Tokyo Project Gathering Hosts Host Sequel

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Market News

This year's Tokyo Project Gathering (25-28 October) co-production market highlights 28 films in a wide variety of genres.

There is a particularly strong lineup of projects from Japan and South Korea. Former includes TSUCHIYA Yutaka 土屋豊's New Hello ＮＥＷ　ＨＥＬＬＯ, HIROKI Ryuichi 廣木隆一's Seagull Day かもめの日 and the latest from ISHII Yuya 石井裕也. Latter includes JANG Jin 장진 | 張鎭's Asian Beauty, NOH Dong-seok 노동석's Haunted Obsession and the much anticipated sequel to blockbuster The Host 괴물 (2006).

Southeast Asia is represented by seven projects including new films from Thailand's Pen-ek RATANARUANG เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง and Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM เอกชัย เอื้อครองธรรม who are joined by fellow film festival regulars WOO Ming Jin 胡明進 (from Malaysia), Nia DINATA (from Indonesia) and Minh NGUYEN-VO (from Vietnam).

Chinese-language cinema is relatively under-represented with two from Taiwan, including Gavin LIN 林孝謙's latest animal-themed drama, The Dog Wanted, and one each from China and Hong Kong, Xiao JIANG 小江's Kingdom of Desire 愛慾之城 and Jessey TSANG 曾翠珊's Big Blue Lake 大藍湖 (2011) respectively.

The projects are in a wide variety of genres, an aspect that has always distinguished the Tokyo project market from regional competitors. This year, Max MANNIX's prison break drama Yellow Earth joins Singaporean noir Camera 眼機, Vietnamese action fantasy Once Upon a Time in Vietnam Lửa Phật and Norman England's Zombie My Zombie.

Now in its sixth year, the Tokyo Project Gathering accepts projects at any stage of production. Films presented at previous editions of TPG that have been completed include CHUNG Mong-hong 鍾孟宏's The Fourth Portrait 第４張畫 (2010), YOO Ha 유하 | 庾河's A Frozen Flower 쌍화점 (2008) and SONO Sion 園子温's Love Exposure 愛のむきだし (2008).

 
2010 TOKYO PROJECT GATHERING LINEUP

• Asian Beauty; dir. JANG Jin [South Korea]
• The Big Blue Lake; dir. Jessey TSANG [Hong Kong]
• The Book Keeper; dir. WOO Ming-jin (胡明進) [Malaysia/Japan]
• Camera; dir. James LEONG 梁思眾 [Singapore]
• Dance of The Executioner; dir. Minh NGUYEN-VO [Vietnam]
• Dessert Queen; dir. Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM [Thailand]
• The Dog Wanted; dir. Gavin LIN [Taiwan]
• Favela High Tech; dir. Karim AINOUZ [Brazil]
• Mitsuko Delivers ハラがコレなんて (2011); dir. ISHII Yuya [Japan]
• Haunted Obsession; dir. NOH Dong-seok (노동석) [South Korea]
• Headshot ฝนตกขึ้นฟ้า (2011); dir. Pen-ek RATANARUANG [Thailand]
• The Host 2 괴물２; dir. PARK Myung-chun 박명천 [South Korea]
• Kingdom of Desire; dir. Xiao JIANG [China]
• Monk on Fire; dir. Dustin Trí NGUYỄN [Vietnam]
• New Hello; dir. TSUCHIYA Yutaka [Japan]
• Next Intelligence 時に、僕等は・・・; dir. ITO Hideki 伊藤秀樹 [Japan]
• On Your Journey 여행; dir. KIM Young-nam 김영남 [South Korea]
• Pinky Time; dir. Sean CHEN [Taiwan]
• Seagull Day; dir. HIROKI Ryuichi [Japan]
• Tempura; dir. Maris MARTINSONS [Latvia]
• Trans Sumatra; dir. Nia DINATA [Indonesia]
• Unstoppable Movements of Naked Monkeys; dir. TBD [USA]
• Untitled Nae Yuki Project About Secret Marriage; dir. Dave BOYLE [USA/Japan]
• Vancouver Asahi バンクーバー朝日軍; dir. TBD [Japan/Canada]
• The War 戦争; dir. SATO Sakichi 佐藤佐吉 (佐藤佐吉) [Japan]
• The Woman Barber; dir. KIM Chung-guk 김충국 [South Korea]
• Yellow Earth; dir. Max MANNIX [Australia]
• Zombie My Zombie; dir. Norman ENGLAND [Japan]

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