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TIFF and AFM 2007 (TIFFCOM:Oct 22-24/ AFM:Oct 31 - Nov 7)

Shochiku Office at AFM 2007 Shochiku Office at TIFFCOM 2007
Loews Hotel, Room#717
Tel: 1-310-455-7431 / Fax: 1-310-455-7433
Representative: Kiwamu SATO
(Cell +81-90-8038-5276)
Satoko ISHIDA
(Cell +1-310-595-6824)
Shion KOMATSU
(Cell +1-310-728-0266)
Takeya ITO
(Cell +1-310-728-0545)
Chiyo MORI
(Cell +1-310-728-9217)
Email: ibd@shochiku.co.jp
Stand: 13
Tel: 080-3083-9384
Representative: Kiwamu SATO
Satoko ISHIDA
Shion KOMATSU
Takeya ITO
Chiyo MORI
Email: ibd@shochiku.co.jp

MIDNIGHT EAGLE
(Original title: Midnight Eagle)

Directed by Izuru Narushima
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US distribution by Universal Pictures.

Director: Izuru Narushima (Fly, Daddy, Fly, writer - An Adolescent)
Starring: Takao Osawa (Helen the Baby Fox, Into the Sun, Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World), Yuko Takeuchi (Ring, Heaven’s Bookstore), Hiroshi Tamaki (Waterboys)

During a blizzard in the Northern Alps of Japan, a battle begins that will decide the fate of 127 million people!
In the skies above the severe winter conditions of the Northern Alps, a top secret American forces’ stealth bomber known as the “Midnight Eagle” suddenly vanishes. Its payload is a “specialized warhead.” If it were to explode, the entire nation of Japan would be hurled into an unprecedented calamity. An ex-war photographer who now only takes nature photos in the mountains accidentally encounters the incident, and gets behind the scene, preventing the weapon to fall into the wrong hands.

Genre: ACTION
Running time: 131min
AFM Screening Schedule
Nov 01(Thu) 08:30 @ Broadway Cineplex3
Nov 03(Sat) 19:00 @ Le Merigot 2
TIFFCOM Screening Schedule
Oct 22(Mon) 16:45 @ Room 2
TIFF Screening Schedule
Oct 20(Sat) 18:20 (open16:00)
@ Bunkamura [Orchard Hall]
The opening film for the Special Screening at the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival.
There will be greetings from the stage for about 15 minutes before screening.

*Please contact a Shochiku sales representative in advance to attend the TIFF screening.
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THE SUICIDE SONG
(Original title: Densen-Uta)

Directed by Masato Harada
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Director: Masato Harada (Kamikaze Taxi, Bounce ko GALS)
Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda (Gohatto, NANA, Big Bang Love, Juvenile A), Yusuke Iseya (Casshern, Sea Without Exit, Sukiyaki Western Django, Blindness)

From the creator of "One Missed Call" comes the terrifying story of a suicide song based on a true story! "The Suicide Song" follows the motif of "Gloomy Sunday," which was known as the 'Hungarian suicide song' in the 1930s. Kana, a high-school girl, suddenly commits suicide at her school. Her friend Anzu witnesses this disastrous scene, as she hears Kana humming a strange song. Meanwhile, Riku, editor of a sensationalist magazine, hears a rumor about a 'suicide song'. Riku and Anzu encounter each other and try to stop the vicious cycle of continuous suicides. Suicides occur one after another, and just when it seems the mystery has become hopelessly complex, Anzu becomes aware of what the song means. Does that song convey despair or hope?

Genre: HORROR / THRILLER
Running time: 128min
AFM Screening Schedule
Oct 31(Wed) 17:00 @ The Broadway Cineplex 1
Nov 01(Thu) 19:00 @ Le Merigot 1
Nov 02(Fri) 15:00 @ Broadway Cineplex 1
TIFFCOM Screening Schedule
Oct 22(Mon) 19:00 @ Room 2
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER
(Original title: Jigyaku No Uta)

Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi (TRICK, Love Collage)
Starring: Miki Nakatani (Ring, Ring 2, Memories of Matsuko)
Hiroshi Abe (Trick, Survive Style 5+)

A hopeless woman and a hopeless man. A woman that loves the man whatever happens, and a man that can't exactly express his feelings and just turns over the table - out of irritation, short temper, and sometimes love. Would being together become a nightmare, or a love that will sustain them to live with happiness and hope for a better tomorrow?
Genre: Drama / Romantic Comedy
Running time: 117min
AFM Screening Schedule
Nov 01(Thu) 11:00 @ Ocean Screening Room
(1401 Ocean Avenue, Suite 110, Santa Monica,
CA 90401 USA)
Nov 03(Sat) 11:00 @ AMC 1
TIFFCOM Screening Schedule
Oct 23(Tue) 12:15 @ Room 2
TIFF Screening Schedule
Oct 22(Mon) 18:30 (open 18:00)
@ TOHO CINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS [SCREEN7]

*Please contact a Shochiku sales representative in advance to attend the TIFF screening.
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THE SIGNS OF LOVE
(Original title: The Signs of Love - Aishiteru no sain)

Directed by Hiroshi Chono

Director: Hiroshi Chono (debut, First assistant director for "The Grudge")
Starring: Nao Matsushita (Adiantum Blue, XX)

A beautiful love story based on two smash hit songs from a popular band DREAMS COME TRUE, "Mirai Yosouzu" and "Mirai Yosouzu II" (meaning "a map for the future"). The story is about a young couple attending the same university believing that their love for each other will never end. However, as time goes by and they graduate, their future starts to part as they both begin moving forward to capture their own dreams. The heart-wrenching story travels from Tokyo to the beautiful setting in Barcelona, as their paths cross once again. Will they be able to find a future together that they have rendered in the past?

Genre: ROMANTIC DRAMA
Running time: 115min
AFM Screening Schedule
Nov 01(Thu) 11:00 @ Le Merigot 2
Nov 02(Fri) 11:00 @ Mann Criterion 4
TIFFCOM Screening Schedule
Oct 23(Tue) 10:00 @ Room 2
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ZO-NO SENAKA (working title)
(Original title: Zo no Senaka)

Directed by Satoshi Isaka
In post production
Director: Satoshi Isaka ([focus], g@me)
Starring: Koji Yakusho (Memoirs of a Geisha, BABEL)
Miki Imai (Brave Story - voice)


What would you do if you only had six more months left to live? What if this suddenly happens at the prime time of your life? The main character is a hard working business man, Yukihiro Fujiyama, Fijiyama(48), who suddenly receives a pronouncement that he is in the terminal stages of lung cancer. With only six months left to live, he tries to ascertain what his life has been. His wife, Miwako, fully accepts his decision to “live now” rather than seek life-prolonging treatment. Confronted with “death,” the couple discovers each other anew as they find the real meaning of life and to enjoy every minute of the remaining time and the true meaning of happiness.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Running time: TBD
AFM Screening Schedule
Shochiku Promo Reel
Oct 31(Wed) 19:00, 19:40, 20:20 @ Fairmont 1
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KABEI (working title)
(original title: Kabei)

Directed by Yoji Yamada
In post production

Director : Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai, Love and Honor)
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano (Zatoichi), Mitsugoro Bando (Love and Honor)

Tokyo, 1940.
The modest happiness in which our family lived vanished one cold morning. My father was arrested under the Maintenance of Public Order Act. My mother, my grandmother, my little sister and I were left with no sign he would be set free. That day our lives changed…
Genre: DRAMA
Running time
: TBD
AFM Screening Schedule
Shochiku Promo Reel
Oct 31(Wed) 19:00, 19:40, 20:20 @ Fairmont 1
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10 PROMISES WITH MY DOG (working title)
(original title: Inu to Watashi no Jyu no Yakusoku)

Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
In post production
Director: Katsuhide Motoki (Kitaro, Drug-store Girl, Free & Easy series)
Starring: Lena Tanaka(Kitaro, Give it All), Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo-Jima, HANA), Etsushi Toyokawa (Love Letter)

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it “Socks” after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend. One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks (and her mother)...
Genre: ANIMAL / DRAMA
Running time: TBD
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Franz Kafka's A COUNTRY DOCTOR
(original Title: Kafka Inaka Isha)

Directed by Koji Yamamura
Animation
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"Franz Kafka's A COUNTRY DOCTOR" won the Nelvana Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Animation in the OTTAWA International Animation Festival 2007!!

Director: Koji Yamamura ("Mt. Head" Oscar Nomination 2003,Annecy 2003 Grand Prix)

Based on famed Jewish-Czech writer Franz Kafka's short prose, "A Country Doctor" from 1919. A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor, " and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
Genre: DRAMA
Running time: 21min
AFM Screening Schedule
Shochiku Promo Reel
Oct 31(Wed) 19:00, 19:40, 20:20 @ Fairmont 1
TIFF Screening Schedule
Oct 20(Sat) 11:40, 12:00, 13:52
@ TOHO CINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS [SCREEN1]

*Please contact a Shochiku sales representative in advance to attend the TIFF screening.
Special Screenings at the 45th New York Film Festival!
Press & Industry Screening
Oct 12(Fri) 14:00 @ Walter Reade Theater
(165 W. 65th Street, plaza level, between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
*Together with Jia Zhangke's "Useless."

Official Screening
Oct 13(Sat) 15:45 @ Rose Theater
(at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street)
*Together with Jia Zhangke's "Useless."
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SKETCHBOOK - Blooming Colors
(original title: SKETCHBOOK - Full Colors)

Directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike
Animation
Director: Yoshimasa Hiraike(Solty Rei, Kaleido star)

From the creators of "Rosen Maiden", "Basilisk","HAMTARO" and "Kyo Kara Maoh!" A popular comic strip is now a TV animation series! The story is about a high school girl, Sora Kajiwara who enters high school and joins the art club. Sora always carries around a sketchbook to draw pictures of beautiful sceneries outside. She also loves to play with cats especially Mike who wanders around the campus. This animation beautifully captures the every day life of Sora and her interesting friends in the high school art club. Viewers will bring back memories of their own high school years!
Genre: ANIMATION
Running time: 30min x 13 episodes
AFM Screening Schedule
Shochiku Promo Reel
Oct 31(Wed) 19:00, 19:40, 20:20 @ Fairmont 1
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SUMMER DAYS WITH COO (original title: Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi)
Directed by Keiichi Hara
Animation
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Director: Keiichi Hara ("Crayon Shin-chan" series)

A successful feature film by the director of "Crayon Shin-chan" series. Koichi is a 4th grade student living in Tokyo. One day, he finds a large stone which turns out to be a fossil of a baby "Kappa"(=A Japanese mythical water creature), and names it "Coo". Koichi and Coo become good friends, but Coo could not adjust to the modern life style and starts to miss his family. Koichi and Coo decide to go on a road trip to find his peers.
Genre: ANIMATION / FAMILY
Running time: 138min
TIFFCOM Screening Schedule
Oct 22(Mon) 14:30 @ Room 2
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VEXILLE
(original title: Vexille 2007 Nihon Sakoku)

Directed by SORI
Animation
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Director: SORI (Ping Pong, producer for APPLESEED)

A full CG animation film from the creators of APPLESEED. 2077. 10 years has passed since Japan had left the United Nations to go into isolation. They have completely blocked the islands with an ultra magnetic field. This was a result to opposing to a treaty which UN has passed, preventing the development of all bio and robot technology which has evolved drastically to become a threat to the human beings. The US government sends in a special force team SWORD, lead by a female commander Vexille, to investigate what is happening inside Japan.
Genre: ACTION / SCI-FI / CGI Animation
Running time: 109min
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LOVE AND HONOR
(original title: Bushi no Ichibun)

Directed by Yoji Yamada
Completed
Director: Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade)
Starring: Takuya Kimura (2046, Howel's Moving Castle-voice)

The third of the Samurai Trilogy.
A follow up to the two very successful samurai dramas,"The Twilight Samurai" and "The Hidden Blade", Oscar nominated director Yoji Yamada brings another strong story of a samurai, who fights for his faith. The film depicts a strong and deep love between a young samurai who loses his eyesight during a mission and his wife who eventually sacrifices herself to save her husband's honor. The film opened in Japan with big Box Office success, projected for US$50million domestically.
Genre: Drama / Samurai
Running time: 121min
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KITARO
(original title: Gegege no Kitaro)

Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Completed
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Director: Katsuhide Motoki ("Free & Easy" series, Drugstore Girl)
Starring: Eiji Wentz (Brave Story -voice)
Yo Oizumi (Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away -voice)

A smash box office hit reaching US$25 million domestically. A popular animation adapted into live-action using cutting edge CGI from studios around the world, including Centro Digital Pictures ("Kill Bill"). Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evils. He finds that a powerful magical stone had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.
Genre: ACTION / FAMILY
Running time: 103min
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TOKYO TOWER - Mom & Me, and sometimes Dad (original title: Tokyo Tower - Okan to Boku to Tokidoki Oton)
Directed by Joji Matsuoka
Completed
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Director: Joji Matsuoka (Swimming Upstream, Twinkle)
Starring: Joe Odagiri (Sway, SHINOBI), Kikikilin (Kamikaze Girls)

Based on a national best-seller auto-biography (sold over 2million copies), starring Joe Odagiri, one of the most acclaimed actor in Japan. This is the story of Mom (Okan), Me (Boku - Masaya), and sometimes, Dad (Oton). Born in the coal mining city in Fukuoka, Masaya grows up with inheriting both sides of the genes of his forever hopeless and reckless Dad and the gentle and strong Mom. After going into a complete downfall (probably succeeding the Dad's side), his life suddenly changes when Mom is found sick with cancer, and she comes to live with him under the bright lights of Tokyo...
Genre: DRAMA
Running time: 142min
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GENGHIS KHAN
- To the Ends of the Earth and Sea
(original title: Aoki Okami - Chi Hate Umi Tsukiru Made)

Directed by Shinichiro Sawai
Completed
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Director: Shinichiro Sawai (YAMATO, W's Tragedy)
Starring: Takashi Sorimachi (YAMATO)

Japan-Mongolia co-production with a production budget of US$30million, 4 months on location in Mongolia. Genghis Khan - the man who built history's greatest Empire. People called him "The Blue Wolf". Conflict and betrayal by his sworn friend, and his mixed feeling of love and hatred for the son who bears the same burden... The mystery behind his life is now revealed.
Genre: DRAMA / EPIC
Running time: 136min
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SHOCHIKU LIBRARY PACKAGES
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ANIMAL Package
"QUILL", "TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG", "HARASU NO ITA HIBI", "HACHI-KO", "SHIRO & MARILYN", "HELEN THE BABY FOX"
HORROR Package #1
"HORROR THEATER", "PRAYER BEADS", "GHOST TRAIN"
Yasujiro Ozu Package #1
"TOKYO STORY", "EQUINOX FLOWER", "GOOD MORNING", "LATE AUTUMN", "AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON"
...AND MORE!! Detail

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