©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Check out more of our YouTube Channel. 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…
©Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Having made his big-screen comeback to Oscar winning acclaim with Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale in 2022, Brendan Fraser has teamed up with a Japanese director Hikari for his latest outing, “Rental Family,” which takes place in Japan, check out the…
©Courtesy of Showtime Searchlight Pictures will release the Japan-set dramedy Rental Family on November 21, The Wrap is reporting. The movie stars Brendan Fraser in his first leading role since he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2023 for The Whale. Fraser plays a down-on-his-luck actor living in Tokyo in the upcoming film. The protagonist take…
©Courtesy of IFC Films Check out more of our YouTube Channel 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…
©Courtesy of IFC Films Tornado : Set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, Tornado (Kōki) is a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s travelling puppet Samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman (Tim Roth) and his…
It’s been ten years since filmmaker John Maclean burst onto the scene with the appropriately-named Western Slow West. For his second feature, Tornado, he remains in a similar time period, but moves the story to the British Isles where a Japanese puppeteer and samurai (Takehiro Hira) and his daughter (Kôki) run afoul of a group…
Check out more of our Youtube Channel 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…
©Courtesy of IFC Films Touring has always been hard on performers, but it is particularly tough for “Tornado” traveling through the 1790s Scottish Highlands. She and her exiled Samurai father stage Japanese-themed Punch-and-Judy-like puppet shows that incorporate real-life martial arts demonstrations. Unfortunately, she will need all the combat skills her father taught her to avoid…
©Courtesy of IFC Films An official trailer for an indie revenge thriller called “Tornado“ has been released by IFC Films, which is starring Tim Roth, Jack Lowden, Takehiro Hira and Kôki. The daughter of a Japanese puppeteer is entangled in a violent criminal gang when her show crosses paths with a crime gang led by…
© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Shogun : Set in Japan in the year 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village. Producer : Hiroyuki Sanada, Eriko Miyagawa, Erin Smith, Tom…
It’s impossible to truly know what life was like and how people actually behaved hundreds of years ago. There are written records, paintings and then photographs, and, in more recent years, gradually more available video evidence so that those in the present day can perceive a moderately insightful look into the past. Imagining the first…
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