When punk emerged in the mid-70s, starting its journey across the globe, its music fashion and hairstyles defined an attitude opposed to the ideals of society, especially the growing return to conformity and the politics of that time. Bands like The Stooges and Sex Pistols set out to add the soundtrack consisting of a rejection of bourgeois ideas of rhythm and harmony, basically everything which then stood for mainstream, a definite counterpart to the yuppie culture, especially in the 1980s. Even though the heart of the movement, depending on who you ask, lies in Great Britain or the USA, punk also spread to Japan where it became a lively sub-culture with bands like Friction or The Stalin being two of the most famous ones. Somewhat ironically it is this movement, its music and its attitudes which is at the heart of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s “Fish Story” and possibly the...
- 7/14/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
It sounded too crazy to be true. The host of an opening for a Welsh marina in the 1980s was a BBC broadcaster named Michael Fish and all the invited guests were locals with fish names: Salmon, Carp, Bass, Haddock …
Charlie Lyne figured that it probably wasn’t true, but he loved the story anyway. He’d heard it from his friend Caspar Salmon, who said his grandmother had attended the event on the Welsh island of Anglesey.
“I would force him to tell it to anyone I introduced him to,” Lyne said. “It just became incessant, a favorite party trick to get him to reiterate this story — culminating in forcing him to do it for the film.”
Also Read: Finalists Announced for 2018 ShortList Film Festival
Lyne didn’t have high hopes for his short film, “Fish Story,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2018 ShortList Film Festival that required feats of...
Charlie Lyne figured that it probably wasn’t true, but he loved the story anyway. He’d heard it from his friend Caspar Salmon, who said his grandmother had attended the event on the Welsh island of Anglesey.
“I would force him to tell it to anyone I introduced him to,” Lyne said. “It just became incessant, a favorite party trick to get him to reiterate this story — culminating in forcing him to do it for the film.”
Also Read: Finalists Announced for 2018 ShortList Film Festival
Lyne didn’t have high hopes for his short film, “Fish Story,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2018 ShortList Film Festival that required feats of...
- 8/10/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
TheWrap is pleased to announce the 12 finalists in the seventh annual ShortList Film Festival, launching today online.
The finalists, hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals over the last year, will stream on the site starting today through August 22, 2018 — allowing visitors to vote on their favorites.
The Audience Prize and The Industry Prize winners will each receive a $5,000 cash prize during a ceremony to take place at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 23.
The films in the main competition are a mix of foreign language, drama, comedy and animation created by filmmakers from around the globe.
Also Read: Meet: The 2018 ShortList Film Festival Jurors!
In addition, eight student films from top colleges and universities included in TheWrap’s ranking of film schools have been named finalists in a sidebar competition.
The contenders come from filmmakers who studied at USC, UCLA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts,...
The finalists, hand-picked from the world’s top film festivals over the last year, will stream on the site starting today through August 22, 2018 — allowing visitors to vote on their favorites.
The Audience Prize and The Industry Prize winners will each receive a $5,000 cash prize during a ceremony to take place at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles on Thursday, August 23.
The films in the main competition are a mix of foreign language, drama, comedy and animation created by filmmakers from around the globe.
Also Read: Meet: The 2018 ShortList Film Festival Jurors!
In addition, eight student films from top colleges and universities included in TheWrap’s ranking of film schools have been named finalists in a sidebar competition.
The contenders come from filmmakers who studied at USC, UCLA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
You have probably heard about money laundering. But what about Room Laundering? Director and writer Kenji Katagiri wants to tell you more about that in his same-titled debut film.
“Room Laundering” is part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
Room Laundering means to restore the reputation of an apartment. Why was the Reputation damaged? Because someone got killed or killed himself there. The Japanese law demands the landlord to inform the new tenant about the previous happenings, which will make it very hard to sell the apartment. There is a loophole, though. This information obligation lasts until the first new tenant after the incident, moves in.
And this is where the story kicks in. Miko, played by Elaiza Ikeda (“The Many Faces of Ito” 2017), is a young woman, who works as a placeholder. Whenever there is a murder room or a suicide apartment, her phone rings and she has to move in,...
“Room Laundering” is part of the Asian selection at Fantasia International Film Festival
Room Laundering means to restore the reputation of an apartment. Why was the Reputation damaged? Because someone got killed or killed himself there. The Japanese law demands the landlord to inform the new tenant about the previous happenings, which will make it very hard to sell the apartment. There is a loophole, though. This information obligation lasts until the first new tenant after the incident, moves in.
And this is where the story kicks in. Miko, played by Elaiza Ikeda (“The Many Faces of Ito” 2017), is a young woman, who works as a placeholder. Whenever there is a murder room or a suicide apartment, her phone rings and she has to move in,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
Newly-established Loop Fund aims for ‘risk-taking approach’.
Nascent UK production company Loop has reinvested profits from its own films into three ‘no-strings-attached’ filmmaker grants of £5,000.
The three recipients are: artist-filmmaker Jamie Janković, who will use their award for a project applying the aesthetic of text-based gameplay to personal stories of queerness, disconnection and family; artist and animator Grace Lee, whose work will examine the use of dogs throughout art history; and filmmaker John Ogunmuyiwa, whose project will portray the high street as seen through the window of an African hair salon.
“Apart from being easy to apply, people were also drawn to the no-strings-attached element,...
Nascent UK production company Loop has reinvested profits from its own films into three ‘no-strings-attached’ filmmaker grants of £5,000.
The three recipients are: artist-filmmaker Jamie Janković, who will use their award for a project applying the aesthetic of text-based gameplay to personal stories of queerness, disconnection and family; artist and animator Grace Lee, whose work will examine the use of dogs throughout art history; and filmmaker John Ogunmuyiwa, whose project will portray the high street as seen through the window of an African hair salon.
“Apart from being easy to apply, people were also drawn to the no-strings-attached element,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Yoshihiro Nakamura has emerged as one of the most interesting Japanese directors during the last two decades, highlighting his prowess in a number of genres, usually through great stories, since his directorial credits include films like “Mumon: The Land of Stealth”, “The Snow White Murder Case” and “Fish Story”. The present film was one of his first and the one that netted him the Kaneto Shindo Prize, given to the most promising new director by the Japan Film Makers’ Association.
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Based on Kotaro Isaka’s novel, the story revolves around college student Shiina, who has just moved to his apartment in Sendai, in order to study law. Almost immediately, he meets a rather strange neighbor his age, Kawasaki, who approaches him due to their common interest for Bob Dylan. Shiina is perplexed by Kawasaki’s behaviour, but takes a liking to him, despite his rather illogical talk...
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Based on Kotaro Isaka’s novel, the story revolves around college student Shiina, who has just moved to his apartment in Sendai, in order to study law. Almost immediately, he meets a rather strange neighbor his age, Kawasaki, who approaches him due to their common interest for Bob Dylan. Shiina is perplexed by Kawasaki’s behaviour, but takes a liking to him, despite his rather illogical talk...
- 5/27/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Nyaff and Japan Cuts favorite Yoshihiro Nakamura (Fish Story, Golden Slumber, A Boy and His Samurai) returns with his latest film Potechi (Chips), in which he once again adapts a novel by Fish Story and Golden Slumber author Kotaro Isaka. Like those previous works, Potechi features numerous characters brought together in an intricate plot involving fate, coincidence, and surprising connections that are gradually revealed in the course of the narrative. This time, however, Nakamura jettisons the sprawling, lengthy structures of Fish Story and Golden Slumber for the much leaner and concise style of Potechi, which clocks in at a mere 68 minutes. Amazingly, this brevity sacrifices not a bit of the narrative intricacies Nakamura has been known for, and in fact has a greater emotional...
- 7/15/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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