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The official YouTube channel for Japanese singer-songwriter Mahiru Coda has started streaming a music video for her latest digital single song, "Love je t'aime," released on January 26. The song is now featured as the ending theme for the winter 2024 TV anime Bucchigiri?! . Coda made her professional debut as a singer-songwriter in 2021, and "Love je t'aime" is her first anime theme song work. The pop song features lyrics from the worldview of the anime, Arabic sounds, and also incorporates elements of jazz, Coda's musical roots. The music video was directed by Takeru Shibuya of Oddjob Inc., which has worked with Puffy, Punpee, Bikke Blanca, and other popular Japanese artists. The entire video was shot in greenback, with a variety of CG visuals to express the Arabian worldview of the song. Mahiru Coda "Love je t'aime" music video Bucchigiri?! anime creditless ending movie Digital single jacket Related: Funk Rock Band Kroi Posts Bucchigiri?...

It has been announced that director Takashi Shimizu’s Tormented will be released in the Us on Blu-ray and DVD this April:

Plano, Texas. (February 22, 2013) – From the legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won’t stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Shimizu ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life…

The film stars Hikari Mitsushima (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai), Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa...

Takashi Shimizu takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won't stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment.

The film stars Hikari Mitsushima, Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa, Nao Omori, Teruyuki Kagawa and Momoko Tanabe.

Takashi Shimizu took home the Silver Raven for the film’s originality and unique view of childhood through a child’s eyes at the 2012 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.

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Given how sucky 3D movies have been lately (I'm looking at You, Silent Hill: Revelation), we need something fresh to liven up the three-dimensional scene, and this new flick from the man behind The Grudge could do the trick!

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The legendary director of The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu, takes an unflinching look into childhood fears, the ties that hold a family together, and bloody secrets that won't stay dead when Tormented debuts on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital April 2nd from Well Go USA Entertainment. Filled with his trademark atmospherics and spine-chilling, brain-bending sequences, Tormented ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred in this terrifying tale of a young boy whose family seems to be unraveling around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed toy rabbit that comes to life.

Well Go USA will release Tormented (pictured above), from Ju-on and The Grudge creator Takashi Shimizu, on disc and digital April 2, and Deadball, Yudai Yamaguchi’s variation on his cult fave Battlefield Baseball, in those formats April 9. Tormented, a.k.a. Rabbit Horror, focuses on a troubled young boy (Takeru Shibuya) who sleepwalks into a strange realm where he’s pursued by a human-sized rabbit—echoing his killing of a sick bunny on a playground—and his mute half-sister (Hikari Mitsushima) who must rescue him. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Tormented will be presented in 3D on the Blu-ray, with no special features announced. Deadball stars Versus and Yakuza Weapon’s Tak Sakaguchi as a juvenile delinquent with a literal killer fastball who becomes part of reform school baseball team, facing off against a sexy, murderous rival team from St. Black Dahlia High School. This one will sport over 50 minutes of bonus features,...

Well Go USA will release Tormented (pictured above), from Ju-on and The Grudge creator Takashi Shimizu, on disc and digital April 2, and Deadball, Yudai Yamaguchi’s variation on his cult fave Battlefield Baseball, in those formats April 9. Tormented, a.k.a. Rabbit Horror, focuses on a troubled young boy (Takeru Shibuya) who sleepwalks into a strange realm where he’s pursued by a human-sized rabbit—echoing his killing of a sick bunny on a playground—and his mute half-sister (Hikari Mitsushima) who must rescue him. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Tormented will be presented in 3D on the Blu-ray, with no special features announced. Deadball stars Versus and Yakuza Weapon’s Tak Sakaguchi as a juvenile delinquent with a literal killer fastball who becomes part of reform school baseball team, facing off against a sexy, murderous rival team from St. Black Dahlia High School. This one will sport over 50 minutes of bonus features,...

The line-up of the 68th Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 31st to September 10th, 2011, has been announced; and as usual, we were pleased to see a few genre films included. Read on for the details.

Films of primary interest to our readers are listed below; visit the official Venice International Film Festival website for the full rundown. The daily schedule of screenings will be announced after August 15th.

Venezia 68 - International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres

Ami Canaan Mann - Texas Killing Fields - USA

Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Abel Ferrara - 4:44 Last Day On Earth - USA

Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta, Natasha Lyonne Aleksander Sokurov - Faust - Russia

Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinskiy, Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

Out of Competition

Mary Harron - The Moth Diaries - Canada, Ireland

Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon,...