Comments on: Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom Gets a Release Date and Some Photos

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:19:22 +0000

^^^^^^^^^^^ i HEARD that ! ! 1 Wuz up ladies

By: Jon Rocks

Jon Rocks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:26:13 +0000

“Brick” was good, but it was also incredibly stylized. The pictures from this film also look good, but also very stylized and idiosyncratic. I hope he doesn’t get mired in his own penchant for style (over substance) like perhaps a Wes Anderson.

But, I’m definitely going to check this one out.

By: Primal

Primal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:35:52 +0000

I enjoyed Brick and Rian Johnson’s direction in that movie was awesome. From looking at these pics, Brothers Bloom will also be visually cool. I’m going to see it for sure.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:26:15 +0000

Good pics. I like the rian johnson guy so far.

By: Rian

Rian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:04:23 +0000

I’m excited for this based solely on how awesome Brick was. Can’t wait.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:28:16 +0000

And if you are looking for a Chiaki Kuriyama fix, certainly worthwhile is the cult-classic BATTLE ROYALE, but more recently she is great as the over-the-top villain in Takashi Miike’s THE GREAT YOKAI WAR or as the meek heroine in the inspired parody of J-Horror EXTE: HAIR-EXTENSIONS.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:25:26 +0000

Rinko has an Oscar Nom even. Nice to see her continue working in western films to augment her growing asian resume.

Survive Style and Funky Forest are both fabulously weird japanese free-form experiments.

she is also doing voice work for Japans animated studio 4C which has but out the edgiest animated features (outside of Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon’s recent features). Try to track down copies of MindGame (although their lesser but still awesome Tekkon Kinkreet is widely availabe in R1). Awesome. Anyway, Rinko is in the upcoming 4C anthology not-so-modestly (but appropriately titled) GENIUS PARTY. Really looking forward to that one actually.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:13:55 +0000

Yeah I have no idea what Survive Style 5+ or Funky Forest is. Sounds like some wacky flicks.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:58:48 +0000

Good call. Babel totally slipped my mind.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:42:53 +0000

She is the girl from Babel! Now that makes more sense.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:16:56 +0000

Chiaki Kuriyama (aka Gogo Yubari) has been working pretty steady since Kill Bill, just not in North American films. I’m guessing the actress you’re referring to is Rinko Kikuchi, who was in Survive Style 5+ and Funky Forest.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:08:07 +0000

sweet i’m excited already