Japan’s Gaga Corporation and Wild Bunch International will collaborate once more for worldwide gross sales of “Monster,” the upcoming movie directed by Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu.
Gaga will deal with Asian territories. Wild Bunch will deal with worldwide excluding Asia. A promo reel for consumers can be out there on the upcoming European Film Market that operates alongside the Berlin Film Festival.
The two corporations beforehand collaborated on Kore-eda’s 2011 title “I Wish,” which performed on the Toronto and San Sebastian movie festivals.
“Monster” appears extra prone to debut at Cannes. Its theatrical launch in Japan, by Toho and Gaga, is scheduled for June 2, shortly after the competition.
The movie is scripted by Sakamoto Yuji (“We Made a Beautiful Bouquet”) and has a music rating by Sakamoto Ryuichi. Production is by Kawamura Genki and Yamada Kenji, with company credit going to Toho, Gaga, Fuji Television Network, AOI Pro and Bun-Buku.
It stars Ando Sakura (“Shoplifters”), Nagayama Eita, Kurokawa Soya, Hiiragi Hinata and Tanaka Yuko.
Kore-eda lifted the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2018 with “Shoplifters.” Subsequently he has made two movies overseas: the 2019 French movie “The Truth” and the 2022 Korean movie “Broker,” which additionally debuted final 12 months on the Cannes competitors. Neither did a lot enterprise in Japan, in distinction to “Shoplifters,” which earned $33 million domestically in 2018. Though little has been divulged about its story, the brand new movie, with two distribution powerhouses behind it, guarantees a return to the director’s earlier field workplace kind.
Kore-eda additionally just lately accomplished his first long-form sequence. “The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House” uploaded to Netflix in December. The sequence was primarily based on the manga “Maiko-San Chi No Makanai-San” by Aiko Koyama (revealed in Weekly Shonen Sunday). Set within the Geiko district of Kyoto, the protagonist Kiyo turns into a prepare dinner at a home the place apprentice Geikos reside collectively. The story depicts the on a regular basis lives of Kiyo and Sumire, her childhood good friend who each travelled from Aomori to Kyoto with ambitions of turning into Maiko or courtesan-entertainers.
