Here Comes More Miike: Big Bang Love, Juvenile A To Premier at the EFM!

Japanese cult auteur Takashi Miike is at it again. After a brief slowdown around the big budget studio flicks Zebraman and The Great Yokai War, Miike seems to be resuming his standard frenetic pace. He's got a handful of titles announced for the coming year already - seriously, five or six features in a year is not uncommon for the man, so when I saw that he would have a new film at the European Film Market in Berlin I assumed it would be one of those. But it's not. No Ultraman, no Shark Fin Soup nor any of the others we've already heard rumblings of. Here's what he's got:

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A: Starring Ryuhei Matsuda (Gohatto, Blue Spring, 9 Souls, Rampo Jigoku)), Masanobu Ando (Battle Royale) and Ryo Ishibashi (The Grudge), the film revolves around a young man who, while working in a gay bar, is sexually assaulted by a customer, goes into a frenzy and kills the man. He then strikes up a close relationship with another man while in jail.

Matsuda had a minor role - little more than a cameo - in Miike's IZO and I'm more than a little excited to see him in a lead for the man. And Matsuda paired up with Ando with material like this? Very, very sweet.

Thanks to Brian for the pointer.