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Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York branch office but he didn’t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.
Initial D : As “family” was becoming the world’s loudest car-movie philosophy, Hong Kong gave us a different kind of miracle: a tofu kid, perilous roads, and one battered immortal Toyota AE86. It’s 2005, and Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, fresh off Infernal Affairs, turn Shuichi Shigeno’s blockbuster racing manga into pure motorhead bliss, with pop superstar Jay Chou making his screen debut as a half-asleep teenager who has unknowingly become a drift-racing freak through years of morning runs for his father’s tofu shop. Once the local speed demons discover the prodigy, every road becomes a dueling ground. Newly restored in 4K for its 20th anniversary, Initial D remains the real deal east of Vin Diesel: fast, foolish and beautiful.
DIRECTOR : Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
YEAR : 2005
COUNTRY : Hong Kong
RUNTIME : 109 minutes
LANGUAGE : Cantonese with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE : 頭文字D
VENUES : Walter Reade Theater
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