High Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi is in post-production of “Le Chemin du Serpent,” a French-language adaptation of his personal 1998 movie “The Serpent’s Path.”
The story sees a mysterious lady workforce up with a person whose daughter was killed and who’s now in search of revenge. Collectively they kidnap members of a corporation and torture them to seek out out what actually occurred.
With Damien Bonnard (“Asteroid Metropolis,” “Les Miserables”) and Shibasaki Ko (“47 Ronin,” “Battle Royale”) within the main roles, the image is the anchor title of the TIFFCOM gross sales slate of main Japanese studio Kadokawa.
Manufacturing is by Kadokawa and Jean-Luc Ormieres’ Cinefrance Studios. The Japanese firm is dealing with world gross sales on the image exterior France and Belgium.
Kurosawa, who has been a daily customer to Cannes with titles together with “Pulse,” “Shiny Future,” “Tokyo Sonata,” “Journey to the Shore” and “Earlier than We Vanish”, is making ready to finish the brand new movie in time for a summer time 2024 launch.
Kadokawa’s different new addition is in an altogether totally different register. Musical comedy drama “Let’s Go Karaoke” is in superior post-production and headed for a January launch in Japan.
Directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro and starring Ayano Go and Saito Jun, the movie delivers a narrative tailored by Nogi Akiko from an authentic comedian guide story by Wayama Yama, a couple of faculty bully who’s dealing with horrible humiliation and a hefty forfeit if he loses a karaoke competitors. He picks on a stoical choir boy to assist him get by way of rehearsals.
Kadokawa can also be liable for gross sales of “Neck” (aka “Kubi”), the historic motion movie directed by and starring Kitano Takeshi that had its world premiere in official choice at Cannes. The movie now has a Nov. 23 theatrical launch date for Japan.
In what has been a busy 12 months for the corporate it now has a raft of different movie titles set for launch between now and subsequent spring. These embrace: “Matched,” a relationship thriller directed by Uchida Eiji (“Midnight Swan”) set for February; “Out,” an motion drama a couple of teen who had just lately been launched from juvenile reformatory however faces an early return, heading for a Nov. 17 launch; Takashi Shimizu-produced horror title “Greatest Needs to All,” which is accomplished however undated; and “Manzai Kyokai The Film,” a function documentary about Tokyo’s stand-up comedy scene, which can launch in Spring 2024.
Kadokawa’s title that’s furthest from completion is “6 Mendacity College College students,” a suspense-drama, through which a gaggle of scholars in search of recruitment to an IT agency, abruptly uncover that the corporate has modified the foundations and the place they thought that teamwork was needed, the scholars should as a substitute compete in opposition to one another. The movie relies on a Kadokawa-published novel by Asakura Akinari and is ready to launch in late 2024.
