Official Toshiaki Toyoda Website Live! New Projects! New Film Footage!

Posted by Todd Brown at 7:46pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Asia.

Well, whaddaya know ...

Toshiaki Toyoda’s official website has been nothing more than a placeholder for well over a year now, but I still make a point of swinging by from time to time on the off chance things have changed. Well, I swung by tonight hoping to possibly find some information on his new biker gang film and no biker gangs, but lots of other stuff.

The website is now live and though it’s all in Japanese there’s still plenty of information to pull out. For example ... the live band / live cinema project his producer told us about a while back is up and running and hitting the clubs as Miracle Magic Volume One. A little bit of digging on the profile page turned up a pair of audio samples from a CD he released in 2003 as well as word that when not working on feature films he’s been directing music videos for Japanese rock acts Art School and Asian Kung-Fu Generation. I haven’t been able to turn up much on Art School yet but there’s an excellent English language Asian Kung-Fu Generation fan site that includes a multitude of audio and video links and YesAsia is currently stocking two AKFG DVD releases ... I haven’t gone through all the videos on the fan site yet but I hit this one at random and, while it’s not credited and I can’t be certain who shot it, it certainly has the right mix of fantasy and reality to be Toyoda’s work. Even if not it’s a great vid for a great song ...

And, finally, Toyoda’s site also includes a link to a lengthy reel of unscreened footage that I’m willing to bet was shot for the live performances ... it’s pretty raw, but worth a chuckle.

Footage Reel (downloadable Quicktime, ~50 meg).

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Reader Comments

logboy 07/31/2005 @ 3:57am

豊田利晃 : toshiaki toyoda.
memetic 07/31/2005 @ 7:55pm

Nice one!

Your first link needs to be fixed as its actually “http://www.toyodatoshiaki.com”
Todd Brown 08/24/2005 @ 8:38am

I picked up the concert film Toyoda shot for Asian Kung Fu Generation ... very cool. Music’s good and the visual style is VERY recognizable ... it’s pretty sweet ...
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