Scrap Heaven. by Lee Sang-Il (Sang-Il Lee). R1 USA from Kino on June 6th 2006.

Fantastic news, can't wait to see this new one from Lee, also will be nice if Kino will release 69...

Great news! Picking this up.

He's already shooting his next film, フラガ-ル I think? Sounds fun.

Good news on English subs for the Japanese DVD - it'll have 'em.

"Sang Il-Lee's (according to IMDB, Lee Sang-Il elsewhere)"

According to IMDb it's Sang-Il Lee, not Sang Il-Lee. Sang-Il Lee makes sense, because Lee is the family name. So Sang-Il Lee is the same als Lee Sang-Il, only on IMDb they always use the western order, with the family name at the end.

It's as easy as 3-1-2. ^_^

yeah. He's a Zainichi. Lee is the family name, Sang-Il the name. A.k.a. Sai Yoichi.

Some weird licensing going on... just noticed at dvdactive that Manga has picked up SS 5+. http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/survive-style-5.html

Can't say that it's a good thing, based on Manga's often flawed anime releases.

would that imply an R1 release for SS5+ as well?

hey, i knew there was a good chance i would get held up on the name... theyre too damn confusing : all i know is, 'film is interesting, must pass on news'...

no sign of 'survive style 5+' at play.com, amazon.co.uk or the official manga UK site, but i took a nose at the BBFC.co.uk site and spotted this : theyve also had koreeda's 'maborosi' recertified in the past week, so this will be appearing in a subbed UK disc from manga also... wonder if theres a trend in them shifting to live-action releases?

a quick way for Korean names is looking at the '-'.

Of course family names like Park, Lee, Jung, Choi, Song should be familiar, but just in case, they're written like this:

FAMILYNAME Given-Name

So it's SONG Kang-Ho, KIM Ki-Duk (which is why calling him 'Ki-Duk' sounds like calling Spielberg 'Stevie') and so on.

Same for China and Hong Kong (although that's easier as most have a Western Name too).

FAMILYNAME Givenname - ZHANG Yimou (so Mr. Zhang and not Mr. Yimou).

Japanese by now should be familiar, and Thai's still very difficult cause both Family and given name are often very long.

So what about the soundtrack we hear in this trailer ! does anyone have any band names ...or someting that sounds quite similar ? would love to add such cds in my collection !

As was reported here and there on Twitch, Sang-il Lee's upcoming movie is Hula Girl (Fura gâru).

Looking forward to this one, having really enjoyed SixtyNine. Thanks for the heads up on the R1.

The song from the middle of the trailer is "Shinkirou" by Fujifabric, the other one i don't know yet =/
anyone?