Komatta na! Now that’s a statement…

[via The Digital Fix]

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First Teaser Trailer for Robo-G (Robo Jî) by Water Boys and Swing Girls director Shinobu Yaguchi about a group of engineers who put an old man in a robot suit for an important expo.

Synopsis:

The story revolves around a team of three at a small electronics maker, who receive an order from the company president to develop a robot for the purpose of getting the company more exposure. However, one week before their planned announcement at a robotics expo, their robot gets destroyed, so in order to save face they decide to take the stage with an old man in a robot suit. Unexpectedly, their “robot” receives huge acclaim and fame.

[via Twitch, Tokyograph & Official Website]

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Beautiful shot trailer for the Taiwanese drama Starry Starry Night by director Tom Lin and writer Jimmy Liao about two teenagers running away from home.
The film will premiere on Busan International Film Festival in October.

Synopsis:

12-year-old Mei grew up with her grandparents in the mountains, but now lives with her parents in the city. Her parents constantly fight and she is ignored at home. Mei withdraws into her own world and imagination.
One day Mei meets transfer student Lee. Mei takes a liking to Lee who seems as withdrawn to the world as Mei. After Mei saves Lee from bullies their friendship becomes real. As Mei home life worsens and her parents announce their announce, Mei turns to Lee and plan their escape …

[via Asian Media Wiki]

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Named Evangelion: Q (Quickening), the third Rebuild of Evangelion film will open in Japanese theaters in Fall 2012. Looks like Asuka is back again!

[via @muhootsaver_7]

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First Trailer for Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) from Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, who already directed the great French/Iranian animation Persepolis. Just like Persepolis, Chicken with Plums is based on a personal comic book by Satrapi (Nasser Ali Khan is her granduncle) herself. The film will premiere on the 68th Venice Film Festival and opens in French theaters later in October.

Synopsis:

Tehran, 1958. Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), a most celebrated violin player, has his beloved instrument broken by his wife. Unable to find another to replace it, life without music seems intolerable. He stays in bed and slips further and further into his reveries from his youth to his own children’s futures. Over the course of the week that follows, and as the pieces of the story fall into place, an understanding is reached as to why he would give up life for music and love.

[via Rope of Silicon]

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First Teaser Trailer for Luc Besson’s The Lady starring Michelle Yeoh as the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi.

Synopsis:

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end.

[via Yahoo! Movies]

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When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper–part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack). But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story. Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.

[via BeyondHollywood.com]

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Probably because Western distributors (I’m looking at you, Manga Entertainment!) just can’t find the time to release Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters per Second anime on Blu-ray Disc with English subtitles, the Japanese distributor decided to release the film on his own…again.
The “Global Edition” Blu-ray Disc will not only include the main feature, but also Shinkai’s Voices of a Distant Star and his 5 minutes short film She and Her Cat.
5 Centimeters per Seconds will come with Japanese and English audio plus Japanese, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian and Arabic subtitles. Voices of a Distant Star will have Japanese and English audio with English subtitles. She and Her Cat plus all bonus material will be English subtitled.
[via Can you Moe?]

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I didn’t even know a fourth part of the Underworld series is currently in production, but I guess it wasn’t really a question with the still ongoing vampire vs. werewolf hype.
Despite a new pair of Swedish directors (Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein), the first trailer for Underworld: Awakening 3D looks exactly like the first three films: sparsely clothed werewolves, lots of firefights and Kate Beckinsale naked in her favourite leather suit…but this time in 3D (of course).

[via 5 Filmfreunde]

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[via Twitch]

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