Wow ... I didn't see this coming ... The Pusan Promotion Plan has announced twenty seven film projects that they will be supporting and alongside new titles by Fruit Chan (Neon Glows in Myanmar - with a title like that I can't help but hope he's working with Chris Doyle again) and Kim Ki-Duk (Beautiful) is an untitled world war two movie from Tetsuo The Iron Man's Shinya Tsukamoto. All that's known at this point is that the film - known just as The War Movie Project at this point - will be a big budgeter set in the Philipines during World War II. I cetainly wouldn't have called Tsukamoto working on this sort of material but I can see this being something truly exceptional ...
Via Screendaily. Check the complete list of films below.
2005 Pusan Promotion Plan, projects
1. 3 Days To Forever (Indonesia), Riri RIZA
2. Beautiful (S Korea), KIM Ki-duk
3. Broken Piece Of Mirror (S Korea), HONG Ki-seon
4. Butterfly (Taiwan), CHANG Tso-chi
5. Dooman River (Korea-China), CHANG Lu
6. Eventful Life Blues (Japan), Mipo O
7. Fairy Tale Of A Picture Tree (S Korea), LEE Kwang-mo
8. Fallen From The Sky (Sri Lanka-France), Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA
9. Family (Kazakh-Russia-Fr), Marat SARULU
10. From Latitude 5 N to 20 S (Taiwan), LIN Cheng-sheng
11. The Harvest (China), HE Jianjun
12. Heartbreak Pavilion (Thai), Tunska PANSITTIVORAKUL, Sompot CHIDGASORNPNGSE
13. The Legend Of Sandalwood (India), Arindam MITRA
14. Neon Glows In Myanmar (HK), Fruit CHAN
15. Opium War (Afghanistan-Iran), Siddiq BARMAK
16. Our Friends (Laos-France), Som Ock SOUTHIPHONH
17. Paju (S Korea), PARK Chan-ok
18. Parental Guidance (HK), WONG Ching-po, LEE Kung Lok
19. Poets (China), LIU Hao
20. Prison Hotel (S Korea), KIM Soo-hyun
21. Pure Coolness (Kyrgystan), Ernest ABDYJAPAROV
22. Raised From Dust (China), GAN Xiao'er
23. Shame (Pakistan-US), Mohammed NAQVI
24. To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (Tajikistan-Fr), Djamshed USMONOV
25. Treeless Mountain (Korea-US), Kim So-yong
26. Turkish Coffee (Iran), Mohsen ABOLVAHAB
27. The War Movie Project (Japan), Shinya TSUKAMOTO
nice. there lots in there to keep track of... tsukamoto really has rampe-up his output somewhat hasnt he?!
That's a very good news. As for your comment "I cetainly wouldn't have called Tsukamoto working on this sort of material" I don't agree. I remember he said in an interview that he loves human decrepitude and he would like to direct a war film where dead bodies are laying on the ground in decomposition as nature is taking back what belong to it. At least we know one scene of his next film :D
Regards.
-IS-