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The performance of the 2016 Japanese film is nothing less than an enlarged version of "8 Minutes of Tokyo". The phenomenal animated film Your Name. " and the appearance of the IP live-action movie "New Godzilla" highlights the absolute advantages of traditional IP and animation works in the local market.
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"Fury"
Director: Lee Sang-il
Writers: Shuichi Yoshida and Lee Sang-il
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Kenichi Matsuyama, Tsuyoshi Ayano, Suzu Hirose.
In a high-end apartment in Tokyo, a couple was brutally murdered. After committing the crime, the murderer stayed in the house for six hours, and even wrote a big "anger" on the wall with blood. After this, the murderer escapes. People in Chiba, Tokyo, and Okinawa met unidentified men. They bear more or less resemblance to the murderer, and the men and women who intersect with them will suffer a huge shock on the body and mind.
Lee Sang-il and Shuichi Yoshida have collaborated for the second time since the winner of the Tenbun newspaper, Wicked Man, and the original novel is inspired by a real incident in Chiba Prefecture in 2007, when the killer fled for two and a half years after killing a 22-year-old foreign female teacher. Whistleblowers and whistleblowers have built a complex and chaotic network of human social relations, and the naked humanity has been revealed, making "Fury" like a heavy sigh that has been lingering for a long time.
"Eternal Excuse"
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Writers: Miwa Nishikawa
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Pisto Takehara, Eiri Fukatsu, Keiko Horiuchi, and Kawa Kuroki
The relationship between Yukio Igua, who is well known in the novel world, and his wife Natsuko is breaking down. One day, Natsuko and her friends were in a car accident while traveling, and both died. The well-behaved Yukio did not feel sad at all, but he wanted to pretend to be mournful in front of the media and the world. When he met with a pair of children of his deceased wife's friend Ah Xue, his inner frozen emotions unconsciously loosened.
Once beautiful and holy love, it has also become filthy in the materialistic contemporary society. Marriage has become a non-binding contract, behind the happy face is the same bed and different dreams, "see you on the south bank of the painting hall, a moment of snuggling people trembling" Stimulation stealing joy early victory but the old mountain alliance sea oath. So the lover either disappears, watching the hypocrites perform hard, or parting from life and death, leaving you with an excuse that can never be faced calmly. The novel of the same name by director Mikazu Nishikawa has been nominated for important literary awards such as the Yamashi Nagorō Award and the Naoki Thirty-Five Award.
"In This Corner of the World"
Director: Katabuchi Sushina
编剧: Kata-Chen-nao, Kouno Fumiyo (original)
Actor: Reina Noh
The film is based on the manga of the same name by Tsutomu Shidai and tells the story of Urano Suzuura No suzuto who marries the military port city of Kure, a Hiroshima-born city. At the final critical moment of the Pacific War, Suzu and his family experienced unimaginable human tribulations such as shortages of supplies, air raids, and parting lives and deaths.
Although the film was initially released on a small scale, it received unanimous praise from film critics. With Your Name. Similarly, it is widely known through the word-of-mouth spread of SNS, and the number of theaters will expand by 3 times in 2017 to continue to be released. All the critics of the "Film Magazine" gave it a 5-star praise, and praised it with "Tomb of the Fireflies" as "war animation double bibi". "The Corner of the World" is also the first animated film to win the Best Work Award since the establishment of the Yokohama Film Festival.
The Deranged Generation
Director: Tetsuya Makoto
Screenplay: Tetsuya Makoto
Performance: Yanagi Koya, Sugata Masanori, Komatsu Nana, Murakami Nijiro
Yasuyoshi Ashwara, who had lost his parents at an early age, was bullied to the extreme, and he could only resort to violence with his anger. He left his birthplace and set foot in the city to launch indiscriminate attacks on anyone who did not like it. The young man who looks like a very broiler, Yuya, also uses Taira's violence to release all his dissatisfaction with the world, and the waitress Nana, who relies on her beauty to confuse the world, is also involved in the carnival feast of this deranged generation.
In 2012, while filming a music video in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, director Masatoshi Tetsu heard the story of a violent youth from a bartender, and the closeness of his peers made him determined to bring it to the screen. The film captures three typical characters to depict in white, both the extremely evil depravity of "The Wicked" and the unexplained self-destruction of "Hero Show", showing the extreme appearance of young people in the materialized world. Young film emperor Yumi Yanagi contributed the best interpretation since "Nobody Knows".
The Bride of Rip van Winkel
Director: Shunji Iwai
Writers: Shunji Iwai
Cast: Kazura Kuroki, Tsuyoshi Ayano, Cocco
Dispatched teacher Minagawa Qihai is a young woman who is too introverted or even has no clear goals in life, she met her boyfriend through a dating website, and quickly entered the marriage hall, who knows but quickly fell to the bottom of her life. In the most anxious and helpless moment, Amuro Yusuke, who is engaged in various marginal industries, came to his aid, during which Qihai also met the lively Lizhong Zhenbai while working. This encounter is the beginning of a sad fate...
Since "Flowers and Alice", Shunji Iwai has released a live-action feature film that has been separated for 12 years. Temporary family members construct false happy scenes, just like the ridiculousness and absurdity of "Swallowtail Butterfly" throughout. The separation and alienation between people has been revealed in several weddings. The most direct blow to the heart is the wedding photography of Kurokiwa and Cocco and the wailing of the real white mother after shedding her clothes.
"Family Suffering"
Director: Yoji Yamada
Writers: Yoji Yamada and Emiko Hiramatsu
Cast: Ko hashimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa, Tomoko Nakajima, Satoshi Mugashi, and Yu Aoi
Shuzo Hirata, a retired office worker, has finally lived a leisurely life of playing ball and drinking small drinks. When he returned home drunk, he found that he had forgotten his wife's birthday, and then his wife Fuzi actually filed for divorce. After this, Zhou Zao's three children and their respective families were involved in this ridiculous divorce storm...
After completing the homage to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story with "Tokyo Family", the childlike director Yoji Yamada created this tearful and laughing "Family Suffering", which is also his first time to direct a comedy film in 21 years since "Man's True Fate BitterNess Injiro Red Flower". In the works of the old man, great good and great evil are always on the side of fate, and the trivial skins of the little people are eager to be coveted and enjoyed. The so-called "grounding gas" presumably refers to the Folk Drama of yamada Stream.
《Tuandi》
Director: Shunji Sakamoto
Screenwriter: Shunji Sakamoto
Cast: Naomi Fujiyama, Kazutoku Kishibe, Michiyo Dainan, Renji Ishibashi, Andafushi
The Tuandi residential area that arose in the Showa era is now quietly fading into the twilight of history. One day, Hinata Yamashita and her husband Kiyoharu moved into the residential area, and their arrival immediately attracted the attention of local residents. Not long after, Kiyoshi "decided to die" and then hid under the floor of his house and did not come out. On weekdays, Hinata goes out to work as usual, but Kiyoharu's absence causes all kinds of speculation among the neighbors, and the rumors become more and more fierce.
Shunji Sakamoto, a member of the academy, has previously demonstrated his control over comedy films through "The Riot of Ōkamura", and his long-cherished desire to cooperate with Naomi Fujiyama has made this sci-fi (SF) comedy film that exudes a strong Showa atmosphere. In order to take care of Fujiyama's schedule, the script was only conceived in a few days and completed within a week. Even so, the symbols from the old times and the imaginative aliens not only create an absurd and abnormal comedic effect, but also reflect the cold social status quo of the closed mode of the group. What is precious is that this perspective is indeed rare at the moment.
"Please Call Me a Hero"
Director: Nobusuke Sato
Writers: Akiko Nogi, Kengo Hanazawa
Cast: Hiroshi Oizumi, Jun Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Nana Katase, Yu Yoshizawa
His manga assistant, Hideo Suzuki, who has long since passed the age, is unknown, and all his daily energy is spent on how to deal with his girlfriend's accusations, the ridicule of the editors, and the various urges of the manga artists he serves, without the slightest awareness that the world around him is quietly changing. Until one day, the terrifying zombie virus broke out, and the orderly society fell into chaos. And the inconspicuous hero is forced to become a "hero" who defends himself and others.
Zombie-themed films have always been the patents of European and American countries, especially Hollywood, and South Korea and Japan, which are also trending, do not believe in evil, and in 2016, they came up with their own zombie films and beautiful daddies. A "Busan Trip" has become a fashion icon, and "Hero", which is jokingly called "Mt. Fuji", has more than enough, spilling blood plasma and various strange settings, making "Busan Trip" like an early childhood education version. The film can be described as an appetizer for fans who love B-grade movies.
Seto Inland Sea
Director: Ritsuji Omori
Writers: Tatsuji Omori, Kazuya Motomoto, Daimi Miyazaki
Cast: Ikematsu Shoryo, Sugata Shoko, Nakajo Saihiro
Uchimi and Seto Koyoshi are two high school boys who do not participate in any clubs and are insulated from love, and every day after school, they are bored to the river, sitting on the steps and chatting about various boring topics in the sky. That's how they spent their campus youth carelessly.
The film is based on the "Small Talk Manga" that won the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award readers' award, and is co-starred by young actors Ikematsu Toshiaki and Shoko Sugata, who have been widely involved in the film and television industry in recent years. The two's boring temperaments directly chased the predecessors Ofota and Matsuda Ryuhei, who had played for Omori Group, which made people look forward to their future development.
The New Godzilla
Performed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
Writer: Hideaki Anno
Enko: Hiromi Kayatanigawa, Akira Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Kengo Takara, Akira Osugi
In the calm of Tokyo Bay, strange and abnormal phenomena suddenly appear. Before long, a mysterious creature with a huge body stepped out of the water and wreaked havoc on the crowded and noisy metropolis. Humans use destructive weapons to meet the head-on attack, who knows, but there is no effect. The terrible monster Godzilla becomes a terrifying nightmare that peaceful humans have never experienced before...
The Godzilla series, based on the atomic bomb as its origin, was founded in the 1950s as an important genre for close-up monsters. Unfortunately, with the growing problems of creative exhaustion, backward technology, and changing viewing tastes, the Godzilla series declined, and finally came to a temporary end in 2004. Since then, Hollywood has been renovated twice, and although the visual effects are outstanding, they are still superficial. This time, Hideaki Anno and Makoto Higuchi came out, not only declaring Godzilla's sovereignty, but also bringing the long-dormant beast to life. A total of 328 Japanese filmmakers participated in it, which is nothing less than Japan's "Founding of the Nation".
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