And the Miike shall inherit the Earth

[Jasper Sharp]

A double whammy from Miike-san at this years London Film Festival too: ICHI 
THE KILLER and DEAD OR ALIVE 2: BIRDS.

Also showing is Imamura's latest, LUKEWARM WATER etc, Tomoyuki Furumaya's 
BAD COMPANY and Shunichi Nagasaki's A TENDER PLACE (Yawaraka na Hoo).
Does anyone know anything about the last of these? The director's previous 
film, SHIKOKU, showed a lot of promise, but didn't quite delvier. This one 
looks even more interesting.

The Festival runs from 7th November to the 22nd.

See website for details: http://www.rlff.com/db_world/cinema.cgi/homepage/

Jasper Sharp

Midnight Eye
www.midnighteye.com



>From: "Tom Mes" <china_crisis at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Takashi Miike's Agitator
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:25:07
>
>The two-and-a-half hour AGITATOR, directed by Takashi Miike and described 
>as
>"an ensemble film about outlaws shot in documentary style with available
>light" is receiving its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film
>Festival in October, alongside Miike's horror musical KATAKURIKE NO KOFUKU
>(which has been given the official English title THE HAPPINESS OF THE
>KATAKURIS).
>Here is the URL for the English-language site of the festival:
>http://www.tiff-jp.net/e_index.html
>
>The site doesn't mention the production and distribution companies for
>AGITATOR. Does anyone know?
>
>Tom
>
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