Anime Movie Rebirth of Buddha to Hit Theaters in October

Here's one anime that I would not like to see because it's totally fiction but pretty interesting. Honestly I just wan to watch it because of its animation. Happy Science.

 

This poster is similar to Independence Day without the White House.

The controversial religious organization Happy Science (Kōfuku no Kagaku) is sponsoring the October 17 release of the anime film adaptation of The Rebirth of Buddha (Buddha Saitan) book by its founder, Ryuho Okawa. The film illustrates Happy Science's belief that the religious figure Buddha will return "when the world sinks into darkness." Takaaki Ishiyama (Sakura Wars, MapleStory, Chaos;HEAd) is directing the project at Group TAC. Ami Koshimizu leads a cast that also includes Hiroyuki Yoshino, Takehito Koyasu, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Ryoko Shiraishi.

Happy Science had previously sponsored three movies (The Laws of the Sun, The Golden Laws, The Laws of Eternity) based on the writings of its founder, as well as Hermes - Winds of Love and a film about Nostradamus. The group fielded 17 candidates for Japan's legislature earlier this year — including Kindaichi Case Files manga artist Fumiya Sato in the home district of the current prime minister and self-professed manga fan, Tarō Asō.

Source: ANN

It's trailer is sooo... so.

Their official website is cool: http://www.buddha-saitan.jp/. It gives an environment that anytime soon we'll be attacked by aliens and the Matrix is breached.

Ikuta Toma to Star in "Motel"

Finally Toma Ikuta will come up to the big screen! XD

Yukio Okada's Motel Manga Gets Seaside Motel Film

Wed, September 9, 2009

A live-action Seaside Motel film adaptation of Yukio Okada's Motel manga has been green-lit with lead actor Toma Ikuta (Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise, Akihabara @ DEEP) from the Johnny's Jr. idol talent firm. As the film's title implies, the story is set in a motel called Seaside. Brought together by chance, a number of young men and women check into the motel and cross paths. Ikuta will play Kameda, a salesman peddling a fake cosmetic cream. Kumiko Asou (Casshern, Yunagi City, Sakura Country, Ring Ø: Birthday) will co-star as Candy, a call girl in her 20s, with whom Kameda falls in love.

Okada serialized the manga in Nihonbungeisha's Bessatsu Manga Goraku magazine, and it was compiled into one book volume last year. Kentarō Moriya is directing his first feature film after his debut outing in the school comedy School Daze (no relation to Spike Lee's film of the same name). Filming on Seaside Motel began in Guam on August 30, and the film will open in Japan next year.

Source: Hollywood Channel, Ticket Pia

From another article...

Toma Ikuta, Kumiko Aso star in "Seaside Motel"

Thu, September 10, 2009 (2:28am EDT)

Yukio Okada's manga "MOTEL" is being turned into a live-action film, starring popular young actor Toma Ikuta (24). This is Ikuta's second movie role, after the Osamu Dazai adaptation "Ningen Shikkaku" ("No Longer Human") which is scheduled for release next year...

The manga is full of distinctive characters, but none of the film's supporting cast have been announced, other than stage actors Masaaki Akahori and Seiji Nozoe, playing a pair of cops.

"Seaside Hotel" is being directed by Kentaro Moriya, whose only other feature-length film is the 2005 picture "School Daze." ...

Source: Tokyograph

Toma is such a great actor. I'm just frustrated why it took time for them to put him on the big screen.

Gohatto (Taboo; 1999 )

This movie really hooked me up to the very last end. I was stuck on it like glue. I thought it was just another samurai film but it was more than I thought it should. It shows what it was in a life of a Shinsen-gumi samurai, the mastery, the art, the bushido--everything, although there is some oddity in it. It is just so hard to imagine, or maybe I was not used to it, that no matter how masculine those samurais are, they would still fall and kill for a female-looking guy!




This is really an exceptional film. With a hot samurai, real-looking intense fighting scenes and a unique love story, I am giving it a 9.5/10. I am not recommending it for homophobes because they might find this very disturbing.




I like the character Kano. He is a beautiful samurai. Beautiful meaning a perfect samurai, well--almost. I love a cold, heartless and beautiful samurai with no hesitations to kill which is exactly what Kano is. He also reminds me of Sojiro Seta (also my favorite) from Samurai X who smiles like the warmth of the sun outside but a cold bloody heartless killer in the inside.



Man, I love those looong tied locks. Ryuhei Matsuda's tempting me. (Congratulations for his wedding and for his upcoming baby. ^__^)