A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom that his brilliance––expertly plotted, ...

The 4K restoration of the 1993 classic won the top prize at the Venice Classics this year. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights ...

From the late ’50s and into the 1970s the Japanese New Wave exhibited an incredible creative outburst that defined and shaped what we consider contemporary Japanese cinema. But most studious critics ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to The Friends (1994) and Love Hotel (1985), two films by revered Japanese filmmaker Shinji Somai. Love Hotel will open on ...

Shinji Somai’s SAILOR SUIT AND THE MACHINE GUN (1981) will be available on Blu-ray November 19th from Arrow Video A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, a one-of-a-kind ...

U.S.-based distributor Cinema Guild has acquired North American rights to the newly-restored 4K version of Somai Shinji’s 1993 classic “Moving” from French sales agent MK2 Films. The Japanese ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting November 17th, 2021 - Buy Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun DVD ...

Cinema Guild has acquired the North American distribution rights for the new 4K restoration of Shinji Somai’s 1993 film Moving from MK2 Films. The New York-based distributor of world cinema plans to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deals were negotiated by Peter Kelly and Edward McCarry of Cinema Guild with MK2 and the Nikkatsu Corporation. These ...

The deals were negotiated by Peter Kelly and Edward McCarry of Cinema Guild with MK2 and the Nikkatsu Corporation. These acquisitions are the latest part of Cinema Guild’s multi-year project to ...