Tag: davidsakurai
Get Ready for a Wild Trip: Watch WONDERLAND RECOIL Trailer
Are you still stuck at home? Is your life depressing and/or not what you'd hope it would be? Are you looking for an escape? Then take a look at the Wonderland Recoil trailer and instantly transform into a new you.*...
-thumb-200x200-72416.jpg)
Exclusive Key Set From Can Evrenol's HOUSEWIFE
While our friend Can Evrenol is hard at work on his next film back home in Turkey RLJE Films is releasing his recent film Housewife in the U.S. in October. Just in time for the lead up to Halloween. ...
David Sakurai Is THE BUTCHER
Danish-Japanese actor David Sakurai has been a fairly regular visitor to these pages thanks to a truly eclectic filmography that spans the globe. You want a Hungarian fantasy musical about a fox spirit? He's done that. A Danish produced mystical...
BiFan 2016 Preview: Recommendations and Anticipated Delights
This Thursday ScreenAnarchy is heading to Korea for the 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, the largest celebration of genre cinema in all of Asia. A grand-scale championing of everything cinematic and fantastic on a normal year, this 20th anniversay...
Sidney Lexi Plaut's DARK SAMURAI Gets A Global Release, Check A New Trailer Now!
It was all the way back in 2014 that we first shared a trailer for Sidney Lexi Plaut's Dark Samurai, a gorgeously hynoptic imagining of the life of legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Coming from Denmark of all places, the film...
Ard's Dozen Of Musings About 2015
While I saw more films in 2015 than I had in 2014, I can almost use the same text here that I wrote for my "dozen of musings" article of last year. For again I have a big backlog of...
Fantastic Fest 2015: Awards Go To GREEN ROOM, DER BUNKER, DEMON And More
Fantastic Fest ends with its usual crazy bang tonight in Austin, and with it comes the awards announcement. Some great titles have been honoured; I know, I've seen many of them (if you'll allow me to say a personal congratulations...
SPRING, TURBO KID, DEATHGASM And More At Neuchâtel IFFF 2015
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival has quickly become one of the biggest and best in Europe, in no small part due to amazing programming, and 2015 looks to be no exception. I'm very honoured and excited to be on the...
Imagine 2015: What The Audiences Liked Best
All good things must come to an end. And even though, at eleven days long, the 31st Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam was longer than ever, this weekend it still ended. Last Friday saw the awards ceremony, where Liza, the...
Imagine 2015 Review: LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY Magnificently Kills With Kindness
This weekend, Liza, the Fox-Fairy won the Silver Méliès Award at the Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam. It was hardly the first award it won either: a few weeks earlier at Fantasporto, it won awards for Best Film and Best Special...
Whimsical Dark Romantic Comedy LIZA THE FOX FAIRY Releases A Fabulous New Trailer
It's been a long and winding road for Hungarian fantasy / romance / comedy Liza The Fox Fairy but, wow, does it ever look as though it's been worth the wait. It's been years since we first heard of this...
DARK SAMURAI: Watch The First Teaser Now
We have been keeping a close eye on the development of Sidney Lexi Plaut's Dark Samurai for some time now, drawn in by the gorgeous imagery and the presence of Valhalla Rising producer Lene Borglum on the production team of...
Hypnotic Danish Fantasy DARK SAMURAI To Premiere At Camerimage, Take A Look At These Gorgeous Images
It's been a long road for Sidney Lexy Plaut and his debut feature Dark Samurai. A hypnotic, experimental piece of work revolving around the folklore surrounding legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi produced with the help of Valhalla Rising producer Lene Borglum...
ECHOES OF A RONIN: Watch The Impressive Danish Martial Arts Short
Late last year, we got a taste of the Danish martial arts short Echoes of a Ronin, in the form of a gallery of images. Now, the film is finished, and you can watch it in its entirety here, with...
Be Charmed By Full Trailer For Darkly Whimsical Hungarian Fantasy-Romance LIZA, THE FOX FAIRY
If you detect just a touch of Jean Pierre Jeunet's Amelie in the DNA of Hungarian romantic fantasy Liza, The Fox Fairy I do believe that director Károly Ujj Mészáros would be just fine with that. Fox-Fairies are evil demons...
Watch An Exclusive Clip From Danish Martial Arts Short ECHOES OF A RONIN
Director Shaky Gonzalez and star David Sakurai have teamed up to create something very unusual for their homeland of Denmark: A martial arts drama rooted in the Japanese bushido code. Sweden's Tim Man - a rapidly rising star in the...
First Images From Danish Martial Arts Short ECHOES OF A RONIN
What's this? A new martial arts themed project? From Denmark? Yes, the Scandinavian country may not be the most obvious source of new fight stars - though Natasha Arthy's 2007 effort Fighter is pretty damn good and star Semra Turan...
Iconic Warrior Musashi Miyamoto Gets The Arthouse Treatment In Sidney Lexy Plaut's DARK SAMURAI
What's this? A trance inducing, time hopping, hypnotic treatment of iconic samurai Musashi Miyamoto - author of The Book Of Five Rings - from Denmark? With the producer of Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives on board as an executive...
Japanese Folklore Creature Arrives In Hungary. LIZA, THE FOX FAIRY Teaser.
Budapest seems an odd place to discover a Japanese folktale creature, which is pretty much the entire point of Károly Ujj Mészáros' Liza, The Fox Fairy. The story revolves around Liza, a shy Hungarian nurse looking for love. Which would...
Witness The Coming Of THE LAST DEMONSLAYER
When it comes to director Shaky Gonzalez you basically need to disregard everything you think you know about Danish cinema. Because, you know, he's a director based in Denmark and his name is Shaky. Gonzalez. This should tell you that...
