Japanese director Shinji Hamasaki first feature length film “Not Quite Dead Yet” is set for release on March 20, 2020. The comedy stars Suzu Hirose as a university student forced to try to resurrect her father, who died after a botched attempt to enter a two year slumber. A trailer for the production was recently made available, and can be viewed below.
Synopsis
Nanase Nobata (Suzu Hirose) is in the 4th grade at a university. She lives with her father Kei (Shinichi Tsutsumi). Her father is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Nanase Nobata’s relationship with her father is not very good. One day, her father Kei drinks a drug which is supposed to make him die and come back to life 2 days later. He did this because he wants to figure out who is trying to steal from his company, but something goes wrong. Kei appears again as a ghost.
Synopsis
Nanase Nobata (Suzu Hirose) is in the 4th grade at a university. She lives with her father Kei (Shinichi Tsutsumi). Her father is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Nanase Nobata’s relationship with her father is not very good. One day, her father Kei drinks a drug which is supposed to make him die and come back to life 2 days later. He did this because he wants to figure out who is trying to steal from his company, but something goes wrong. Kei appears again as a ghost.
- 12/22/2019
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
It's not often that I review family friendly melodramas. However, there was one at Fantasia 2018 that stood out, and I just couldn't resist. The Travelling Cat Chronicles from director Kôichirô Miki is based on the bestselling pet-lit book by Hiro Arikawa; if you were unaware of the novel, or haven't read it (like myself), this film adaptation will pique your interest. Watch the trailer over at the film's Fantasia page here. Right from the start, The Travelling Cat Chronicles tugs at the heartstrings with a wounded kitty and the gushing empathy of the protagonist Satoru. Satoru goes on a trip through Japan as he visits...
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- 7/22/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The concept of Laplace's Demon states that, "if someone (the Demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics." This concept hasn't really been explored to any notable extent in cinema just yet, but legendary director Miike Takashi takes a stab at the idea with his adaptation of Higoshino Keigo's novel of the same name makes an attempt that sadly falls far flat of what we've come to expect from this veteran filmmaker. Laplace's Witch begins with a pair of mysterious deaths at a hot springs. When forensics determines that these murders were the result of hydrogen sulphide poisoning, a...
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- 7/20/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Laplace's Witch Photo: Fantasia Film Festival
The final part of this year's Fantasia slate was announced today, and fans will be excited to hear that it includes the premiers of new films by Takashi Miike (Laplace's Witch) and Donnie Yen (Big Brother). The closing film has been revealed as Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage.
A masterclass with Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov is among the special events now scheduled, there will be an audience with Michael Ironside, and Goblin's Maurizio Guarini will provide a live score for a special screening of 1911 genre spectacular L'Inferno.
Other film highlights include Nicolas Pesce's creepy Piercing, Xavier Gens' Lovecraftian Cold Skin and Lisa Brühlmann's blistering début Blue My Mind. There's also a retrospective outing for underrated genre gem Body Melt.
The festival runs from 12 July to 2 August....
The final part of this year's Fantasia slate was announced today, and fans will be excited to hear that it includes the premiers of new films by Takashi Miike (Laplace's Witch) and Donnie Yen (Big Brother). The closing film has been revealed as Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage.
A masterclass with Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov is among the special events now scheduled, there will be an audience with Michael Ironside, and Goblin's Maurizio Guarini will provide a live score for a special screening of 1911 genre spectacular L'Inferno.
Other film highlights include Nicolas Pesce's creepy Piercing, Xavier Gens' Lovecraftian Cold Skin and Lisa Brühlmann's blistering début Blue My Mind. There's also a retrospective outing for underrated genre gem Body Melt.
The festival runs from 12 July to 2 August....
- 6/28/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The bloody Nicolas Cage-starring action-thriller Mandy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is set to close the Fantasia Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.
Writer-director Panos Cosmatos' second horror pic also stars Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. Rlje Films, which earlier picked up U.S. rights to Mandy, plans a theatrical release this summer.
North America's largest genre film festival, which on Thursday unveiled its final lineup titles, also announced a world premiere for the Donnie Yen-starrer Big Brother, directed by Kenji Tanigaki.
There also will be North American bows for Takashi Miike's Laplace's Witch, Erick ...
Writer-director Panos Cosmatos' second horror pic also stars Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. Rlje Films, which earlier picked up U.S. rights to Mandy, plans a theatrical release this summer.
North America's largest genre film festival, which on Thursday unveiled its final lineup titles, also announced a world premiere for the Donnie Yen-starrer Big Brother, directed by Kenji Tanigaki.
There also will be North American bows for Takashi Miike's Laplace's Witch, Erick ...
- 6/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The bloody Nicolas Cage-starring action-thriller Mandy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is set to close the Fantasia Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.
Writer-director Panos Cosmatos' second horror pic also stars Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. Rlje Films, which earlier picked up U.S. rights to Mandy, plans a theatrical release this summer.
North America's largest genre film festival, which on Thursday unveiled its final lineup titles, also announced a world premiere for the Donnie Yen-starrer Big Brother, directed by Kenji Tanigaki.
There also will be North American bows for Takashi Miike's Laplace's Witch, Erick ...
Writer-director Panos Cosmatos' second horror pic also stars Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache. Rlje Films, which earlier picked up U.S. rights to Mandy, plans a theatrical release this summer.
North America's largest genre film festival, which on Thursday unveiled its final lineup titles, also announced a world premiere for the Donnie Yen-starrer Big Brother, directed by Kenji Tanigaki.
There also will be North American bows for Takashi Miike's Laplace's Witch, Erick ...
- 6/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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