#Takayuki Hamatsu

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The Road to Red Restaurants List / Zetsumeshi Road (Ep 6)

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ONE CUT OF THE DEAD [カメラを止めるな！] Shin'ichirô Ueda Japan, 2017

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These two actors will be playing the main characters in the hell is other people adaptation that is being produced in Japan right now! Release date is set for november 15 this year.

As far as I know, they will be adapting the webtoon and not remake the korean drama. I expect a lot of changes to be made, especially since the character on the right is reminding me more of the webtoon version of moonjo, aka yeongsam/영삼 (he even resembles Ki-Hyuk, who resembled Yeongsam a lot too)

the webtoon antagonist looks like this by the way:

As for the actors, here is what I could find:

- Jongwoo is renamed "Yuu" and is played by Hachimura Rintaro (funny enough, the guy is also part of a boy group/an Idol. Just like Yim Siwan). His only acting roles so far are this movie, another movie and a series.

- Moonjo/Yeongsam is renamed "Kirishima" and is played by Yanagi Shuntaro. He has played in quite a lot of movies, including horror and thriller works.

- Ji-eun (girlfriend of Jongwoo) is renamed "Megumi" and is played by Okada Yui (google translate gave me the name "Yumi" name which tells you it's not really accurate...). She has played in quite a lot of movies and series, including horror and thriller works.

- I'm pretty sure "Yamaguchi" who is described as yakuza-like man is Hee-Joong, the guy that "moves out" early.

- "Maru" and "Goru" are probably the twins.

- the only name left is "Yoshiko" which might be the owner of Eden or in this case, "Hakubone"

Here are all the co-star actors names I found:

Kento Miura

Sayaka Aoki

Takato Okura

Masato Hagiwara

Takeru Suzuki

Kousuke Hoshi

Takayuki Hamatsu

Mikoto Hibi

Yohei Matsukado

Eden seems to be renamed "Hakubone" which means boat or ark (Ark was also the name google translate gave me, it's probably referencing Noah's Ark).

As for the director, their name seems to be Kodama Kazuto, I looked through their works and they directed over 60 horror movies since 2005, I have yet to see any of their works but I will check them out, i'm really curious how the quality of them is.

here are the sources I used:

english: x

japanese: x (if you translate this, there is some extra comments made by the actors included at the end of the article)

also, an asianwiki page was made for the movie: x

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One Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!), Shin'ichirô Ueda (2017)

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The Road to Red Restaurants List / Zetsumeshi Road (Ep 10)

Food taste better when you're having fun, like car camping. It taste mediocre when you're bored at home.

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One Cut of the Dead (2017)

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Kingdom 2: Far and Away (2022)

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Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Sub. Esp)

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Título: Kingdom 2: Harukanaru Daichi e (Kingdom 2: Hacia la Tierra Lejana) País: Japón Duración: 134 min. Género: acción, historia, guerra Fecha de estreno: 15 de julio, 2022 Dirección: Sato Shinsuke Guion: Kuroiwa Tsutomu SINOPSIS Después de reprimir la rebelión de su hermano menor, el rey del estado de Qin, Eisei, que había tomado el trono y aspira a unificar China, es amenazado por asesinos que entraron en el palacio real por la noche. Gracias a Shin y Ka Ryou TEn, quienes se apresuraron a la escena, los asesinos fueron repelidos con éxito, pero estaba claro que había alguien dentro del palacio que planeaba asesinar a Eisei. Si bien todavía había cierta incertidumbre, el enemigo vecino, el estado de Wei, comenzó a invadir a través de la frontera, y Shin finalmente se unirá a su primera batalla como soldado de a pie. Los soldados de a pie formaron un equipo "GO" de cinco hombres, y Shin se unió al campo de batalla junto con sus viejos amigos Bi Hei y Bi Tou, que vienen de la misma ciudad natal, el experimentado líder del escuadrón Taku Kei, que no es fiable pero nunca había matado a nadie, y el misterioso Kyou Kai, cuyo rostro está cubierto casi por completo con una máscara. Go Kei, el gran general de Wei, es un genio con una excelente estrategia militar, y también hace pleno uso de la poderosa fuerza de carros de Wei para invadir a los soldados de a pie de Qin en la línea del frente. Cuando el gran general de Qin, el duque Hyou, recibe noticias de la amarga batalla, simplemente sonríe irónicamente y ordena a sus tropas que se mantentan alerta. Contra probabilidades abrumadoras, Shin pelea una batalla solitaria con su habilidad perfeccionada con la espada, mientras que sus camaradas y otros lograron sobrevivir con su propio ingenio. Baku Koshin, un general de mil hombres de Qin, ve el éxito de Shin y sus hombres y corrió a las colinas para unirse a ellos en un asalto aún más imprudente. Con Shin y sus hombres del Cuarto Ejército mostrando un ligero tambaleo por la abrumadora desventaja de Qin del día anterior, el duque Kyou encuentra la "chispa" de la batalla y finalmente hace su movimiento. Mientras la batalla vanza a lo grande y un gran fuego comienza a rodar, esa persona inesperada también aparece en el campo de batalla... CAST Yamazaki Kento como Shin Yoshizawa Ryo como Eisei/Hyou Hashimoto Kanna como Ka Ryou Ten Seino Nana como Kyou Kai Mitsushima Shinnosuke como Heki Okayama Amane como Bi Hei Miura Takahiro como Bi Tou Hamatsu Takayuki como Taku Kei Makabe Togi como Hairou Yamamoto Chihiro como Kyou Sho Toyokawa Etsushi como Hyou Kou Takashima Masahiro como Shobunkun Kaname Jun como To Kato Masaya como Shishi Takahashi Tsutomu como Kyugen Shibukawa Kiyohiko como Baku Koshin Hirayama Yusuke como Mou Bu Ozawa Yukiyoshi como Gou Kei Tamaki Hiroshi como Shou Hei Kun Sato Koichi como Ryo Fui Osawa Takao como Ou Ki

TRÁILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJR1YKFq_8

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The Road to Red Restaurants List / Zetsumeshi Road (Ep 4)

Dream vacation. Road trip and splashing around by the sea. 🌊

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IT’S TIME FOR MY FAVES OF 2019 BABYYYYYYYYY LET’S KISS THAT YEAR GOODBYEEEEE

Okay so I didn’t get to a lot of movies I wanted to because of time or access but this isn’t my job so like whatevs. ANYWAY, here’s my whole ranked list on letterboxd (follow me on letterboxd pls) but HERE WE GO LET’S DO IT.

Top 10 Films of 2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Midsommar

Parasite

Little Women

Her Smell

Knives Out

The Farewell

Uncut Gems

The Lighthouse

High Life

Things that are not movies that are nevertheless on letterboxd and I gave either 4.5 or 5 stars:

National Theater Live: Fleabag

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

Chernobyl

Unbelievable

Leaving Neverland

Any my superlatives!!! The first one listed in each category is my winner and the rest are alphabetical.

Best Directors

Celine Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Greta Gerwig - Little Women

Bong Joon-Ho - Parasite

Joe Talbot - The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Lulu Wang - The Farewell

Best Actresses

Lupita Nyong’o - Us

Ana de Armas - Knives Out

ANNUAL LESBIAN CHEAT: Adele Haenel & Noemie Merlant - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Fast Color

Elisabeth Moss - Her Smell

Best Actors

Robert Pattinson - High Life

Robert De Niro - The Irishman

Taron Egerton - Rocketman

Takayuki Hamatsu - One Cut of the Dead

Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems

Best Supporting Actresses

Florence Pugh - Little Women

Rebecca Ferguson - Doctor Sleep

Jennifer Lopez - Hustlers

Fatma Mohamed - In Fabric

Park So Dam - Parasite

Best Supporting Actors

Joe Pesci - The Irishman

Tom Burke - The Souvenir

Bill Hader - It: Chapter 2

Tommy Lee Jones - Ad Astra

Jonathan Majors - The Last Black Man in San Francisco

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Year-End Awards 2019

2019 was very good for movies.  Or, rather, November and December of 2019 were very good for movies.  I could speculate about why that is (Awards season? Disney? Moloch?), but I don’t really know.  What I do know is that the Oscars are tomorrow, so I better get this post up today.

Honorable mentions in no particular order.  Strap in, chumps.

Best Lead Performance: Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

Sometimes it feels like Adam Sandler is cheating, lowering our expectations with awful performances in even-more-awful films so that his dramatic turns look better by comparison.  But whether or not we grade him on a curve, this performance is the best of the year.  

Sandler’s character, Howard Ratner, is ridiculous.  In fact, much of the movie is ridiculous.  But Sandler makes this absurd person human, and in doing so, makes the whole movie work.  He commits hard to the role, and even though every scene is a little more unbelievable than the last, I never for a moment stopped believing in Howard.  Superb work.

Honorable Mentions: Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse; Saoirse Ronan, Little Women; Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story; Adam Driver, Marriage Story; Ana de Armas, Knives Out; Kang-ho Song, Parasite; Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes.

Best Supporting Performance: The rest of the cast of Uncut Gems

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Uncut Gems is a movie that survives entirely on its acting.  The Safdie brothers themselves have said that the movie wouldn’t work without Kevin Garnett nailing the scene where he first holds the black opal.  I’d extend that credit to all the other supporting roles: Idina Menzel as Howard’s wife who no longer even bats an eye at the insanity he brings on himself, Marshall Greenberg (a non-actor) as the fellow jeweler who expresses genuine concern for Howard but still gives him unfavorable terms on a pawn deal, deranged Garment District legend Wayne Diamond as a character just named “High Roller”—every one of these people is essential to the success of the film.  When it comes down to it, Uncut Gems doesn’t make any sense.  It takes a suite of perfect performances to make it feel as real as it does.

Honorable Mentions: Timothée Chalamet, Little Women; Laura Dern, Little Women; Florence Pugh, Little Women; Takayuki Hamatsu, One Cut of the Dead; Daniel Craig, Knives Out; Al Pacino, The Irishman.

The Costner Award for Worst Actor: Rebel Wilson, Cats

When we meet Rebel Wilson (as her fursona “Jennyanydots,” a name I will never utter again), she is showing her butthole to the camera.  The character never gets more likable than that, because they let Rebel Wilson ad-lib numerous “comedic” lines to punch up the script. They’re awful.

Honorable Mention: James Corden, Cats.

 Nicest Surprise: Cold Pursuit

I watch the Liam Neeson stupid action flick with my brother Rob every year. Sometimes we get something legitimately great, like A Walk Among the Tombstones.  Other times we get a movie like The Commuter, which is dumb as rocks.  But this is the first time we got a comedy.  I went in expecting a second-rate Neeson-kills-people thriller, and instead got a solid black comedy.  Apparently it’s nearly a shot-for-shot remake of the Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance, so maybe I should have known better.  But I didn’t, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Hiddenest Gem: One Cut of the Dead

One Cut of the Dead is the best movie of the year that my friends haven’t seen, and it’s a tough movie to talk about because of how fun it is to watch knowing nothing about it.  So I’ll keep it short.  One Cut is a Japanese schlock horror movie with a fun twist that manages to be creepy at first, then funny, then heartwarming.  Two things elevate this above the usual fun-twist movie.  The first is that the surprise unfolds in little pieces over the entire second half of the movie, rather than hitting all at once. The second is that there’s real substance there: under the goofy exterior there’s a charming family story that’s worth coming back for.

 Most Insulting Moment: We Hate Sensory Deprivation, Angel Has Fallen

I haven’t seen the other films in the Blank Has Fallen franchise, nor did I need to do so to understand its third installment.  It’s exactly the kind of institution-worshipping great-men-of-history support-our-troops action bullshit you’d expect.  But after the credits, there’s a totally inexplicable scene where Gerard Butler and his dad Nick Nolte agree to get treatment for their (implied) PTSD.  Instead of leaving it as just a nice moment of healing, it cuts to a comedy scene where they go to a two-person sensory-deprivation tank and float around in the dark complaining about it.  The general gist of the scene is “sensory deprivation is dumb and gay.”  I’m not a sense-dep guy, but it’s used here as a stand-in for all the forms of “modernity” that reactionary filmmakers hate: you know, like mental health treatment, or trying new things, or expressing any sincere vulnerability even for a moment.  Why not just show them affectionately kissing guns and save some production cost?

Honorable Mentions:  The trailer for A Dog’s Way Home; The narration in Ad Astra.

 Winter’s Tale Memorial “What the Hell Am I Watching” Award: Cats

At long last, a film that unites the unholy trinity of ambition, incompetence, and derangement to form a true “What the Hell Am I Watching” award-winner.  The premise of Cats, in short, is that the cats of London meet every year to perform a ritual sacrifice of one of their number, believing that the chosen cat will, after their death, be reincarnated…as another London cat.  And they determine the sacrifice by holding a talent show.  And one of the cats is a warlock.  So we’re off to a good start.

I was fortunate enough to see the original version.  You see, the film is almost entirely CGI, so much so that viewing it feels like living inside a haunted kaleidoscope.  Even the actors, through “digital fur technology,” are turned into cats which are anthropomorphized to greater or lesser degrees. The warlock cat, for example, has cat abs.  But shortly after theatrical release, director Tom Hooper realized that the film contained major visual effects oversights, including failing to CGI several of the actors’ hands, meaning that Judi Dench and Ian McKellen appeared to have human arms on cat bodies.  These are only some of the crimes of the film Cats.  A full reading of the litany would take all day.

Honorable Mentions: A Dog’s Journey; Gemini Man.

Prettiest Movie: 1917

I’d be remiss not to talk about the cinematic achievement of 1917.  The all-in-one-take thing, or the appearance thereof, is kind of a used gimmick at this point.  (Birdman, after all, used it and won Best Picture.)  I went into 1917 expecting a cheap knockoff. Instead I was blown away.  Every detail was perfect, down to the mud stains on the extras’ overcoats, the stacking of sandbags in the real dug-out trenches, the bloating of the bodies clogging the waterways.  One especially memorable scene follows our hero (George MacKay) sprinting through a ruined city by night, intermittently lit by mortar fire, dodging gunfire all the way.  Maybe “pretty” isn’t the right word, but no film this year used the visual medium as well as 1917.

Honorable Mentions: Parasite, Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood.

Best Picture: Under the Silver Lake

Yes, I know it’s weird to give Best Picture to a movie that didn’t even get an honorable mention anywhere else.  But this is my blog, dammit, I stand by it.  Under the Silver Lake is a movie about capitalist-media-technology-complex-inspired brain poisoning.  It stayed on my mind for weeks after seeing it, and I eventually gave it a second watch. It held up.  

Criticisms of the film abound, like how male-gazey a lot of the portrayals of women are, but I think the parts that some reviewers identify as flaws are intentional and important features of the movie.  We see the film through the eyes of our main character (Andrew Garfield), who is a scumbag, but the film is very clearly not endorsing being a scumbag. It’s about the interplay of personal neuroses and moral failings with the broader perverse clown-reality we all occupy, and the inescapable tinge our perspectives bring to the world we see. The film is, after all, a sort of noir film, and our hero’s attitudes are reflective in some ways of the noir mindset: find the clues, unravel the plot, get the girl.  The incongruity between the stories and attitudes of our past and the demented reality of our future define the film.

I could go on about this for much longer, which is why I’m choosing Silver Lake as the best film of the year.  It’s not notable for its acting or cinematography (though both are solid), but in terms of content, nothing else this year encapsulated my internal and external world quite so well as this.

Honorable mentions: Parasite; 1917; Little Women; The Irishman; One Cut of the Dead; Marriage Story; Uncut Gems.

 That’s it, that’s the post.  I think I’m moving to Letterboxd next year.

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More of the cast from the “Star☆Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete” anime film has been revealed. The film will be released in Japanese theaters October 19th.

-New Cast-

Takayuki Hamatsu

Yui Ishikawa

Shunsuke Sakuya

Jin Katagiri

Ryusuke Komakine

via: precure-movie.com

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[Sakiyama Tsubasa - News] Hana ni Kedamono ~Vita Sexualis~ Theme Song & Zekkyo Drama Appearance!

This week (or last week, depending on where you live xD) Sakiyama Tsubasa threw several bombs related to work, so I'll start with these two announcements~

The first one, Tsubasa’s song "Snow gift" is gonna be used as the theme song of the movie comic "Hana ni Kedamono ~Vita Sexualis~", sequel from the manga "Hana ni Kedamono". “Snow gift” is the second song Tsubasa wrote for his first album UTOPIA. The first one, Re:quest, is being used for the movie “Kurogarasu” in which Tsubasa is the main character.

Distribution starts on March 20, 2019 on dTV. More info HERE and HERE.

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The second one, Tsubasa is going to appear in the drama "Zekkyo" ("Scream", also known as "The Voice Calling Your Name") from the novel of the same name written by Hamanaka Aki and now directed by Mizuta Naruhide.

Summary

A decayed body is found in an apartment. The dead woman is identified as Suzuki Yoko. Detective Ayano Okunuki heads up the investigation. After learning about the victim's background, she comes to the conclusion that the body may not be that of Suzuki Yoko.

Drama: Zekkyo Cast: Ono Machiko, Yasuda Ken, Konishi Manami, Katagiri Jin, Maekawa Yasuyuki, Koyanagi Yu, Sakai Wakana, Kaname Jun, Asou Yumi, Kaku Tomohiro, Rokkaku Shinji, Ikushima Sho, Sakiyama Tsubasa, Hamatsu Takayuki, Kobayashi Ryoko, Okunuki Kaoru. Genre: Suspense Episodes: 4 Release Date: March 24th, 2019- April 14th, 2019 (Sundays 10:00 PM JST) on WOWOW. Official Site: HERE

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Nueva imagen y cinco voces más de la película Eiga Star ☆ Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete

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Nueva imagen y cinco voces más de la película Eiga Star ☆ Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete

La página web oficial de Eiga Star ☆ Twinkle Precure: Hoshi no Uta ni Omoi wo Komete, la película de Star ☆ Twinkle Precure, el último anime de la franquicia Precure, ha publicado una nueva imagen promocional (arriba) y anunciado cinco voces más de la misma: Takayuki Hamatsu. Yui Ishikawa. Shunsuke Sakuya. Jin Katagiri. Ryusuke…