What They SayNo, that’s not a skin-tight pink costume — it’s her skin! She’s KekkoKamen, the dynamic denuded damsel who fights injustice in the altogether. Her mission? To expose rampant classroom corruption at the Big Toenail of ...
...eation of KEKKOKAMEN, a superhero who never needs to worry about ripping her uniform. “Kamen” seems to be the Japanese equivalent of “masked hero”, and while Kekko hides her true identity behind a crimson mask, that’s about all she wears – aside from ...
...apades of KekkoKamen as the wrapper comes off February 15, 2005.
From acclaimed anime creator Go Nagai (Devil Lady, Cutey Honey), KekkoKamen is an off-the-wall sexploitation comedy that is certain to raise a few…eyebrows! For fans of superhero...
Director: Don Rush
Studio: IS&M
KekkoKamen - Voiced by Christine Auten - the heorine of the story. She fights evil wearing nothing but a pair of boots, a pair of gloves, a scarf, and a pair of tights on her head. She uses a pair of nun-chucks, but her f...
What They SayContains the entire New Cutey Honey release along with KekkoKamen!The Review!FeaturesJapanese 2.0 Language,English 2.0 Language,English SubtitlesReview Equipment
In an effort to bring an old school favorite of many Go Nagai fans to a new audience, the KekkoKamen show is getting a dub for the first time and the English language version cast list is now finalized, as posted today by ADV\'s Janice Williams.
A new (non-contest) game has started up in the English Track forum to guess the English language cast for ADV\'s dub of their upcoming KekkoKamen DVD release is underway. Join in!
A new round of solicitations for May has shown up for ADV Films via the AAAAnime site this morning as well as a pair of double features that will hit in April:Cutey Honey / KekkoKamen Double Feature - N/A minutes - $24.98 - 04/01/2008 Devil May Cry Vol. ...
...ou've got KekkoKamen running around, I can assure you. Then you've got the ones who react in the opposite fashion: they proceed to chase after said bounteous ladies. Obvious contenders (read: perverts) include Carrot Glaces, Happosai and City Hunter's...
...ler. (O) KEKKOKAMEN: SURPRISE! (Media Blasters) The nude superhero is back! (O) KUNG FU THEATER: CHINESE DRAGON / EVERLASTING DUEL (Brentwood) (O) KUNG FU THEATER: NEW YORK CHINATOWN / MASTER OF DISASTER (Brentwood) (O) KvC: KOMODO VS. COBRA (Lion...
...MBIE. (O) KEKKOKAMEN NEW (Media Blasters) A naked superheroine protects a young broadcasting student from sadistic teachers. (O) KIBAKICHI (Saiko/MTI) New Asian horror label distributed by MTI brings us a new horror fantasy from the director of SAKUYA...
While just about every movie that's hit theaters this summer has cost over $70 million to produce, there's definitely something to be said for the underdog. The $35 million drag strip racing film THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS has just surpassed the $100 millio...
Oscar-nominated composer Michael Kamen has died. The 55-year-old, who gave us such memorable scores for such films as DIE HARD, LETHAL WEAPON, HIGHLANDER and X-MEN, passed away due to his battle with multiple sclerosis. Doctors said that Kamen suffered a ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matsuri AkinoTranslated by:Mike KieflAdapted by:Patrick NeighlyWhat They SayA pair of young aspiring mystery writers tries to crack the most bizarre, baffling, and hilarious cases around them. But as clues often lead to a dead...
Imagi Studios has signed Robert Mark Kamen (LETHAL WEAPON 3, KISS OF THE DRAGON) to write the the upcoming CG-animated motion picture GATCHAMAN.
Kamen will work closely on GATCHAMAN with producer Lynne Southerland and director Kevi...
Film music lost one of its finest contemporary practitioners this week with the sudden death of Michael Kamen on November 18th. The 55-year old composer had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996, but had persevered with a number of musical assign...
Greg\'s taking the start of a short run series for a spin today with a look at the September 2006 release of Kamen Tantei Vol. #1 (of 4) from TOKYOPOP.
Tremendously dramatic sci-fi score harkens back to Henry Mancini's days at Universal Studios in the '50s.Buysoundtrax has announced their latest release, a 2-disc edition of the complete score to LIFEFORCE, Tobe Hooper's lavish science fiction/horror spec...
Writer Robert Mark Kamen has two potential projects in the works with Jet Li. As previously reported, one of the projects would have Jet Li playing the part of a Tibetan monk who journeys to New York City only to encounter some of the harsher apects of Am...
All of the hype and excitement from the American press surrounding KISS OF THE DRAGON (KOD for short) is focused on the coincidence that Tcheky Karyo, who plays the lead villain, was in Luc Besson's LA FEMME NIKITA(1991), while co-star Bridget Fonda playe...
A slightly shorter UK Cine this week, since I'm off on holiday and, chances are, you're not. We'll start with some more news on comics this week, primarily a quick chat with Andy Baker, one of the organisers of December's Birmingham International Comics S...
X-MEN 3 will get an original score by John Powell (ROBOTS, SHREK, PAYCHECK). The prestigious assignment has been confirmed to Music from the Movies by 20th Century Fox. Powell, whose previous action scores include FACE/OFF, THE BOURNE IDENTITY and THE ITA...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Like many progressive metal and gothic rock bands, the Dutch group Epica has been strongly influenced by motion picture soundtracks. Their first two albums, The Phantom Agony (June, 2003), and Consign to Oblivion (April, 2005) a...
Several years ago after watching Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys I embarked on massive screening of his films. I was doing fine until I got to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I was confused, frustrated and bored. I loved the Fishe...
THE TRANSPORTER 2 isn't for everybody. The goings-on are usually completely absurd, but the movie is played with an absolutely straight face. However, director Louis Leterrier and returning (from TRANSPORTER 1) writers Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen s...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
Sweden’s new film label, Fin de Siècle Media, has released a real treasure of late 70’s Eurohorror film music – Luciano Michelini’s provocative score for L’Isola Degli Uomini...
Ilan Eshkeri is quickly emerging as one of the hottest new composers in the business. Close on the heels of Hannibal Rising, the latest film in the Hannibal Lecter series, Eshkeri has been hired to compose the music for Stardust, the film version of N...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSA rare Jerry Goldsmith classic comes to CD for the first time with this month's new limited edition Soundtrack Club release from Varese Sarabande. Composed in 1978 the same year that brought such Goldsmith classics as the power...
While Jet Li has been a Hong Kong sensation for years, only recently with such box office hits as LETHAL WEAPON 4 and ROMEO MUST DIE has the actor broken through to a wider, global audience. Whereas those films did manage to dilute his martial arts prow...
The outré and the exotic have been comfortable habitats for composer Graeme Revell over the majority of his career. Of his more than 60 films scores since 1989, over one third can be considered either science fiction or fantastic horror thrillers: films l...
Current CD Soundtrack ReleasesA big disappointment is the first soundtrack release of HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (ISC 490765). Of the CD’s 76:51 minutes, less than 45 contain James Horner’s rousing and playful orchestral music. As expected in today’...
Odds are good that THE TRANSPORTER will do much better in venues where audiences are accustomed to shrugging off screwy plots as disposable packaging for a lot of very impressive kick-ass setpieces. Director Corey Yuen provides his European cast with a fr...
This Week's RecommendationSVarese Sarabande's vibrant new recording of Bernard Herrmann's classic science fiction score for 1951's THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (302 066 314 2) expands the previous original soundtrack recording (20th Century Fox 11010-2, ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSGraeme Revell (PITCH BLACK, TOMB RAIDER, MISSION TO MARS) inherits the musical mantle inaugurated by Harry Manfredini in 1980 with the first FRIDAY THE 13TH movie. Whereas NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had no real musical signature, w...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS One of the best science fiction scores of the 1950s comes to CD for believe it or not the very first time with FSM's premiere release of the full Dimitri Tiomkin score for 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Vol 8. No 1). Pr...
Six days after releasing the first three conceptual backgrounds for the upcoming adaptation of Gatchaman (otherwise known as G-Force or Battle of the Planets), lead creator Felix Ip has released three more on his official blog. While no casting announceme...
...o by MiikeKekkoKamen Live ActionNightmare from KoreaThe Sisters a Thai film
Other general information that I picked up in the panel is that Yaoi is a big seller for them and they are looking for more titles after Kizuna so the yaoi fangirls don\'t hav...
... by Miike
KekkoKamen Live Action
Nightmare from Korea
The Sisters a Thai film
Other general information that I picked up in the panel is that Yaoi is a big seller for them and they are looking for more titles after Kizuna so the yaoi fangirls don\'t...
HOUSTON, April 16, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you the first volume of the futuristic sci-fi thriller 009-1 as well as the third volume of this year's premiere title, Le Chevalier D'...
Happy Halloween. If you haven’t been properly scared yet today, then just check out your credit card bill from buying or renting all the great movies I’ve covered this month. But don’t put that plastic away yet, even if the edges are starting to melt. ...
The first teaser clip has been launched online for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Gatchaman (aka Battle of the Planets or G-Force) courtesy of the Imagi official website. The studio has also unveiled some new photos, which you can see by clicking o...
Welcome back to the Book Buzz after a two week hiatus for “re-tooling”. So what’s the deal? Well, there will be a few changes in the content of the column to hopefully make it more appealing to book fans. Rather th...
Very little information has come online these past few months for the upcoming adaptation of Gatchaman (otherwise known as G-Force or Battle of the Planets). Imagi and Warner Bros. have been keeping information close to their vests until now. Imagi's crea...
"Neo Cold War Espionage With A Science-Fiction Twist." " Anime Insider
HOUSTON, December 8, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, announced it has acquired exclusive home video and broadcast rights in North Ame...
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ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., are proud to bring you on 16th October 2006 a new kind of justice: Samurai ...
...ense than KekkoKamen's open thigh attack! I shielded my eyes, trying to stumble back. Yet the vacuum created by the icebox was too intense, and I found myself being pulled in.
To my surprise and horror, I knew then that there was a pan-dimensional ga...
What They SayThe very first anime ever produced, Osamu Tezuka\'s original Astro Boy delighted children around the world with its touching stories and compelling characters. In the U.S., many will remember this popular children\'s series with its catchy th...
[We begin with a focus upon our ranter, a debonair Chaos with his hair slicked back, wearing a dignified bathrobe, and leisurely reclining in a highback chair.]
His lordship Chaos: "...so like I was saying, I don't see what all the fuss is. These Mokona...
...g on? Oh, KekkoKamen, we're finally going back and doing a dub for it. There's another big one, Wandaba Style. There's all kinds of stuff going on, we just did a load of auditions for like Princess Tutu, there's a whole bunch of things we're auditioni...
ANIME GOES TOP GUN IN AREA 88: TReACHERoUs Skies!
KILL OR BE KILLED UNDER THE DESERT SUN FROM 18th SEPTEMBER 2006
LONDON, UK, 1st August 2006
ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., is proud to release Area 88: Treacherous ...
BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT TO PREMIERE "ARGENTOSOMA" AND "KIKAIDER" AT THE LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
Cypress, CA (January 9, 2003) - Bandai Entertainment announced the premiere of two new upcoming anime series, Argentosoma an...
...bsp; KekkoKamen (of 1)
ADV Films
90 min.
29.98
02/15/2005
Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring Essential Anime Collection (of 1)
ADV Films
135 min.
19.98
02/15/2005
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BMI, the leading U.S. performing right organization, honored the composers and songwriters of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable network programs at its annual Film &...
Well, for X-Men fans, the dream has finally come true: a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie version of their favorite comic book characters. I’ll leave it to those fans to debate whether this is a worthy adaptation of the source material. As for the...
It’s commonplace for a film with higher aspirations to avoid genre labels—if, by higher aspirations,` we mean hoping to reach a wider audience than hardcore Trekkies by incorporating elements of romance, action-adventure, or drama. In such cases, the fami...
For the last eight years, THE X-FILES has been mesmerizing its television audiences with its mysterious entities, government conspiracies, alien abductions, malevolent mutants, and whimsical creatures, all wrapped up in a detective-show type format. Among...
These are good days for soundtrack collectors. With most movie soundtracks available on CDs, and others often obtainable on composer-produced promotional recordings, and more and more movies being released on DVD with isolated scores, it’s becoming incre...
It's unfair to call KISS OF THE DRAGON Jet Li's third American film. In LETHAL WEAPON 4, he was little more than a Special Guest Villain. ROMEO MUST DIE threw him into a hip-hop urban gangster drama with Shakespearean pretensions. KISS, though distributed...
IN memoriamWalter Scharf, who composed, arranged or conducted the music for about 250 movies and television programs, including episodes of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E, died Monday, February 24, 2003, at his home in Brentwood, Californi...
The magical, adventurous world of Harry Potter was well defined by composer John Williams in HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. With his characteristic flair for melody, effervescent action scoring, and musical depictions of fantasy and suspense, John...
This Week's RecommendationSThis week, FSM releases two of the '70s strangest science fiction scores on CD for the first time. Pairing Fred Myrow's tuneful music for SOYLENT GREEN ("Soylent Green is People!") with Jerry Fielding's atonal ambience of DEMON ...
This Week’s RecommendationSOK – I’ll admit a prejudice: John Scott’s majestic and heroic score for THE FINAL COUNTDOWN was an instant favorite when the film first appeared in 1980. A thrilling and compelling story about a modern-day nuclear aircraft carri...
This Week's RecommendationSOn July 15th, [IMG3R]Decca will release the soundtrack to the James Bond spoof, JOHNNY ENGLISH, with music by Edward Shearmur (CHARLIES ANGELS, REIGN OF FIRE). The film stars Roan Atkinson (everyone's favorite BEAN), John Malkov...
Michael Kamen’s orchestral score for X-MEN is a pulsating exercise for orchestra and synthesizer, as much a mutation of the acoustic and the electronic as the super-powered humanistic anomalies that are the film’s heroes. Lacking a strong, recurrent theme...
SOUNDTRACK & FILM MUSIC NEWSThe Maverick Records soundtrack to THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS will be released on November 4, 2003, one day before the movie opens, and will have over an hour of music on it, including the song "In My Head" by Pale 3, which pla...
David Hasselhoff is in negotiations to star in the upcoming two hour movie/backdoor pilot of KNIGHT RIDER, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The lead character for this new concept will be Mike Tracer (Justin Bruening), the son of Michael Knight (Hasse...
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner and composer Michael Kamen have been taking about the coming X-MEN 2.While talking to IGN Filmforce, Shuler Donner confirmed recent word on the film's production scheduled start date saying that X-MEN 2 "will film in the late...
Word has it that the long rumored, and often denied, on screen teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li has finally taken the first crucial step. According to Variety columnist Michael Fleming, Revolution Studios has made a deal with the two stars to team in a f...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSStu Phillips' bombastic, rousing music to Glen A. Larson's (no relation) original 1978 TV series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was one of the best things about that derivative space opera, a fully realized, authoritative, and wonderfully...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSOriginal music from the legendary 1970's Japanese Samurai films series, LONE WOLF AND CUB (a.k.a. THE BABY CART SERIES) is now available from LaLaLand Records. I had the extreme pleasure to write the notes for this significant s...
What They SayHiroya Matsumoto, hoping to become a great employee as his late father, has just been hired at Raito, a top trading company. Little does he know that he’s been recruited for a very mysterious department within the company: Special Duty ...
HOUSTON, March 27, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased announce the release dates of three titles! The Gilgamesh Complete Collection will be available on May 22. The Misaki Chronicles Complete Coll...
Grammy-winning composer Michael Kamen has died of a suspected heart attack at his home in London.
Kamen, 55, was best known for his movie soundtracks as well as his work with bands such as Aerosmith and Pink Floyd. The CD cover of his 'X-Men' movie sound...
Warner Brothers` THE IRON GIANT won during the 27th Annual Annie Awards ceremonies held at the Alex Theater in Glendale, California. In a ceremony on Saturday, November 7, 1999, this animated feature won nine awards including the coveted Outstanding Achie...
Do you dig those superhero scores by Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen and Graeme Revell. What about the cool song scores to movies like 'Daredevil' and 'Blade II'. Then tune your internet radio to SuperheroRadio.com...
What They SaySailor Moon and her friends continue to depend upon the help of Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus in their battles with the mysterious Eugeal of the Witches 5 over the heart crystals.
But even as Sailor Moon and her friends try to protect th...
Lionsgate has sent out a press release indicating their intent to distribute the next installment of the Transporter franchise with Jason Statham set to reprise his character. See below.Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired U.S. and Canadian dist...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Despite being a huge fan and collector of Asian action films for many years, I was totally unprepared for the zany incredulosity that is KUNG FU HUSTLE. An absolutely mind-boggling mix of action and comedy, kung-fu and wire-fu ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION Jerry Goldsmith's sultry and sexy score for Paul Verhoeven's provocative thriller, BASIC INSTINCT, has been given a new lease on life through the new release on Belgium's Prometheus label (XPCD 154), which expands the earli...
In 1985, Steven Spielberg launched an ambitious anthology series called AMAZING STORIES. Spread out over two seasons were good-natured, colorful tales of the fantastic. Stories about a cartoon wheel on a world war II plane, a phantom train, a ghoulish sch...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATION A new soundtrack record label named Nicabella had made its debut with John Frizzell's excellent score for STAY ALIVE, William Brent Ball's eerie thriller about a group of teens who stumble upon a new video game called Sta...
LAST YEAR’S BIG RECOMMENDATIONS
As with previous years, I have separated my assessment of the year’s best soundtrack releases into new scores (soundtrack CDs of scores for films released in 2006) and newly-released archival re...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONJohn Powell (THE BOURNE IDENTITY, ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN, SHREK) has composed a magnificent, melodic, and powerfully reverent score for X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, released last week by Varese Sarabande Records. The music has plenty ...
Well, it`s after Xmas; no one has any cash, except for two quarters and a coupon for a fifty-cent double cappuccino at Borders. So whaddya do, besides see if your local library has been able to afford to buy any new fiction in, like, the last decade?You c...