Tokyo! (2008)
filmforager.blogspot.com 9/4/2009 — I was pretty bummed to have missed this in theaters, so it was near top of my Netflix queue when I came back from Germany. Tokyo! is a collection of three shorts by three different directors, linked by the city in which they take place. Michel Gondry brings us "Interior Design", based on the ...

An Interview with TOKYO GORE POLICE Director Yoshihiro Nishimura
twitchfilm.net 10/28/2008 — How did you develop the idea for Tokyo Gore Police ? Tokyo Gore Police is actually a re-make of an independent film I made about ten years ago called Anatomia Extinction . After I finished Machine Girl [Nishimura did the effects work on this film] ...

Interview - Michel Gondry & Leos Carax - TOKYO!
blog.spout.com 3/8/2009 — Oh, the ever tricky omnibus film. As Lauren detailed in her review of Tokyo!, three very different auteurs were ushered off to the Japanese capital to offer their takes on the city which bursts from the seams with post fire-bomb post-modernity. ...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa exhumes the heart of a Japanese family in TOKYO SONATA
thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com 4/12/2009 — (Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and actor Teruyuki Kagawa, during the shooting of Tokyo Sonata , above.) By Terry Keefe This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine. For filmmaker Kiyoski Kurosawa, it wasn’t that big a leap from the horror genre to the domestic-style ...

No Tokyo Dolphins
hollywood-elsewhere.com 8/18/2009 — I missed Peter Howell's 8.5 scoop about the Tokyo Film Festival shunning The Cove. The Toronto Star critic got it the day before from Cove director Louie Psihoyos during a Toronto promotional visit. Psihoyos had been told that very day -- August 4th ...

Review: ‘Tokyo Sonata’ Is Filled With Beauty, Misery, and Japanese People
filmschoolrejects.com 4/3/2009 — Families in crisis, unemployment, and the painful lack of communication are issues detached from any one time or place. In today’s economic climate especially, these concerns are felt worldwide in almost every home. Japan is no different, and by all accounts they’ve actually ...

More International NYFF Trailers: "The Class,' 'Tony Manero' & 'Tokyo Sonata'
theplaylist.blogspot.com 10/9/2008 — While we were thinking about other New York Film Festival pictures we had seen and images for the films, we had realized we'd never really posted trailers for " The Class ," " Tony Manero " or " Tokyo Sonata " three films, French, Chilean and ...

Exclusive: First Look at Pixar's Tokyo Mater !
comingsoon.net 12/9/2008 — More and more, studios have been showing off brand-new 3-D projects and, every single time, I have the same reaction. "That's the best 3-D I've ever seen!" I'll proclaim and each time it happens to be true. That's just been the nature of the ...

Tokyo International Film Festival
tiff-jp.net 9/19/2008 — Updates yoko 2008.09.19 TIFF's commentary on loss of the director, Jun Ichikawa conference 2008.09.19 Press Conference for Lineup of the 21st TIFF! 2008.09.19 Andrew Stanton's WALL･E will screen as a Closing Film for the 21st edition of Tokyo ...

The New York Film Festival - Film Society of Lincoln Center
filmlinc.com 10/15/2008 — Scene Photo Tokyo Sonata Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Country: Japan/Netherlands, Release: 2008, Runtime: 119 Kiyoshi Kurosawa delves into a different kind of horror with his surprising and ...