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Sep
30
2008

Glory!  A First Teaser For Kankuro Kudo’s SHONEN MERIKENSACK!

Posted by Todd Brown at 3:11pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Musical, Comedy, Asia.

It may not be the biggest film.  It may not be the flashiest film.  But Kankuro Kudo’s Shonen Merikensack is, without a doubt, one of my most anticipated films of 2009.  Why?  Well, first of all Kudo is a flat out brilliant writer.  Zebraman. Ping Pong.  Yaji and Kita.  All Kudo-penned films, all of the showcasing a remarkable ability to create compellingly nuanced characters in the midst of sheer, flat out madness.  When it comes to blending the surreal with the comic it’s my opinion that Kudo is one of the top three film makers in the world right now and anything he is involved with is worth paying close attention to.  Second, young star Aoi Miyazaki.  Miyazaki is, without a doubt, one of the finest actors of her generation and in Kudo’s hands she’s getting the chance to shed her oh-so-serious indie darling image and get flat out goofy.  And judging from a series of behind the scenes videos from the set of the film she’s having an absolute blast doing it.  Third?  Aside from being one of Japan’s top writers, comedians and directors Kudo is also part of a very successful band so when he sets out to create a comedy about a group of fifty-something (as in age, not number) punk rockers you just know he’s going to come up with something special.

I checked the film’s official website hoping for a trailer the day before yesterday and had no luck but nothing gets past Kevin over at Nippon Cinema who spotted it immediately once it did arrive.  This one’s very much a teaser, with minimal footage from the film but as teasers go it’s pretty tasty.  Check it in the Twitch Player below the break.

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Reader Comments

  1. Ichi-The-Killer 10/07/2008 @ 12:54am

    I’ll pretty much see anything with Miyazaki in it.

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