Tag: matsumotohitoshi

The astonishingly surreal work of Japanese comedian-turned-filmmaker Matsumoto Hitoshi has long been championed here at ScreenAnarchy, and in some ways his fourth feature film - R100 - transcends anything he has yet produced. Positioned not as a comedy, but rather...

By the time Matsumoto Hitoshi made the move into feature films with his 2007 effort Big Man Japan, he was already a massive star in his native Japan, his television comedy work having firmly established Matsumoto as one of the...

R100, the outrageously funny film from Matsumoto Hitoshi will be out in cinemas and on VOD on January 23rd from Drafthouse Films. We have an outrageous clip to share with you. It is from early on in the film and features...

The full trailer for Matsumoto Hitoshi's surreal sex comedy R100 arrived on Friday and with the film's Toronto premiere edging up a quintet of stills from the film have arrived via the official festival website. Want a taste of what's...

The first teaser for Symbol and Big Man Japan director's upcoming sex comedy R100 ended with leading man Omori Nao approaching a mysterious door. With the just released full trailer we get to see what's behind that door and it...

We all know the phenomenon: there are movies out there that we'd love to see, but do not get their financing sorted. Some directors are just not lucky enough, some seem to be cursed (cough-Gilliam-cough), but sometimes directors just aren't...

It was just yesterday that word broke about Matsumoto Hitoshi's upcoming sex comedy R100 and, hey look! There's a teaser for it out there today! There's never any way to really tell what the creatively restless director of Big Man...

As has proven to be his normal modus operandi, Matsumoto Hitoshi - the enormously popular comedian turned film director responsible for Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan), Symbol and Scabbard Samurai - has wrapped his latest feature without anyone particularly noticing...