A young shipyard worker takes pride in his work. You can see it in his face when one of the gigantic ships he worked on is being launched to sea. There is almost a childlike glee in him. Then the news of the company restructuring and the layoffs hit the airwaves. It's all down hill from there in the northern port city of Kaitan, where the soul crushing effects of economic downturn are the only things gloomier than its unforgiving wintry weather. Kazuyoshi Kamakiri's Sketches of Kaitan City is a relentlessly bleak film. This Altman-esque, episodic film chronicles five very distinctive and loosely connected stories based on the shorts by novelist Yasushi Sato, set around a joyless new year's eve: the aforementioned shipyard worker...
- 7/17/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Yo Oizumi (37) and Ryuhei Matsuda (27) are set to co-star for the first time in an upcoming film called Tantei wa Bar ni Iru, directed by Hajime Hashimoto.
The film is based on the Naomi Azuma’s novel “Bar ni Kakatte Kita Denwa”, the second installment of his “Susukino Tantei” series. Oizumi’s character is a private detective in Susukino, a red-light district in Sapporo, Hokkaido. While at the bar he frequents, he receives a call from a woman identifying herself as “Kyoko Kondo” and soon finds himself saddled with a particularly dangerous case. He teams up with his partner Takada (Matsuda) and begins an investigation, gradually uncovering the truth behind two incidents.
Matsuda’s character is an agriculture department assistant at Hokkaido University and an expert in karate. He spends a lot of time sleeping and often fights with Oizumi’s character, but is always a reliable partner when the chips are down.
The film is based on the Naomi Azuma’s novel “Bar ni Kakatte Kita Denwa”, the second installment of his “Susukino Tantei” series. Oizumi’s character is a private detective in Susukino, a red-light district in Sapporo, Hokkaido. While at the bar he frequents, he receives a call from a woman identifying herself as “Kyoko Kondo” and soon finds himself saddled with a particularly dangerous case. He teams up with his partner Takada (Matsuda) and begins an investigation, gradually uncovering the truth behind two incidents.
Matsuda’s character is an agriculture department assistant at Hokkaido University and an expert in karate. He spends a lot of time sleeping and often fights with Oizumi’s character, but is always a reliable partner when the chips are down.
- 3/7/2011
- Nippon Cinema
A trailer has finally been released for the latest film by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Antenna, Non-ko), Sketches of Kaitan City.
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
- 9/24/2010
- Nippon Cinema
A trailer has finally been released for the latest film by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Antenna, Non-ko), Sketches of Kaitan City.
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
The film is based on Yasushi Sato’s unfinished novel “Kaitanshi Jokei” (Sea Coal City Scenery), which was published after Sato committed suicide in 1990. The novel simply and realistically depicts life in the seaport town of Hakodate, Hokkaido as he saw it and is said to offer a glimpse into the lives of various people going through individual hardships.
Plot: After massive restructuring, Souta (Pistol Takehara) finds himself forced out of his job at a local shipyard. He decides to go on an impromptu trip with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura) to witness the first sunrise of the new year from the peak of a mountain.
A planetarium operator (Kaoru Kobayashi) deals with the pain caused by his wife’s betrayal.
After taking over his family’s gas company, Haruo...
- 9/24/2010
- Nippon Cinema
In the few short years since making her film debut with an impressively precocious performance in Akihiko Shiota's Canary, 19-year-old Mitsuki Tanimura has established herself as one of the most interesting actresses in her age bracket. While it would be easy for a young idol signed to a major talent agency to just coast by on her looks with modeling gigs and appearances in schmaltzy TV dramas (as most girls of her stature do quite happily), Tanimura keeps jumping clean off the radar, signing on to act in some seriously oddball projects with little potential for press coverage, let alone financial success. And it's not as if her career has stalled -- far from it. In addition to several small films by unestablished directors, she's also slated to appear in Toshio Lee's Box!, Takashi Miike's remake of Thirteen Assassins, and Junji Sakamoto's Yukizuri no Machi, among others.
- 3/25/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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