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The Shadow Spirit - Japanese horror/drama - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2007 epic period drama - horror - sci-fi film THE SHADOW SPIRIT, directed by popular filmmaker Masato Harada. North American premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 20th & July 1st. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=80 One of the world's great journeyman directors, Masato Harada is like the Howard Hawks of Japan, able to create beautifully crafted dramas in almost any genre. Set in 1952, THE SHADOW SPIRIT sees a brutal string of murders break out like a rash across post-war Tokyo. A truly all-star cast comes together to investigate the demonic cult murders in this lush, period horror piece that winds up morphing into an out-of-the-blue science fiction film. 133 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles. Tags: novel horror dismembered parts Japan NYAFF Harada Tsutsumi Abe Arakawa |
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The Most Beautiful Night in the World - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the 2008 "sex terrorism" Japanese comedy/fantasy THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NIGHT IN THE WORLD, directed by arthouse favorite Daisuke Tengan. International premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 25th & 30th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=80 Director Daisuke Tengan is the son of legendary director Shohei Imamura and the writer of THE EEL, AUDITION and WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE. Set in the early 90's, this sprawling rural epic takes its time setting up its characters, a gallery of small town eccentrics, before exploding into a wild comedy about Japan's low birth rate, sex gurus, terrorism and a climaxing with a 50-person orgy. 161 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles. Tags: Japan film Tengan trailer NYAFF sex chastity belt aphrodisiac Imamura Jomon |
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Sad Vacation - Shinji Aoyama drama - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the 2007 Stylejam-produced Japanese drama SAD VACATION, directed by arthouse favorite Shinji Aoyama and starring Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri. US premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 21st & Japan Society on July 6th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=80 Shinji Aoyama (EUREKA, ELI ELI LEMA SABACHTANI) is one of Japan's most astounding directors and SAD VACATION is the conclusion of his unofficial "Kita Kyushu" trilogy. No familiarity with the previous films is necessary to relish this heart-breaker about Tadanobu Asano (MONGUL) trying to take revenge on the mother who abandoned him years ago when he was a kid. But, as he finds out, her apron strings are still wrapped around his neck like a noose. Part crime film, part family drama, all masterpiece. 136 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: NYAFF Stylejam Aoyama Asano Odagiri drama Sad Vacation trailer |
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Fine, Totally Fine - Japanese comedy - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the Stylejam-produced 2007 Japanese comedy FINE TOTALLY FINE, directed by Yosuke Fujita. North American premiere screenings at Japan Society on July 3rd & 5th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=80 A spiritual successor to previous NYAFF hit, THE TASTE OF TEA, this flick is almost impossible to describe. On the surface it charts a lazy love triangle between three losers who are hitting 30 and haven't gone anywhere in life. But that leaves out the ghost, the quest to create the world's best haunted house, how not to open a box of Kleenex, the worst way to sell a porno magazine, the joys of used bookstores and the world's biggest, child-killing chewing gum bubble. 110 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Stylejam NYAFF trailer Japan Yoshiyoshi Arakawa horror comedy zany loony Zenzen daijobu |
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Dog in a Sidecar - Japanese comedy/drama - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2007 Japanese coming-of-age comedy / drama DOG IN A SIDECAR, directed by Kichitaro Negishi and produced by Stylejam. North American premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 22nd & 26th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=80 It's easy to slam a coming of age movie because there's just too many of them but DOG IN A SIDECAR is truly special, marking the comeback film for actress Yuko Takeuchi (THE RING). She took home six "Best Actress" awards for her portrayal of the lazy, chain-smoking girlfriend of a single parent who teaches her boyfriend's daughter that growing up doesn't have to mean giving up. Absolute proof that good things come in small packages. 94 minutes. In Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Stylejam NYAFF trailer Yuko Takeuchi Sidecar ni Inu Japan film |
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Adrift in Tokyo - Joe Odagiri comedy - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for ADRIFT IN TOKYO, the 2007 Japanese comedy-drama produced by Stylejam, directed by Satoshi Miki and starring popular actor Joe Odagiri. North American premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 20th & at Japan Society on July 3rd. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=80 This is a movie about two men walking down the street. Seriously. That's it. But bear with us, because isn't CITIZEN KANE really just about a guy who owns a sled? A scruffy law school student (Joe Odagiri, the Johnny Depp of Japan) is deep in hock until a thuggish, middle-aged debt collector offers to forgive what he owes if the kid accompanies him on long walks through Tokyo. What sounds contrived takes about 10 minutes to settle into a loopy, at times hilarious, rhythm as the two stroll through the city pondering the plight of the pygmy hippopotamus, encountering superhero cos-players and getting attacked by small business owners. After seeing this flick you'll never take the bus again. 101 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles. Tags: Stylejam NYAFF trailer Japan Odagiri Tenten |
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Sukiyaki Western Django - Miike cowboys - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the 2007 Japanese riff on Italian westerns and lots of other things, directed by the incomparable Takashi Miike. US premiere screening at Japan Society on July 5th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=80 Set to be released theatrically later this summer by First Look, Takashi Miike's English-language spaghetti western combines Shakespeare, YOJIMBO, Sergio Corbucci films and plants that grow tiny fetuses into an unholy car bomb of a movie that explodes in your face, showering the audience with a nutso reimagining of American Westerns. Everything you've ever wanted in a Takashi Miike movie, including Quentin Tarantino hamming his way through a cameo that rivals his appearance on "The Golden Girls" and more, more, more! It's bigger! Louder! Faster! Better! 98 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Miike Django western samurai cowboy Tarantino Heike Genji cult film trailer |
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Chanbara Beauty - bikini babes with swords - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2008 Japanese hot-chicks-in-bikinis swordplay horror flick CHANBARA BEAUTY, directed by Yohei Fukuda. International premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 20th & 25th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=80 When the dead come out of their graves to eat the flesh of the living, it's going to be up to bikini girls with machine guns to send them back to hell. Based on a videogame, this itchy, twitchy, popping and locking movie is everything you ever wanted in a film about girls in bikinis, school uniforms and leather jackets fighting zombies with samurai swords. 86 minutes. In Japanese with English subtitles. Tags: hot Japanese bikini chicks fight zombies Japan cult trailer babes |
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Accuracy of Death - Japanese fantasy - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the 2008 Japanese romantic fantasy drama, directed by Masaya Kakei. NY premiere screenings at Japan Society on July 3rd & 4th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=80 Sometimes a movie sounds like a bad idea: the Grim Reaper comes to Earth with a talking dog to evaluate the lives of potential dead people. But with Takeshi Kaneshiro playing the Grim Reaper, and set in 1988, 2008, and the near future, this flick turns out to be a light-footed romantic comedy that winds up turbo-charging your sense of optimism. Kaneshiro, a veteran of Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou and John Woo films, dominates this flick, and shows exactly what it is that a movie star does to earn those bags of cash. In his hands, every second of this film feels like pure gold. 114 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Japan Kaneshiro Shinigami Death Note yakuza death-god shinigami no seido sweet rain |
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Kala - Indonesian noir - trailer NYAFF 2008 Trailer for the 2008 Indonesian horror - noir - sci-fi - drama, directed by Joko Anwar. US premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 24th & 26th. http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=80 The history of modern-day Indonesia is turned into a film noir hellhouse in this alternate history sci-fi flick that set box office records in its home country. Everyone dresses like it's 1950 and sudden, hideous violence lurks around every corner, waiting in a black sedan. A narcoleptic reporter and a closeted gay cop are drawn into a murderous plot while the totalitarian city-state around them descends into anarchy and madness. 102 minutes, in Bahasia Indonesia with English subtitles Tags: NYAFF Indonsesia gay horror sci-fi apocalyptic noir detective mood action |
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Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2007 Japanese box office blockbuster period film & hit manga adaptation, ALWAYS: SUNSET ON THIRD STREET 2, directed by Takashi Yamazaki. NY premiere screenings at Japan Society on July 5th and 6th. http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=80 Another lavish blockbuster from Japan, but this time around the residents of Third Street return and the good times are killing them. Tokyo's hosting the 1964 Olympics, the economy is booming, houses are filling up with modern appliances but something's gotten lost in the shuffle. Will Third Street be destroyed by Japan's bubble economy? Or maybe it'll be destroyed by Godzilla? Seriously. 147 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles. (Co-presented with JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film) Tags: Japan NYAFF Always manga Sanchome Yamazaki trailer |
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Strawberry Shortcakes - J-drama - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2006 Japanese manga-inspired drama STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES, directed by Hitoshi Yazaki. NY premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 22nd and July 1st. http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86&Itemid=80 Redefining chick flicks the way Robert Altman's M*A*S*H redefined the war movie, this film is based on a manga that follows four professional women living in Tokyo. Satoko and Akiyo are both employed at a genteel escort agency; Chihiro is a typical office lady and her roommate, Toko, is a freelance illustrator. Rarely crossing paths, director Hitoshi Yazaki chronicles their lives of quiet desperation as they all approach 30, without once copping out or going for easy, arthouse cynicism and always remembering that where there's life, there's hope. Considered by many to be the best Japanese film of 2006, this movie proudly proclaims that SEX AND THE CITY isn't the last word on women, sex or the city. 127 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Japan manga chick flick trailer NYAFF sex depression suicide |
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Tamami: The Baby's Curse - Japanese horror - trailer NYAFF08 Trailer for the 2008 Japanese Gothy-gory horror film TAMAMI: THE BABY'S CURSE, aka AKANBO SHOJO, directed by Yudai Yamaguchi. International premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 27th and 30th. http://www.subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=80 Kazuo Umezu is the most insane manga artist in Japan, a cross between Charles Addams and David Lynch, and this movie is an adaptation of one of his most bonkers stories about an orphan girl who is reunited with her family only to discover that her sister is an angry mutant killer baby living in the attic. Director Yudai Yamaguchi (CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL) constantly interrupts his soft-focus homage to early 80's kitsch cinema with outrageous eruptions of Lucio Fulci-inspired gut-crunching gore. 100 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles Tags: Akanbo shojo Tamami Umezu Kazuo J-horror NYAFF Japan |
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The Butcher - Korean gory horror - trailer NYAFF 08 Trailer for the 2007 South Korean verite horror film THE BUTCHER, directed by Kim Jin-won. International premiere screenings at IFC Center on June 21st and 28th. http://subwaycinema.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=80 The Korean film industry spent last year falling apart with one big, glossy production after another bombing at the box office. But this grotty mash-up of HOSTEL and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was made completely off the map, shot on video far outside the studio system, by first-time director Kim Jin-Won, and in it he depicts the Korean film industry as a bunch of pigs and rapists shooting snuff films for foreign audiences. The comparison to Korea's OLDBOY-inspired cinema of violence is hard to miss. Barf bags will be provided. 75 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles. Tags: South Korea Korean horror gore gory snuff movie torture porn Kim Jin-won NYAFF |
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NY Asian Film Festival 2008 festival trailer What the heck, right? We figured if we built it, you might come, so this year we're presenting the biggest New York Asian Film Festival in human history, showing 43 films and two programs of short films. It's either the start of something big or we're going out with a bang! The 2008 New York Asian Film Festival, produced by Subway Cinema, starts on June 20th and runs through July 6th, at IFC Center and Japan Society. Here is our new festival trailer, featuring clips from many of the films we're screening. More information and the full schedule is available online at http://www.subwaycinema.com. Tickets are on sale starting June 6th! Trailer presented by Kung Fu HD, services generously donated by Rainbow Media and VOOM. Edited by Perry DiMarco. Thanks to Jason Bylan and Cynthia Lau! Tags: NYAFF Asian Movie Film Festival Japan Korea Thailand China Hong Kong Action Indonesia Horror Comedy Romance IFC Subway |
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Okatsu the Fugitive trailer The original theatrical trailer for LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS: OKATSU THE FUGITIVE (YOEN DOKUFU-DEN: OKATSU KYOJO TABI). Coming to DVD on November 13th from Synapse Films! Trailer for FEMALE DEMON OHYAKU: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gB_dM8Jn7Bs Trailer for QUICK-DRAW OKATSU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sw7j_Ew0d8 Tags: Samurai Swordplay Pinky-Violence Ero-guro Japan Japanese |
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Female Demon Ohyaku trailer The original theatrical trailer for LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS: FEMALE DEMON OHYAKU (YOEN DOKUFU-DEN: HANNYA NO OHYAKU). Coming to DVD on November 13th from Synapse Films! Trailer for QUICK-DRAW OKATSU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sw7j_Ew0d8 Trailer for OKATSU THE FUGITIVE: Tags: Samurai Swordplay Pinky-Violence Ero-guro Japan Japanese |
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Quick-Draw Okatsu trailer The original theatrical trailer for LEGENDS OF THE POISONOUS SEDUCTRESS: QUICK-DRAW OKATSU (YOEN DOKUFU-DEN: HITOKIRI OKATSU). Coming to DVD on November 13th from Synapse Films! Tags: Samurai Swordplay Pinky violence Japan Japanese Ero-guro |
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NY Asian Film Festival 2007 festival trailer Asian Films are Go! The 2007 New York Asian Film Festival, produced by Subway Cinema, starts on June 22nd and runs through July 8th. Venues this year are IFC Center and Japan Society. Here is our new festival trailer, featuring clips from many of the films we're screening. More information and the full schedule is available online at http://www.subwaycinema.com. Tickets are on sale now! Tags: NYAFF Asian Movie Film Festival Japan Korea Thailand China Hong Kong Action Horror Comedy Romance Cyborg Aach IFC |