March 16, 2007

Trailer for Ryûhei Kitamura's LOVEDEATH

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Thanks to Twitch's own Wolf for bringing to my attention the fact that a trailer for Ryûhei Kitamura's LoveDeath has just been added to the official website for the movie. The movie had its world première at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai) - "YIFFF" for short - on February 24th of last year. Desperado Inc. (K.K. Desuperâdo) plans to release it theatrically in Japan in May. Bogeydom Licensing is the international sales agent for it.

The screenplay for LoveDeath was written by Kitamura and Isao Kiriyama, based on the short manga "69" by Tsutomu Takahashi. The movie stars 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!"

Here's a description of LoveDeath from Bogeydom Licensing's website: "Versus, Alive, Aragami, Azumi, Skyhigh, Godzilla: Final Wars... ¶ The samurai filmmaker, Ryuhei Kitamura is back. More wild, more radical, more crazy. Fight for love. Die for love. The world where everything is settled by bullets. Anarchic world of no rules. Sex, ultra violence, and bowling. Unpredictable. Super cool. No limits. No brakes. Unstoppable filmmaker, Ryuhei Kitamura's new legend is here. ¶ Experience a typhoon of love, blood, and bullets. Witness the war of love that no one has ever seen. Can you die for love? ¶ STORY ¶ They fell in love the moment they met. 3 days later, she disappeared. 342 days later, they meet again. ¶ That was a beginning... ¶ In a man's life, there is turning point like you see in a marathon. We call it Chrysalis Day. It is Fate's Day. ¶ The rest of your life depends on how you spend Chrysalis Day. If you make it, the rest of your life is like the color of roses. But, if you mess up, the rest of your life is worth shit. ¶ This is a story of a guy and a girl going through Chrysalis Day. ¶ Faith and betrayal. Love and hate. Sex and death. A girl who mesmerizes everyone. A guy who holds on to her for love. Everyone fights for love and dies for love. ¶ Yakuza, cop, and assassins. Everyone is after them. Running full-throttle through the battlefield of love. This is a story of Sai and Sheila."

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

LoveDeath official website (w/ trailer)
Bogeydom Licensing: LoveDeath

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Reader Comments

Been waiting a while for this, and am definetly now more excited than ever, looks awesome, and pretty insane, i mean, Dick-guns? Thats gotta be a cinema first surely.

» Posted by Ramen89 at March 16, 2007 11:27 AM

blimey - prize for anyone who makes it to the end of the trailer without giving up.
that musics rediculous, and it just looks a little flat and contrived. good cast though.

» Posted by logboy at March 16, 2007 11:33 AM

It's not working for me. It keeps restarting.

» Posted by Tory at March 16, 2007 12:09 PM

I dunno, looks like a Kitamura flick, no?

» Posted by Caterpillar at March 16, 2007 12:12 PM

Sounds fun.

Is Kitamura still planning on doing BANDAGE? Someone needs to. I need more Iwai.

» Posted by Vincent at March 16, 2007 12:15 PM

He's directing the Clive Barker adaptation MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN at this very moment in Los Angeles.

» Posted by Caterpillar at March 16, 2007 12:22 PM

well it looks neat...but all his movies LOOK neat - they also tend to be shit. Some of that music is very Azumi as well...which I don't actually mind.

» Posted by BtoFu at March 16, 2007 12:23 PM

Looks cool, but "looks" are about all Kitamura has going for his films. Sometimes that's enough -- I still think "Versus" is a blast to watch -- but most of the time it's not.

Also, what's with the dildo gun?!?

» Posted by opus at March 16, 2007 12:41 PM

Bah. Keeps restarting for me as well. But I'm sure I'm not missing anything really important.

» Posted by swarez at March 16, 2007 12:57 PM

If he concentrated on the story as he did on his actionscenes this movie could turn out to be a watchable kitamure movie.

» Posted by watchful_eye at March 16, 2007 02:51 PM

Looks like Love and a .45: Part II

» Posted by Wes at March 16, 2007 05:46 PM

looks sweet :)

» Posted by louis at March 17, 2007 03:05 AM

It's going to take one hell of a masterpiece for me to forgive him for GODZILLA: FINAL WARS. This doesn't look like that masterpiece. However, there IS a dildo gun and that definitely counts for something.

» Posted by Rhythm-X at March 17, 2007 03:16 PM

Looking forward to seeing it, looks like mindless fun. The music in the trailer reminds me of the end credit music from Alive.

» Posted by GoldLeader at March 17, 2007 05:00 PM

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