| Shochiku Office at CANNES 2009 |
Res. du Grand Hotel, Albatros 1C
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 39 72 38
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 39 56 16 |
| Representative: |
Kiwamu SATO (cell) +81 90 8038 5276
Satoru Kamiyama (cell)+33 (0)6 3016 9993
Satoko ISHIDA (cell) +33 (0)6 3016 6936
Shion KOMATSU (cell)+33 (0)6 3016 6947
Chiyo MORI (cell)+33 (0)6 3016 7014
Email: ibd@shochiku.co.jp |
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KAMUI
(Original Title: Kamui Gaiden)
Directed by Yoichi SAI
Comming Fall 2009 |
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Based on the story by: Sampei SHIRATO (Sasuke)
Director: Yoichi SAI (Blood and Bones, Quill)
Screenplay: Kankuro KUDO (Ping Pong, Zebraman, GO)
Starring: Kenichi MATSUYAMA(Death Note series, Detroit Metal City)
Koyuki (The Last Samurai)
Suzuka OHGO (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Hideaki ITO (Sukiyaki Western Django)
Anna TSUCHIYA (Sakuran, Kamikaze Girls)
A high concepted US$18M budget Ninja action film, like you have never experienced.
KAMUI is a fugitive Ninja on the run from the world of Ninja. He despises the lethal laws of the Ninja where he must use his skills to kill others and in search for true freedom. However, he burdens the fate to fight the Ninja pursuers who tries to eliminate him for his betrayal. In order to live, he must constantly fight for his life. He does not trust, and he does not love. Showing weakness leads to immediate death.
An incident brings him to a fisherman's family, where he starts to open up to other people. However, his pursuers were just minutes away from setting up a huge trap on Kamui... |
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KAMUI(Promo)
Promo Screening Schedule
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| MAY 14 (Thu) 20:00 / 20:30 / 21:00 @ GRAY 1 |
| MAY 15 (Fri) 9:30 / 10:00 / 10:30 @ GRAY 4 |
| MAY 17 (Sun) 20:00 / 20:30 / 21:00 @ PALAIS F |
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Genre: ACTION / NINJA
Running time: TBC |
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Snow Prince
(Original Title: Snow Prince - Kinjirareta Koi no Melody )
Directed by Joji MATSUOKA
Comming Winter 2009 |
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Director: Joji MATSUOKA (Tokyo Tower – Mom & Me, and Sometimes Dad)
Script: Kundo KOYAMA (Departures)
Starring: Shintaro MORIMOTO (upcoming Johnny’s star),
Marino KUWASHIMA,
Teruyuki KAGAWA (20th Century Boy, Tokyo Sonata),
Rei DAN (KABEI – Our Mother, Love and Honor),
MAIKO (My Darling of the Mountains),
Tadanobu ASANO (KABEI – Our Mother, Mongol, Zatoichi)
The creators of the OSCAR® winning film Departures now gather once again to strike the melody of the pure first love. The warmth of the heart revives in this beautiful story.
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford to go to school, but however hard the situation is, Sota never holds a bad feeling against anyone around and keeps his dream alive to become a painter. He has been friends with Sayo, a girl brought up in a wealthy family, ever since they were little despite the difference of their family position, which Sayo’s father has uneasy feelings against. In spite of the difficulties he faces, Sota manages to complete a piece of painting which he wishes to give Sayo. He and Chibi goes down a snowy night path to Sayo’s house to find that her father’s storage is on fire...
What waits for Sota and Chibi gently reminds that genuine happiness always exists in your heart. |
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Snow Prince
Private Screening Schedule(Invitation only) |
| MAY 14 (Thu) 20:30 @ ARCADES 3 |
| MAY 16 (Sat) 20:30 @ RIVIERA 1
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Genre: Drama / Animal / Romance
Running time: TBC |
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Listen to My Heart
(Original Title: Hikidashino nakano Love Letter)
Directed by Shinichi MISHIRO
Comming Fall 2009 |
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Director: Shinichi MISHIRO (TV series: Boys Over Flowers)
Starring: Takako TOKIWA (20th Century Boys)
Kento HAYASHI (The Battery, DIVE!!)
Tomoko NAKAJIMA (The Taste of Tea)
Some feelings that you want to express, remain unexpressed...“I love you...” “Thank you...”, giving another chance to say these words to the one you care.
Everyone has a drawer in their heart that holds precious feelings that they want to express, but cannot. This film will give you a chance to take a breath and then push you forward to “express your feelings in words.
A radio DJ, Mao starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. Through her radio show, various characters come to light as everyone awaits for a miracle to happen. A miracle which can occur only by them expressing their true feelings... |
Genre: Drama
Running time: TBC |
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GOEMON
(Original Title: GOEMON)
Director: Kazuaki KIRIYA
Comming soon |
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Director: Kazuaki KIRIYA (CASSHERN)
Produced by : Taka ICHISE (The Ring, The Grudge), Kazuaki KIRIYA
Starring: Yosuke EGUCHI (Shaolin Girl, Silk, Children of the Dark)
Takao OSAWA (ICHI, Crying out Love in the Center of the World, Midnight Eagle)
Ryoko HIROSUE (Departures, WASABI, SECRET)
From the creators who fascinated the audience in CASSHERN, comes back with even more spectacular action and breathtaking image in GOEMON!
Goemon is a legendary master thief who roams at will throughout the chaotic world of the 'Sengoku - Warring States’
period. Being a charisma for the public, he steals from the riches and provides for the poor. One night, he unexpectedly steels a strange box from a wealthy merchant, which holds the key to the assasination of a leader who was killed on the eve before the unification of Japan. When the secret reveals, a conflict would rise putting all powers in chaos. |
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GOEMON
Screening Schedule |
MAY 14 (Thu) 16:00 @ STAR2
MAY 15 (Fri) 18:00 @ OLYMPIA 5
MAY 17 (Sun) 14:00 @ STAR 1 |
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Genre: Action / Samurai
Running time: 128min |
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HORUMO − Battle League in Kyoto
(Original title: Kamogawa Horumo)
Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Compleated |
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Director: Katsuhide Motoki (KITARO, Kitaro and The Millennium Curse,10 Promises to My Dog)
Original Story: Manabu Makime
Starring:Takayuki Yamada (Crows: Episode 0, Train Man)
Chiaki Kuriyama (The Sky Crawlers- voice, Battle Royale, Kill Bill Vol.1)
Sei Ashina (Silk)
A big hit fantasy novel by Manabu Makime has finally been adapted into a combat action comedy film with VFX and animation by GONZO. (creators of “Afro Samurai,” “Brave Story”)
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto.
Let the battle begin! |
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HORUMO − Battle League in Kyoto
Screening Schedule |
| MAY 15 (Fri) 20:00 @ PALAIS F |
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Genre: Fantasy / Action / Comedy
Running time: 113min |
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MAI MAI MIRACLE
(Original title: Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Maho)
Directed by Sunao KATABUCHI
Comming Fall 2009 |
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Director: Sunao KATABUCHI (Black Lagoon,Princess Arete, Kiki’s Delivery Service(Assistant Director)
Original Story: Nobuko TAKAGI (Mai Mai Shinko published by MAGAZINE HOUSE)
Production by MADHOUSE LTD. (The Perfect World of Kai, Paprika, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
From the assistant director of "Kiki's Delivery Service" (Hayao Miyazaki) and the animation studio of "Black Lagoon" and "The Girl the Leapt Through Time" (MADHOUSE Ltd.) comes a new heartwarming fantasy.
Shinko, a third grade elementary school student loves to imagine and daydream about the world of one thousand years ago. Her fantasies travel far into the days of the Heian Period (year 794-1185)... One day a girl called Kiiko transfers from Tokyo and joins Shinko's class where they become good friends. Before long, the two of them become engulfed in a strange incident of one thousand years ago... |
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MAI MAI MIRACLE
Screening Schedule |
| MAY 14 (Thu) 9:30 @ PALAIS B |
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Genre: Animation / Fantasy
Running time: 95min |
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OTOUTO (original title)
Directed by Yoji YAMADA
Comming 1st Quarter 2010 |
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Director: Yoji YAMADA
Screenplay: Yoji Yamada, Emiko Hiramatsu (Love and Honor, KABEI - Our Mother)
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga (KABEI - Our Mother)
Tsurube Shofukutei (KABEI - Our Mother)
Yu Aoi (Fula Girls, TOKYO!)
Ryo Kase (Letters from Iwo Jima, TOKYO!)
The new film from Yoji Yamada will bring the unreasonable, yet loving, and sometimes sad relationship of family and siblings, depicted through heartfelt laughter and tears.
Following the enormous success of the samurai trilogy that includes 2004 Academy Award® nominated film “The Twilight Samurai” as well as the highly acclaimed “KABEI - Our Mother” which premiered at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival in competition, Yoji Yamada now returns to modern drama for the first time in 10 years.
The film focuses on one foolish brother and his warm and caring older sister. Though it seems that the brother is only a nuisance to the family, the sister takes in the brother’s ridiculousness and keeps her love and care for him. However, an incident brings the sister to break off their relationship, and the brother is left to stand alone in devastation. When they finally reunite, thfindse sister that her brother is fighting a fatal disease |
Genre: Drama
Running time: TBC |
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Feel the Wind (working title)
(original title: Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)
Directed by Sumio OMORI
Comming Fall 2009 |
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Director: Sumio OMORI (debut / noted writer for Keiho, Black House,Shining Boy and Little Randy)
Starring: Keisuke KOIDE (Cyborg She, Linda Linda Linda,Kisarag, Sky of Love)
Kento HAYASHI (Listen to My Heart, DIVE!!,The Battery)
To run is to live! 10 runners, searching one goal. They grow up and deepen their bonds through running as they go one step ahead, one kilometer ahead…
A talented runner who was not able to run due to injuries, meets another gifted runner who has left the track field after causing trouble.
Their encounter revives their passion to run once again. As they decide to participate in an "ekiden (=marathon relay)" match, a dream for all university long-distance runners, they need to find 10 runners on the team, and eventually find students including those who have never been trained as runners.
Through the training and the experience, each member finds their inner strength and the joy of feeling the wind.
Based on a best-selling novel by award winning Shiwon Miura. |
Genre: Drama / Sports
Running time: TBC |
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Shrill Cries -Reshuffle
(Original title: HIGURASHI NO NAKU KORO NI
− CHIKAI)
Directed by Ataru OIKAWA
Completed |
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Director: Ataru OIKAWA (Shrill Cries of Summer, TOMIE, Apartment 1303)
Original Story: RYUKISHI 07 / 07th Expansion
Starring: Gouki MAEDA(Gokusen-TV series), Rin ASUKA, Airi MATSUYAMA
One year from the bloody and daring last scene.... The cruel tragedy repeats once again....
Every summer, tragedy haunts two selected people... one person dies a mysterious death, and another goes missing. A girl whose mind gets distorted from her father's divorce and the fear of his remarriage pulls in the fate of tragedy. Can her friends help her overcome the delusion and distrust to save her from the tragic fate? The girl struggles with the devil inside and fights between nightmare and reality,as the whole village gets caught up in the madness of fear. A side story of the box-office success "Shrill Cries of Summer” from 2008. |
Genre: Horror / Action / Thriller
Running time: 108min |
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Dear My Love
(Original Title: 60 sai no Love Letter )
Directed by Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA
Comming soon |
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Director: Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA (Wolf Girl, The Hole)
Screenplay: Ryota FURUSAWA (Always - Sunset on Third Street, Kisaragi)
Starring : Masatoshi NAKAMURA (HINOKIO, American Pastime)
Mieko HARADA (OUT, Dororo, Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams)
Issei OGATA (The Sun, Yi yi: A One and a Two... , Tony Takitani)
A film filled with love and affection expressed in the 86,441 true Love Letters which the film is inspired by.
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted...
Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared.
The original idea comes from the postcard project “Love Letters at Sixty” which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples. |
Genre: Drama / Romance
Running time: 129min |
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Sengoku BASARA−Samurai Kings
(Original title: Sengoku BASARA)
Directed by Itsuro KAWASAKI
New TV Series |
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Director: Itsuro KAWASAKI(Tsubasa Chronicle: The Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom)
Animation Production: Production I.G (The Sky Crawlers, Ghost in the Shell)
Series Composition: Yasuyuki MUTO (Basilisk, Le Chevalier D’Eon)
Based on the video game series produced by: CAPCOM(Resident Evil,Devil May Cry)
The million-seller Samurai Action Video Game Series now becomes an exciting animation series by Production I.G.
Set on the stage of Sengoku / Warring States Period (around 1467-1573) where great military commanders all have one goal of conquering Japan and stand as the head of the united kingdom.
A young one-eyed military commander from the north named Date Masamune joins the legendary battle of "Kawanaka-jima" where two power lords Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin were preparing for their battle. Date's goal was to kill both leaders and conquer both territories. |
Genre: Animation TV Series / Samurai Action
Running time: 22 min× 13 episodes |
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Aqua Marin(working title)
(Original title: Umimonogatari - Anata ga itekuretakoto)
Directed by Junichi SATO
Comming Summer2009 |
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Director: Junichi SATO (Aria Series, Sergeant Keroro, Sailor Moon)
Original Story: Toshihiko TSUKIJI (Umimonogatari)
Production Designer: Shichiro KOBAYASHI (Nodame Cantabile, Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro)
Japan’s top creators including the director Junichi SATO who is known for “Sailor Moon” and “Aria” series, gathered to bring a unique and amazing magical action fantasy film!
The story revolves around Marin who lives in the beautiful sea along with colorful denizens of the deep, and Kanon who lives by the seaside.
The girls’adventurous journey has just begun!
In a blaze of the sun in a depth of a sea, one innocent girl named Marin lives with beautiful fish of various colors. She and her younger sister Uryin always yearn for the life on the ground under the blue sky where they were never allowed to visit.
One day, a shining ring falls down into the sea. When Marin finds the ring, she decides to jump out of the sea for a journey in order to hand it back to the owner.
Meanwhile, Kanon, a high school girl who lives in the small island surrounded by sea, faces a loss, dumped by her boyfriend. By chance, Marin finds out that Kanon is the owner of the ring.
When Marin and Kanon encounter each other just as they are guided by fate, their inner magical power start to bloom. Eventually, they decide to stand up to fight against the shadowy world… |
Genre: Animation TV Series / Fantasy / Action
Running time: 22min x 13 episodes |
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Yasujiro Ozu
Keisuke Kinoshita
Kenji Mizoguchi
Nagisa Oshima
Yoshitaro Nomura
Yoji Yamada
Takeshi Kitano
...AND MORE!!
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Koji Yamamura Collection
MARCO
My Father's Dragon
Ninja Kids
...AND MORE!!
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