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13 October 2008 7:49 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Not exactly film news, this, but…

The Japanese are no strangers to hiring movie talents for spicing up their videogames, but Studio Level 5 (of DragonQuest fame) have taken this to, haha, the next level.

For their new RPG “Ni No Kuni: The Another World” (no typo), the animated cut-scenes will be done by Studio Ghibli. That’s quite a catch as you will agree.

And it doesn’t stop there either, for Joe Hisaishi will compose the game’s soundtrack. In case you’re wondering “Joe Who?”, well, shame on you!

He is perhaps most famous for composing the soundtracks of all of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies for the past 25 years, but he also collaborated on several movies with Takeshi Kitano like “Brother”, “Dolls”, “Kikujiro”, “Hana-Bi” and “Sonatine”. And that’s only scratching the surface!

Last week the Tokyo Game Show started, so Studio Level 5 released a trailer for “Ni »

- Ard Vijn

12 September 2008 2:21 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

The concluding chapter of the self relective trilogy that Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano began with Takeshis’ and continued with Glory to the Filmmaker it is hard to imagine Achilles and the Tortoise being more different than the films that came before.  While both Takeshis’ and Glory were shot through with manic energy and featured Kitano playing some distorted version of himself Achilles is a far more sedate and quiet film, one that follows a conventional structure, following a single character through the course of his life, and is concerned more with the creative impulse than with any sort of self representation.  If Takeshis’ was an attempt to break new stylistic ground while satirizing the media monster Kitano himself had become and Glory was a deliberate throwback to the comedic madness of Getting Any, then Achilles draws more on the meditative side of Kitano, the side responsible for films such as »

- Todd Brown

2 articles from 2008