February 05, 2007

EFM: Ryûhei Kitamura's LOVEDEATH

(Posted In Action Asia Comedy Cult Drama Film News Random Festival News Sci-Fi / Fantasy )

lovedeath.jpgDistribution rights for Ryûhei Kitamura's LoveDeath are to be offered for sale by Bogeydom Licensing at this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin, Germany. The movie is scheduled to be screened at the CinemaxX Studio 18 on Friday February 9th at 6:00 p.m., and at the CinemaxX Studio 13 on Monday February 12th at 7:30 p.m.. It had its world première at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai) - "YIFFF" for short - on February 24th of last year.

The screenplay for LoveDeath was written by Kitamura and Isao Kiriyama, based on the short manga "69" by Tsutomu Takahashi. The movie stars (listed order corresponds to columnwise order on cast page of official website) Shinji Takeda, NorA, Kôhei Ôtomo, Susumu Terajima, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Naomasa Musaka, Toshiyuki Kitami, Izam, Masakatsu Funaki, Kaori Kawamura, Hideo Sakaki, Tarô Kanazawa, Shû Ehara, Hitoshi Ozawa, Yinling of Joytoy (Inrin obu Joitoi), Leo Morimoto (Morimoto Reo), Yumi Yoshimura, Nao Ômori, Nicholas Pettas (Nikorasu Petasu), Saori Yagi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yôko Mori, Kanji Tsuda, Chiharu Kawai, Chuck Wilson (Chakku Wiruson), Kanako Fukaura, Aya Sugimoto, Miho Yoshioka, Shigeru Izumiya, Riki Takeuchi, and Eiichirô Funakoshi.

Here's a description of LoveDeath from the YIFFF website: "A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway. This is a story about an extremely crazy and cool couple. Ryuhei Kitamura returned to independent film field with an even more powerful film than his previous film Godzilla Final Wars. The original story is written by Tsutomu Takahashi, who worked with Kitamura for Alive and Sky High. Shinji Takeda, stared in the film and other brilliant and unique casts take the film to the highest level. The violent erotic comedy dances on the screen one after another. You can't take your eyes off the screen!"

For more information on LoveDeath, see Twitch's fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.

LoveDeath official website
LoveDeath production stills gallery #1
LoveDeath production stills gallery #2
YIFFF: LoveDeath

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Reader Comments

Please, someone release this on dvd already.

» Posted by Ramen89 at February 6, 2007 06:56 AM

Yeah...what Ramen89 said.

» Posted by DarkmanPoe at February 6, 2007 11:11 AM

So I guess this film is cool and crazy and violent? Acording to the synopsis everything else in this film is.

» Posted by swarez at February 6, 2007 12:07 PM

I've seen a screener and found it incredibly tedious, one of Kitamura's worst despite the fun cast. I couldn't even finish it.

» Posted by Todd Brown at February 6, 2007 01:49 PM

Awww don't say that :'( Im a Kitamura fanboy so no doubt i'll like it even if its terrible, what are your thoughts on other Kitamura movies Todd?

» Posted by Ramen89 at February 6, 2007 02:57 PM

Kitamura pisses me off a little bit. He pretty much killed the Godzilla franchice with his dreg of a film. Versus was his best film.

» Posted by swarez at February 6, 2007 03:52 PM

kitamuras best film is Azumi!!!!
i was rolling on the floor.
"no matter what i do, I'm forced to kill" or
"i can't escape my destiny"

i liked Versus for its camp, but could not watch it more than once.
has anybody seen the 2lk/aragami double feature ?

» Posted by toni at February 7, 2007 07:53 PM

Oh yeah I forgott he directed Azumi which was a pretty good periot fantasy. Still have to watch Azumi 2 which Shusuke Kaneko directed.

» Posted by swarez at February 8, 2007 04:42 AM

ARAGAMI totally blows. Seriously. If you thought Kitamura's ALIVE was dull, try to sit through ARAGAMI. Ugh.

I honestly don't get Kitamura. I love VERSUS, I like AZUMI, I even enjoyed his Godzilla flick. But he's got this whole other side to him that loves to produce irritatingly dull garbage.

» Posted by Lewis at February 8, 2007 05:13 AM

I've found most of Kitamura's films to be pretty tedious. Even Versus was a chore to sit though. Alive was a little better because of its featuring Koyuki, but not by much. I'm really not sure what the big deal is.

» Posted by Chris at February 8, 2007 06:19 PM

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