Not one but TWO trailers for Geisha vs Ninja!!
Expect the film to hit Japanese theaters September 27, 2008, hopefully on DVD in America not much later…
See the original story with the American poster here
News of production completion
I got this email recently from Avery:
Now’s our chance guys!!!! They’re giving us a chance to let them know if we want ‘GUALAGON’ and they’ve given’ us a better explanation of the project; on the official website there is now[at the left hand bottom corner] an option for English: “A hearty Hello to all of you international Kaiju Fans out there! We’ve noticed, that our Gualagon project has created a lot of interest in the community, so we decided to include this text on the website as well.
First of all, let us clear up some misunderstandings. Gualagon will be a radioplay (although the term radioplay is not quite appropriate, since this will not be played on the radio, therefore we prefer the term audioplay) and not a movie. Apparently there had been two facts that led people to believe, that Gualagon will be a movie. Although it is correct that the main creative person behind the project is indeed the same Ralf Lorenz who helmed the (in)famous Kongula Movie Project, this time he decided to create and produce an audioplay. This was not done due to budgetary reasons, as some people believe, but because this time he wanted to make sure that he would have a team behind him to ensure the completion of the project. The other reason for people to think we would be doing a movie, was the button marked ‘trailer’. There will be a trailer on our homepage soon, alas it will be an audio trailer only.
Also there were reports that there will be a comic book etc. for Gualagon. Neither a comic book nor other variations of the project are planned right now. There was also speculation on an english version of the audioplay. Sorry to disappoint you again, but so far we are not considering this as anything that will happen soon, if ever. Of course we would love to do all those things, but at the moment our tight budget will not permit us to do so. However, we are considering to release the soundtrack separately, including an English booklet, if there is enough demand for it. So send us an E-Mail: : info@gualagon.de and let us know what you think.” Speak now or forever hold your peace. Maybe, they’ll except donations as well, since their budget seems to be the issue?? Anything you can offer would be of help. All it takes is one e-mail!!!!Even if you’re not able to donate, at least send them an -mail to let them know how bad you really want “GUALAGON”.
Sounds great, but you are probably wondering “WTF is Gualagon??” Well, here you go!:
Gualagon - Frankenstein’s Schreckengigant (Gualagon - Frankenstein’s Fright Giant)
Official Website
The Story (rough translation)
In 1966, just off the Japanese coast, the freighter Asahi Maru fights its way through a heavy storm, when something incomprehensible happens: the ship is destroyed and the only survivor maintains that it was destroyed by a gigantic kraken-like monster! Professor Tamblyn, specialist at the Serizawa institute in those forms of gigantism caused by radiation, examines the wreck of the ship and is dismayed to realise that a tremendous danger threatens Japan! While the military mobilises and naval forces patrol the coastline, reporters Keisuke Kusano and Isao Ogawa come upon traces of the monster Gualagon — and thereby put themselves in deadly danger. Panic breaks out when the monster comes ashore one night and attacks Osaka… The race is on for scientists to develop new weapons to deal with the fright giant of Frankenstein! From the depths of the sea he comes! Inexorably, gigantically, all destroying!
So it is a German daikaiju audio play done in the style of the classic Japanese monster movies. Note some of the Godzilla-universe names in the summary. Sounds like this will be a nice tribute. If you are interested, be sure and tell them so!
Article on Gualagon at Undead Backbrain
Thanks to Avery!
I don’t normally think stuff like this is funny, but this one is pretty well done and not as obnoxious.
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.
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.
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
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.“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.”
The film has already opened in Latvia, the home of movies about vikings fighting alien monsters.
First Trailer:
Second Trailer:
Pictures of the Moorwen, who looks wicked cool:
Thanks to Avery!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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