The 13th edition of
the North America’s
largest genre film festival will take
place July 9th to the 29th at ConcordiaUniversity’s Hall Theatre in Canada.
The festival will be opened by Japanese
director Takashi Miike’s ATTERMAN which is based on the popular 70’s manga.
Festival and the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office of Canada will also celebrate
the 100 year anniversary of the first Hong Kong released film showing the series
of Hong Kong action films and the Peter Chan’s
Warlords starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro will represent the
part of the Hong Kong Cinema retrospective.
You can
watch them on clicking the preview or going directly to the photo gallery.
Also there
is information for those who are not afraid of buying Takeshi Kaneshiro’s films
on Japanese sites. You can chose almost any TK film here (tsutaya.co.jp).
And for
those who know Japanese – there is an interview with Takeshi Kaneshiro
connected to the K-20 movie which you can read here (pia.co.jp/cinema/interview).
Viz Pictures
an affiliate of Viz Media specializing in the distribution of Japanese live
action films have purchased the distribution rights to action adventure movie
K-20 LEGEND OF THE MASK which was shot by Shimako Sako in 2008.
The film’s premier in USA was on the June
20th at 8:15 pm on the New York Asian Film Festival
and will also be shown on the very festival on the June 30th at 1:45 pm. And
after the shows Viz Pictures and Viz Media (as the distributor) will be
releasing the DVD of the film under the name K-20: The Fiend With 20 Faces. And
the DVD will be in stores in 2010.
Another tiny but extremely interesting news:
you can buy an action figure of the Mask from K-20 on yesasia.com (yesasia.com - real action figure)
Takeshi
Kaneshiro was representing the product in Japan and is the model for the
company. He has made some video commercials for the JT and shooting for the ads
which are on the big boards and Supermarket windows in Japan these days. Both of the tea
products from JT are sugar free and no calories, which is seemingly very
important for those who would like to buy it.
The DVD and
Blu-Ray versions of ‘K-20 Legend of the Mask’ are on sales since June 24, 2009.
Both will be sold at one time. But for now they are available only in Japanese
and do not have English subtitles.
You can
already preorder the film but you should be aware of that.
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