Kamikaze Girls (R2/UK BD) & Lala Pipo (R2) in February
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Third Window Films have announced the UK Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Kamikaze Girls on 8th February 2010. Director Tetsuya Nakashima’s film is given a new 2-Disc Special Edition DVD release alongside its UK Blu-ray Disc debut. RRP is £14.99 each.
Also released on 8th February 2010 on UK DVD only is Lala Pipo, an adult comedy written by Nakashima. RRP is £14.99.
More details follow…
Kamikaze Girls - Based on the bestselling novel-turned-manga by cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls concerns 17-year-old Momoko (Kyoko Fukada), a self-absorbed dreamer and ‘Lolita' fashion obsessive whose love of all things Rococo sees her fantasizing about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th Century Versailles. An unexpected encounter with the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), a rough-and-tumble ‘Yanki' biker chick sees the two form a unique friendship and together they embark on a vividly coloured, sugar sweet, hyper-stylized odyssey of female bonding all set to a pounding J-Pop beat.
Read Kevin Gilvear’s review of the Third Window Films 1-Disc DVD from January 2009.
Features on this Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc include:
Lala Pipo - Written by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award-winning writer-director of 'Kamikaze Girls' and 'Memories Of Matsuko', and starring Yuri Nakamura (The Grudge: Girl In Black; Sakuran), Hiroki Narimiya (Sakuran) and Mari Hamada (Memories Of Matsuko), LALA PIPO, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, takes a quirky and comedic trawl through the gutters of the Japanese porn industry in the company of six disparate characters whose tales overlap in unexpected ways.
Nakashima's script is based on a collection of short stories by celebrated author Okuda Hideo, the title originating from one character's mispronunciation of an American tourist's observation that Tokyo sure has 'a lot of people'.
Features include:
Also released on 8th February 2010 on UK DVD only is Lala Pipo, an adult comedy written by Nakashima. RRP is £14.99.
More details follow…
Kamikaze Girls - Based on the bestselling novel-turned-manga by cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls concerns 17-year-old Momoko (Kyoko Fukada), a self-absorbed dreamer and ‘Lolita' fashion obsessive whose love of all things Rococo sees her fantasizing about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th Century Versailles. An unexpected encounter with the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), a rough-and-tumble ‘Yanki' biker chick sees the two form a unique friendship and together they embark on a vividly coloured, sugar sweet, hyper-stylized odyssey of female bonding all set to a pounding J-Pop beat.
Read Kevin Gilvear’s review of the Third Window Films 1-Disc DVD from January 2009.
Features on this Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc include:
- 5.1 audio with optional English subtitles
- "Making Of" featurette
- Interviews with director Tetsuya Nakashima and actresses Anna Tsuchiya and Kyoko Fukada
- "Birth Of Unicorn Ryuji" - short film
- Workprint footage
- Anna Tsuchiya music video
- Trailer
- Trailers of other Third Window releases
Lala Pipo - Written by Tetsuya Nakashima, the award-winning writer-director of 'Kamikaze Girls' and 'Memories Of Matsuko', and starring Yuri Nakamura (The Grudge: Girl In Black; Sakuran), Hiroki Narimiya (Sakuran) and Mari Hamada (Memories Of Matsuko), LALA PIPO, the directorial debut of Masayuki Miyano, takes a quirky and comedic trawl through the gutters of the Japanese porn industry in the company of six disparate characters whose tales overlap in unexpected ways.
Nakashima's script is based on a collection of short stories by celebrated author Okuda Hideo, the title originating from one character's mispronunciation of an American tourist's observation that Tokyo sure has 'a lot of people'.
Features include:
- Anamorphic Widescreen
- Optional English subtitles
- "Making of" featurette
- Interviews with cast and crew
- Trailer
- Trailers of other Third Window releases