activist-writer Mark Baumer’s ultimately tragic trek across America to bring awareness to the climate-change debate, is getting an October 27 digital release via 1091 Pictures.
- 9/25/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sobini Films, the production company behind soon-to-released Shields Green biopic Emperor, said it will donate $1 for every digital transaction during the first month of film’s release to the NAACP. Set for a digital release on August 18, via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, the film is based on the inspiring journey of Green, an American freedom fighter who escaped from slavery and joined the raid on Harper’s Ferry, the key battle of the abolitionist movement which helped spark the beginning of the Civil War and alter the course of American history. “All too often vital narratives, such as Emperor, are left out of Hollywood and our history books,” said Robin Harrison, director, NAACP Hollywood Bureau. “The NAACP is inspired by this portrayal of a true American hero and grateful for the opportunity to put the proceeds from the movie to use in our modern-day fight against systemic racism and racial injustice.
- 8/14/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
The self-produced film by faith leader Ryuho Okawa is woefully misjudged and reveals the laughable reality behind Happy Science
Here’s a biopic about a world-changing faith leader, a man who has published 2,500 books – according to his website – including accounts of his seances with the ghosts of world leaders. (Available to buy on Amazon: Margaret Thatcher’s Miraculous Message – An Interview with the Iron Lady 19 Hours After Her Death.) If you’ve never heard him, Ryuho Okawa is the founder and CEO of Happy Science, a religious movement that claims to have 11 million followers worldwide; some call it a cult. Now Okawa has executive-produced a long and incredibly leaden drama about himself written by his daughter, Sayaka.
If you’re going to make a film about yourself called Immortal Hero, hiring an actor with knee-wobbling charisma should be your number-one priority. But lead Hisaaki Takeuchi plays a self-help author...
Here’s a biopic about a world-changing faith leader, a man who has published 2,500 books – according to his website – including accounts of his seances with the ghosts of world leaders. (Available to buy on Amazon: Margaret Thatcher’s Miraculous Message – An Interview with the Iron Lady 19 Hours After Her Death.) If you’ve never heard him, Ryuho Okawa is the founder and CEO of Happy Science, a religious movement that claims to have 11 million followers worldwide; some call it a cult. Now Okawa has executive-produced a long and incredibly leaden drama about himself written by his daughter, Sayaka.
If you’re going to make a film about yourself called Immortal Hero, hiring an actor with knee-wobbling charisma should be your number-one priority. But lead Hisaaki Takeuchi plays a self-help author...
- 3/4/2020
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
"I still have unfinished worked in this world" Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for a Japanese drama "based on a true story" titled Immortal Hero, from director Hiroshi Akabane. The film is inspired by the real story of author Ryuho Okawa, guided by spiritual beings who helped him recover after a near-fatal heart condition. While recovering, he writes a book that goes on to inspire many others through faith-based healing. "Based on the true story of a man whose near death experience inspires him to choose life... and change the lives of millions." Hisaaki Takeuchi stars in and produced this film, telling the story of a man named Makoto Mioya, pretty much the same person as Okawa. Also starring Yoshimi Ashikawa, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Kei Kinoshita, Tamao Satô, and Fumika Shimizu. I don't know anything about this story, but it seems like some dangerous anti-science propaganda about how...
- 9/24/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to Young Ahmed, the latest film from Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne to bow at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director prize this year. The film is having its North American premiere at the upcoming Colcoa French Film Festival in Los Angeles, and it will hit theaters in early 2020, followed by VOD .
The pic centers on a Belgian-Arab Muslim teenager named Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi) who lives in a small town with a secular single mother and siblings. He has frighteningly become radicalized through the influence of a magnetic, local extremist imam and becomes fixated with killing his female teacher in the name of his religious convictions.
Kino Lorber Svp Wendy Lidell and Wild Bunch’s Eva Diederix made the deal along with CAA Media Finance.
“We are proud to present to Us audiences the latest masterwork from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne,...
The pic centers on a Belgian-Arab Muslim teenager named Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi) who lives in a small town with a secular single mother and siblings. He has frighteningly become radicalized through the influence of a magnetic, local extremist imam and becomes fixated with killing his female teacher in the name of his religious convictions.
Kino Lorber Svp Wendy Lidell and Wild Bunch’s Eva Diederix made the deal along with CAA Media Finance.
“We are proud to present to Us audiences the latest masterwork from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne,...
- 9/20/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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