South Korean Japan Horror Thriller Movie Higanjima 2010
Cast And Crew
Starring: Hideo Ishiguro, Akira Miyamoto
Dai Watanabe, Atsushi Miyamoto,Miori Takimoto - Yuki
Asami Mizukawa ,Koji Yamamoto,Fumito Moriwaki,Osamu Adachi
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Writer: Tetsuya Oishi
World Premiere: October 9, 2009 (Pusan International Film Festival)
Release Date: January 9, 2010
Runtime: 122 Min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan, South Korea
Japanese: 彼岸島
Korean: 피안도 (Piando)
Genre : Horror Adventure Thriller
Korean Movie Plot Summary:
In Higanjima, a man and his friends travel to a mysterious island in search of his vanished brother. The island turns out to be inhabited by vampires
Oh hello! Manga, vampires, blood, swords… it's all here! Welcome to the trailer for Tae-gyun Kim's Island of Vampires (Higanjima), an adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same title which centers on Saki, a student who goes searching for her brother who has mysteriously disappeared. Her search leads her to a mysterious island called Higanjima which is home to a village populated by vampires.
The trailer sells this as a big, Hollywood style action spectacle (complete with rock music), which I'm not sure does the film any great favors but I do love me some vampires and these certainly look murderous. Not sure I'm really digging the caked on makeup but who am I to judge? I've seen more than my share of bad make-up jobs in good films so I'm willing to overlook this minor transgression for the awesomeness the rest of the trailer suggests.
What are the chances WB will release this in the US if it does well in Japan? I'm not sure but I've got my fingers crossed!
Korean Movie Reviews:
We already mentioned a live-action 彼岸岛 (Higanjima) was in the planning stages, for a Summer 2009 release. This adaptation of the supernatural-horror manga by クーデタークラブ (Coup d'État Club)'s Matsumoto Koji will be written by Oishi Tetsuya of デスノート(Death Note) and directed by Kim Tae-Gyun. Perhaps a peculiar choice, only on the strength of his 화산고 (Volcano High), particularly considering the rest of his career has been all over the place.
He's directed passable comedies -- 박봉곤 가출 사건 (The Adventures of Mrs. Park) in 1996; proto-Hallyu romcoms -- 키스 할까요? (First Kiss) in 1998; trendy crowd pleasers -- 늑대의 유혹 (Romance of Their Own) in 2004 and 백만장자의 첫사랑 (A Millionaire's First Love) in 2006; and recently even a drama about the divide, 크로싱 (Crossing). A tad "fish out of water" for something like Higanjima, you'd think. But, then again, Volcano High is perhaps the closest to a live-action manhwa Chungmuro has ever gotten, so it also makes kind of sense.Anyhow, the top tier casting has been finally announced. Leading the list will be Yamamoto Koji, recently seen in the masterpiece パンドラ (Pandora), and Watanabe Dai of クローズZERO (Crows ZERO). What's interesting is that producers Courage Pictures are also involved in another Korea-Japan co-production, 보트 (Boat) starring the great Cha Su-Yeon, Ha Jung-Woo, and Tsumabuchi Satoshi. Total budget is set at 6 Billion yen (roughly 57 million US$), to be split between Korea and Japan (crew will also be mixed). The film starts shooting on October 1 until mid December, for an August double-header in Korea and Japan.
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