come anticipate "coffee time" with me

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Cahiers du Cinema is reporting that the world premiere of Hou Hsiao-hsien's new film Kafei Shiguang [Coffee Time] will be on December 12, 2003 in Japan (the 100th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu's birth). Conceived as an homage to Ozu the film is written by Hou's usual screenwriter Chu Tien-wen and depicts a romance between an Ozu-like heroine, played by Taiwanese-Japanese pop singer Hitoto Yoh, and an employee in a second-hand bookshop (Tadanobu Asano, star of Maborosi, Taboo, Ichi the Killer, Bright Future, etc). Hou started shooting the film on August 2 in Japan using a small Taiwanese crew. It is set in Tokyo and Yubari, Hokkaido (which Hou used for the snow scenes in Millennium Mambo). The film's language is Japanese and shooting is planned to last until September 20.

The Chinese title Kafei Shiguang translates as Coffee Time and "reflects the feeling that drinking coffee with close friends in leisurely surroundings gives you". The project was initiated by Shochiku as part of the celebrations of Ozu's birth centenary. Shochiku plans a Japanese general release in 2004 and to show it at Cannes.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't write that btw

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

also yay ozu films in paris late november

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

mabarosi is my favourite film!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

that is cool. it is a great film. it owes a lot to hou and ozu and to vermeer too.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway i think hou is sort of out of ideas at the moment.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

any idea of a us release?

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

well i don't even know if it finished shooting yet.

given that his last film had no us distribution at all (it might have played briefly in new york) the chances look bad... actually none of his films have ever had proper commercial distribution in the us.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

so they're going to premiere is less than a month from now and it's not even done yet? interesting. sounds very miike.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno those kinds of dates are rarely kept is what i was implying

i wouldn't be surprised if they were well behind schedule

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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