Month: November 2021

Tanagokoro: A Culinary Portrait on Changing the Fishing Industry

After Devour! Film Festival, Tanagokoro: A Culinary Portrait is headed to the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and it’s message needs to keep spreading.

TanagokoroVancouver Asian Film Festival
Nov 4-13, 2021
International Shorts Program
Available to watch anywhere in Canada from 11/11/2021 11:00 am to 11/13/2021 11:59 pm

Japanese chef Yoshinori Ishii is more than a trendsetter. He’s out to change the industry in Tanagokoro: A Culinary Portrait. After a terrific introduction to the man and how he earned his Michelin star (while he was in tenure in London’s Umu), the reason he earned massive respect is because he gives everyone some wisdom. That is, to be a top masterchef, he’ll only ethically harvest food the traditional Japanese way. 

The United Kingdom’s transition to a new method of catch and slaughter was not overnight. He wrote many letters and chatted with various fishmongers and leaders in industry to change how things are done. He used his passion and gift of gab to sway heads, and that’s the true focus of this documentary. This gentle man is the embodiment of Buddha and he’s done more than started change in one country. His teachings are spreading and hopefully soon, there’ll be more converts.

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From Book to Film and Beyond! Poupelle of Chimney Town

Poupelle of Chimney Town may well share similiarities with other films, like Urinetown, and thankfully how it wraps up is very different!

Poupelle of Chimney Town Film Poster – GenkinahitoScreening at Spark Film Festival 2022

The cinematic adaptation of Akihiro Nishino’s picture book, Poupelle of Chimney Town (映画 えんとつ町のプペル), is a wonder to behold. Its vibrant and highly detailed backgrounds spotlight a world not too different from Victorian Age Paris, and here, the skies are forever clouded by industry. Instead of a city covered in soot, the life we find on the streets is brought alive with autumn colours.

Who we are following in this film is Lubicchi (Mana Ashida). This boy lost his father some years ago, and on Halloween, a mysterious golem made of garbage emerges from the sewers and finds the boy by a quirk of fate. Its design is amazing, and some may think it’s a robot. Plus, this animated work is only scratching the surface of how this story can be retold as a Broadway play, perhaps in the style of Les Miserables. The fact that’s in the works (teasers can be found on YouTube) has me excited to see how many more songs are going to be offered.

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Halloween Isn’t Over! Hallowseed Follows in its Stead

Hallowseed brings a larger map, puzzles, new levels, redesigned forest area and house, upgraded visuals, a terrifying ending, many new scares, and more, as Michael discovers his shocking connection with this desolate place.

 
Halloween isn’t over yet! For some people, it’s a year round thing. For goths, they live it every day. For gamers, Jeff Winner’s, Horror Story: Hallowseed left Early Access to haunt Windows PC with its 1.0 release.
 
This story-driven psychological survival game follows a terrorized man in search of his missing friends. Michael wants answers to his friends’ disappearance during a camping trip. In this game, you are him, expliring a deep, dark forest, an abandoned mansion, and an underground maze for clues.
 
You must solve puzzles, unlock secret levels, and beware of the frightening events activated by your actions. 

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Monkey King Reborn and His North American Release…

Monkey King Reborn follows the short-tempered trickster after he is insulted while visiting a temple with his master Tang Monk.

The Monkey King RebornRelease Date:
Dec 7, 2021

Available to preorder on Amazon USA

Following on the heels of recent groundbreaking animated films from China (including Ne Zha, 2020 & Jiang Ziya, 2021) comes the spectacular all-new anime action-adventure fantasy The Monkey King Reborn! This film is not part of the Fengsheng Cinematic Universe because the look is not the same and the fact is confirmed by the production’s marketing arm. Instead, this film is playing off the three hugely popular Monkey King live action films,

This film follows the short-tempered trickster after he is insulted while visiting a temple with his master Tang Monk. Outraged, he destroys a magical tree and accidentally releases the ancient King of Demons, who kidnaps Tang Monk as revenge for his long imprisonment. Now, Monkey King and his fellow disciples must rescue their master within three days, before the demon king regains his full power and unleashes his armies to destroy the earth.

 Trailer:

Meditating on “Nine Days,” Because It Must Lead to Something…

Will isn’t Buddha and nor is he Lord of the Underworld in any traditional mythological sense in Nine Days.

Nine Days (2020) - IMDbSony Pictures Entertainment
Coming to VOD and Available to pre-order on Amazon USA

Will (Winston Duke) may well be figuratively dead inside in Nine Days. This character study by Japanese Brazilian director Edson Oda is his feature film debut, and he offers a look at how certain “individuals” are given second chances at life. It’s not just about whom this arbiter selects. He’s never seen the writing on the wall himself, and the mystery is in why he’s the judge, jury and executor driving part of this movie. He only has those number ot days to make the call if the ‘new souls’ are deemed worthy of life.

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Want to Kickstart Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel?

Partnering with Rocketship Entertainment, the limited-edition Kickstarter releases of Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel feature four distinct covers.

Dune_Cover_Bill Sienkiewicz _LoRes_Cision.jpgLegendary Comics, in cooperation with Herbert Properties, LLC, announced today the official movie graphic novel based on Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Dune, the critically acclaimed film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestselling book from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. Both the graphic novel and the film, currently in theaters worldwide, tell the epic hero’s journey of Paul Atreides (played by Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet). Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, adapted by writer Lilah Sturges (Legendary Comics’ The Science of Ghost, Lumberjanes) with art by Drew Johnson (Legendary Comics’ Godzilla: Aftershock and Godzilla Dominion) and colors by digital painter Zid (Legendary Comics’ Kingdom Kong) and colorist Niezam, features beautiful artwork that brings the cinematic vision of Dune to the world of sequential art.

Limited editions of the graphic novel are now available for pre-order today exclusively on Kickstarter, with the book trade edition to follow. Both editions are set  to be released in February of 2022, and fans can now pre-order all editions on the kickstarter page.

Partnering with Rocketship Entertainment, the limited-edition Kickstarter releases of Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel feature four distinct covers. Comic legend Bill Sienkiewicz, who created the original Dune comic for Marvel in 1984, returns to the Dune universe to contribute the cover for the graphic novel. Three additional variant covers from Drew Johnson and Zid, U.K. illustrator and comic artist John Ridgway (2000 AD, Hellblazer, Doctor Who), and comic legend Tim Sale (Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman: For all Seasons) will also be available. Exclusive merchandise and collectibles will also be offered through Kickstarter.

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