Last night I had a chance to check out two film premieres. The first (Karakuri) was a sci fi action short that takes place in a future version of Kyoto. The other was a suspense thriller called Ear Tag that takes place in present day Tokyo. Both were excellent films.
The main actor in both is Souji Masaki (a friend of mine who I met through a long term friendship with the CG director, Haj Ishida). Although I think it's a lot harder to get into a story and suspend disbelief when you personally know the people on screen, he still did a great job of getting me well into the stories and creating a real and believable character in both.
I really hope that both films will come out at some point with subtitles, so they can get a chance to be seen by western audiences. For smaller productions, the directors (Haj and Yamaken) both did a great job with lighting, sound, and soundtrack, small things that can make a monstrous difference in how professional a film looks. Eag Tag in particular had an outstanding soundtrack. In a way, I feel that it was really a shame that both these films had to be made on the meager budgets they were, but at the same time, I have to think that if Haj and Yamaken can create something this good on a budget this small, then they are both destined to get the budgets they deserve to have, and I look forward to seeing it happen.
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