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L: Change the World
December 15, 2008Ken’ichi Matsuyama reprises his role as L Lawliet from the previous Death Note films. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L’s life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus with ten times the infectiousness of Ebola, taking a boy, the sole survivor of its use in a village in Thailand, and a junior high schooler named Maki Nikaido under his wing.
Shunji Fujimura also reprises his role as Watari, though he dies early in the film as per the events of The Last Name. The characters Misa Amane, death god Ryuk, and Light Yagami also all have brief cameos in the film.
Director: Hideo Nakata
Writers: Tsugumi Ôba
Cast:
Shunji Fujimura … Watari
Mayuko Fukuda … Maki
Sei Hiraizumi … Dr. Koichi Matsudo
Renji Ishibashi … Shin Kagami
Yuta Kanai … Tamotsu Yoshizawa
Youki Kudoh … Dr. Kujo
Bokuzo Masana … Asao Konishi
Ken’ichi Matsuyama … L
Kiyotaka Nanbara
Megumi Sato … Hatsune Misawa
Masanobu Takashima
Erika Toda … Misa Amane
Shingo Tsurumi … Kimihiko Nikaido
Bystanders
July 19, 2008The Big Scene
April 17, 2008Duelist
March 9, 2008Korean auteur Lee Myung-se takes visual storytelling to new levels in DUELIST, a tense, beautiful story of crime, intrigue, and star-crossed love. As beautiful, yet deadly, detective Namsoon begins to close in on a counterfeit ring, she encounters a masked warrior whom she calls Sad Eyes. Believing that Sad Eyes holds the key to this mystery, Namsoon dons her own disguise, and tracks her enigmatic adversary to the Minister of Defence’s home, and up through the highest corridors of power.
| Directed by | Lee Myung-se |
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| Produced by | Lee Myung-se |
| Written by | Lee Myung-se |
| Starring | Ha Ji-won Kang Dong-won Ahn Sung-ki |
| Music by | Jo Sung-woo |
| Cinematography | Hwang Ki-seok |
| Editing by | Ko Im-pyo |
| Distributed by | Korea Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 8, 2005[1] |
| Running time | 111 min. |
M
January 10, 2008A prominent up-and-coming author Min-woo readies his new much anticipated follow-up novel while suffering from frequent nightmares and hallucinations. This unexplainable condition affects both his personal and professional life. Soon he can’t differentiate reality from fantasy and continues to have feelings of being chased. His own paranoia leads him to a café in a dark, unassuming alley and encounters a charming young woman named Mimi. Min-woo starts to wonder how he and this girl in front of him are connected and traces long-forgotten memories of his first love.
International Film Festivals
2007 Toronto International Film Festival , Visions
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Aragami
December 30, 2007Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman.
One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a “god of battle”.
| Directed by | Ryuhei Kitamura |
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| Produced by | Shinya Kawai |
| Written by | Ryuhei Kitamura |
| Starring | Takao Osawa Masaya Kato Kanae Uotani Tak Sakaguchi Hideo Sakaki |
| Distributed by | Micott Inc. |
| Release date(s) | March 27, 2003 |
| Running time | 70 min |
Monopoly
September 19, 2007Kyung-ho is a genius computer programmer who manages the on-line networks of all banks in Korea. One day, he accidentally runs into a man, John, who is an attractive businessman. John invites Kyung-ho to experience his lifestyle in high society. Through these lavish escapades, Kyung-ho is awakened to his hidden desires. As Kyung-ho finds out about a secret project John is working on, John asks him to join him in a plan to illegally withdraw small amounts of money from all the bank accounts across Korea by using Kyung-ho’s genius computer programming skills. With absolute trust in John, Kyung-ho finally joins this huge con game against Korea. Will John and Kyung-ho, who dream of being on top of the world, be the winners of this game?
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After Life
August 18, 2007aka: Wonderful Life, Wandâfuru raifu
After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week’s end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shiori’s affection for her mentor, Mochizuki
| Directed by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
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| Produced by | Shiho Sato |
| Written by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Starring | Arata Erika Oda Susumu Terajima Takashi Naito Kei Tani |
| Music by | Yasuhiro Kasamatsu |
| Cinematography | Yutaka Yamazaki |
| Editing by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Release date(s) | September 11, 1998 (Toronto Film Festival)[1] April 17, 1999 (Japan) |
| Running time | 118 min. |
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