July 13th, 2008
The Golden Rock - July 13th, 2008 Edition
- And more reviews are rolling in for John Woo’s Red Cliff. Both reviews are from Twitch contributors, first from Singapore-based Stefan, then one from The Visitor.
Meanwhile, head honcho Todd Brown posts a review of Kenta Fukasaku’s X-Cross.
-Another Japanese comic with fish is heading to the big screen, this time apparently with some professional fishing action enhanced by cgi.
- And here’s another story about Danny Glover wanting to bridge the gap between Japan and American with The Harimaya Bridge, though this article provides a lot more information about the writer-director.
- Western director Jennifer Lynch has signed on to direct an India-based horror film that will be shot simultaenously in Hindi and English.
- The New York Asian Film Festival has announced its jury awards, with Shinji Aoyama’s Sad Vacation surprisingly taking the Grand Prize. The audience awards will be announced this week.
- The Daily Yomiuri looks at the upcoming Tokyo Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
- Nippon Cinema links us to more clips from the upcoming cell phone novel adaptation Akai Ito.
- The blog Toronto J-Film Pow-wow has a short write-up by Friend of Golden Rock Jason Gray about what Japanese film got him hooked.
- Japan Times looks at the Japanese government’s slow progress in promoting the media arts of Japanese culture both abroad and locally.
- Model-turned-Japanese pop star Leah Dizon will be launching her first nationwide tour. The biggest shock is that she actually wrote the lyrics for 10 songs in her latest album. Since she’s still trying to learn Japanese, I assume that they’ll be in English, right?
- Wrapping the weekend up with Hong Kong film news (this being Lovehkfilm), the Hong Kong newspapers suddenly all decided to spill information about the new Alan Mak-Felix Chong film starring Eason Chan and Sammi Cheng. Retitled “Big Investigation” (translated, of course), it’s supposed to be a comedy about a mob boss who needs detective Sammi Cheng to help bring back his son.
Here’s the Hong Kong Film blog coverage.