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Hello dear visitors! For a quick wrap-up, this is what we got last week: 2005 was a weird year for SABU and we got Dead Run , which is a very depressing movie without SABU's usual dark humor, and Hold Up Down , which should be completely avoided because it is really bad. Monday (2000) is probably one of his best movies from his early years and really worth a watch for its quirky dark sense of humor. Kanikosen (2009)  is SABU's political movie about the struggle of the proletarian aboard a crab factory boar, really interesting due to its historical setting, and both me and Krasnaya enjoyed it very much. Dancing Mary (2019) is a really funny movie for me (Krasnaya didn't like it very much), it has lots of style and I found it very original. We are leaving you a TOP 10 list of SABU's best movies so that you can know where to start. Trust us, we are experts... (We didn't watch, therefore, consider for this list the following movies: Unlucky Monkey, Hard Luck Hero, H...

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 ...

Hi everyone! No big news here for those who have been following us here at Freddy's Cine It. We are just formalizing our 8th week theme. Let's keep watching SABU's movies. We will bring you the best scenes, music and awesome GIFs. Join us, comment and have fun! So, the truth is, I've made so many films, but I still don't consider myself a filmmaker. I didn't have a particular desire to be a filmmaker in the beginning, so I still lack the confidence, to tell you the truth. I think it really helped that I worked for over 10 years as an actor, so I knew how the crew was supposed to function, and I understood how the set operates, and I had a sense of that. I also like to create stories, and that helped, as well. I was also in a band and so was interested in music, so I knew how to incorporate score, for instance. I also studied at the Osaka fashion school, so I had a sense of how art, fashion and wardrobe were supposed to work, as well. And it just all comes down...