A young woman discovers she’s a crime family heiress in “Yakuza Princess,” a grimy action-thriller set in the neon-drenched streets of São Paulo’s Japanese district. Adapted from Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim (“Motorrad), “Yakuza” delivers stylish shootouts and eye-catching swordplay but lacks the dynamic characters and story-telling panache required to lift it into the top grade. Starring Japanese American singer Masumi in her first feature role, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an amnesiac assassin, this well produced item still packs enough punch to satisfy undemanding action fans and should perform respectably when released in U.S. theaters and on VOD on Sept. 3.
Considering São Paulo is home to the world’s largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan (an estimated 1.6 million people), it’s surprising how rarely the city’s Nikkei Burajiru-jin (Japanese Brazilians) have been granted leading character status in feature films. “Gaijin:...
Considering São Paulo is home to the world’s largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan (an estimated 1.6 million people), it’s surprising how rarely the city’s Nikkei Burajiru-jin (Japanese Brazilians) have been granted leading character status in feature films. “Gaijin:...
- 8/30/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Yakuza Princess Review — Yakuza Princess (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie directed by Vicente Amorim and starring Masumi, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Kenny Leu, Eijiro Ozaki, Mariko Takai, Toshiji Takeshima and Nicolas Trevijano. Yakuza Princess is a mostly unconventional yet occasionally routine action picture that keeps audiences [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Yakuza Princess: A Fast Moving Flick with Guns and Swords [Fantasia 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Yakuza Princess: A Fast Moving Flick with Guns and Swords [Fantasia 2021]...
- 8/26/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Stars: Masumi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Eijiro Ozaki, Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Written by Vicente Amorim, Kimi Lee, Tubaldini Shelling, Fernando Toste | Directed by Vicente Amorim
Based on Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel Samurai Shiro, Yakuza Princess takes a familiar story and gives it a new twist by setting it in São Paulo Brazil. Why there? Because it’s the home to over 1.6 million Japanese and Brazilians of Japanese ancestry, the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. It’s also, like most Brazilian cities, overcrowded and rife with poverty, crime and corruption. What better place to set a film about the Yakuza?
Twenty years ago in Osaka Japan we watch as a family photo session turn into a massacre as a gunman opens fire, killing everyone. In Present day São Paulo Shiro wakes up in the hospital. Badly injured and with no memory of his past. His only possession an ancient katana.
Akemi...
Based on Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel Samurai Shiro, Yakuza Princess takes a familiar story and gives it a new twist by setting it in São Paulo Brazil. Why there? Because it’s the home to over 1.6 million Japanese and Brazilians of Japanese ancestry, the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. It’s also, like most Brazilian cities, overcrowded and rife with poverty, crime and corruption. What better place to set a film about the Yakuza?
Twenty years ago in Osaka Japan we watch as a family photo session turn into a massacre as a gunman opens fire, killing everyone. In Present day São Paulo Shiro wakes up in the hospital. Badly injured and with no memory of his past. His only possession an ancient katana.
Akemi...
- 8/19/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
We enter 20 years into the past at a birthday party in Japan. This wealthy family spared no expense for the celebration but no amount of money can stop what’s coming. Swords are drawn, guns are fired, and soon enough everyone is dead—save a little girl taken from her mother’s lifeless arms. The assumption is that the victors have stolen her to nurture as their own before the inevitable discovery of her real heritage and subsequent desire for revenge. Learning the opposite to be true is thus a confusing hiccup once we fast-forward to present-day Brazil and find Akemi (Japanese singer-songwriter Masumi) mourning the death of the man who raised her: a man she calls Grandfather. How did she get there? We’ll find out soon enough.
Director Vicente Amorim and fellow screenwriters Tubaldini Shelling, Kimi Lee, and Fernando Toste have no qualms with Yakuza Princess—based on...
Director Vicente Amorim and fellow screenwriters Tubaldini Shelling, Kimi Lee, and Fernando Toste have no qualms with Yakuza Princess—based on...
- 8/19/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Yakuza Princess Trailer — Vicente Amorim‘s Yakuza Princess (2021) movie trailer has been released by Magnolia Pictures. The Yakuza Princess trailer stars Masumi, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Toshiji Takeshima, Eijiro Ozaki, Mariko Takai, and Kenny Leu. Crew Fernando Toste and Kimi Howl Lee wrote the screenplay for Yakuza Princess. Fabiano Krieger and Lucas Marcier [...]
Continue reading: Yakuza Princess (2021) Movie Trailer: Masumi & Jonathan Rhys Meyers Wage War Against Half of the Yakuza...
Continue reading: Yakuza Princess (2021) Movie Trailer: Masumi & Jonathan Rhys Meyers Wage War Against Half of the Yakuza...
- 8/8/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"To fulfill it... You and your sword must become one." Magnolia has launched the first official trailer for a badass action film titled Yakuza Princess, from filmmaker Vicente Amorim, set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Two action films about taking on the Yakuza in one day...?! Oh my!! (You should also watch the trailer for Kate here.) This is premiering at the upcoming 2021 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal later this month. Japanese pop star Masumi stars as Akemi in this, who discovers the truth about her heritage when she turns 21. The heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate forges an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates. She must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead. Described as a "rip-roaring, violent action-thriller." The film's cast includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tsuyoshi Ihara,...
- 8/4/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Psych: The Movie has added a new baddie for Gus and Shawn to (literally?) grapple with.
Four-time WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte “Daughter of Ric” Flair is making her acting debut in the reunion movie as Heather Rockrear, the sidekick to Zachary Levi’s recently cast villain, Thin White Duke, TVGuide.com reports.
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Flair is among good (wrestling) company as the series has previously cast other professional wrestlers in guest-starring roles, including John Cena, The Bella Twins, The Miz, Stacy Keibler, Big Show and Mickie James.
Four-time WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte “Daughter of Ric” Flair is making her acting debut in the reunion movie as Heather Rockrear, the sidekick to Zachary Levi’s recently cast villain, Thin White Duke, TVGuide.com reports.
RelatedPsych Movie: Chuck’s Zachary Levi Joins Revival Cast as the Big Bad
Flair is among good (wrestling) company as the series has previously cast other professional wrestlers in guest-starring roles, including John Cena, The Bella Twins, The Miz, Stacy Keibler, Big Show and Mickie James.
- 7/5/2017
- TVLine.com
The Man in the High Castle is coming back with new characters. Deadline reports Laura Mennell and Eijiro Ozaki have joined season three of the Amazon TV show.Based on the book by Philip K. Dick, the alt-history drama is set in a world where the Axis Powers won World War II. The cast includes Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, and Rufus Sewell.Read More…...
- 7/5/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Alphas alumna Laura Mennell and Eijiro Ozaki (Little Boy) have signed on for recurring roles in the third season of Amazon’s flagship drama series The Man In The High Castle. Mennell will play Hedda Parsons, a New York gossip columnist type who is queen of the NY Nazi Reich social scene. Ozaki will portray Admiral Inokuchi, a Japanese admiral who is a cool, calm, rational pragmatist. Based on Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternate history novel, The Man In The…...
- 6/30/2017
- Deadline TV
Take another look @ images and footage from "The Things We Bury", the gruesome new episode of "Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D." written by DJ Doyle and directed by Milan Cheylov, airing November 18, 2014 on the ABC Television Network:
"...'Coulson' and his team find themselves in an epic face-off against 'Hydra' to uncover an ancient secret.
"Then 'Ward' kidnaps his brother, 'Senator Christian Ward', for a violent trip down memory lane..."
Guest stars are B.J. Britt, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Reed Diamond, Tim Dekay, Kyle MacLachlan, Hayley Atwell, Simon Kassianides, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Al Coronel, Dichen Lachman, Eijiro Ozaki, Alexander Leeb and Willem Van Der Vegt.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Things We Bury"...
"...'Coulson' and his team find themselves in an epic face-off against 'Hydra' to uncover an ancient secret.
"Then 'Ward' kidnaps his brother, 'Senator Christian Ward', for a violent trip down memory lane..."
Guest stars are B.J. Britt, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Reed Diamond, Tim Dekay, Kyle MacLachlan, Hayley Atwell, Simon Kassianides, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Al Coronel, Dichen Lachman, Eijiro Ozaki, Alexander Leeb and Willem Van Der Vegt.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Things We Bury"...
- 11/20/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new images, plus footage from "The Things We Bury", the next episode of "Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D." written by DJ Doyle and directed by Milan Cheylov, airing November 18, 2014 on the ABC Television Network:
"...'Coulson' and team find themselves in an epic face-off against 'Hydra' to uncover an ancient secret.
"Then 'Ward' kidnaps his brother, 'Senator Christian Ward', for a violent trip down memory lane..."
Guest stars are B.J. Britt, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Reed Diamond, Tim Dekay, Kyle MacLachlan, Hayley Atwell, Simon Kassianides, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Al Coronel, Dichen Lachman, Eijiro Ozaki, Alexander Leeb and Willem Van Der Vegt.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Things We Bury"...
"...'Coulson' and team find themselves in an epic face-off against 'Hydra' to uncover an ancient secret.
"Then 'Ward' kidnaps his brother, 'Senator Christian Ward', for a violent trip down memory lane..."
Guest stars are B.J. Britt, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Reed Diamond, Tim Dekay, Kyle MacLachlan, Hayley Atwell, Simon Kassianides, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Al Coronel, Dichen Lachman, Eijiro Ozaki, Alexander Leeb and Willem Van Der Vegt.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Things We Bury"...
- 11/18/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Recently, ABC released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Agents Of Shield" episode 8 of season 2. The episode is entitled, "The Things We Bury," and it sounds like things will get very intriguing and drama-filled when Ward decides to kidnap his brother ,Senator Christian Ward. Shield has an epic face off with Hydra, and more! In the new, 8th episode press release: Peggy Carter will return to "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." with a special guest appearance in the second season's eighth episode, plus Grant Ward and his Senator brother are going to "enjoy" a family reunion! Press release number 2: Coulson and team are going to find themselves in an epic face-off against Hydra to uncover an ancient secret, while Ward kidnaps his brother, Senator Christian Ward, for a violent trip down memory lane. Guest stars feature: B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett, Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse,...
- 11/11/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Touch TV Show Trailer. Francis Lawrence‘s Touch (2011) TV Show Trailer stars Kiefer Sutherland, Danny Glover, David Mazouz, Karen David, and Philip Shahbaz. Touch‘s plot synopsis: “Centers on a father who discovers his autistic, mute son can actually predict events before they happen.”
When I saw this I immediately thought of Knowing, The Mothman Prophecies, and the book Simple Simon. Knowing drowned itself by its third act, The Mothman Prophecies was surprising good, with a mix of the supernatural and thriller and Simple Simon was made into an average Bruce Willis film. Touch seems more action based with Kiefer Sutherland’s Martin Bohm going out on missions his son assigns him through his gift (watch the TV trailer, you’ll see).
Some believe this show has a few hurtles to overcome and I have to agree. Here are a few:
First, being as it’s on Fox and stars Kiefer Sutherland,...
When I saw this I immediately thought of Knowing, The Mothman Prophecies, and the book Simple Simon. Knowing drowned itself by its third act, The Mothman Prophecies was surprising good, with a mix of the supernatural and thriller and Simple Simon was made into an average Bruce Willis film. Touch seems more action based with Kiefer Sutherland’s Martin Bohm going out on missions his son assigns him through his gift (watch the TV trailer, you’ll see).
Some believe this show has a few hurtles to overcome and I have to agree. Here are a few:
First, being as it’s on Fox and stars Kiefer Sutherland,...
- 10/9/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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