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Dancing Mary is a 2019 Japanese fantasy film directed and written by Sabu. It stars Naoto, alongside a supporting cast featuring Aina Yamada, Nozomi Bando, Ryo Ishibashi, and Kaito Yoshimura. After its world premiere at Sitges Film Festival on October 9, 2019, the film was set to be released on November 5, 2021, in Japan, after it won several awards including Jury's Special Award at Fantasporto in 2020. source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dancing_Mary When a faded dancehall is slated for demolition, civil servant Kenji is assigned the task of exorcising the spirit of its former owner, the eponymous Mary. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12825596/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Hey Freddy! Well, today we complete our 10-day marathon dedicated to the talented director SABU and we close it with the 2019 film - Dancing Mary. Again, we had a fusion in front of us. SABU made a cocktail of drama and action movies, seasoning it all with light horror an...

Kanikosen is a 2005 Japanese drama film directed by SABU. The movie is an adaptation of a novel with the same name, written by a Japanese author, Takiji Kobayashi.  It stars Ryûhei Matsuda and Hidetoshi Nishijima source: There is no wikipedia page. Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Sick of being ruled by their harsh Superintendent, one of the workers, Shinjo, urges his peers to rise up and start a revolution on board of the Kanikosen. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490488/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Today we have a film that cannot be missed in the filmography of SABU. The 2009 film Kanikosen is a hardcore social film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by famed writer Takiji Kobayashi. It shows the totalitarian system of imperial Japan. The film is shot excellently. It played with the strings of my soul, made me feel...

Hold Up Down is a 2005 Japanese comedy movie directed and written by SABU. It stars the members of the popular boy band V6: Sakamoto Masayuki, Nagano Hiroshi, Inohara Yoshihiko, Morita Go, Miyake Ken, and Okada Junichi. source: There is no wikipedia page. Two robbers, three cops, a wanted criminal and a former priest's lives are intertwined when a bank heist goes wrong. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461523/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Today we have Hold Up Down, another movie by SABU, filmed in the same year as Dead Run. And here, too, SABU weirdly touches on the Christianity subject. I'm interested in knowing what happened to him in 2005; that he could not avoid this theme in any way. Hold Up Down turned out to be jerky and uneven in mood. Sometimes a smile appeared on my face and sometimes I was hand-gesturing to hurry it up (the fight scene was unbearably long). Still, I watched the film to the end. It turned out to be trashy,...

Dead Run is a 2005 Japanese drama film directed by SABU. The movie is an adaptation of the novel "Shissô", written by Japanese best selling author, Kiyoshi Shigematsu. It stars Yuya Tegoshi, Hanae Kan and Miki Nakatani. source: There is no wikipedia page. Shuji and his older brother Shuichi live in a sad resort town that has a virtual wall in its middle. Looking to rise him above his surroundings Shuji meets and interacts with a priest with a past, a pretty hostess, a troubled girl, a thug and more. Looking for the girl who has moved with his family to Tokyo the boy meets trouble and is sinking quickly. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490488/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Hey Freddy! Today we have Dead Run, a 2005 film about a boy named Shuji ( Yuya Tegoshi)  and his life experiences. Honestly, I’ll start by saying that at the end of the film I was completely confused. Everything that happened was mixed up in my head - religion, the ya...

Monday is a 2000 Japanese comedy thriller drama film directed by Sabu. The film was featured at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award "for its austere, dark wit and keen eye for human foibles. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_(2000_film) A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting to know a yakuza and his beautiful mistress, having a gun in his hand and... source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239655/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: Here we are! Ready and set for another SABU week and today we bring you "Monday"! I will call this a black comedy about two days in the life of a guy that should stay away from alcoholic beverages. The movie opening is very creative and made me think that I had a bogus copy of the movie, but no, we are ...

Mr. Long is a 2017 internationally co-produced crime drama film directed and written by Sabu starring Chang Chen as Long. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Long Professional hitman Long takes on an assignment in Japan. When things go awry, he has to flee. Badly injured, he takes refuge in a deserted part of a small town. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6509862/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Another movie and another wow! SABU is striking in its versatility. Mr. Long for me is a masterpiece. This is an outstanding movie! After watching, I could not sleep, constantly going over and over some moments from the movie in my head. Again, a film about fate, and this time also about loneliness that hurts the heart. Somewhere in the backyard of life there lives a silent and sad man who knows his job well, a woman with a ch...

Jam is a 2018 Japanese comedy drama movie written and directed by SABU. A follow-up 8 episode TV show was produced in 2021 called Jam: The Drama. source: there is no wikipedia!!! Sucks! Hiroshi, Takeru and Tetsuo all live in the same city. Hiroshi is an unpopular idol singer and he feels a void in his life. He is placed under confinement by his fan Masako. Takeru believes that a girl returns to consciousness. Tetsuo decides to take revenge on a yakuza who sent him to prison. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9238590/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: Hey there! We're almost finishing our SABU week and I want to tell you that I wouldn't mind doing a SABU marathon after watching Jam. This movie has a similar story structure to SABU's Dangan Runner and you will find the usual director's imagetic. Someone is always running when close to the climax, and the plot is resolved this time with a car rushing to the sounds of beeping music (I love ...

Dangan Runner also known as Non-Stop is a 1996 Japanese comedy movie directed by SABU. It is SABU debut movie. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Drop_(film) A salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116015/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: The 1996 Dangan Runner is SABU's debut entry. The film lasts only 82 minutes, but in places it seemed to me that it was somehow longer. The final scene seemed to stop. Probably the director intended it this way, so that the viewer could catch his breath along with the characters of the film and understand what all this chasing was for. The film is very masculine, it is about dominance, about the desire of every man to prove something to himself and others. SABU masterfully mixed elements of art house and the then popular yakuza theme, added quirky Japanese h...