Tag: toshiakitoyoda
Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for the Toshiaki Toyoda Collection From Third Window Films
Third Window Films in the UK is gearing up for their next couple of releases for the autumn season with Takeshi Kitano's A Scene at the Sea this week and Kids Return next month, but that is far from the...
Exclusive: Third Window Announces The Rest Of Their 2016 Lineup - Sono, Kitano, Toyoda And More
Our friends at Third WIndow Films have given us the opportunity to exclusively announce the remainder of their planned 2016 releases. Through this point in the year Third Window has put out classics from Kitano Takeshi along with the wonderful...
Watch The Full Trailer For Toyoda's CROWS EXPLODE!
Continuing the series of Japanese teen gang films launched to massive popularity by Miike Takashi with his Crows Zero films, Blue Spring and Nine Souls helmer Toyoda Toshiaki steps to the controls for Crows Explode. Set in the same school...
Japan Cuts 2013 Review: I'M FLASH!, A Visually and Sonically Stylish Tale of Gangsters and Religious Cultists
Religious cultists, yakuza hitmen, a lovely bar pickup, and a speeding motorcyclist collide, quite literally, in the genre oddity that is I'M FLASH!, the latest from iconoclastic director Toyoda Toshiaki (9 Souls, The Hanging Garden). This time, Toyoda jettisons the...
Japan Cuts 2013 Angles For A Darker Side Of New Japanese Cinema
Now in its seventh year, the New York Japan Society's Japan Cuts has built up quite the reputation for being the premiere showcase for new cinematic works from Japan, if not just for the east coast cinephiles, but the entirety...
Gang Fights Continue At Suzuran High In CROWS EXPLODE's First Trailer
Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 are two of Japanese director Miike Takashi's most popular films. These high school gangster flicks are violent, entertaining and filled with energy and intensity. With the box office success of both films, it comes...
BLUE SPRING Director Toyoda Toshiaki Helming CROWS EXPLODE
Through his early career Japanese director Toyoda Toshiaki was something of the patron saint of disaffected youth.Toyoda's first trio of features - Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls - dressed up raw anger in a high gloss that somehow managed...
Toshiaki Toyoda Gets Back To The Angst In I'M FLASH Trailer
[Updated with trailer embed]Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as his nation's pre-eminent auteur of teen...
Tatsuya Fujiwara And Ryuhei Matsuda Star In Toshiaki Toyoda's I'M FLASH
It seems safe to say now that Japanese auteur Toshiaki Toyoda - director of Nine Souls and Blue Spring - is well and truly back. After a well publicized brush with the law very nearly ended Toyoda's career prior to...
Toyoda's comeback: BLOOD OF REBIRTH Review
Toyoda is back! At one point unsure whether he would even go back to feature-length film making, he returns with a blistering vengeance. I can only hope Blood of Rebirth is just the first in many to come, generating enough...
NYAFF 2010: THE BLOOD OF REBIRTH Review
Though THE BLOOD OF REBIRTH isn't autobiographical, it is apparently indicative of director Toshiaki Toyoda's tumultuous past five years. What you know of his life and previous films will greatly affect how you view his latest, which by most accounts...
Nippon Connection 2010: THE BLOOD OF REBIRTH Review
[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]In 2005 director Toshiaki Toyoda was poised to take his career to the next level....
FNC 09: THE BLOOD OF REBIRTH Review
[The latest from Japan's Toshiaki Toyoda has just had its world premiere as part of Montreal's Festival de Nouveau Cinema.]After a lengthy hiatus Blue Spring and Nine Souls director Toshiaki Toyoda returns to the big screen with The Blood of...
Toshiaki Toyoda's BLOOD OF REBIRTH To Premiere At Montreal's Festival De Nouveau Cinema!
While we here at ScreenAnarchy-central have been busily preparing for this years editions of Fantastic Fest and Sitges it's easy to forget that there's another rather large festival just around the corner, one much closer to home. That'd be Montreal's...
Trailer for Toshiaki Toyoda's 'The Blood of Rebirth' (Yomigaeri no Chi)
Since the beginning of May when we got our first look at Toshiaki Toyoda's next film The Blood of Rebirth. Now, thanks to the watchful eyes of Kevin at NipponCinema and Don at Ryuganji there is now a trailer to...
