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Oct
31
2007

New From Katsuhito Ishii (sort of) … It’s RABI PAPPA ** UPDATED **

Posted by Todd Brown at 8:53pm.

Posted in Film News , Cult, Comedy, Asia.

[Many thanks to Don Brown from Ryuganji for passing along some key details on this.  Thanks to him it is now bigger, more detailed, more accurate and more nutritious.  Go Don!]

The man behind The Taste of Tea and Funky Forest is nothing if not prolific.  Prolific and strange.  And now Katsuhito Ishii - via his production company Nice Rainbow - is back with something new, the straight to video project Rabi Pappa.  Which features a man dressed in a big bunny suit.  At the helm is Miki Shunichiro, a partner at Nice Rainbow and one of Ishii’s collaborators on Funky Forest while Kimura Yoshino - most recently in Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django, next in Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness stars.  And I don’t see him in any of the production stills (the trailer is downloading slowly as I type) which raises the possibility that he’s the man in the suit which - considering that he’s a very pretty man and talented to boot - I find enormously amusing.

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Reader Comments

  1. Don 10/31/2007 @ 8:00pm

    It’s not Ishii per se, although his company Nice Rainbow is partly behind it. The director’s actually Miki Shunichiro, his NR partner and collaborator on “The Funky Forest”, and stars Kimura Yoshino from “Sukiyaki Western Django” and Fernando Meirelles’ upcoming “Blindness”. It’s a straight-to-DVD work based on a comic strip about a salaryman rabbit, his two kids and his human wife living in an apartment building.

    Pictures here:
    http://www.nicerainbow.com/blog/cat12/

    Trailer here:
    http://www.jbook.co.jp/dvd/movie/rabipapa_L.wmv

  2. tokyograph 10/31/2007 @ 8:07pm

    This is the brief blurb I wrote on it when the news first came out: http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-835

    Not much extra information at that time, other than the fact it’s based on a manga by Hiroyuki Yasuda, who authored “Shomuni.”

  3. logboy 11/01/2007 @ 12:40am

    i remember passing this along to todd some months back, they appeared online and i stumbled upon them when checking for new ishii stuff - the DVDs came out just recently, no subs for japan, two volumes or a package containing both - and that’s all....

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