The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (Ken Ninomiya, 2017)
Posted: 13 Sep 2017, 05:54
Looks like Ken Ninomiya had made a feature length remake of his medium length 2014 feature The Limit of Sleeping Beauty. Theatrical release in October.
https://youtu.be/o1W70xCbAhQ
- http://sleepingbeauty-movie.com/
I saw the original film in Yubari a few years ago and this is what I wrote about it:
The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (Japan, 2014) [Yubari Fanta] - 3/5
Here's a director to keep an eye on. The 23 year old Ken Ninomiya has already made quite a few interesting short and feature films, some of which have played on international film festivals. This medium length movie challenges Tsukamoto, Aronofsky and Alex de la Inglesias, and although it ultimately falls short, it's amazing how Nimomiya has managed a film that is technically better looking than anything Tsukamoto has done in more than a decade. The film's main problem is the lack of originality: a 29 year old actress-wannabe stuck as circus assistant and losing her mind (add hallucinations, pills of all colours, and mad clowns) isn't exactly an original premise to anyone who is familiar with the works of the fore mentioned directors. But the film does look - and sound - stunningly good a lot of the time.
I still haven't watched Ninomiya's earlier film Slum-Polis, which is out on DVD, and looks interesting despite some amateurishness.
https://youtu.be/o1W70xCbAhQ
- http://sleepingbeauty-movie.com/
I saw the original film in Yubari a few years ago and this is what I wrote about it:
The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (Japan, 2014) [Yubari Fanta] - 3/5
Here's a director to keep an eye on. The 23 year old Ken Ninomiya has already made quite a few interesting short and feature films, some of which have played on international film festivals. This medium length movie challenges Tsukamoto, Aronofsky and Alex de la Inglesias, and although it ultimately falls short, it's amazing how Nimomiya has managed a film that is technically better looking than anything Tsukamoto has done in more than a decade. The film's main problem is the lack of originality: a 29 year old actress-wannabe stuck as circus assistant and losing her mind (add hallucinations, pills of all colours, and mad clowns) isn't exactly an original premise to anyone who is familiar with the works of the fore mentioned directors. But the film does look - and sound - stunningly good a lot of the time.
I still haven't watched Ninomiya's earlier film Slum-Polis, which is out on DVD, and looks interesting despite some amateurishness.