suicide club , known in japan as suicide circle ( 自殺サークル jisatsu sākuru ) is a 2001 japanese independent horror film written and directed by sion sono .

the film explores a wave of seemingly unconnected suicides that strikes japan and the efforts of the police to determine the reasons behind the strange behavior .

suicide club gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its controversial subject matter and gory presentation .

it has developed a significant cult following , and won the jury prize for " most ground-breaking film " at the fantasia film festival .

suicide club ( film )

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next month , our attention turns to hayao miyazaki’s 1997 animated film princess mononoke , which shares themes with kurosawa’s dersu uzala . the full film club schedule is available on the film club page .
offscreen : i remember when i read about the suicide club that you were thinking at that point of making three films that were connected . is this film part of a trilogy with the suicide club & noriko’s dinner table ?
sion sono is a master of strange . suicide club is nothing short of weird . . if you don ' t know sion sono then i recommend you see strange circus and leave suicide club last .
who are you ? an analysis of sion sono ' s suicide club and kiyoshi kurosawa ' s cure .
our film club title for the month of july is akira kurosawa’s 1975 dersu uzala , the only film that kurosawa filmed outside of japan .
who are you ? an analysis of sion sono ' s suicide club and kiyoshi kurosawa ' s cure . : truefilm
suicide squad is undergoing reshoots to add ‘humour and lightness’ into the film , according to reports .
kyoto mourns about this and she tells saya that she knows the truth . she is seen as taken captive by the other suicide club members , and the following day her ear was pierced with the club ' s ceremonial tattoo .
2007 el club de los suicidas / the suicide club ( santiago ) director : roberto santiago production : tornasol films , spain cast : fernando tejero ( master of ceremonies ) [ a group of men and women in present - day madrid who would like to commit suicide for various reasons come across a copy of stevenson ' s
suicide club
and decide to imitate it . but they find it is more difficult than they thought . 104 mins . ]
a man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives , only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club ' s only female member .
one of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money , but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself .
kyoto finally got it . saya was becoming the new mitsuko , she is now the leader of the suicide club . one member of saya ' s club found kyoto with takeuchi , and reported it to saya . saya thought that kyoto had betrayed her and the following day , it was reported that takeuchi had committed suicide as well .
suicide club has been described as ‘muddled’ and sono criticised for not making his satire of pop culture and denunciation of the media clear enough . but the ambiguity of the film is precisely what makes it interesting . the suicide club is an elusive phenomenon that cannot be attributed to any specific group of people with any certainty . it is a diffuse idea that pervades the whole of society and is not controlled by any one person or group . it’s this idea that makes the film so powerful and disturbing . the suicide club remains very abstract and impossible to pin down to any material reality or evidence . the website that seems to count the suicides before they happen is only a collection of coloured dots on a screen . the name of the pop band dessart is spelt differently in roman characters throughout the film : ‘desert’ , ‘dessert’ , etc . the police officers are unsure whether the phenomenon they are investigating is accident , suicide or murder . and when a new website appears with the aim of fighting the suicide club , it consists only of a revolving white circle : the counter - suicide club can be nothing but another abstract geometric pattern to combat the indefinable , insubstantial threat . the intangible nature of the suicide club is at the heart of the film , and it is therefore logical that there should be no final resolution .
[ 1932
the suicide club
( universal ) a film planned for bella lugosi and boris karloff in 1932 and mentioned again in 1933 before being abandoned ( gary don rhodes , lugosi ( mcfarland , 1997 ) , p . 218 ) . listed by s as an actual film ]
what ' s great about japanese horror , is that no matter what the films they will scare you blind . now with suicide club , they take a whole new concept of what we ' re afraid of the most and they create something that horrifyingly effective . a very original film compared to all the new reimagining ' s of classic horror films , suicide club is an original scare fest , and it genuinely scares you and there ' s plenty of great tense moments to be had within the film . a must watch . suicide club is a harrowing nightmare of a film , a truly terrific concept for its plot with a decent cast make this a terrific little known gem in asian horror . if you love these types of horror flicks , then give this one a shot , suicide club is an intense film from start to finish , one that will keep you interested from beginning to end . this is an entertaining film and one that should appeal to fans of this genre of horror . a fine low budget film , suicide club is a film that has an interesting idea for a film , and the directors clearly have an idea what makes an effective horror film by conveying a new type of fear on their audience . this film is disturbing and chilling , and this is one film that will surely appeal to genre fans . director sion sono is a good director and he has crafted a memorable that will be hard to forget long after you ' ve seen it . a film definitely worth your time , one that has a very chilling concept and is hard to forget .
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the original form of suicide circle is a novel from 2002 , jisatsu saakuru : kanzenban ( suicide circle : the complete edition ) written by sion sono .
the santa monica suicide club is a crime novel set in what raymond chandler used to refer to as bay city – what he meant , of course , was santa monica .
1973 wide world of mystery : the suicide club ( glenn ) director : bill glenn production : abc cast : peter haskell ( florizel ) , margot kidder ( young woman ) , joseph wiseman ( club president ) [ adapatation in a tv drama series ; 73 mins . ]
cure ( kyua , dir . kiyoshi kurosawa , 110 mins , 1997 , japanese ) suicide club ( jisatsu sakuru , dir . sion sino , 99 mins , 2002 , japanese )
regrettably , the film ' s place - setting opening lays the scene for a different , more exciting film that never really unfolds .
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attempts to take on suicide without so much as a token mention of the word “depression” .
suicide circle is a . . . . superb film ! is it easy to understand ? definitely not ! but i think it was designed that way on purpose .
you clearly dont know sion sono very well . a lot of his movies do this kind of mixing of diferent tones and styles . its a truly unique individual , and suicide club is a great movie .
this film ultimately demands the audience to reconsider preconceived notions about suicide and question what it actually meant to truly know yourself , offering the rather skewed idea that death allows you to stay grounded and rooted with you and everyone around you . “suicide club” also provokes you to consider the role of masses when it comes to your own ideals and personal feelings towards death and its elusive nature .
the suicide squad reshoots were first ordered following the incredibly positive response to the trailer , featuring queen’s bohemian rhapsody , that reportedly wasn’t really that representative of the final film .
noriko ' s dinner table ( noriko no shokutaku ) is japanese director sion sono ' s prequel / sequel to his cult hit suicide club . noriko ' s dinner table opens in select us theatres beginning june 2007 . urltoken
2000 robert louis stevenson ' s the suicide club / the game of death director : rachel samuels production : roger corman / new concorde cast : david morrissey ( henry joyce = florizel ) , neil stuke ( capt . may = geraldine ) , paul bettany ( shaw = young man ) , jonathan pryce ( mr . bourne = club president ) , catherine siggins ( sarah wolverton , female club - member ) screenplay : lev l . spiro [ retains the basic elements of s ' s story with added elements including a female member of the club , as in trouble for two ( 1936 ) ; generally judged a disappointing film despite production by roger corman ; 89 mins . ]
a woman traumatized by her brother ' s suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder .
london 1899 - devastated by the loss of his beloved wife , captain henry joyce joins the highly secretive suicide club , a place where one can be ushered into eternity quietly , and without scandal . this highly secret society caters to an elite , decadent group of aristocrats . it is run by mr . bourne , who provides his clientèle with whatever last vices they desire . membership in the suicide club is an irrevocable contract with only one exit clause - death . however , captain joyce begins to regret his decision after he meets sarah wolverton , the club ' s only female member .
fifty - four japanese schoolgirls leap en masse into the path of an oncoming subway train . this is just one of the indelible images from sion sono’s 2001 film suicide club . sono has since proved himself one of the most daring filmmakers today , exemplifying the japanese concept of “ero guro nansensu” ( erotic grotesque nonsense ) .
large ham : genesis and his gang . also the four women who hang themselves during the suicide montage .
suicide circle ( 2001 ) is part of a trilogy . the second part , a prequel , is noriko ' s dinner table ( 2006 ) . the third film was never been made .
1970 el club de los suicidas director : rogelio a . gonzález cast : enrique guzmán [ contemporary setting for rls ' s story ]
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locked in her flat for several years , a reclusive young woman stumbles upon a mysterious web community . according to an urban myth , the suicide club grants death to those wishing for it . unless these
cyber suicides
are actually murders .
i would love to read this , but i haven ' t seen the cure yet and don ' t want to spoil anything for myself . pretty anxious to read any analysis of suicide club , though , what a bizarre ride that movie was .
1909 the suicide club director : d . w . griffith production : american mutoscope and biograph co . cast : herbert yost ( the chosen one ) screenplay : frank e . woods [ no prints are known to exist , n ; 4 mins . ]
offscreen : you also wrote the music for the film . do you play an instrument ?
wahl of , lefkowits jy . impact of a television film on attitudes toward mental illness .
1914 the suicide club ( elvey ) director : maurice elvey production : british & colonial kinematograph co . cast : montagu love ( florizel ) , elizabeth risdon , fred groves , m . gray murray [
no prints are known to exist
, n ]
tuesday , news broke that suicide squad director david ayer will stay in the dc film universe with an all - female film called gotham city sirens , which will star margot robbie as harley quinn . but buried beneath that news is the potential of two other films based on this summer’s dc team up .
according to the hollywood reporter , in addition to gotham city sirens , dc and warner bros . are working on a suicide squad sequel and a spinoff featuring will smith’s deadshot . that’s three films that will directly follow up on suicide squad .
it honestly feels like suicide club is playing a game with its viewer . amidst ( seemingly ) randomly picked up and abandoned plotlines , unexplained plotholes , and general restraint from even quietly uttering its own point , it ' s easy to dismiss this movie as a trashy gore - fest . but you shouldn ' t ! while the theme of modern - day alienation through internet and mass media isn ' t exactly new , suicide club confronts it in a way that will intrigue at least some people : a mysterious website that displays dots representing suicides ; a j - pop band of 10 - 12 year old girls singing saccharine songs and dropping ominous lines like
i need to hear from you right now or i ' ll die
; and a gang of kidnappers calling themselves
suicide club
who decide…
sion sono : well , the starting point was that i want to make a poetic , artistic type of film . i wanted to use film as the tool with which to express myself to the audience , and so i started to change the style of my film to suit this .
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suicide club is a japanese 2001 horror thriller that makes you as an audience bring a lot of theories , with a story that is a mix of bloods and gore fest and detective crime thriller , and with a cute pop group singing songs that are not what they seems .
if one was to ever question how amazing suicide club is , look no further than the first few minutes to get your answer . in it ' s opening , a line of 54 japanese school girls join hands and jump to their death in front of a speeding train .
sion sono has always been a master at shock films , inciting gruesome reactions to his love affair with gore and lakes of blood . his films are perhaps the most outlandish experiences i ' ve had , from four hour masterpieces about upskirt photography to violent cinema parodies about the yakuza , there really isn ' t much that he hasn ' t already tackled . suicide club is a more intriguing entry in his filmography , with a plot completely shrouded in a tantalizing mystery that is just waiting to be unraveled . no sono film is complete without its outlandish and innovative death scenes , and suicide club naturally is about as fascinating in its showcases of demise as they can…
the last time we discussed dersu uzala at the film club was in march 2009 , with the introductory post and its discussion found here and the other discussions accessible through the dersu uzala tag . you can also find much more about dersu uzala at urltoken .
after 2016’s suicide squad took home more than $ 745 million usd at the box office last year , warner bros . and dc comics are reportedly working on a spin - off film that showcases the joker and harley quinn as bitter rivals instead of lovers . according to reports , the film is set to take place alongside the suicide squad sequel as well as the all - female gotham city sirens following the stories of catwoman , poison ivy and quinn .
a splatterfest with frighteningly cheerful deaths . people , including but not limited to japanese school girls , who are brainwashed by teen pop and internet forums start committing mass suicides . the fact that a horror film like suicide club was made in the early 21st century comes off as not surprising at all considering how at that time the world is charging full speed into the electronic information age .
book ends : footage from a fictional pop group named
dessart
opens and closes the film .
: the movie jumps headfirst into this territory towards the end . the penultimate scene of the film is
the american mutoscope & biograph company bought the rights to this story back in 1908 . the company plans in the near future to do a
feature
film remake of this 1909 unusual short film .
by the end of the film , the only thing that seems clear is that the suicide club has introduced chaos and disorder into society . the fact that there is no rational or criminal explanation for the suicides upsets and unsettles assumptions about the nature , stability and functioning of society . in many suicidal fictions , the impulse for self - destruction stems from a loss of meaning , a disillusion with the values offered by society , and corresponds to a distrust for language ( see the various spellings of ‘dessart’ ) , seen as a vehicle for the authorities that govern that society , and therefore perceived as corrupt . so while for one person to decide that life is meaningless is an act of nihilism that may cause some disruption to the social fabric , when a group of people decides to form a society devoted to self - destruction , it becomes an all - out attack on the values of society at large , almost an act of existential terrorism . this connection between organised self - destruction and the threat to social order is an idea that runs through fictional depictions of suicide clubs , from robert louis stevenson’s 1882 short story ‘the suicide club’ to sono’s film , via quasi - suicide clubs such as fight club ( 1999 ) . and yet , despite their fascinating implications and subversive potential , suicide clubs remain a surprisingly rare kind of secret society in cinema , with sono’s film one of the most formidable , labyrinthine and provocative examples .
the a . v . club : thanks for taking the time to talk today . let’s discuss lights out and how it deals with the subject of depression .
driven to suicide : the main premise of the film is that people all across japan are committing suicide at an alarming rate and is deliberately gruesome ways to get attention . as all but two of the hundreds of deaths in this movie are suicides . the message of the film seems to be getting the authorities and public to open their eyes to the country ' s high rate of teenage suicides , even if it is disturbingly played for laughs half of the time .
shooting the film began in may 1974 on location in siberia , and lasted for almost a year under demanding conditions . dersu uzala premiered in japan on august 2 , 1975 and did relatively well at the domestic box office , although the critical reception in japan was muted . abroad the film was better received , winning both the golden prize at the moscow international film festival and an academy award for best foreign language film .
offscreen : wow , that’s very interesting ! what about kenji fukasaku , for example black rose mansion which features a transsexual man playing the part of a woman , who is always performing . it has a lot of theatricality , like your film . the circus sequences in your film reminded me a bit of this film .
an excellent foreign film . strange though , with some upsetting imagery . not for the faint of heart .
it boggles my mind somewhat that this is the movie of his that won the best foreign film oscar .
a while back , i watched a rather intriguing japanese horror film called “suicide club” . the plot centers around an impending wave of mass suicides that threaten japanese society , creating a sense of mystery and source of panic for authorities who desperately struggle to discover the roots behind these seemingly unmotivated deaths . the film was enjoyable because of how crazy weird it is , with some obscure , almost nonsensical ideas presented without any coherent explanation . as such , the film provides a perfect opportunity for me to go on a philosophical rant to make sense out of ideas that wouldn’t make sense otherwise . before i continue , i would like to disclaim that i do not share nor advocate some of the controversial themes explored by the film , and rather aim to present , as honestly as i can , my interpretation of what the film is trying to convey .
kiyoshi kurosawa’s cure and sion sino’s suicide club are successors of that very tradition . both films disguise themselves as straightforward and typical mysteries that both hinge on a “hook” to draw the viewer in . in cure , there have been a spate of random killings , where the victim is slashes across the neck in an “x” pattern . the perpetrator is always found nearby , and is always different . although the culprits confess to the murder , they are unable to explain adequately their motives for the brutal , bizarre murders . sino’s suicide club has a similar strange premise : gangs of schoolchildren , a lot of them girls , take to committing mass suicide . in the opening scene , close to 50 schoolgirls hold hands and leap in front of a speeding bullet train , seemingly for no apparent reason . what follows is an investigation into this phenomenon as more and more teenagers take to committing mass suicide .
sounds just a tiny bit like heathers , that old christian slater vehicle . high school students kill their rivals and make it look like suicide . the thing is , since all the popular kids are supposedly taking their own life it becomes a trend , the cool thing to do . while heathers is obviously satire , suicide club is something much darker i feel . you must be a riot when there are balloons and needles involved . homemade anticipation .
“ suicide squad , ” directed by david ayer and produced by charles roven and richard suckle , will begin shooting next april in toronto .
both films end on inconclusive notes , there is no neat wrapping up of the plot . there are plot holes , loops and subplots that are wholly abandoned , more in the case of suicide club than cure . while cure might be a technically and philosophically superior film , suicide club holds its own , despite often being dismissed as mindless gore - fest . i am certain that these films will make much more sense to a japanese , for they seem to tackle very distinctly japanese topics . it would be a sin to compare these films to the work of ozu , for ozu is in a class of his own , and there will never be another like ozu , but in terms to japan - ness , they appear similar .
1964 curse of the stone hand director : jerry warren , using footage from carlos hugo christensen (
suicide club
sequences ) , carlos schlieper (
house of gloom
sequences ) production : adp pictures inc . / chile films s . a . cast : carlos cores , guillermo battaglia screenplay : jerry warren [
patchwork film
by inferior b - movie horror - film producer jerry warren ; the
suicide club
segment consists of about 35 minutes lifted from the
brilliantly atmospheric
la dama de la muerte ( 1946 , see above ) filled out with
nonsense hollywood - filmed sequences
starring john carradine and katherine victor ( the
house of gloom
sequences are from schlieper ' s la casa esta vacia ) ; information kindly supplied by jean - claude michel ; see will laughlin ' s braineater horror - movie site ]
awesome , i fucking was nearly blown away by suicide club when i watched it not all that long ago . it ' s so surreal and creepy , it makes my skin crawl , but at the same time , it makes me smile at certain points . there are some scenes that are purely amazing in how they unfold and you are never remotely sure as to where the film may go . when i watched it , i hadn ' t watched an asian horror film in a while with the cluster fuck of asian horror from a few years back . i thought suicide club would be just another seen it all before horror film , but boy was i wrong . there is so much depth and thought in this film , but there is so much left open , that it leaves one to only ponder what it all means . i did a review of it sometime back , and looking at it now , you commented on it . i ' ll take credit for you watching and loving the movie . you ' re welcome . great review , by the way .
kick the dog : a villain in the film , genesis , almost literally does this with a guinea pig .
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if it seems like literally everyone from the breakfast club has worked on psych at some point or another , it’s because everyone has - - emilio estevez being the only exception .
ordinary high school student : most students are just ordinary teenagers with not much to set them apart from others . they still commit mass suicide .
honestly , this all kind of makes sense , though . suicide squad may have been savaged by critics , but it did very well financially . and even critics of the film admitted that smith and robbie were highlights . plus , they’re massive movie stars . you don’t cast them for one film , as popular comic book characters , and then put them on the shelf .
warner bros . & dc are reportedly working on a ' harley quinn vs . the joker ' spin - off film
i do believe that the film requires a bit of suspension of disbelief , but i ' m okay with that .
suicide is a difficult topic to tackle without being sensationalist or reductive . but 13 reasons why manages to fall into both of these categories at once .
i loved the opening scenes of the film , with all the school girls jumping to their deaths . the movie was insane , but so confusing ! as you mention in your review , its not easy to completely understand what this film is about , but like a good david lynch film , the experience is more important then
getting
the movie .
every time i watch suicide club i love it more . it can be hard to grasp the first time , but if you watch closely , this is a gorgeous film - definitely a favorite of mine now . it ' s not a good movie if you ' re in a specific mood - there are elements of b movie gore , touching moments , horror , and social commentary . stick with it and you might find it really gets to you .
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sono is particularly interested in secret societies and cults , which is partly to do with the fact that he joined a cult when he was younger and later became a member of a terrorist group ( as he explains in the 3am interview ) . his early experiences inspired his film love exposure ( 2008 ) , which features the catholic church as well as a sinister religious cult . in fact , the suicide club could almost be a sect : the children and presumed members ask questions such as ‘are you connected with yourself ? ’ and pronounce nebulous statements that would not be out of place in a new age cult . talking about love exposure in the japan times , sono explained : ‘i like exploring borderlines . in this film , it’s the borderlines between perversion and normality , the catholic church and cults . ’ that statement can be applied to suicide club too . sono does not simply use a religious cult as the perverted contrast to the normality of the catholic church , but the cult serves also to highlight the perversions in what we perceive as the norm . in the same way , the possibility of the existence of a secret society called the suicide club reveals the fault lines of the supposedly ‘normal’ society , notably the seemingly unbridgeable divide between youth and adults .
1936 trouble for two / the suicide club ( ruben ) director : j . walter ruben production : mgm cast : robert montgomery ( prince florizel ) , rosalind russell ( miss vandeleur / princess brenda ) , frank morgan ( colonel geraldine ) , reginald owen ( president of club ) , louis hayward ( young man with cream tarts ) screenplay : edward e . paramore jr . , manuel seff photography : charles g . clarke [ loosely based on
cream tarts
and
hansom cab
episodes , adds love interest for prince florizel , a female member of the club who is his chosen assassin ;
hollywood hokum . . . arrant nonsense . . . parade of clichés
, n ; 80 mins . ]
offscreen : somebody once said that ero - guro is half beautiful and half grotesque , so i assume masumi would be the beautiful aspect of the film ? in other words , the film is supposed to be very beautiful but also very horrible .
i feel as though the dc comics franchise may have publicly performed its suicide with this film . what began with a few interesting characters , dragged on into a 40 minute exposition of the film ' s universe and a census of the overpopulated neighborhood . then the big baddie is revealed - - and it makes no sense . the wheels fell off the wagon from there . dreadful . absolutely dreadful .
in the dark , dull shadow cast by zack snyder’s batman v superman – news of suicide squad perhaps aiming for something a little different sounds incredibly promising .
saya koto was an ordinary teenage girl until she joined a certain club , as her best friend , kyoto , had narrated . saya started acting pretty strange , and worshiped the club ' s leader and founder , mitsuko , even going to the point to sell her body to give money to mitsuko . she hides this by telling kyoto that she needs money because her father is sick .
when mitsuko died on the train jump , saya lost her happiness , and she started to gain many more admirers , considering she survived the mass suicide . when a girl was seen picking on saya , it was reported that the very next day the girl allegedly committed suicide , but many speculate she was murdered .
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genesis is the leader of his group which seems to be a suicide cult , but he rather is a poser than having any involvement in the mass suicides .
although i have watched dersu a couple of times from the artificial eye dvd , for some reason i still mentally associate the film with a very poor quality cropped vhs copy that i had in the 90s . it didn’t do the film justice at all .
domino g . impact of the film , “one flew over the cuckoo ' s nest , ” on attitudes towards mental illness .
as for dessart , the innocuous - looking pop band seems to hide clues in their lyrics and promotional posters that would appear to point to some sort of cult of death led by children . however , there is no resolution , no explanation of any kind , and the suggestion of this unlikely conspiracy is left open to interpretation at the end . more important than knowing whether the suicide club is really a secret society of children is the total separation and incomprehension between young people and adults that its possible existence reveals . whatever it is that may lead young people to commit suicide , the film suggests that the adults will always be inherently unable to comprehend it .
as suicide club progresses , the plot becomes increasingly murkier . more and more levels are added , to the point of distraction . suicide club is not as polished as cure , it is rough and often loses its point . but the central theme , that of dislocation , makes itself felt as well . there is a strange boy who often calls the detectives , a boy with a cough that becomes more and more irritating as he talks . this is probably deliberate , the director wishes for us to feel irritation . it is meant to dislodge us , just like the boy is dislodging teenagers from their own lives . he too asks a question , “are you connected to yourself ? ” to the detectives he poses this question , “i know you are connected to your family , to your children , to your wife , but are you connected to yourself ? ” once again , the question becomes one of identity . while cure seems to blame society , in suicide club , it is pop culture and television that seems to be at fault . there are many subplots that don’t serve much purpose , except distraction , but the theme of connection is threaded into each of them . the detectives find a long roll of skin at the scene of the suicides , the roll composed of squares of skin from different people , most of them the ones who just died . in death , this is their connection to each other . even as they leap off buildings and in front of trains , the teenagers hold hands , it is an act of a group , not an individual . in this way , suicide club is often at odds with cure . while cure desires an individual , suicide club wishes for a group identity , a connection to each other that is often lost in the mindless drone of the television and the mass - marketed media .
offscreen : i’m curious because yesterday when you introduced the film you said the japanese do not like this film . i wonder if it is because of the western aspects to the film , especially thematically in terms of the psychology . and with some of the settings , like the circus , there is a lot we can relate to as westerners . is it perhaps too western for japanese audiences ?
i am an idiot for avoiding this for so long . i ' ve always ( incorrectly ) seen sion sono as some kind of second rate , less interesting takashi miike . he ' s not . he ' s definitely not . suicide club is a fascinating , disgusting , wild piece of cinema and a sad reminder of how pathetic and boring japanese films are now compared to the incredible highs of the early 2000s . this was nothing like i expected it to be . though it starts with lots of goofy squelching sounds and a terrible exploding cgi head , suicide club quickly makes it clear that it will be an unpredictable , totally engaging mystery filled with angry satire and no easy answers . some may find its messy structure and tonal jumps difficult…
unflinching , but tender and often humorous , the suicide club is an examination of the last taboo in our society – as well as our deep human desire to connect . it explores why we feel the need to extinguish our lives , how we can pull back from the edge , and how – by saving ourselves – we can sometimes also save the people we love .
also , thank you , vili and ugetsu , for the information on where to find out more about the making of this film .
following the disappointing commercial reception of the 1970 dodesukaden , kurosawa was at the low point in his career . the japanese film industry was quickly shrinking , and unable to find funding for new projects while also suffering from poor health , kurosawa attempted suicide on december 22 , 1971 . the attempt was unsuccessful .
when presented with scenes of scores of teenagers gleefully holding hands and jumping to their deaths in enthusiastic orgies of suicide , i was not disappointed . dismembered body parts were numerous…
having promised a few years ago to revive his decades - old tradition of class , low - budget ( and usually period ) dramas , roger corman makes good on that pledge with the satisfying , if awkwardly titled , “robert louis stevenson’s the suicide club . ” pic is a throwback to corman cinema a la edgar allen poe as well as a forward - looking model [ … ]
i would go as far as to suggest that more than any other kurosawa film , dersu uzala is first and foremost intended as a visual and aural experience . early on in the film dersu scolds the russian soldiers for watching but not seeing , and i think that we as an audience also easily fall into the same trap , criticising the film for its rather uncomplicated plot and somewhat loose structure while not realising that these are , ultimately , secondary to the film’s core intention , which is to present us with the world as dersu experiences it .
i would go as far as to suggest that more than any other kurosawa film , dersu uzala is first and foremost intended as a visual and aural experience . early on in the film dersu scolds the russian soldiers for watching but not seeing , and i think that we as an audience also easily fall into the same trap , criticising the film for its rather uncomplicated plot and somewhat loose structure while not realising that these are , ultimately , secondary to the film’s core intention , which is to present us with the world as dersu experiences it… .
what ' s most chilling about suicide club ? the anticipation and the question of whether or not someone is actually going to do it . i used to be terrified of loaded guns in movies being pointed at someone ' s head . that idea of not knowing just when something is going to explode is extremely nerve wracking , suicide club takes those anxieties and doubles them . introducing you to character ' s , only to see them take their lives for no apparent reason other than the fact that they finally figured something out that you didn ' t . blood ? guts ? gross ? yes . but i wouldn ' t call it the driving force behind the film . and as a matter of fact i was tickled pink at the sight of some technicolor like , red as paint blood during one very wonderful scene involving a knife and some fingers . sure there are moments of fleeting nausea - - - human skin cinnamon roll anyone ?
the cinepocalypse film festival descended once more upon chicago’s music box theatre this past week , providing seven straight days of movie madness , ranging from grisly horror to gonzo action to outrageous camp . while we weren’t able to see every film that screened during the festival—even die - hard genre fans…
the film opens up with 50 high school girls gleefully committing suicide by joining hands and jumping off a platform in front of an oncoming train . the score is playful and the blood - splatter is exaggerated to comedic effect , but everyone plays it straight . director sion sono doesn ' t ease you into anything here .
to celebrate the 30th anniversary of john hughes’ 1985 classic , the breakfast club , stars ringwald and ally sheedy attended a special screening at sxsw ( a digitally remastered version of the film will also be released in select theaters from march 26 - 31 ) . which seems like the perfect opportunity to find out what our favorite detention - goers look like three decades later :
clearly , much of the film was designed as an audiovisual spectacle . throughout the film , we are shown shots of the siberian landscape in its various shapes and colours , enhanced by a soundtrack carefully woven from the sounds of animals , fire , water , wind and other natural elements .
i have not read the manga , but i do know that the film has a prequel ,
noriko ' s dinner table
that delves more into why the events unfold as they do in the film . i haven ' t seen it yet , but it is streaming on netflix .
by the time the closing credits rolled on sion sono ' s apparent ' cult classic ' suicide club , i was well and truly frustrated by my attempt to decode and draw some sense of satisfaction from it , and despite being a fan of sono ' s work thus far ( i have seen cold fish , love exposure and why don ' t you play in hell ? ) , something was amiss here .
i accidently came across this movie after watching the movie based on the uzumaki manga . i was absolutely amazed by it , always trying to guess / work things out and then something more crazy happened which blew all my ideas out of the water and got me guessing again . after i watched the uzumaki movie i realised that there was a lot i wouldn ' t have understood if i hadn ' t read the manga befotrehand , which got me to thinking if it was the same for suicide club , so i went for a search , low and behold , there ' s a manga for suicide club , which also explains a lot to the story , it ' s so deep with so many twists , i enjoyed reading it so much . also it ' s fairly popular so you can easily find scanlations of it online ^ _ ^
when tim burton made his first batman film in 1989 , he cast one of hollywood’s biggest and most dependable stars in the role of batman’s greatest enemy . jack nicholson , already a two - time academy award winner ( he’d later collect a third trophy in the 1990s ) , was paid a king’s ransom for the role ( his cut of the film’s profits ran to an estimated $ 50 million ) and received top billing above the movie’s ostensible lead michael keaton . since then , the joker has remained the most prestigious comic - book movie role , winning heath ledger a posthumous oscar for 2008’s the dark knight ; jared leto was cast in the role in suicide squad not long after his oscar win for dallas buyers club .
sometimes they are like the seed sown on stony ground . the suicide club is andrew williams’s fourth novel , and it removes any doubts . it establishes him as an unusually accomplished craftsman , a master of the intelligent historical spy thriller . his research is thorough and has been absorbed ; it never obtrudes . his imagination works in harmony with his powers of observation . his plotting is intricate and coherent . the narrative drives compellingly along .
spoilers ahead . the big question posed by the whole movie is
are you connected to yourself
is the only real connection between your soul and yourself is that of your body , then what is the point really ? the people commiting suicide in the film are severing that chain , thus forcing their spirit and their self to be whole .
i saw this one awhile back - i also had the same reaction . after watching the film , i also wanted to know
why .
it ' s a very intriguing and interesting film . though , i guess it will always remain a mystery to me . nice post , thanks for sharing !
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
the suicide scene itself is almost unbearably difficult to watch . to its credit , it contains no euphemistic photo montages or sad indie ballads , but the realism of the scene feels uncomfortably close to a how - to guide to suicide . it teeters dangerously on the edge of emotional torture porn , a territory already frequented at an alarming rate by the very teenagers that the show is desperate to help . the show is right to be trying to provide teenagers with a lesson in compassion and sensitivity , but watching hannah baker cut her wrists in high definition isn’t doing anything for youth suicide prevention .
offscreen : o yes , i’m not saying that , but the sensors in north america look for these things and don’t make a distinction between a sophisticated film that is dealing with it as a subject and a pornographic film . that is why i am surprised that a distributor has picked it up , but that is great . along with that we have had a lot of american remakes of j - horror , but i don’t think there has been a remake of an ero - guro film , and that is probably because it would be too problematic , with the ero - guro mix of sex with violence . i think in a way that is a good thing . it is a way for you to protect your film , because you know they won’t ever remake your film .
in early 1973 , the soviet film studio mosfilm approached kurosawa asking if he would be interested in working on a new project with them . kurosawa agreed to the idea and proposed to film an adaptation of russian explorer vladimir arsenyev’s autobiographical work dersu uzala , a book kurosawa had been considering for a film from as early as the 1930s . in the book , arsenyev narrates his experiences with the titular siberian hunter who acted as his guide for several expeditions to the russian far east .
in tokyo , 54 schoolgirls leap in front of a subway train committing suicide . shortly after , at a hospital , two nurses kill themselves by jumping out of a window . at both locations rolls of flesh are found , with the missing skin matching removed flesh on corpses . three detectives are notified by a hacker named kiyoko of a link between the suicides and a website that ties the mystery to an internet suicide cult around a guy named
genesis
. within the next days , the suicide epidemic spreads over japan and many more deaths occur . will the police be able stop this mysterious epidemic ?
suicide squad isn ' t as fun of a ride as guardians of the galaxy . it could have been , with more performances like jared leto ' s and margot robbie ' s . . . .
follows a group of 12 high school students as they piece together a story as it is described on a series of cassette tapes left for them their classmate hannah baker , who has died by suicide .
offscreen : another way of looking at it , because the film has a story within a story structure , with the masumi character ( taeko ) as the writer of the story , is that we are seeing her imagination . it could also be a film about the creative process , something like barton fink for example . or a little bit like 8 ½ where you see the creative process of a director who we see trying to make a film . in this film we have a writer who we learn is trying to write a story , and we are seeing the story which we think is fiction but then it becomes metafiction , a fiction inside of a fiction . we can never see inside the artist’s mind but the film is an idea of what it would be like inside an artist’s mind .


justin and the knights of valour ( spanish : justin y la espada del valor ) is a 2013 english-language spanish 3d computer animated fantasy film whose working title was goleor : the scales and the sword .

it is the story of a boy named justin , who wants to become a knight like his grandfather sir roland .

it was produced , created , developed and animated by kandor graphics , the second of their two animated films ( the first was the 2008 film , the missing lynx ) .

it was produced by antonio banderas , marcelino almansa , kerry fulton and ralph kamp .

it was written by matthew jacobs and manuel sicilia with music by ilan eshkeri .

it was edited by claudio hernández and directed by manuel sicilia .

sony pictures entertainment distributed it in spain , and entertainment one in the united kingdom .

the film premiered on 13 september 2013 and was released theatrically in september 2013 in spain and the united kingdom .

justin and the knights of valour was released on dvd and blu-ray by paramount home media distribution in 2014 .

justin and the knights of valour

justin is the main protagonist of the animated film justin and the knights of valour .
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justin and the knights of valour : freddie highmore provides the voice for the young boy .
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justin and the knights of valour has its own web page and is on facebook and on imdb .
if antonio banderas thinks that justin and the knights of valour is another shrek he’s sadly mistaken .
a fuzzy plot and zero charm make justin and the knights of valour a lousy animation , writes robbie collin .
sony has set a spanish release date of august 23 , 2013 for animated feature justin and the knights of valour .
have a look below to see the official soundtrack list for the 2013 animation film , justin and the knights of valour .
justin and the knights of valour is a fantasy animated feature about justin , a young man who dreams of being a knight like his grandfather .
original music composed by ilan eshkeri below you can view the complete justin and the knights of valour soundtrack list , album tracklist : 1 . justin
the ace : sir roland , justin ' s late grandfather . he is widely celebrated as the greatest of the knights of valour .
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justin and the knights of valour ( pg ) ( manuel sicilia , 2013 , spa ) freddie highmore , saoirse ronan , antonio banderas . 96 mins
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at the abbey , the monks have finished creating a statue of justin in the hall of knights . a wall is then torn down , revealing another hall for future knights .
seeking to match the comic pizzazz of shrek , puss in boots and brave , spanish - made animated adventure justin and the knights of valour falls disappointingly short , despite the best efforts of a very game , mostly british voice cast .
entertainment one has recently acquired the uk licensing rights to the new 3d animated feature justin and the knights of valour , and is planning to distribute it on uk cinemas in august 2013 using their theatrical division .
at present , aliwood is immersed in the production of manuel sicilia’s justin and the knights of valour , while at the same time preparing the production of spree , an international co - production on which shooting is expected to start in 2014 .
i was impressed with how the spanish mistika technology which we have embraced at kandor graphics enhanced justin and the knights of valour in stereo 3d . it is great to see passionate companies like sgo contribute to innovation in our industry in such a significant way .
affirms manuel sicilia , company partner & chief creative officer of kandor graphics & director & author of justin and the knights of valour .
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justin and the knights of valour is a heart - warming tale about friendship , honour and courage , which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight .
fallen hero : hiraclio was also once counted amongst the knights of valour . then , the law abolishing and disbanding the knighthood from gabylonia was passed , and he was never quite the same since .
justin and the knights of valour tells the story of a young boy who embarks on a quest to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a real knight . the cg movie is reportedly made on a budget of $ 30 million , and is produced by the oscar - nominated studio kandor graphics .
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justin and the knights of valour was conceived as a stereoscopic 3d film at the outset as it was not an option to adapt it to 3d later on . the team felt strongly that the storytelling should take advantage of the stereo 3d qualities in order to support the story and not the other way around .
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justin arrives at the abbey and receives training from the monks , braulio ( barry humphries ) , an inventor who receives nervous attacks when something goes wrong with his machinery and inventions , legantir ( charles dance ) , the head monk of the abbey and blucher ( james cosmo ) , a knight and an old friend of sir roland . they train him using the ways of the knights of valour .
the storyline limps turgidly onwards as justin learns to become a knight under the tutelage of three aged knights ( charles dance , barry humphries and james cosmo ) and overcomes the villain of the piece — mark strong , never worse .
james cosmo as blucher , who was once justin ' s grandfather ' s best friend and helps justin .
hailey baldwin and justin bieber passionately kiss in the bahamas . . . as news of engagement spreads
take brave , shrek and how to train your dragon , combine in a cement mixer and fish out every last milligram of charm and fun , and you are left with justin and the knights of valour . the film is set in a fantasy kingdom ruled by health and safety jobsworths , a scenario you suspect will make sense to zero members of its target audience .
justin and the knights of valour has already been sold to over 120 territories , including uk , china or russia . the film is currently on post production in andalusia . allwood meditearráneo producciones is involved in the production and has finance from green moon , junta de andalucia and banco mare nostrum .
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big bad : sir heraclio , who wants to usurp the queen for signing the decree that banned the existence of knights .
animation / action adventure . a young boy , justin , is expected to become a lawyer , but he longs to be a knight as his gradfather was . he sets off to learn the ways of the old order of the knights of valour , and gets involved in defending the kingdom against an attack by the exiled sir heraclio .
) . they create a ye - olde - medieval - dayes kingdom where the glorious traditions of knights and chivalry have been abolished and replaced with a hideous nightmare of big government and nitpicking bureaucracy . valiant young justin (
lawyers have replaced knights . one of few western movies that actually feels intellectually fresh .
justin and the knights of valour tells the story of a young man who dreams about being a knight in the middle age . he lives in a country dominated by bureaucrats and wants to restore the glory of his grandfather , a distinguished knight who was killed by the evil sir heraclio . its marketed as an adventure “full of joy , action and emotion in a story that crosses friendship , honour and courage . ”
justin and the knights of valour is distributed by timeless films ( uk ) as an adventure “full of joy , action and emotion in a story that crosses friendship , honour and courage” and has already been sold to over 120 territories , including uk , china or russia . spanish distribution is managed by sony pictures releasing .
charles dance as legantir , the head monk of the abbey who is very severe , wise , and trains justin .
the monks then receive news that a banished former knight sir heraclio ( mark strong ) and his accomplice sota ( rupert everett ) , have returned from exile and have started gathering an army to seek revenge on the queen for outlawing knights . the monks later reveal to justin the hall of knights , where all the statues of the finest knights were kept . justin finds his grandfather ' s statue and notices that his grandfather ' s sword is not in the chest below it . sir heraclio ' s space is empty . the monks tell him that heraclio betrayed the knights , thus removing him from the hall . blucher then tells justin what really happened to his grandfather and how the queen outlawed knights : the king was killed in a battle and all the ruling was left to the queen . the queen started depending on lawyers and justin ' s father chose law over knights , thus making a contract that outlawed knights , which the queen signed . heraclio was furious . he tried to attack the queen , but justin ' s grandfather defended the queen and was killed by heraclio with his own sword . justin then realizes that his grandfather ' s sword is with heraclio .
] welcome to the kingdom of gabilonia , once home to the bravest knights of all - but not anymore . ever since knights were forced to leave the kingdom and justice officers took their place , we get a new law every day .
justin lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . his dream is to be become one of the knights of valour , like his grandfather was , but his father reginald , the chief counsel to the queen , wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . after an inspiring visit to his beloved grandmother and bidding farewell to his supposed lady - love lara , justin leaves home and embarks on a quest to become a knight . along the way he meets the beautiful , feisty talia , a quirky wizard called melquiades , and the handsome sir clorex and is mentored by three monks ; blucher , legantir and braulio , who teach and test him in the ancient ways of the knights of valour . whilst an unlikely candidate for knighthood , justin must rise to the challenge quickly when banished former knight sir heraclio and his army , lead by sota , return and threaten to destroy the kingdom .
not long after , justin arrives at the abbey and receives training from the monks : braulio , an inventor who receives nervous attacks when something goes wrong with his machinery and inventions , legantir , the head monk of the abbey . and blucher , a knight and an old friend of sir roland . they train him using the ways of the knights of valour so that he may defeat the traitorous and resentful sir hiraclio , who even now plots his revenge on the kingdom he feels had spurned him .
in a market either dominated by the glossy high - profile cartoons by pixar and dreamworks or the dreamy works of japan’s studio ghibli , it’s heartening to see a european company get in on the animated action . despite its very british cast , justin and the knights of valour is the work of spanish company kandoor graphics – the granada - based animation outfit behind 2008’s noah’s ark - style effort the missing lynx .
granada , spain - - kandor graphics , in partnership with antonio banderas , has invested in sgo ' s technology to support its growing production demands , and chose mistika to color grade and finish its very first cg - animated children ' s feature film justin and the knights of valour in 2d and stereoscopic 3d .
his kidnapping of lara and presenting her to hiraclio as a means of getting a cut of the ransom .
[ first lines ] justin : [ voiceover ] welcome to the kingdom of gabilonia , once home to the bravest knights of all - but not anymore . ever since knights were forced to leave the kingdom and justice officers took their place , we get a new law every day . see more »
justin lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . his dream is to be become one of the knights of valour , like his grandfather was , but his father reginald , the chief counsel to the queen , wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . after an inspiring visit to his beloved grandmother and bidding farewell to his supposed lady - love lara , justin leaves home and embarks on a quest to become a knight . along the way he meets the beautiful , feisty talia , a quirky wizard called melquiades , and the handsome sir clorex and is mentored by three monks ; blucher , legantir and braulio , who teach and test him in the ancient ways of the knights of valour . whilst an unlikely candidate for knighthood , justin must rise to the challenge quickly when banished former knight sir heraclio and his army , lead by sota , return and threaten to destroy the kingdom . written by kandor graphics
is credited as a producer on this spanish - made animation with english - language vocal talent . the knights of valour is a moderate fairytale fantasy , heavily influenced by hollywood – specifically , the shrek films .
not so different : hiraclio tries invoking this trope on blucher once and justin twice , saying that they all want the same thing of returning the order of the knights to the kingdom of gabylonia . this doesn ' t work whatsoever , as neither of them are fooled into believing hiraclio seeks anything more than selfish glory and revenge .
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barry humphries as braulio , one of the three wise monks who is highly intelligent and his faith and nerves are tested when justin arrives .
olivia williams as the queen , whose noble spirit was dampened after the king died and has outlawed knights to prevent further tragedy .
honor before reason : subverted in the sense that the truly honorable characters like justin and his grandfather , sir roland , are both honorable and very reasonable . rather , they simply embody the spirit of being a knight of justice and valour , and so are above fighting dirty and the like . in this case , they are shown to be in the right , in more ways than one .
“we’re extremely excited to be presenting licensing opportunities for justin and the knights of valour which will form part of our slate at ble this year , ” says hannah mungo , head of u . k . licensing at entertainment one . “the property already benefits from a comprehensive style guide to inspire potential licensees and we’re looking forward to developing some solid licensing and promotional partnerships that will build a strong foundation for the licensing programme . ”
clorex decides to
become
a knight after overhearing the romantization of being one and what it can possibly get him ( girls , fame , and fortune ) , which happens as justin is undergoing his actual knights training .
justin and the knights of valour is a 2013 spanish 3d animated adventure fantasy film co - produced by antonio banderas , co - written ( with matthew jacobs ) and directed by manuel sicilia , with an all star cast including freddie highmore , saoirse ronan , alfred molina , mark strong , barry humphries , rupert everett , and antonio banderas .
sir heraclio is around the same age as justin ' s late grandfather , and is arguably the best swordsman in the whole movie .
justin lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . his dream is to be become one of the knights of valor , like his grandfather was , but his father wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . after an inspiring visit to his beloved grandmother , justin leaves home and embarks on a quest to become a knight . whilst an unlikely candidate for knighthood , justin must rise to the challenge quickly when banished former knight sir heraclio and his army , lead by sota , return and threaten to destroy the kingdom
julie walters as gran , reginald ' s mother , sir roland ' s widow and justin ' s grandmother who is caring and believes in justin and convinces him to follow his heart .
freddie highmore as justin , the hero of the story and a curious young man who dreams of becoming a knight like his grandfather . he is talia ' s love interest .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time since 1980
: clorex and hircalio , both to justin . the former is a more subtle and passing dichotomy , as compared to the latter who is more obvious and overt .
knight in shining armor : the legendary sir roland was this in the past as a renowned knight of valour . this is specifically what justin aspires to throughout the film . in the end , he is this , very much literally , after he has been knighted .
the writers understand the natural comedy of rob’s attempts to seal the deal , and provide a steady amount of laughs with sharp dialogue from the supporting characters .
justin is in the bedroom of one of the female characters , lara ( his crush ) , as she changes clothes behind a screen . in a scene that is meant to be funny , justin . . . continue reading
justin is voiced by freddie highmore , who also played charlie bucket in the tim burton film charlie and the chocolate factory .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time . . .
in a kingdom undergoing a transition from the golden age of knights , dragons and magician to more modern , less exciting times plagued by bureaucracy , young goleor dreams of becoming a knight .
alfred molina as reginald , justin ' s father and chief lawyer of the kingdom , who firmly believes in law and order and forbids his son to become a knight , due to his rule of outlawed knights , his father ' s death and not wanting his son to die in a similar way his father did .
award bait song : the song
heroes
, sung by rebecca furguson , the first verse of which plays as justin readies himself to leave on his quest and part of the rest of it plays early in the credits , has many of the similarities of an award bait song , though its lyrics are a lot more directly relevant to the movie and justin ' s ongoing theme throughout it than is typically standard for such songs .
it is an excellent movie that my grand children watch over and over . the characters have depth and humor and the message of the movie is good .
at the end of the movie , before a well - deserving justin can be legally knighted , the law banning knights must be overturned , requiring two signatures , that of the queen ' s and reginald ' s . upon seeing his father ' s fearful hesitation , justin was completely willing to turn down the offer of knighthood , the entire reason he left home for his quest and fought with his dad , all for his father ' s sake of well - being . it was this up - close show of integrity and maturity that allowed reginald to get past his fears and worries and sign the rescinding .
justin and the knights of valour is a 2013 spanish 3d animated adventure fantasy film co - written ( with matthew jacobs ) and directed by manuel sicilia . the film features voice acting from freddie highmore , antonio banderas , james cosmo , charles dance , tamsin egerton , rupert everett , barry humphries , alfred molina , mark strong , david walliams , julie walters , olivia williams and saoirse ronan .
and spanning multiple generations , is almost accidentally undone when justin mistakenly pulls the chandelier ' s rope instead of the bell , though blucher stops it in time , so the only damage done is braulio having one of his fits . at the end of justin ' s training , the events of the
dragon test
causes a tower to knock against the game room . all seems well though . . . before the chandelier falls on top of and utterly destroys the display anyway . braulio preceeds to
tamsin egerton as lara , the spoiled , fashion - loving daughter of the richest man in the land . she was originally justin ' s love interest .
mark strong as heraclio , the villain of the piece and a fallen knight who plots to seize the throne .
justin ( freddie highmore ) wants nothing more than to become a knight with the courage and wisdom of sir roland , his deceased grandfather . however , in justin and the knights of valor , times have changed in the kingdom . justin ' s lawyer - dad ( alfred molina ) has enacted so many laws and rules that all the kingdom ' s subjects have given up on the spirit and altruism that defined their old way of life . knights are long gone ; the land is unprotected . on the verge of being forced to follow in his father ' s footsteps , justin takes matters into his own hands . with his caring gran ( julie walters ) encouraging him , he defies his father and sets off a quest : the boy will bring home sir roland ' s missing sword and earn his knighthood despite his dad . justin’s journey is fraught with danger and features a dizzying array of friends and foes . joined by feisty sidekick talia ( saoirse ronan ) , justin trains , struggles to reach his potential , and ultimately becomes an unlikely hero , charged with saving his kingdom from a long - standing and treacherous enemy .
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blucher arrives with gustav to aid justin and defeat heraclio . gustav scares the army away , while heraclio and blucher engage in a duel . heraclio takes the underarm and stabs blucher . justin then duels with heraclio . the two then get stuck on a water mill above a waterfall where they fight over sir roland ' s sword . heraclio slips and falls to his death in the water and justin retrieves the sword . blucher is on the brink of death due to the wound and justin , talia and lara attempt to save him . justin then uses some cool leaves to sooth the wound . just as it seems as though it was too late to save blucher , it turns out that the leaves worked on him and he recovers .
with the color grading phase of the project , kandor graphics used mistika to carry out color , brightness and contrast corrections of the shots so that the appearance of each sequence corresponded to its dramatic intention .
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shot on location over the course of three years , the movie follows the lives of four individuals whom are caught in the web created by the avoiding eye of government and the collapse of villages into treacherous slums . vandenberg and beck introduce the role of village unity early on with the first spoken words of “i massage you to give you strength . ” a woman is looked after by the village elders during childbirth and a new child of kenya appears in a deceptive but tasteful scene . the intimacy of the opening is only a prelude to the social disconnect that is to follow .
justin lives in the kingdom of gabylonia , where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . his dream is to become one of the knights of valour , like his grandfather , sir roland . but his father reginald , a widower and the chief counsel to the queen , wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . after an argument with his father , justin seeks comfort from his grandmother who encourages him to follow his dreams . justin notices that his grandfather ' s sword is missing , so he decides to go and find his grandfather ' s sword as his quest . his grandmother gives him a key which originally belonged to his grandfather and tells him to go to an abbey where three wise monks would train him . before justin leaves on his quest , he visits his crush , lara , who is a spoiled brat . he went to say farewell to her , though she wasn ' t really listening . justin then slips out of home and embarks on a quest to become a knight .
the three abbey monks are all rather reasonable , all things considered , but it ' s made clear that sir blucher is the most hopeful and receptive of justin from the get - go .
, until he notices justin ' s unconscious , breathless form moments later . he ' s very quick to hug justin once he comes to .
sweet - natured justin dreams of becoming a knight just like his legendary grandfather , sir roland . however knights have been banished from the kingdom by the queen and replaced by lawyers and their strict rules . but after an inspiring visit to his beloved gran , justin ' s mission becomes clear . he bids farewell to his sweetheart lara and embarks on the ultimate quest : to train to become a knight . along the way he meets the beautiful , but feisty , talia a quirky wizard called melquiades ; the handsome , but misguided , sir clorex and upon reaching the tower of wisdom is mentored by the three wise monks ; blucher , legantir and braulio . however justin soon learns that banished knight sir heraclio is putting together an army , with his faithful sidekick sota , to overthrow the queen and take the kingdom . justin must quickly rise to the challenge and find the courage to become the knight he truly wishes to be . join the unlikeliest of heroes and his friends on the journey of a lifetime that promises nail biting adventure , oodles of magic , heaps of fun , oh and a flame throwing toothless crocodile . . .
: justin doesn ' t have this problem , but braulio is quick to point this out upon first meeting justin , and even checks his biceps while shaking his hand .
: one of the primary reasons justin undergoes his knight ' s training . needless to say , it works like a charm .
sir roland was the noblest knight in the kingdom and protector of the king until they were both betrayed and killed by the evil sir heraclio ( mark strong ) . against his father’s wishes , justin runs away in search of his dream and begins his quest to become a knight . at the broken eagle inn he meets talia ( saoirse ronan ) , a beautiful , feisty and independently - minded girl , who shares his aspirations and whom he eventually falls for . he also meets a quirky wizard called melquiades ( david walliams ) who tells him where he can find the magical abbey where the knights of valour once trained . at the abbey , he is mentored by three ancient monks .
kandor graphics was founded in 1992 by a group of talented young engineers and innovative technical experts with the vision of bringing that magic into the animation world . the uniqueness of this company and the team can be felt in their films . kandor graphics’ work environment is a perfect combination of incredible creative and aesthetic animation talent who utilise state of the art technology and software developed in house .
justin , an ordinary young man , learns that he is capable of greatness . his good intentions and ultimate belief in himself enable him to be brave and resourceful . lawyers and
the law
are particularly targeted in this movie , blamed for ruining the preferred
old
way of life - - of knights and valor and chivalry and beauty - - because they instituted rules and laws . of course , the key lawyer who initiated the changes finally learns the error of his ways . lots of stereotypes are included : a very effeminate ( but still lethal ) accomplice of the primary villain prances around eyeing
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and
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a vain , self - absorbed rich girl dismisses a worthy suitor ; and a preening knight believes he is a supreme gift to humankind .
justin , though an unlikely candidate for knighthood , is determined to pursue his ideals . called upon to prove himself when heraclio and his minions , lead by sota ( rupert everett ) , return and threaten the kingdom , justin saves the day .
tsundere : talia . justin ' s strict code of chivalry doesn ' t help him any better , either .
is expected to be completed by the end of the year and will be released in theaters in 2013 .
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a boy’s dream is important even if it is not what his father wants . justin’s father wants him to be a lawyer like himself but only justin’s grandmother knows the real truth and what needs to be done . so an adventure begins as the young boy leaves on a quest to return the knights to the kingdom . the first thing he must do is learn to be a knight and the second is to find his grandfather’s sword .
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justin ( freddie highmore ) lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . he wants to be a knight but his father , reginald ( alfred molina ) , the chief counsel to the queen ( olivia williams ) , wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . in need of guidance , justin visits his grandmother ( julie walters ) , who tells him the story of his grandfather , sir roland .
. he ' s fine with lying and bumbling his way to fame with schemes , as opposed to honesty and hardwork like justin .
justin is a wonderful young boy and remembers all the stories that his grandfather told about being a knight for the royal kingdom . it also is his wish to become a knight but there is one thing keeping him from it , the law that the queen and his father signed . knights are outlawed and that is just not right because who will keep the kingdom safe ?
justin bieber is the perfect gentleman as he handles the bags . . . while crop top - clad hailey baldwin struts alongside
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hiraclio ' s entire life is so completely wrapped around being a knight , that when knights were outlawed in gabylonia , hiraclio , losing his sense of worth and being , loses his mind in the process . his obsession at reclaiming that glory is shown in contrast to justin ' s earnest want of becoming a knight and bringing back the knighthood to gabylonia .
kandor graphics ' director juan molina states ,
thanks to mistika’s power and versatility , we were able to work independently in order to post produce this feature film . this is exactly what we needed in order to succeed in a high level project such as justin and the knights of valour , especially due to the complexity of simultaneous and international versions required in so many territories . in addition , mistika ' s stunning color grading and stereo 3d toolsets made it possible for us to meet the tight deadlines that a production like this demands without jeopardizing the creative process in any way .
devil’s knot is roughly the cliff notes version of the case for those not familiar with the nuts and bolts of it . in 1993 , three young boys disappeared in west memphis , arkansas and were subsequently found hog - tied and submerged in a creek . the shocked community quickly pointed their fingers at three teenagers whom appeared to be the perfect suspects . suspicions of satanism captured the interest of the police force and the trio of damien echols , jessie misskelley , jr . and jason baldwin were taken into custody .
banderas helped produce this dreary animated feature and voices conceited lounge - lizard sir clorex . plucky justin ( freddie highmore ) would rather revive his kingdom’s tradition of noble knights than follow in dad’s footsteps as a stuffy lawyer . his quest needs dedicated training at the hands of three monks and the courage to cross swords with exiled knight sir heraclio ( mark strong ) .
: braulio suffers from nervous twitchie fits ever sense an experiment of his failed in the past . though he sweared a vow of patience , he constantly comes close to losing it throughout justin ' s training , until justin ' s
dragon test
inadvertently causes the destruction of the live display of the generations long wargame that theirs and a far - east order have been playing for over 450 years . when this happens , he
saoirse ronan as talia , the film ' s heroine and a feisty woman who works at the broken eagle inn . justin eventually falls in love with her in the end .
the woman wearing the queenly mask : an interesting and subdued deconstruction . after losing her husband , the queen of gabylonia fell into a state of depression . she relied heavily on reginald to handle the day - to - day affairs of the kingdom . not long after this , and likely around the same time as losing justin ' s mother , reginald proposes the abolishment of knighthood in the kingdom . the queen signs this proposition into law in the hopes that no other may suffer the same fate as her king did ( who fell in battle ) . the events of the present day show that she has deep and serious regrets on doing this .
the queen then gives justin the title of sir justin and praises him for his bravery . she decides to abolish the outlawed knights by signing a contract . reginald is hesitant at first , as he fears that his son would follow the same fate as what had happened to his father . seeing this , justin attempts to not make change to appease his father , but reginald signs the contract . when it seemed as though justin still has feelings for lara , he turns her down much to her disappointment and surprise , as she was starting to like him . he then turns to talia and tells her that he wants her to continue accompanying him on quests , as he has realized that she is the girl whom he truly loves . talia happily accepts and shares a romantic kiss with justin .
the script gets off to a poor start by positing a medieval kingdom where knights have been banished in favour of the rule of law , which the film says is a bad thing — a view parents may consider strange to be teaching young children .
tough bond is essential viewing , but not so the viewer can be temporarily moved . one should not be distressed by the content matter , but rather attempt to understand the psychology of the kenyan youth . the absence of a community bond and stress of street life is the complex of the “survivors . ” intimacy is only a fairy tale .
justin ( freddie highmore ) lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted . his dream is to become one of the knights of valour , like his grandfather , sir roland . but his father reginald ( alfred molina ) , the chief counsel to the queen ( olivia williams ) , wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer . after an argument with his father , justin seeks comfort from his grandmother ( julie walters ) who encourages him to follow his dreams . justin notices that his grandfather ' s sword is missing . he decides to go and find his grandfather ' s sword as his quest . his grandmother gives him a key which originally belonged to his grandfather and tells him to go to an abbey where three wise monks would train him . before justin leaves on his quest , he visits his crush , lara ( tamsin egerton ) , who is a spoilt brat to say farewell to her , though she wasn ' t really listening . justin then slips out of home and embarks on a quest to become a knight .
it doesn ' t look bad , but the spark of originality and interest is lacking .
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also , i felt so fortunate to have mistika for justin and the knights of valour . with dual - roles as dop and colorist , i had complete control of the process , which made my job so much easier . the “all in one system” philosophy of mistika resulted in us using its unrivalled toolsets and capabilities for many more tasks than we initially intended to from the start . we also utilized mistika as a display tool as well as for “checks , ” including dcp outputs as well as a compositing tool . the learning curve has been so fast that i was able to proceed from the first week of production . furthermore , it’s been a pleasure to work with the sgo team throughout the production and post production phases and they were always available to meet our needs .
there appears to be four distinct types of animation movies being made en masse at the moment . first , there are the visually dazzling but essentially hollow animated movies that hope to coast by on the star power involved , see : shark ' s tale , madagascar , megamind . secondly , there are the visually dazzling but hugely funny and / or smart and / or involving animated movies that are instant classics of the genre , see : 90 % of pixar ' s output , how to train your dragon . thirdly , there are the movies that manage to mix the star power of the first and the entertaining nature of the second , see : despicable me 2 , kung fu panda 2 . and finally , there ' s the kind of animated movie that fails in almost every department , no real mega - star names attached , no real visual inventiveness , no real humour or intelligence or heart . unfortunately , justin & the knights of valour falls ass - first into this category .
the spanish animators are uninspired and haven’t a clue how to make the most of 3d . it is easily the year’s dreariest animated film .
important haircut : an inversion . as a subtle showcasing of his development , justin leaves the abbey with the sides and back of his humble , page - boy style haircut having grown out . in fact , we see him pass through the first throes of his development when his neatly trimmed bangs grow out between the point he leaves the broken eagle inn and when he first arrives at the abbey .
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the monks then attempt to challenge justin by battling a dragon , which turns out to be a crocodile named gustav , in mechanical gears . justin gets injured after he succeeds in hitting the target . the monks fear for his safety and decide to end the training . just before he leaves , blucher gives justin his sword and tells him that he ' ll need it . on his way back home , justin saves talia when she gets intimidated by thugs . talia joins in and helps justin defeat the thugs , resulting her getting fired , which she happily interprets it as quitting . justin is amazed that talia is able to fight like a man , which she had learned to do from her brothers . she gets slightly disheartened when she learns that justin already has feelings for lara . meanwhile , justin ' s grandmother tells her son reginald to understand justin ' s desire of becoming a knight , just like his father allowed him to become a lawyer . she persuades reginald to bond with his son at lara ' s party , an event that justin won ' t miss .
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justin and the knights of valour is a heart - warming story about a young boy who becomes a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight . directed and written by kandor graphics ' chief creative officer , manuel sicilia , the animated adventure fantasy film boasts a famous cast of european voices including freddie highmore , charles dance , rupert everett , barry humphries , david walliams , julie walters and saoirse ronan . antonio banderas is also the voice of character sir clorex , as well as producer of the film along with marcelino almansa , kerry fulton and ralph kamp . in his new role as a producer , banderas is respected for supporting a new generation of spanish film directors , having already produced four successful films and plays a prominent role in kandor graphics ' ongoing success .
there was a reference to the safe and how it was opened . in the unlikeliest of possibilities , in the time it took the girl to bathe , he lucked out randomly spinning the dial to the safe combination .
from the poster and the quality of its voice - over stars , i was hoping this would be good family entertainment .
for a darker spin , it is both shown and implied that hiraclio ' s bitterness and resentment about knighthood being outlawed in gabylonia stems from this trope . with all of his self - worth tied up into the glory of being a knight , knights being outlawed came as a rude new status quo for him , causing him to lash out ( which ironically further justified the act of outlawing knights ) . in addition to revenge , hiraclio ' s goal of becoming king is primarily a bid to satisfy his ego and sense of self - worth that he felt he ' d lost .
split personality merge : the two decide to work together to call for help for justin and talia . the viewer is left to decide on whether blucher and gustav showing up was a coincidence or not .
with the design of backgrounds and characters kandor graphics started the library work , carrying out color studies and obtaining basic volumes or proxy’s for the animatics , when the film was viewed for the first time in stereo 3d using mistika . the perception of space at this stage allowed the team to define timings , framing and camera movements . “given the story’s complexity , number of characters and the different locations where it occurs , previsualisation became a key process in defining the film - making . ” confirms joaquín catala . a revision of the right and left cameras also took place for the first time in order to check the stereoscopic 3d . the animatics were then approved by the director following a review with everyone involved , which the team calls “the point of no return , ” then the production department registered the 43 final breakdown of sequences , shots and assets . with the final scenes , props , characters and cameras the layout process commenced . the scenes were optimized to speed - up the animation process and they prepared the shots where the action took place , ready to start the animation phase . with the animated sequence they carried out a second “no return” revision with the supervisors of subsequent departments . when the animation was concluded , the cloth and hair departments added dynamics and effects which brought authenticity to the characters’ acting . at this point , the cameras had to be checked once again in case the animated shot needed re - framing , for example .
a boy dreams of becoming a knight in defiance of his father ' s wishes , and runs away from home to realise his dream . a dashing knight and three wise monks tutor him in the ways of chivalry , and help him gain the skills he will need to defend the kingdom from an invading army . animated adventure , with the voices of freddie highmore , antonio banderas and saoirse ronan .
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parents need to know tha t justin and the knights of valor is a full - length animated film with some original songs . it takes place in medieval times with knights , ladies , wizards , and great villains , but in terms of jokes , characters , and some story elements , there is a modern sensibility ( such as the inclusion of a stereotypically effeminate villain with a love of fashion ; the young hero is torn between becoming a knight to save his kingdom or
going to law school
) . there’s lots of comedy and plenty of cartoon action , including swordplay , stabbings , and a threatening fire ; a villain falls to his death . a spanish production with prominent english - speaking actors , this theatrical film was released internationally in 2013 but is making its american debut as direct - to - dvd .