HIFF.ORG ASIAN SHOWCASE: EXTREME ASIA
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
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ALIEN VS NINJA HAWAII PREMIERE fRIDay, OCTObER 22 | 10:15 Pm | REgal DOlE
jaPan 2010 | jaPanEsE W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 81 m DIRECTOR: Seiji Chiba sCREEnWRITER: Seiji Chiba PRODUCERs: Yoshinori Chiba, Seiji Chiba CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Ryo Uematsu, Tetsuya Kudo CasT: Katsu Itagaki, Ben Hiura, Yuki Ogoe, Donpei Tsuchihira, Mika Hijii, Shuji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto
ALIEN VERSUS NINJA focuses on Yamata (Masanori Mimoto), a handsome, young ninja with a whole lot to prove. Although he’s the deadliest assassin in Japan, he’s got a hang-up about his origins: he wasn’t born a ninja, he was an orphan taken in by ninja. One night, a ball of fire appears in the sky and crashes near his village. When Yamata’s team investigates the disturbance, nearly everyone is viciously massacred by an alien life form. With the help of only a few survivors, Yamata and his teammates vow to avenge their fallen brothers. But how can they when traditional ninja weapons have no effect on the alien threat? Is Yamata enough of a ninja to save his friends and possibly the planet?
ALIEN VERSUS NINJA is packed with everything gore hounds want in a movie: hot, young Japanese stars, over-the-top martial arts mayhem, copious spurts of blood and lots of flying body parts. Factor in leather clad super ninjas and blood hungry aliens and what you get is obvious: a ridiculous amount of fun at HIFF 30! —Jason Soeda
CLASH
BAY RONG HAWAII PREMIERE
mOnDay, OCTObER 18 | 6:00 Pm | REgal DOlE TUEsDay, OCTObER 19 | 10:00 Pm | REgal DOlE VIETnam 2009 | VIETnamEsE W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 100 m
DIRECTOR: Thanh Son Le sCREEnWRITER: Thanh Son Le, Johnny Tri Nguyen, Quang Hung Ho PRODUCERs: Veronica Ngo, Johnny Tri Nguyen, Jimmy
Nghiem Pham CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Dominic Pereira CasT: Thanh Van Ngo, Johnny Tri Nguyen, Phuc Hoang, Hien Hieu, Minh Thang Lam
CLASH, starring Johnny Tri Nguyen and Veronica Ngo (the stars of THE REBEL) and directed by Thanh Son Le (who served as an assistant director on THE REBEL) is another reinvention of the Vietnamese action film. Ex- convicts Quan (Johnny Tri Nguyen) and Cang (Johnny Depp look-alike Thang Minh Lam) are part of a hit squad assembled by Trinh (Veronica Ngo) to steal a hard drive from French mobsters. Trinh works for an elusive criminal mastermind who seeks the hard drive to get control of Vietnam’s first and only satellite.
As the crew proceeds to execute the theft, a lone counter-operative from within the crew runs off with the hard drive. Quan reluctantly helps Trinh hunt down the traitor, but nothing is what it seems in this duplicitous world of crime and secret agendas. Director Le’s film represents a milestone in Vietnamese filmed entertainment, cross-pollinating the trends of the West with the sensibilities of the Vietnamese. —Anderson Le
MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD / FIRE OF CONSCIENCE
LEGEND OF THE FIST / BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS
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