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Shochiku Stand at TAF 2009
TAF 2009(March 18 and 19)
Stand: G-02
Cell: 080 3083 9384
Representative: Shion KOMATSU, Satoko ISHIDA, Chiyo MORI
Email:ibd@shochiku.co.jp |
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Sengoku BASARA−Samurai Kings
(Original title: Sengoku BASARA)
Directed by Itsuro Kawasaki
Coming April 2009 |
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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-sellers 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 x 13 episodes |
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Screening & Small Reception
Sengoku BASARA-Samurai Kings |
Mar 17(Tue)
Doors Open 17:00
Screening Start 17:30
Sake Party 18:00
@SHOCHIKU OFFICE
Invitation Only |
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MAI MAI MIRACLE
(Original title: Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Maho)
Directed by Sunao KATABUCHI
Coming 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 for "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... |
| Genre: Animation / Fantasy |
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AquaMarin (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 a beautiful sea along with colorful denizens of the deep, and Kanon who lives on an island by the sea, with a beautiful backdrop of a grand view. 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 color. She and her younger sister Uryin always yearn for life on the ground under the blue sky which they haven’t seen even once in their life nor allowed to visit. One day, a brilliantly scintillating 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 one who owned the ring. When Marin and Kanon encounter each other just as they are guided by fate, their inner magical power start to bloom, and they decide to stand up to fit against the shadowy world… |
Genre: Animation / Fantasy / Action
Running time: 22min x 13 episodes |
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MASTER OF MARTIAL HEARTS
(Original title: Zettai Shogeki Platonic Heart)
Directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Completed |
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Director: Yoshitaka Fujimoto (Girls High)
A sexy girl’s battle action animation is born!A big hit original video animation in Japan.
Beautiful high school girls gracefully fight heated battles in sexy costumes such as flight attendant, doctor, nurse, police officer, maid, secretary, etc... Their goal is to get a legendary treasure called “Platonic Heart” which is known to make all of your wishes come true. The hard core martial arts battle breaks out to fight over the mysterious treasure!!! What are the mysteries of “Platonic Heart” and missing friends? Why do they have to fight? When all the questions are answered,there awaits a devastating ending. This is not just a simple action animation, but it also depicts a complex emotions of characters and mysteries lying before them.
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Genre: ANIMATION(OVA) / ACTION / EROTIC
Running time: 30min x 13 episodes |
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Kamogawa HORUMO − Battle League in Kyoto
(Original title: Kamogawa Horumo)
Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Completed |
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Director: Katsuhide Motoki (KITORO, 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! |
Genre: Fantasy / Action / Game
Running time: 113min |
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MONSTER X STRIKES BACK / ATTACK THE G8 SUMMIT!
(original title: Guilala no Gyakushu Samitto Kiki Ippatsu)
Directed by Minoru Kawasaki
Completed |
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Director: Minoru Kawasaki (The World Sinks Except Japan, The Calamari Wrestler)
Starring: Natsuki Kato (Battle Royale II: Requiem)
Kazuki Kato (Masked Rider the Next, “Hotaru no Hikari” -TV Series)
Guest appearance by Beat Takeshi (Zatoichi, Takeshi's)
A cult monster panic movie from the 60s "Monster X from Outer Space" comes back once again, now attacking the G8 Summit to finish the Earth once and for all!
In the summer of 2008, the G8 summit is being held at Lake Toya, a beautiful resort near the volcano in Hokkaido. At the same time, the Chinese rocket falls into Japan, causing the monster to be born from the spore attached to the rocket. The monster, Guilala, moves toward the summit conference site for the pursuit of volcanic energy. Now the world leaders have to terminate Guilala to show their country's prestige. First mission is missile attack by Japan, then Italy, Germany and... Deadly combat between human beings and the monster from outer space continues, but just when everyone starts to give up, two journalists find a strange group worshipping the legendary “god” at the lakeside. |
Genre: MONSTER
Running time: 98min |
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ICHI
(original title: ICHI)
Directed by SORI
Completed |
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Director: SORI (VEXILLE, Ping Pong)
Starring: Haruka Ayase (Happy Flight, The Magic Hour, Cyborg She, HERO) Takao Osawa (Midnight Eagle, Helen the Baby Fox), Shidou Nakamura (Red Cliff, Letters from Iwo Jima, Yamato)
The famed ZATOICHI - a lonesome blind swordsman - comes back to the screen once again, with ICHI, in a female character.
The story follows, Ichi, a lone blind shamisen-instrument player on the road, always facing people who treat her coldly and trying to take advantage of her. However, Ichi stands tall with dignity, and her emotions burst with action with the hidden sword in the walking cane that she swings to fight back. When she is involved in a battle between two yakuza groups, she realizes love for the first time and the border between life and death. |
Genre: ACTION / DRAMA/SAMURAI
Running time: 118min |
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KITARO AND THE MILLENNIUM CURSE
(Original Title: Gegege no Kitaro Sennen Noroi Uta)
Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Completed |
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Director: Katsuhide Motoki (KITARO, 10 Promises to My Dog)
Starring: Eiji Wentz (KITARO, Brave Story −voice)Kie Kitano (Speed Master, “Life”−TV Series)
Ken Ogata (Love and Honor, A Long Walk)
KITARO, a smash hit of 2007 reaching US$25million, is reborn with new characters, new visual and even more action!
A half human, half yokai hero Kitaro and his buddies, (performed by returning cast members), investigate a series of mysterious disappearance. They find out that it is somehow related with the “forbidden love” tragedy which occurred 1,000 years ago. Behind these incidents, there was conspiracy by the evil “yokai” and his followings trying to use the curse on the memaid who fell in love with human. As Kitaro fights against these enemies, he goes through an internal conflict over his identity. Will Kitaro be able to shutter the vicious cycle and bring love and peace to the world? |
Genre: ACTION / FANTASY
Running time: 119min |
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SHRILL CRIES OF SUMMER
(Original title: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
Directed by Ataru Oikawa
Completed |
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Director: Ataru Oikawa (TOMIE, Apartment 1303)
Starring: Gouki Maeda, Rin Asuka, Airi Matsuyama
A horrific feature adaptation of the best selling PC game, comics (sold over 4 million copies) and TV animation "When They Cry". One doubt breaks the peace…
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that Rena, Mion and the others that Keiichi trusted may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn. As if the girls' characters had completely changed, a sewing needle is found in his food, he is chased by mysterious men, and is involved in an accident which could have killed him. He could no longer trust anyone, and then… One mystery leads to another, bringing out a shockingly bloody ending!!!
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Genre: HORROR / THRILLER
Running time: 106min |
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SKETCH BOOK – Blooming Colors
(Original title: SKETCH BOOK – Full Colors)
Directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike
Completed |
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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 everyday life of Sora and her friends in the high school art club. Viewers will bring back memories of their own high school years! |
Genre: Animation
Running time: 30min×13 episodes |
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NORABBITS' MINUTES
Directed by Yuichi Ito
Completed |
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Director: Yuichi Ito
Here is the forest between the world of human beings and imaginary animals. In an underground apartment, two rabbits lead happy lives.
The story often seems heartwarming, but at the same, brings a cynical laughter. |
Genre: CLAY ANIMATION
Running time: 3 min x 5 episodes |
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Koji Yamamura Collection
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