The Fantasia Film Festival just got a bit more spicy as yet another Japan-based sliver of lunacy has been added to their already brimming with cool film line-up! Read on for the latest and some stills from Dead Sushi!
From the Press Release
Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo have announced that Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will have its world premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) in South Korea.
Iguchi, best-known for his high-octane 2008 action/comedy The Machine Girl, has become an international sensation with jaw-dropping, boundary-pushing films such as RoboGeisha, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.
“It’s an honor for us to host the world premiere of such a hilarious and bloody joy ride like Dead Sushi,...
From the Press Release
Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo have announced that Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will have its world premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) in South Korea.
Iguchi, best-known for his high-octane 2008 action/comedy The Machine Girl, has become an international sensation with jaw-dropping, boundary-pushing films such as RoboGeisha, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.
“It’s an honor for us to host the world premiere of such a hilarious and bloody joy ride like Dead Sushi,...
- 6/25/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Ninja Battle
Stars: Aiko Ito, Shuji Kashiwabara, Daisuke Nagakura, Kentaro Shimazu, Ben Hiura | Written and Directed by Seji Chiba
“When a small group of Iga ninjas find their comrade Yoshimori lying dead in a cave next to a bound a gagged girl, they immediately suspect her of somehow being involved in his murder. The girl, Sawa, is revealed to be a low-ranking Koga ninja from the distant Kashiwagi village and claims she was forced by Yoshimori to work for him as a traitor against her own clan. Sawa is believed to be in possession of a secret document containing information that could lead to the Iga’s successful resistance in the conflict with the Koga. But all is not as it appears.
As the Iga ninjas start to unravel the mystery surrounding Yoshimori’s death and continue their search for the missing vital document, Sawa proves that even tightly bound...
Stars: Aiko Ito, Shuji Kashiwabara, Daisuke Nagakura, Kentaro Shimazu, Ben Hiura | Written and Directed by Seji Chiba
“When a small group of Iga ninjas find their comrade Yoshimori lying dead in a cave next to a bound a gagged girl, they immediately suspect her of somehow being involved in his murder. The girl, Sawa, is revealed to be a low-ranking Koga ninja from the distant Kashiwagi village and claims she was forced by Yoshimori to work for him as a traitor against her own clan. Sawa is believed to be in possession of a secret document containing information that could lead to the Iga’s successful resistance in the conflict with the Koga. But all is not as it appears.
As the Iga ninjas start to unravel the mystery surrounding Yoshimori’s death and continue their search for the missing vital document, Sawa proves that even tightly bound...
- 2/4/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Read all about it! Seiji Chiba in ninja movie shocker! Before we start, I want to remind you of the last time I wrote about a Seiji Chiba movie. The film was called Rogue Ninja and the review went a little something like this. “For a film that clocks in at just over an hour, there’s a lot of exposition to wade through. The characters in Rogue Ninja sure like to talk, conspiring, deliberating, or just plain standing around putting the world to rights - you sometimes get the feeling that the world of Rogue Ninja is set inside a giant girl’s bathroom.” You wouldn’t believe how tempted I was to just copy and paste the review over. Then again, isn’t that kind of what I’m doing now? Wait, there’s more…The battle scenes are tightly choreographed - fast, fluid and energetic - but...
- 2/1/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
Writer-director Seiji Chiba sure loves ninjas, following his low budget epics “Rogue Ninja” and “Aliens vs. Ninja” with the imaginatively titled “Ninja Girl” (aka “The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl”). Certainly, it’s hard to fault the man for his dedication to the genre, and the film again sees him offering up his own skewed and slightly oddball take on the form, possibly taking another step along the road to producing the ultimate modern ninja opus. Working for once without his regular heroine Mika Hijii, Chiba teams with 19 year old real life karate sensation and the star of cult hits “Karate Girl” and “High-Kick Girl”, Rina Takeda, along with Kotono (“Mutant Girls Squad”), Mitsuki Koga (“Evil Ninja”) and Masanori Mimoto (“Aliens vs. Ninja”). The film is the latest of Chiba’s works to arrive on region 2 DVD, arriving in October via Mvm. As usual, the film is set back in 16th Century Japan,...
- 9/29/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Director: Seiji Chiba. Review: Adam Wing. Seiji Chiba sure loves his ninja movies. The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl, Alien vs. Ninja, Evil Ninja - its safe to assume that he’s comfortable within the action genre. Fans on these shores are likely to be familiar with Alien vs. Ninja, an action spoof that was little more than a sixty-minute fight sequence. There was enough mutilation and mayhem to keep you from reaching for the remote control though, even if it lacked the invention of some of its siblings. Rogue Ninja lacks anything approaching comedy aliens, with Chiba instead choosing to take his latest foray incredibly seriously. It's the 16th Century, a period of civil war in Japan, and stuck right in the middle are the Iga ninja. Rather than stand firm against the Nobunaga Oda and the Koga ninja that have joined forces, the Iga turn on themselves, dispensing with...
- 8/23/2011
- 24framespersecond.net
Seiji Chiba, director of the cult festival fav AvN (Alien vs. Ninja) has a new trailer for his martial arts film, Kunoichi. In the film, Takeda plays a young woman named Kisaragi who is abducted from her Koga ninja village along with three other women. The four of them are tied together with a rope and are led through the forest with sacks over their heads. Their captors are Shimotsuki and Hizuki, ninjas from the rival Iga clan who sell the women they capture into prostitution. Suddenly, a mysterious man appears and releases the four women from their bindings, giving Kisaragi an opportunity to fight back.
Here’s the trailer:
Thoughts?
Source: Nippon Cinema...
Here’s the trailer:
Thoughts?
Source: Nippon Cinema...
- 4/25/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
When it comes to Japanese girls spanking the living crap out of their cinematic enemies, nobody does it quite as effortlessly as Rina Takeda. In addition to the follow-up to her breakout film “High Kick Girl”, Takeda also has another action film ready to dazzle your senses. Seiji Chiba’s upcoming martial arts flick “Kunoichi” looks pretty swift, thanks in part to the assistance of action choreographer Kensuke Sonomura, who also hellped “Gantz” and “The Machine Girl” achieve a high level of on-screen madness. The trailer situated below is definitely promising, so expect yours truly to be all over it as soon as humanly possible. After all, I do have a weakness for such things. But first, a quick synopsis for enlightenment: It is the war-torn era where the Iga Ninja and Koga Ninja are in constant rivalry. Behind this, women have always suffered from oppression. One female Ninja, Kisaragi,...
- 3/7/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
The official website for Kunoichi has been updated with a 90-second trailer. The film was directed by Seiji Chiba (Alien vs. Ninja) and stars karate idol turned martial arts actress Rina Takeda.
In the film, Takeda plays a young woman named Kisaragi who is abducted from her Koga ninja village along with three other women (Mayu Onomura, Shiho Fujisawa, and Kotono). The four of them are tied together with a rope and are led through the forest with sacks over their heads. Their captors are Shimotsuki (Mitsuki Koga) and Hizuki (Masanori Mimoto), ninjas from the rival Iga clan who sell the women they capture into prostitution. Suddenly, a mysterious man (Yuichi Sato) appears and releases the four women from their bindings, giving Kisaragi an opportunity to fight back.
Kunoichi will get a limited late show release at Theater N Shibuya from March 19-April 8.
Watch »...
In the film, Takeda plays a young woman named Kisaragi who is abducted from her Koga ninja village along with three other women (Mayu Onomura, Shiho Fujisawa, and Kotono). The four of them are tied together with a rope and are led through the forest with sacks over their heads. Their captors are Shimotsuki (Mitsuki Koga) and Hizuki (Masanori Mimoto), ninjas from the rival Iga clan who sell the women they capture into prostitution. Suddenly, a mysterious man (Yuichi Sato) appears and releases the four women from their bindings, giving Kisaragi an opportunity to fight back.
Kunoichi will get a limited late show release at Theater N Shibuya from March 19-April 8.
Watch »...
- 3/3/2011
- Nippon Cinema
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