Saturday, June 30, 2012

Party 7

Japan, 2000
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Starring: Asano Tadanobu, Masatoshi Nagase, Ren Ohsugi

Friday, June 29, 2012

The Great Shogunate Battle

Edo-jo tairan
Japan, 1991
Director: Toshio Masuda
Starring: Hiroki Matsukata, Yukiyo Toake, Shinobu Sakagami

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Toei Kyoto Studio Park

Toei Eigamura is a film set and theme park in Kyoto, obviously I had to take a look ...

It's nothing on the scale of say Disneyland or Universal Studios ... but you don't get the queues either. It has a ninja house, an old theatre, a replica edo-period village film set, and an anime museum. They actually still shoot period dramas there too.


The replica Edo-period village ...



Watching a period drama being filmed ...



Some movie artwork and publicity stills ...



The theatre ...






Monday, June 25, 2012

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Gojira tai Mosura tai Mekagojira: Tôkyô S.O.S.
Japan, 2003
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka, Mitsuki Koga, Yumiko Shaku, Norman Englan

Godzilla Millenium

Gojira ni-sen mireniamu
Japan, 1999
Director: Takao Okawara
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Takehiro Murata

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Mothra 2

Mosura 2 - Kaitei no daikessen
Japan, 1997
Director: Kunio Miyoshi
Starring: Megumi Kobayashi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Aki Hano

The Return of Godzilla

Gojira
Japan, 1984
Director: Koji Hashimoto
Starring: Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Kei Sato

Friday, June 22, 2012

Rikyu

Japan, 1989
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyoko Kishida

Sharaku

Japan, 1995
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Frankie Sakai, Shima Iwashita, Riona Hazuki, Naoto Takenaka

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle

Hâdo ribenji, Mirî: Buraddi batoru 
Japan, 2009
Director: Takanori Tsujimoto
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Rei Fujita, Mitsuki Koga

Hard Revenge, Milly

Hâdo ribenji, Mirî
Japan, 2008
Director: Takanori Tsujimoto
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Hirotsugu Imamura, Mitsuki Koga

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Red Shadow

Akakage 
Japan, 2001
Director: Hiroyuki Nakano
Starring: Masanobu Ando, Megumi Okina, Kumiko Aso

Step Up Love Story: Triple Love

Japan, 2012
Director: Kazuhiro Yokoyama
Starring: Yuri Morishita, Hikaru Okada, Aya Kiguchi

Gatefold Chirashi with Step Up Love Story: Love Forever on the reverse.


Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A Chinese Ghost Story II

Sien nui yau wan II yan gaan do
Hong Kong, 1990
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee

Gatefold chirashi.



A Chinese Ghost Story

Sien nui yau wan
Hong Kong, 1987
Director: Siu-Tung Ching Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Ma Wu, Elvis Tsui

Cleopatra

United Kingdom, 1963
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall

Poster for the 1977 release.