I’m still trying to avoid anything that could spoil my innocent enjoyment of Christopher Nolan’s Inception, but a simple poster can’t do any harm, right…right?!

[via Rope of Silicone]

4 Comments

And the next live-action adaptation based on a DC Comics series. Josh Brolin plays Jonah Hex, a tough gunslinger and bounty hunter with connections to the “other side” who tries to track down his nemesis Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) in order to gain freedom from the warrants put on his head from the military. Some of you might notice that Megan Fox is playing a skimpy dressed western whore…what a surprise!

Jonah Hex opens in US theaters on June 18th.
[via ComingSoon.net]

4 Comments

Some things that popped up during last week and would have gotten their own entries if I weren’t such a real-life loving slack…

(Almost) Ten Minutes from Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 2
Watch Donnie Yen kick some ass (including Sammo Hung’s)…or skip it, if you don’t want to spoil the (probably) best scenes of the film.

Promo Footage/Trailer for Hobo with a Shotgun
Another one of those fake trailer thingies that gets turned into “full” movies and even feature a known name with Rutger Hauer.

Second Teaser for Live-Action Beck

UK Blu-ray Disc releases of Goemon and Casshern announced
Good news for those who cursed their lack of German tongue after Splendid Entertainment announced their German Blu-ray Disc release of Kazuaki Kiriya’s Casshern and Goemon. Momentum UK will bring both films in an English friendly version to Blu-ray Disc. Goemon will be released in July while Casshern doesn’t have a date yet.

Film list for Japanese Film Festival Hamburg (JFFH) announced

4 Comments

Synopsis:

428AD, Bodhi, a Southern India prince became a Buddhist monk and set off for China, earning a hallowed reputation as a mystical martial artist. Following his death, his remains mysteriously disappeared.

Hundreds of years later, Zhang, a high-ranking court official, is assassinated by Drizzle. Zhang’s son Jingxiu, whilst mourning his father’s death, is assailed by a group assassins. They leave him for dead, but somehow he survives and escapes their clutches.

Drizzle, a talented warrior herself, finds herself in possession of Bodhi’s remains, and begins her quest to return them to their rightful resting place at Yunhe Temple. The Black Stone, a team of deadly assassins who employed Drizzle, are also after the remains and the powerful secret they hold. To hide from The Black Stone, Drizzle undergoes drastic facial surgery and changes her name to Zeng Jing (Michelle Yeoh). She flees to Beijing, where she meets and falls in love with Jiang, soon to become her husband.

After a confrontation in Beijing, Zeng Jing’s identity is uncovered and both she and Jiang must flee for their lives. As Zeng Jing kills off members of the gang while they are on the run, she quickly realises Jiang is actually Jingxiu, and he is seeking to avenge his father’s death. This leads to a lethal triangle and a fight to death between our hero Zeng Jing, Jiang and The Black Stone.

The only question remains who will be the last ones standing to uncover the secret of Bodhi’s remains?

7 Comments

If you’re reading the same genre sites as I do, you’ve probably already seen this, but I just couldn’t pass this load of trash. In Big Tits Zombie from director Takao Nakano, AV talent Sora Aoi and some of her colleagues star as strippers (of course) who have to fight every undead Japanese cliche the country (and the limited budget) has to offer…

Synopsis:

Rena Jodo (Sora Aoi) is a stripper who just got back from Mexico and she has been offered a gig at a hot spring resort. When she arrives, she finds a deserted country town. There’s hardly anyone in the audience at the strip club and all the other strippers, including Ginko (Risa Kasumi), Maria (Mari Sakurai), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa) are all bored stiff. They don’t know what to do with their time and they are on the verge of fighting each other.

When they decide to go down to the basement of the club to kill time, Maria finds a “Book of the Dead” near “the Well of the Spirit.” But who could have imagined the horror and panic that find would bring? Maria’s reading of the book out loud has somehow revived the dead and zombies start appearing all over the world attacking mankind. It’s Hell in the real world!

Dana and Nene are bitten by the zombies and they turn into living dead who attack Rena and Ginko. The poor big‐bosomed babes have no choice but to fight against Maria who now rules the zombies and tries to establish a kingdom of zombies. Rena and Ginko have to challenge Maria and the hordes of zombies! And how does the Blue Demon Devil (Minoru Torihada) fit in?

[via Twitch]

8 Comments

Wearing a full body rubber costume has been considered ridicule for too long! Death Kappa, directed by Tomoo Haraguchi (producer of Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police shows how a harmless frog-like water spirit turns into a city stomping “colossal creature of carnage”. Tokyo Shock (who else) will release it on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in May and July.

[via Twitch]

3 Comments

Good news for fans of Kazuaki Kiriya. German distributor Splendid Film announced to release all films (yes, that’s two) from the Japanese director on Blu-ray Disc in Germany on May 28, 2010. While Kiriya’s 2004 debut Casshern will only come in a standard amaray, Splendid will release Goemon in a limited edition steelbook (without those garsty rating logo on the front) as well. All releases will include the original Japanese audio track, but as expected from Splendid, Casshern will only include German subtitles while Goemon is supposed to also have Dutch subtitle options.
So far there are no English subtitled Blu-ray Disc releases of these films available. Casshern has been released in Italy in 2008 and Goemon has already plundered Japan and France.

14 Comments

[via Quiet Earth]

5 Comments

Now with 84% less screaming…

Synopsis via ryuganji:

The story begins with Sekiuchi (Kitamura Soichiro), boss of the Sannokai, a huge organised crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato (Miura Tomokazu) and right-hand man Ikemoto (Kunimura Jun), head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo (Beat Takeshi), who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo’s lap…

[via wildgrounds]

4 Comments

Walt Disney Home Entertainment Japan has announced the technical specifications for the Blu-ray Disc release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind that was announced last month. Fortunately (and just as expected), Studio Ghibli keeps up its English-friendly politic from the good-old DVD age and will include subtitles and audio tracks for several languages on the disc that will be released on July 14th.
Audio: Japanese (LPCM 2.0), English, German, French, Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin (all Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles: English, Japanese, French, Korean, Traditional Chinese
The first press edition will include a ‘Guide Book’ bonus booklet.
Pre-order Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Blu-ray Disc from YesAsia, Amazon.co.jp or CD Japan
[Thanks to mowaw!]

12 Comments