New Takashi Miike Film, IZO
07-01-04 | 12:17 AM
#1
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Banned by request
New Takashi Miike Film, IZO
Got this from someone's livejournal:
Hadn't heard anyone talking about this but the official site for Miike's IZO is active.
Here's the link: http://www.izo-movie.com/index.html
And Kung Fu Cult Cinema has this synopsis:
We have announced a couple of months ago that after being refusing to create his own version of Zatoichi, Japanese director Takashi Miike decided to create his own samurai film called Izo. Thanks to CHUD we finally have the synopsis of the movie. We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. One is Izo (Kazuya Nakayama), an assassin in the service of Hanpeida (Ryosuke Miki), a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified.
Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo, where his finds himself one with the city's homeless. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine, his entire soul still enraged by his treatment in his past life. His response to the powers-that-be, whose predecessors put him to death, is the sword. His ability to leap through time, slashing as he goes, attracts the attention of the lords of the universe, who are like a pre-war House of Peers, in office for eternity. Izo, however, is not about to bow to anyone, even the lords of creation (he even rapes Mother Earth). In the final conflict, the Prime Minister (Takeshi Kitano), calls in allies from all eras, from samurai swordsmen to the yakuza. It should be the most bloody and violent sword fight sequence ever staged."
I can't freakin' wait for this.
Hadn't heard anyone talking about this but the official site for Miike's IZO is active.
Here's the link: http://www.izo-movie.com/index.html
And Kung Fu Cult Cinema has this synopsis:
We have announced a couple of months ago that after being refusing to create his own version of Zatoichi, Japanese director Takashi Miike decided to create his own samurai film called Izo. Thanks to CHUD we finally have the synopsis of the movie. We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. One is Izo (Kazuya Nakayama), an assassin in the service of Hanpeida (Ryosuke Miki), a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified.
Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo, where his finds himself one with the city's homeless. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine, his entire soul still enraged by his treatment in his past life. His response to the powers-that-be, whose predecessors put him to death, is the sword. His ability to leap through time, slashing as he goes, attracts the attention of the lords of the universe, who are like a pre-war House of Peers, in office for eternity. Izo, however, is not about to bow to anyone, even the lords of creation (he even rapes Mother Earth). In the final conflict, the Prime Minister (Takeshi Kitano), calls in allies from all eras, from samurai swordsmen to the yakuza. It should be the most bloody and violent sword fight sequence ever staged."
I can't freakin' wait for this.
07-01-04 | 03:45 AM
#4
DVD Talk Legend
sounds neat.
07-01-04 | 03:47 AM
#5
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Banned by request
Originally posted by tofu
If Beat Takeshi's in it, I'm there. Although, the plot sounds kind of strange.
If Beat Takeshi's in it, I'm there. Although, the plot sounds kind of strange.
07-01-04 | 11:01 AM
#6
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Originally posted by Suprmallet
Clearly you're not familiar with Miike's work.
Clearly you're not familiar with Miike's work.
If anything the above plot description sounds relatively linear. But then, so did some of the other short blurbs about Miike's films.
07-01-04 | 08:15 PM
#8
DVD Talk Hero
Very cool news 
