Actress Kikuchi Rinko (28) has been cast in the second season of the hit drama series "LIAR GAME." This is her first regular role in a drama since "Churasan" in 2001. "Liar Game" stars Toda Erika(21) as an ordinary college student named Kanzaki Nao, and Matsuda Shota (24) as [ Read More ]
Here’s the first teaser for Oshii Mamoru‘s live-action film, Assault Girls, the feature-length follow-up to his previous short films “Assault Girl: Kentucky no Hinako” and “Assault Girl 2”, both of which were part of omnibus action movies (2007’s “Shin Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden” and 2008’s “Kiru ~ Kill”, respectively). Plot: In [ Read More ]
Apparently the just released Japanese DVD of Mamoru Oshii’s "Kiru ~ Kill" features a trailer of his newest project called "Assault Girl" features the 3 actresses Kikuchi Rinko, Kuroki Meisa and Saeki Hinako. People at the HK Mania forum uploaded some screencaps of the trailer, but the trailer itself doesn’t seem [ Read More ]
Back in December word had gotten out that Japanese director Mamoru Oshii and one of the stars from his short film "Assault Girl 2," Kikuchi Rinko, announced that they would be pleased as punch if they could make a feature length film based on characters from that short. The [ Read More ]
A new trailer for the great comedy movie “The Brothers Bloom” appeared on Yahoo! Movies a few days ago. As you might already know, it’s Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his critical acclaimed cult movie “Brick” and has Kikuchi Rinko in the cast list. The movie actually centers around Adrien Brody [ Read More ]
