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Interview: Actor Denden – Uzumaki, Cold Fish, Himizu
“I found it really difficult. It was really hard because it was so real!” (Denden on filming Himizu)
Between 13 – 15 April 2012, actor Denden attended the Terracotta Far East Film Festival in London to promote the theatrical release of Himizu, a hard-hitting film by maverick film director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Guilty of Romance) set soon after the 3/11 Japan earthquake/tsunami in which Denden plays a brute money lender, a character-type he is best known for to Western audiences. But in reality he is a very warm, funny, friendly man, which is a Read more…
Terracotta Far East Film Festival Announces Opening And Closing Film For 4th It’s Edition
An annual event which aim is to widen the audience for Far Eastern film in the UK!
Terracotta is London’s premier celebration of the film and culture of the Far East. With a stunning line-up of films hand-picked from the best of the region, encompassing diverse genres from comedy to drama to horror and everything in between, an unbeatable programme of exclusive cast and crew Q&As, intro’s and masterclasses and Read more…
DVD & Blu-ray Release: “Guilty Of Romance” – Starring Former Gravure Idol Megumi Kagurazaka
Release date: 28 November 2011
A dramatic account of three women and their lives, seen through the looking glass of sex, words, madness, death, and family, Guilty of Romance — the new crime noir from the award-winning director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish) — tells the tale of three women entangled in a mystery…a mystery that is the gate to a hell-bound love like no other!
Set just before the turn of the 21st century, a grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya — a love hotel district — a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment in Read more…