Friday, July 25, 2008

Weekly Trailers

Rakugo Musume - Shun Nakahara (2008)

Kazumi (Mimura) has loved the art of rakugo since she saw a performance as a high schooler, but since graduation she's having trouble breaking into the entirely male dominated comedic Japanese storytelling, that is until an elderly rakugo master (Masahiko Tsugawa) takes a chance on the talented young woman ansd invites her to become his apprentice.




Labyrinth of Dreams - Sogo Ishii (1997)

"Labyrinth od Dreams" is strange love story from Sogo Ishii, the director of "Burst City" and "Electric Dragon 80,000V". Tomiko (Rena Komine) a bus driver in a small Japanese town, has suspisions about her new co-worker Niitaka (Tadanobu Asano). There's a rumour that every bus driver he's ever worked with have died under mysterious circumstances. Could he be a serial killer, and will her strategy of feigning a romantic interest in him to find out the truth back fire?

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