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NEWS: Late Novelist Project Itoh Gets Noitamina Film Project in 2015




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Stark700



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:21 am Reply with quote
Noitamina's really on a roll today! I'll look forward to this film soon. Shame it'll be a year wait and probably more for BD's.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:45 pm Reply with quote
Genocidal Organ's depressing as hell. Not sure if there is an audience for it outside of the book...
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:14 pm Reply with quote
Interesting that they're expanding to straight up film production. Then again it's going to be noitaminA's 10th Anniversary next year so why not?! Surprised

With the source material with this much prestige, it'll be interesting to see how this will turn out.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:37 pm Reply with quote
Probably a dumb question, but does the Harmony novel have anything to do with Harmonie, a short film directed by Yoshiura Yasuhiro for Anime Mirai 2014?

Very neat to see Noitamina branching off into film media.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:54 pm Reply with quote
This is the most unexpected, most exciting news I've seen here in quite a while. Project Itoh took the Japanese SF world by storm a few years back, only to leave us so suddenly just as his career was really taking off. He left behind three novels, a few short stories, and an unfinished work that EnJoe Toh (author of the surreal "Self-Reference Engine") completed posthumously. I've only read his short story "The Indifference Engine" so far, but that alone (also depressing as all get-out) was enough to see he was a powerful new voice.

A Japanese co-worker of mine (a high school literature teacher), just recently read "Genocidal Organ" and said he was really impressed.

Megiddo wrote:
does the Harmony novel have anything to do with Harmonie, a short film directed by Yoshiura Yasuhiro for Anime Mirai 2014?


I haven't seen/read either, but I strongly doubt it. The novel, if I've heard correctly, is a satirical work set in a totalitarian regime based around universal health care -- which the author was writing as he was dying of cancer. The English translation of Harmony won a special citation at the Philip K. Dick awards.

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Very neat to see Noitamina branching off into film media.


Amen!
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