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02-16-2004, 02:07 PM
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TRAILER: Miramaxe Version of Takeshi Kitano's ZATOICHI
They say it's coming in 2004, but somehow I suspect it will just be warehoused with so many other Asian films that the studio just seems to want to claim it owns.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/zatoichi.html
I missed this at the Toronto Film Festival last year and have been dying to see it. Now that Miramax has it, I guess I'll have to waith for a Hong Kong DVD release if I really want to see it.
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02-16-2004, 04:03 PM
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It was shown at Sundance subbed and uncut.
I personally think that Beat Takeshi has the clout to get a "no cuts or dub" clause in his contract with Miramax.
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02-16-2004, 04:22 PM
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I saw this at the London Film Festival last year. Quite a strange film - as usual, Kitano alternates short, sharp action sequences with slower, more tender / comic interludes. He also manages to slip in a few semi-musical numbers !
I'm a big Kitano fan but I didn't feel he got the balance of elements quite right here. Worth seeing, as ever, but if you're more a Zataoichi fan than a Kitano fan, you might find it hard going. It's quite bloody, but the gore is all CGI, giving it a surreal effect that should negate any interference from censors.
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02-16-2004, 04:59 PM
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Seville Pictures has the rights to this in Canada. No word if they have to go day/date with Miramax.
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02-16-2004, 06:28 PM
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Seville did a nice job with the Vidocq Special Edition DVD, didn't they? So maybe they'll treat us northerners to a special edition Zatoichi that Miramaxe won't be bothered with.
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02-16-2004, 10:48 PM
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speaking of cut-up Asian movies, just read that Hero has shifted its theater date to mid-June from Apr 16, to avoid conflicting with Kill Bill vol. 2, which is planned for that date
later Pooh...
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02-16-2004, 11:19 PM
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"Last year, 2054, the remains of the never-before-seen Miramaxe cut of Hero were found in the Miramaxe vault. Now, for the first time, experience the cut-up power of legendary director Zhang Yimou, but please wait as we delay this film for another 50 years."
The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.
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02-17-2004, 08:51 PM
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Are y'all talking about the following Zatoichi, which Amazon shows releasing on DVD 2/24/04?
If so, I may pick it up, assuming 116min is the original theatrical running time and it's OAR.
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02-17-2004, 09:35 PM
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That's the 1989 version... and being Media Blasters, it should have Japanese and english subtitles.
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02-17-2004, 10:27 PM
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I am looking forward to Kitano's Zatoichi. I have only recently started watching the series. I believe the one pictured above was the last of the series until Kitano's?
As for Hero, great movie, I've had the DVD since last May.
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