The official website for Toshiaki Toyoda's Hanging Garden (Kûchû teien) is online. There's a trailer for the movie here, and an English-language synopsis for it there on the website of Pony Canyon K.K. (K.K. Ponî Kyanion). The movie is based on the eponymous novel by Mitsuyo Kakuta. Its principal cast apparently is as follows: Kyôko Koizumi, Itsuji Itao (he plays Masked Takenouchi in Yûdai Yamaguchi's Sakigake!! Cromartie High School - The Movie (Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô - The Movie)), Anne Suzuki (Suzuki An), Masahiro Hirota, Sonim (Sonin), Michiyo Ôkusu, Asami Imajuku, Ryô Katsuji (Katsudi Ryô), Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Seiroku Nakazawa, Seiji Chihara, Shinsuke Suzuki, Jun Kunimura, Eita (a.k.a. Eita Nagayama), and Hiromi Nagasaku.
Heck yes! I've been waiting for a new movie from Toyoda forever. In fact, yesterday I watched all of his films straight through. Anne Suzuki? WOOO!! But where's Ryuhei Matsuda??
Looks pretty good. Itao also played the ex-porn star convict in Toyoda's 9 SOULS. Great to see him continue to grow as a dramatic actor. I've been a fan of his since his early days as a troupe member for the Japanese comedy duo DOWNTOWN.
This just made my night ... I've been hitting Toyoda's site periodically hoping for some news on this but he's taken the whole site down for maintenance.
He does love that moving camera, doesn't he?
Anybody know anything about the other one he's supposed to have out this year? I don't think I've even seen a title on it, but I think I heard it was going to be a biker film ...
theres a 100k trailer on the front of the website, incase you cant 500k this one...
Nice work, Gom. You're right, Todd, the camerawork was almost hypnotizing (love that opening pullback shot).
Yeah finally a new toyoda movie! i saw his 3 previous movies, porno star is very impressing for a first movie. anyway since i dont speak japanese i can only judge the photography and the camera of the trailer, wich is really good.
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