Ooooh ... while procrastinating on putting my stolen DVD list together today I swung by Tadanobu Asano's official site and happened to notice that the filmography had been updated. Yep, they finally added Nice No Mori on there, but it was the pair of titles a little farther down that caught my eye ...
At the very bottom of the list was Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani, the next film from Shinji Aoyama. Aoyama would've been enough to grab my attention but the fact that he's making a film titled with the last words of Christ dying on the cross got my ol' religious studies student antennae twitching.
Just above that? Tokyo Zombie. The title alone had me sold and then I realized who the director actually was. Sakichi Sato. Name not ringing a bell? Think Gozu. Think Ichi the Killer. He wrote the scripts for both. Whoo!
I haven't been able to turn up anything other than titles for both of these, so anything anybody else can find would be much appreciated ...
*** UPDATE ***
Oooh .... just got a note from Aaron saying that not only is Asano in Tokyo Zombie but his co-star will be Sho Aikawa. A fantastic combination there. Apparently the info came from the official Japanese website which is floating out in the ether somewhere undiscovered by me ...a URL? Please?