Jim Jarmusch Mystery Train star to appear in Taiwan movie

[torasan]

Fans of American cult movies might remember Jim Jarmusch's 1989 film
"Mystery Train," which not only put Jarmusch on the world map but also
turned the then-22 year old Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase, a high
school drop-out, into an international star.

Fast forward to 2012, and Nagase is now in Taiwan as part of the cast
of "KANO," a Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) produced baseball flick about a 1931
Chiayi high school team that made history in both Taiwan and Japan.


Location filming has been going on in five cities around Taiwan for
the past few months, with an all-Taiwanese cast except for the man
playing the role of the strict high school coach Hyotaro Kondo --
Masatoshi Nagase -- who has been on set every day with his translator
and agent by his side.

Shooting his first film in Taiwan has been a new experience for
Nagase, but the Japanese actor has been getting accustomed quickly to
Taiwan life and culture. He has told locals that he feels that he is
becoming Taiwanese more and more every day, and as an example, he
explained how he now has learned to cross the street here without
looking at the traffic lights, and just going on instinct, which is
the usual Taiwanese way of crossing. In Japan, of course, everyone
obeys the traffic signals and never crosses without traffic light
permission.



Casting Nagase in the Taiwanese movie appears to be a stroke of
casting genius since Jarmusch is a big name in America and Europe and
Nagase's star turn will be sure to bring in a lot of Western viewers
to ''KANO'' -- not to mention his many fans in Japan where over the
past 20 years where he has appeared on TV shows, movies and
commercials.

How did producer Wei find Nagase? He was recommended by a mutual
director friend in Japan who felt the "Mystery Train" actor would be
perfect for the role of a strict baseball coach in the 1930s,
according to sources. "Kano" is set to be released in early 2014.

[matsuki]

He has told locals that he feels that he is
becoming Taiwanese more and more every day, and as an example, he
explained how he now has learned to cross the street here without
looking at the traffic lights, and just going on instinct, which is
the usual Taiwanese way of crossing. In Japan, of course, everyone
obeys the traffic signals and never crosses without traffic light
permission.

The fuck?

[yanpa]

There's a tiny section of Tokyo between Marunouchi and Ginza centred on the Peninsula Hotel which is full of elegant, exquisitely dressed rule-obeying polite people, some of them wearing kimonos and all of them brandishing the latest hi-tech gadgetry, and which happens to coincide with the area which forms the primary impression foreign journalists, celebrities and that Creme Brule bloke get of Japan.

[torasan]

http://ichof191.blogspot.tw/2013/02/kan ... pshot.html

some location shots of the KANO movie set in 1931 in Taiwan during Japan rule, with signs in Chinese and Japanese......movie set for 2014 release with Nagase as audience builder for Japan and West

[torasan]

Nagase Masatoshi, who plays the Taiwanese team's Japanese coach
Hyotaro Kondo, said he was impressed by the large-scale set created by
the movie's director Umin Boya, an indigenous Sediq who is also known
by his Chinese name Ma Chih-hsiang.

A set of that size is even rare in Japan today, Masatoshi said.

[torasan]

THE MOVIE titled KANO will open in Japan end of February, Japan-Taiwan coproduction starrring NAGASE MASATOSHI and theme song for movie sung by 5 people
and titled ROMANCE OF THE BRAVE, one of the singers is RAKE from Sendai Japan, and the other 4 are Taiwanese singers, one is SUMING a very good Aboriginal singer and also
there's Irene Liu, Van Fan and one more. If you want to hear the song, i got snippet in my files: email moi at bikolang AT gmail

[torasan]

THE KANO MUSIC THEME SONG NOW HERE ! movie theme song
thanks to GINNY CHOU IN TAINAN~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghObTy-2S1Q


This informal video was taken by a fan of the movie KANO during the recent New Year's Eve party in Tainan City, southern Taiwan, where the 5 singers who sing the theme song of the movie performed on stage for the first time together as a group: and they are RAKE, a singer from Sendai, Japan, who is making a name for himself now in Japan pop and folk music; and SUMING, a wonderful Aboriginal singer with a unique sound and an artistic style that soars; and Irene Liu and Van Fan and one more singer, whose name I am trying to find. -- ALSO, if you know the words or lyrics of the song, please tell me too.