"Look how happy it looks!" Red Water Entertainment has unveiled a new official trailer for a very weird and peculiar Japanese indie sci-fi horror film titled Extraneous Matter made by filmmaker Ken'ichi Ugana. This originally premiered back in 2021 at festivals around the world, with appearances at Screamfest and others. Now it's finally getting a VOD debut in the US as Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition, since it's based on a series of short films. "High-gloss trash at its best!" One day, a strange thing comes to a woman who is suffering from being in a sexless relationship with her boyfriend. The "extraneous matter" (strange tentacled creatures), appear out of nowhere in front of two couples who are not getting along, former lovers, and factory workers and affects their thoughts & lives. Starring Kaoru Koide, Shunsuke Tanaka, Nina Sakura, Megumi Haruno, Adone Kudo, and Rino. There's no easy way to describe this, but...
- 3/22/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Shiho, Keisuke Nomura, Saki Hirai, Haruki Itabashi, Ryuta Endo, Kento Miura, Lloyd Kaufman | Written and Directed by Ken’ichi Ugana
An expanded version of writer/director Ken’ichi Ugana’s 2021 short film Visitors, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the strangest feature to play at this year’s FRomford Horror Film Festival. And at sixty-one minutes, including credits, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the shortest as well. In other words, it’s a lot of weirdness packed into a short running time.
It all begins innocently enough as three friends Haruka, Nana, and Takanori drop in on their bandmate Souta who has dropped out of touch with them and everyone else for that matter. They find his house covered in old newspapers, fliers and other assorted papers. But when he finally answers the door he invites them in for tea. That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was pulling a...
An expanded version of writer/director Ken’ichi Ugana’s 2021 short film Visitors, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the strangest feature to play at this year’s FRomford Horror Film Festival. And at sixty-one minutes, including credits, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the shortest as well. In other words, it’s a lot of weirdness packed into a short running time.
It all begins innocently enough as three friends Haruka, Nana, and Takanori drop in on their bandmate Souta who has dropped out of touch with them and everyone else for that matter. They find his house covered in old newspapers, fliers and other assorted papers. But when he finally answers the door he invites them in for tea. That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was pulling a...
- 3/1/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Sayu Kubota, Yuzu Aoki, Mituru Fukikoshi, Akaji Maro, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hitomi Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda | Written by Ken’ichi Ugana, Hirobumi Watanabe | Directed by Ken’ichi Ugana
Love Will Tear Us Apart is the latest film from director Ken’ichi Ugana, who has made a name for himself on the festival circuit with films like Extraneous Matter and Visitors. His latest is a strange tale that takes one part It Follows and one part slasher movie.
The film follows Wakaba, a young girl whose father is an abusive alcoholic and whose mother is too timid to defend herself or Wakaba. But that doesn’t stop Wakaba from defending her fellow classmate Koki who is being bullied by other students at elementary school. However that defence, and subsequent friendship between the two, is ruined by the school bullies turning their attention to Wakaba. But that attention doesn’t last long as the...
Love Will Tear Us Apart is the latest film from director Ken’ichi Ugana, who has made a name for himself on the festival circuit with films like Extraneous Matter and Visitors. His latest is a strange tale that takes one part It Follows and one part slasher movie.
The film follows Wakaba, a young girl whose father is an abusive alcoholic and whose mother is too timid to defend herself or Wakaba. But that doesn’t stop Wakaba from defending her fellow classmate Koki who is being bullied by other students at elementary school. However that defence, and subsequent friendship between the two, is ruined by the school bullies turning their attention to Wakaba. But that attention doesn’t last long as the...
- 2/28/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Sardinian international festival dedicated to Asian cinema, Across Asia Film Festival, is back with its eight edition and is going to run from 16 to 20 December 2021 in Cagliari.
Born with the aim of making Far Eastern film production known to the public, developing international cultural exchanges and favouring a more in-depth intercultural vision, the festival is finally back in attendance, after the success of the previous editions in Cagliari and Rome. With a wide-ranging program that includes training sessions and meetings with international guests, the festival offers a diversified exploration, this year focusing in particular on female cinema and independent Japanese cinema. Five days of appointments; screenings of European and national premieres, masterclasses, meetings with international guests, installations, special events. Moreover, until January 31st 2022 at the “Stefano Cardu” Siamese Art Museum, the exhibition “Japanese Notebooks” will showcase illustrations by Igort, one of the Sardinian artists who explored the Far East...
Born with the aim of making Far Eastern film production known to the public, developing international cultural exchanges and favouring a more in-depth intercultural vision, the festival is finally back in attendance, after the success of the previous editions in Cagliari and Rome. With a wide-ranging program that includes training sessions and meetings with international guests, the festival offers a diversified exploration, this year focusing in particular on female cinema and independent Japanese cinema. Five days of appointments; screenings of European and national premieres, masterclasses, meetings with international guests, installations, special events. Moreover, until January 31st 2022 at the “Stefano Cardu” Siamese Art Museum, the exhibition “Japanese Notebooks” will showcase illustrations by Igort, one of the Sardinian artists who explored the Far East...
- 12/7/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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