Principal photography set to commence in Japan this month on Sion Sono’s English-language debut.
Rising star Sofia Boutella from Climax and The Mummy and Ed Skrein have joined Nicolas Cage in Xyz Films’ Afm worldwide sales title Prisoners Of The Ghostland.
Bill Moseley has come on board the English-language debut by Japanese auteur Sion Sono, which will also star Japan’s Young Dais and Tak Sakaguchi.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence in Japan this month on the story of a criminal (Cage) dispatched to rescue an abducted woman (Boutella) from a dark supernatural realm known as the Ghostland.
Rising star Sofia Boutella from Climax and The Mummy and Ed Skrein have joined Nicolas Cage in Xyz Films’ Afm worldwide sales title Prisoners Of The Ghostland.
Bill Moseley has come on board the English-language debut by Japanese auteur Sion Sono, which will also star Japan’s Young Dais and Tak Sakaguchi.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence in Japan this month on the story of a criminal (Cage) dispatched to rescue an abducted woman (Boutella) from a dark supernatural realm known as the Ghostland.
- 11/6/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
After shooting 15 movies and two TV shows this decade alone, hyper-prolific renegade filmmaker Sono Sion was rushed to a Tokyo hospital in February, where emergency surgery was performed to save his life. The gonzo auteur behind the gleefully demented likes of “Suicide Circle” and “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?” had just finished work on an unhinged Amazon Prime series called “Tokyo Vampire Hotel,” which may have been his wildest project thus far; high praise for someone whose previous career highlights include the likes of “Love Exposure” (a four-hour epic about a teenage Catholic who falls in with a secret cult of up-skirt panty photographers) and “Tokyo Tribe” (a hyper-violent rap opera about a gangster who torches an entire city to the ground to compensate for his micro-penis).
Needless to say, the only thing less surprising than the fact that Sono suffered a heart attack is the fact that...
Needless to say, the only thing less surprising than the fact that Sono suffered a heart attack is the fact that...
- 10/14/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Celebrated Japanese director Sion Sono Has completed production on his most recent project “The Forest of Love”. This will be the second project Sono has completed for a streaming service, having previously worked on “Tokyo Vampire Hotel” for Amazon Japan.
“The Forest of Love” is set for release October 11th, 2019 through Netflix streaming service. Netflix has released a trailer for the production, which can be viewed below.
“The Forest of Love” is set for release October 11th, 2019 through Netflix streaming service. Netflix has released a trailer for the production, which can be viewed below.
- 10/7/2019
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Misa from “Death Note,” Saitama from “One-Punch Man,” and Code:002 from “Darling in the Franxx” walk into a convention center. It’s the set-up to what could be a pretty good joke. Like the rabbi, priest, and monk, these are religious figures in their own right—anime heroes, favorite deities of a subcultural movement known as cosplay.
By many metrics—not simply the more-than 100,000 attendees to Anime Expo in Downtown Los Angeles this month—cosplay, and its guiding form of media, anime, have been undergoing a resurgence in the past few years. Consumed in the 1990s and early 2000s mainly by Japanese teens, and their worldwide counterparts known colloquially as weebs, anime is now a significant programming genre for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, not to mention the anime-only services Crunchyroll, Viewster, and Funimation.
Crunchyroll, which has been around since 2006, and is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., announced...
By many metrics—not simply the more-than 100,000 attendees to Anime Expo in Downtown Los Angeles this month—cosplay, and its guiding form of media, anime, have been undergoing a resurgence in the past few years. Consumed in the 1990s and early 2000s mainly by Japanese teens, and their worldwide counterparts known colloquially as weebs, anime is now a significant programming genre for streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, not to mention the anime-only services Crunchyroll, Viewster, and Funimation.
Crunchyroll, which has been around since 2006, and is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., announced...
- 7/30/2019
- by Maxwell Williams
- Variety Film + TV
During its 13th edition, the Camera Japan Festival serves its 8000+ visitors with over 40 recent Japanese film titles, ranging from arthouse drama to crowd-pleasing blockbusters and comedy to out-of-bounds horror. The official kick-off of the festival will take place Wednesday September 26 at Worm Rotterdam. After that the festival will continue in the art-house cinemas of LantarenVenster in Rotterdam and Kriterion and Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. Ticket sales will start August 30.
Film programme 2018
Among the highlights of this year’s film programme (the largest in the history of Camera Japan!) are screenings of Tokyo Vampire Hotel by renowned Filmmaker/artist and poet Sono Sion, The Trial by John Williams (a modern Japanese adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel with the same title) and Ueda Shinichiro’s zombie festival hit: One Cut of the Dead. Several films will have their European premiere at the festival, including the tender drama Call Boy by Miura Daisuke...
Film programme 2018
Among the highlights of this year’s film programme (the largest in the history of Camera Japan!) are screenings of Tokyo Vampire Hotel by renowned Filmmaker/artist and poet Sono Sion, The Trial by John Williams (a modern Japanese adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel with the same title) and Ueda Shinichiro’s zombie festival hit: One Cut of the Dead. Several films will have their European premiere at the festival, including the tender drama Call Boy by Miura Daisuke...
- 8/30/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The first thing you should know about Sono Sion’s characteristically unhinged “Tokyo Vampire Hotel” is that — spoiler alert? — most of it takes place inside of a vampire’s vagina. Well, technically speaking, most of it takes place inside of a massive hotel, but that massive hotel is actually squeezed into an inter-dimensional pocket of space-time that’s located between the legs of a decrepit vampire queen. And that decrepit vampire queen lives in Tokyo, hence the title “Tokyo Vampire Hotel.” Or maybe lives in Romania. It’s kind of unclear. The hotel is definitely in her vagina, though — there’s no doubt about that.
A demented cocaine giallo that splits the difference between Suzuki Seijun and Claire Denis, Sono Sion’s latest exercise in gonzo digital mayhem is maybe the wildest thing he’s ever made; that’s high praise when discussing the punk auteur responsible for the likes...
A demented cocaine giallo that splits the difference between Suzuki Seijun and Claire Denis, Sono Sion’s latest exercise in gonzo digital mayhem is maybe the wildest thing he’s ever made; that’s high praise when discussing the punk auteur responsible for the likes...
- 7/31/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“Tokyo Vampire Hotel” is a two and a half hour feature cut of a nine-part miniseries, with the same title, that originally aired on the Amazon Japan streaming service. You would expect a property like this to be developed the other way around from film to mini-series which has been done many times before by Netflix. I haven’t seen the miniseries but this feature length cut is an interesting film, but it does have some odd issues.
“Tokyo Vampire Hotel” is a gory Japanese vampire film that mostly takes place in the titular hotel. Two warring vampire clans, the Draculas and the Corvins, have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years and now that a special human with ancient vampire blood in her veins has been found, the final showdown is about to happen in this strange hotel filled with maniacal vampires and their human captives.
“Tokyo Vampire Hotel” is a gory Japanese vampire film that mostly takes place in the titular hotel. Two warring vampire clans, the Draculas and the Corvins, have been at each other’s throats for thousands of years and now that a special human with ancient vampire blood in her veins has been found, the final showdown is about to happen in this strange hotel filled with maniacal vampires and their human captives.
- 5/21/2018
- by Matt Ward
- AsianMoviePulse
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