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...similar descent takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into...
...thought. In fact, a handful of silent films did survive and, after a hibernation of nearly half a century, they are back on the screen. Over the past decade some of the leading film festivals and archives?Cinematheque Francaise, the National Film Center in Tokyo and the Pordenone International Silent Film Festival?spent years locating and refurbishing them. Last week the 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival featured the newly restored 1928 epic Town of Love. "After the uproar the films caused in Italy, we knew we had to have one," says festival director Peter...
...During these more feudal days, theaters sprang up throughout Japan, and people of all walks of life filed in to see what had caught the Prince Regent's eye. While Western audiences had their favorite silent-screen stars accompanied by music and intertitles, the Japanese stars were not on the screen?but on the stage in front of it. Benshi, or film narrators, had followings of their own; a big-name benshi could pack a house. Throughout the silent era, they mimicked the voices of different characters and provided plot narration to musical accompaniment, in a style familiar from Japan...
...Hulk, Daredevil and X-Men 2. There are ongoing negotiations for plenty more, including Ghost Rider, reportedly with Nicolas Cage, The Punisher and a Batman relaunch. The comics2film website lists over 200 projects currently ready - or rumored to be ready - for film adaptation. The war of the screen superheroes, with superbucks the prize, is well under...
Hollywood, though, is a dollars-and-cents neighborhood, and Tom Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment (producer of The X-Men), believes comics are low risk. "Comics and screen are both visually-driven media," he says. "If you can create indelible characters in one, the chances are that they will work in the other. And characters like the X-Men have been proved to work in comics for 20 years." The $75 million X-Men movie, he insists, was the film that opened the floodgates: "X-Men kicked ass. People thought it was unfilmable because there was no one obvious...