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I don’t normally think stuff like this is funny, but this one is pretty well done and not as obnoxious.

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Geisha vs Ninjas has completed production. The film, which we reported on earlier, features a female geisha out for revenge aginst a pack of ninjas. Which means the film has the possibility of being totally awesome. Let’s hope it is!!

NipponCinema:

Production completed on Go Ohara’s ‘Geisha vs Ninjas’

Posted by kevin at 7:44am on Thursday, July 24, 2008 EDT

Filed under: Action, Jidaigeki, Future releases, Movie announcements

Geisha vs NinjasA press conference was held yesterday at Space FS Shiodome to announce completion of Go Ohara’s directorial debut, Geisha vs Ninjas. Ohara joined the film’s stars, Minami Tsukui and Masaki Nomura to offer greetings from the stage before a preview screening. Also in attendance were 3 guys in ninja costumes for the sake of corny photo ops.

In the film Tsukui, who was chosen from over 2,000 young actresses, plays a geisha named Kotono who faces off against the ninjas who killed her father.

See the original story with the American poster here

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It looks like Tron is getting a sequel (in non-video game form) as a short film debuted at ComicCon. Jeff Bridges is there, light bikes, and deadly disks. Could be awesome, or it could be horrible.

LINK TO TRAILER

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Here is a movie that went all over the web except here, thanks to me being too busy to write about it. Better late than never!

Outlander, directed by Howard McCain

* James Caviezel as Kainan
* Sophia Myles as Freya
* Jack Huston as Wulfric
* Ron Perlman as Gunnar
* John Hurt as Rothgar

“Outlander begins when a space craft crashes into the majestic fjords of ancient Norway and into the time of the Vikings. From the wreckage emerge two bitter enemies: a soldier from another world – Kainan – and a bloodthirsty creature known as the Moorwen. Man and monster both seeking revenge for violence committed against them. As the Moorwen ravages the Viking world, killing everything in its path, Kainan forms an unlikely alliance with the primitive but fierce warriors. Combining his advanced technology with ancient Iron Age weapons, the hero leads a desperate attempt to kill the monster - before it destroys them all.”

Vikings vs monsters from space, what is not to like? And joined by Space Jesus who hunts the monster as well. This film looks like it will be a lot of fun, and that’s just what these movies should be: fun. We don’t need people talking for an hour before fighting the monster, we need constant monster fights, vikings chopping things, and fun fun fun. Hopefully, Outlander will live up to the hype it has generated online.

The film has already opened in Latvia, the home of movies about vikings fighting alien monsters.

A Fan website

First Trailer:

Moorwen Creature Design

Second Trailer:

Pictures of the Moorwen, who looks wicked cool:

Thanks to Avery!

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They are making a new Dragonball Z movie (there was one a long time ago, it was terrible, and someone was a turtle) because studios haven’t lost enough money yet. Chow Yun Fat is in it, and a bunch of white people. NO word yet on if the entire movie will be someone charging an attack. Sign me up for opening night! Here are some photos for the curious. These scans from the August issue of Jump Square magazine, the official magazine of Q*Bert.

One ring to rule them all…

I would have thought balls from a dragon would be bigger…

WTF? That hair looks terrible!

Hello, I am token Asian actor!

This movie will suck.

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Looks like Hannah Montana is once again involved in racy photo shenanigans, and this time they could be naked! A hacker named TrainReq ganked some photos off of her email she sent to Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers. He even posted a few, complete with his tag all over them. What a moron! Kira he is not. Anyway, his easily traceable tag (hello, Josh H.!) has meant Disney is now preparing to lawyer the frak out of him. But at this rate, even if TrainReq’s other photos don’t surface, Miley will just take more naked photos in three months. She’s unstoppable! And your daughter wants to be just like her!

Totally roxed. He roxed her sox off.

dontlinkthis received this fake or not fake communique:

“Some news about those Miley Cyrus pics from the dude who sent them in:

TrainReq’s door is basically being beaten down by Disney lawyers. They’re scaring the hell out of him. He has 6 more pictures of Miley Cyrus, all of which were sent to Nick Jonas of The Jonas Brothers. He was trying to sell them, which probably is making matters worse. Hacking emails is illegal, afterall.

Anyway, I’ve seen the pictures. He showed them to me in person on his computer. He won’t risk sending them out. Miley’s not exactly naked in any of them, but as I said before everything can be seen.

I’ll break them down for you.

First picture: Miley in a black see-through babydoll with black panties. Thanks to the flash of the camera her nipples are clearly visible. I don’t know if she had the camera on a timer or a friend took it, because she’s standing free in front of a closet. The babydoll is probably this version (in black)

Second picture: Miley topless with her hands covering/cupping her breasts. She’s wearing white shorts. In front of the same closet as before. Still freestanding.

Third picture: This time she’s in a purple bra and panty set. The panties are see-through. She’s shaved. She’s in the same room as the other two, but in front of a dresser with a TV playing a Toyota commercial. Still freestanding.

Fourth picture: Back in the shower room as before. Pretty much the same shot as before, but this time we see a lot more of her ass with the wet t-shirt clinging to it.

Fifth picture: Still in the shower, this time facing the camera. She has her right arm covering her boobs, but the shirt is plastered to her bald crotch.

Sixth picture: Last one. And definitely my favorite. She’s facing the camera in the shower, one hand on her hip, the other by her side. Except for a few pockets where air got in her shirt is totally see-through. Both breasts with hard nipples and her crotch are clearly seen. She’s basically completely naked.

TrainReq sent these out to several potential clients, but I don’t know their status. With the lawyers going apeshit anything can happen. By the way, just so you know, I’m 17 years old, so even if these pictures are deemed illegal because of Miley’s age (15 in all of them), it’s still legal for me to see them. At least that’s my understanding. Since they’re not pornographic TrainReq has been assured that they are legal, since just seeing an underage girl naked is fine so long as it’s not sexual in nature.

Mmmm. Bald crotch. “

Oh, 17-year-old? It doesn’t matter if you are 17 or 717, looking at underage porn is illegal. Still, that would require a ruling that those were porn. I’m not going to get into an issue about how young teenage girls are getting more mature and all that, nor an argument about art vs. pornography. What is precedented is pictures of Lindsey Lohan underage and popping out of her shirt, and those are all over the internet like pee in a child’s swimming pool. So if “TrainReq” of his buddies let these loose, you won’t be able to internet for five minutes without downloading the photos. Just like Verne Troyer’s sex tape!
Welcome to the scary world of 2008.

Hey, I guess she DOES like that Jonas guy.

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No mention in the article of rumors about how Albert Yeung is suspected of being behind this, or even mention of rape at all. It looks like Carina Lau is claiming she wasn’t raped now, just kidnapped, stripped, and photographed. Which is odd, because supposed videos of the rape have surfaced on the internet. I am not going to watch to see if that’s her. Someone else can do that job. She claims to not hold a grudge against the men, but no mention on if she holds a grudge against the masterminds. This article had a lot of misspellings, so I corrected a few.

The Straits Times/Asia News Network

Gangsters Made Me Pose In the Nude, Says HK Actress

For 18 long years, Hong Kong actress Carina Lau kept mum about her humiliating ordeal at the hands of triad members.

But now, with her impending marriage to long-time actor boyfriend Tony Leung, Carina, 43, has finally broken her silence.

Back in April 1990, the budding actress was bundled off into a car, blindfolded and forcibly photographed nude by triad members.

The incident came to light years later, in 2002, reported The New Paper yesterday. That was when Hong Kong’s East Week magazine published a topless photograph of her being held against her will on its front cover.

While her eyes were masked, speculation was rampant that the actress involved was Carina. She kept mum for a few weeks after its publication and later admitted she was indeed the actress in the photographs.

In her first candid interview since the photos were leaked, she told Hong Kong newspaper Nanfang Doushibao that she had stepped on some triad members’ toes by refusing to act in a movie that they were involved with. At that time, there was a lot of triad involvement and investment in the Hong Kong film industry, she said.

“Because I didn’t agree to filming the movie, they decide to punish me by doing this,” she added.

The New Paper said that on the morning of April 25, 1990, she was driving home when she realized that another car was tailing her. After she turned into a car park, a number of big-sized men opened her door and grabbed her from the car.

“They dragged me into a car, covered both my eyes,” recounted Carina. “I was terrified - I thought they were going to kill me and dump my body in a deserted field.”

Even though the men made her pose nude, she insisted that they did not take advantage of her.

“I don’t hate those four men who held me. They were just following orders. They never molested me, so I’m grateful to them for that.”

Carina was released about two hours later. She made a police report, but the culprits were never caught.

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The Cantopop duo the Twins, Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung, are drowning in a new mass of rumors they are splitting up. Charlene is denying those rumors:

Recently, there have been rampant rumors concerning the disbanding of Twins when it was revealed that Gillian Chung had departed for Hollywood.

Charlene Choi appeared at an event yesterday at the Shatin Horsetrack with Jackie Chan, Joey Yung, Nicholas Tse, Yumiko Cheng, Raymond Lam among others, and responded to the rumors.

Once again, Charlene Choi strongly denied the disbanding rumors and firmly stated that Twins will collaborate again in the future, “From the second day that Twins was established, there have already been rumors of us splitting, I am already used to them.”

Charlene Choi revealed that she found out about the recent disbanding rumors from the newspapers. She emotionally said, “Gillian Chung and Ah Sa used 7 years of time to establish Twins.

It was created with little sleep, no rest, and hard work. At this time, we are thinking the same thing, it is not the best time to appear together. As a result, we are each independently learning and gaining experience.

There will be a day when we will appear together again. While that day is not today or tomorrow, at this time, we are silently accepting jobs, because every job is an opportunity. I do not wish to hear about the disbanding rumors again.”

via MyStarHill

So they ain’t splitting up, but they aren’t being together anytime soon. Hmmmm……

These rumors have been popping up constantly since the Edison Chen Sex Photo Scandal (aka SexyPhotosGate) and will probably continue until either they make and official announcement, or Charlene joins in the sex tape fun and the Twins are united in shame. Guess which one I support?

Related posts:

Hong Kong Sex Scandal - Edison Chen, cameras, and many Hong Kong leading ladies!

Hong Kong Edison Chen Sex Photo Scandal Continues

Update on the Edison Chen crisis

Edison Chen Sex Scandal Has Not Ended

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Kaiju independent film Deep Sea Monster Reigo is seeing the light of day after three years of news. First announced around 2005, there will finally be releases later this year! In theaters at first, but I would suspect it will show up on DVD soon after that. The brainchild of director/writer/producer Hayashiya Shinpei, who has several other kaiju offerings to his credits, as listed below. Quoted information is taken from the official Reigo website.

The original idea, planning, scene writing and direction are done by Hayashiya Shinpei, who has received rave reviews from special effects fans at home and abroad for his work on “Godzilla x Desugirasu” and “Gamera 4″

Gamera 4: Truth (Gamera 4: Shinjitsu) is a 45 minute fan film. Here is a well-written description of one of the sporadic screenings. Gamera 4 features a white Gyaos! I had not even heard of Godzilla x Desugirasu, but as Hayashiya is supposed to have a Godzilla fan film as well this must be it. It may also be titled Godzilla VS Seadora for us Americans. Searching for images from this film proved fruitless, but I did stumble across a bizarre Japanese website that may have something else even weirder on it, more on that in another update. If you have Godzilla vs. Seadora (Desugirasu) info, please let me know. As the director is from a fan film background, I am not expecting the best acting in the world, but he should at least know how to make something fun and well paced. That alone can forgive even the worst acting (unless they are annoying Kenny children, which hopefully aren’t on a WW2 battleship.)

The character design of Monster REIGO:

Reigo was designed by Amemiya Keita, who is known as the director of SF film “Zeiramu” and as the designer of characters for a number of special-effects films.
Based on his design, the character was made by Haraguchi Tomoo, well-known for the Heisei “Gamera” series.

Reigo looks like Godzilla humped a seal! Okay, it moves more dangerously in the trailer than this marionette, but still! Godzilla with fins…

The cast:

The leading role, Kaido Takeshi, is played by Sugiura Taiyo, who opened up a new phase in his career by playing in “Ultraman Cosmos.”
The heroin, Kojima Chie, is played by Nanami Mai, who also play the heroine of “Haru-urara”. This fresh couple gives an excellent performance as childhood friends who are attracted to each other but are separated under the wartime conditions.
Hotaru Yukijiro, who played the part of detective Osako in the Heisei “Gamera” series, appears in this film as Divisional Officer Osako, as well as Kurobe Susumu, who played the role of Hayata in the first Ultraman. You will notice Director Hayashiya’s homage to special-effects films expressed in various ways in this film.

The story:

In the midst of World War II, the battleship Yamato - the pride of the Japanese navy - along with the other ships of the Combined Fleet are lurking in the South Sea in the waters of the Truk Islands.

Ensign Kaido Takeshi, (Sugiura Taiyo) is one of the officers serving on the Yamato on the front lines of the naval war, while his childhood sweetheart, Chie, (Nanami Mai) awaits his return back in their hometown. They were lovers, but Kaido, uncertain of the future, went off to serve his country without publicly declaring his love for Chie. Yet, he still carries her photo in his jacket pocket, always.

One day, the Combined Fleet spots what is believed to be an enemy submarine and commences firing. The attack is a success, however what sinks to the sea bottom is not a submarine at all but a massive mysterious creature that will later bring disaster upon the fleet. That creature turns out to be the offspring of REIGO, a legendary deep-sea monster whose story has been passed down for generations in this part of the world

Seething with rage at the murder of its cub, the 80-meter long REIGO suddenly appears and lashes out at the battleship and escort vessels with awesome destructive power. Even though they have been caught off guard with the battleship and escort vessels heavily damaged, they regroup and work out a plan of attack, but….

Thoughts of family and lovers back home…fear at being confronted by an unknown enemy… conflict and confrontation among the officers and crew over attack strategies. Now the stage is set for the fierce battle that is about to unfold between the world’s biggest battleship, the Yamato with all its onboard human dramas, and the mysterious dragon-like REIGO that moves through the seas at will.

Someone is a little bit too much in love with the Yamato…

The Trailer:

Official Site
English

This should be fun.

Thanks to Avery for the story!

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Beverly Hills Chihuahua will be the worst film of the year. But RiffTrax is fighting back!

Hooray for Mike, Kevin, Bill, and the guys at RiffTrax!

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