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A theatrical trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution (Sakebi) has been added to the official website for the movie.
The screenplay for Retribution was written by Kurosawa. The movie stars (listed order corresponds to order in trailers) Kôji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Riona Hazuki (Haduki Riona), Joe Odagiri (Odagiri Jô), Ryô Kase, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Kaoru Okunuki, Ikuji Nakamura, and Hironobu Nomura.
Here's a description of Retribution, written by Twitch's own Todd Brown, from the website of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TADFF): "Hugely acclaimed director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Kairo, Bright Future) joins forces with uber-producer Taka Ichise (Ringu, Ju-On), arguably the most important and influential figure in the entire J-Horror boom with his fingers on virtually every significant title, with Retribution. ¶ Frequent Kurosawa collaborator Koji Yakusho -- [currently] seen opposite Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in Babel -- stars as Detective Yoshioka, a weathered and beaten man trapped in a fading relationship and troubled by sudden lapses and blurs in his memories, assigned to investigate a series of murders. But the more Yoshioka probes the more he begins to wonder if the serial killer he is chasing might, in fact, be himself... ¶ Never afraid to challenge himself or his audience Kurosawa has promised nothing less here than a complete re-imagining of the Japanese horror film and if there's anyone capable of doing just that, it's him."
Xanadeux K.K. (K.K. Zanadû), Avex Entertainment Inc. (Eibekkusu Entateinmento K.K.), and Phantom Film Co. Ltd. (K.K. Fantomu Firumu) are scheduled to release Retribution theatrically in Japan on February 24th.
For more information on Retribution, see Twitch's sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.
Retribution theatrical trailer - 500 KB (Japanese w/o subtitles; streaming Windows Media)
Retribution theatrical trailer - 300 KB (Japanese w/o subtitles; streaming Windows Media)
Retribution teaser trailer - 500 KB (Japanese w/o subtitles; streaming Windows Media)
Retribution teaser trailer - 300 KB (Japanese w/o subtitles; streaming Windows Media)
YouTube: Retribution clips set page (clips are in Japanese w/ English subtitles)
Retribution official website
Twitch: Retribution review #2
Twitch: Retribution review #1
If LOFT and RETRIBUTION don't make it to this year's SF International, I'm going to spit tacks.
Maya, you're not missing much with LOFT...it's god awful.
I went to a screening at Yale last year and even Kurosawa himself seemed to be slightly bewildered by it.
I've heard that about LOFT, Lesterg, but, as an avid fan of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's, even lesser vehicles are welcome.
The teaser didn't look terribly interesting - more like a rehash of the more memorable parts of K.K.:s previous films. The trailer however was much nicer and I'm quite interested now.
It's a shame he hasn't been up to his old standards lately. I've yet to see Loft, but the feedback on that has been so negative that I'm not too interested either, even though I really like the director's work overall.
Love that bird shot in both clips by the way, even though it's obviously CGI.
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