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The Fantasia International Film Festival said Wednesday that Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War – Guardians will be the closing-night film of the Montreal-based genre fest’s 25th edition, which runs August 5-25 as a hybrid online/in-person event. The news comes as organizers locked in their lineup and schedule of…

Prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's latest feature is First Love, the wild genre romp that follows a young boxer and a call girl who get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The pic premiered in Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight program and has also played Toronto, Busan, London…

EXCLUSIVE: Fantastic Fest is set to honor legendary filmmaker Takashi Miike with the Lifetime Achievement Award and a and a special screening of The Happiness of the Katakuris. In addition, the fest has revealed its final wave of programming which includes the U.S. premiere of Jeremy Clapin’s I Lost My Body which…

Well Go USA Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Takashi Miike's First Love following its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The noir-tinged yakuza film follows the story of a young boxer and a call girl who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up…

Details have been released today about Takashi Miike’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight-bound action-thriller First Love. Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his 'first love' Monica, a call girl and an addict but still an innocent. Little does Leo know, Monica…

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios has acquired and is fast-tracking late summer or early fall start Manhunt, the working title of an action film based on the Kazuhiro Kiuchi Japanese novel and the Takashi Miike-directed cult classic film Shield of Straw. The American remake is produced in association with Depth of Field…

Magnet Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Blade Of The Immortal, the new film from Takashi Miike that is playing out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in its international premiere. A 2017 release is in the works Magnet, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, also has Arnaud…

EuropaCorp is partnering with the global entertainment studio All Nippon Entertainment Works, Nippon Television, and Depth of Field to develop, finance and produce an English version of the Japanese spy thriller Shield of Straw. The Takashi Miike-diretced original was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes…

All Nippon Entertainment Works and Japanese partner Nippon TV are teaming with Chris and Paul Weitz's Depth of Field to develop and produce an English-language remake of Takashi Miike’s action thriller Shield Of Straw, which played in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Falle…

Director Takashi Miike’s action-horror-comedy-martial arts splatterfest Yakuza Apocalypse will face the end of the world in the West, as Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights. The film will screen first in September at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program, followed by…

Animated feature Animal Crackers has added some heavyweights to its voice cast. Sir Ian McKellen, Danny DeVito, and Sylvester Stallone will lend their voices to the Blue Dream Studios film about a family whose life is turned upside down when they inherit a rundown circus and a mysterious box of Animal Crackers that…