"Toyoda Toshiaki's "I'm Flash" very cool. If you fell in love with modern J-cinema in 90s/early 2000s you'll die. Early Kitano + Toyoda magic. It's got some killer slow-motion/rock music scenes like Blue Spring did. Okinawa, Sonatine-style but more epic."
- Jason Gray
"Two best films Ive seen so far in Cannes: toshiaki toyodas I'M FLASH and soi cheungs MOTORWAY."
- Third Window Films
Site: http://www.imflash-movie.com/
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Love Toyoda's early works... Pornostar is a brutal, energetic and occasionally very beautiful Tokyo film, followed by the jaw dropping high school violence drama Blue Spring, followed by the slightly less interesting 9 Souls, followed by Toyoda's best film, Hanging Garden, a beautiful and wicked satire on Japanese family and society - very much The Family Game for the 2000's. And then, the famous drug bust that ended his movie career for years.
The early Toyoda films come with a unique mix of brutal rawness and beauty. A poet and a punk director in the same package.
And in case you've completely fucked up and don't know who Toyoda is, or confuse him with the thing you drive, here's the trailer for Blue Spring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqbFWHiElY
and a clip from Pornostar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qamn_HyRv-Y#t=51s
