Famous Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has signed on to write the new music for Palme d’Or-profitable director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s forthcoming element film Monster (Kaibutsu), Tokyo-based production organization Gaga Corporation disclosed Thursday.
Sakamoto will offer freshly composed compositions as nicely as some of his pre-existing music for the movie, producers say. A musical polymath, Sakamoto created his film debut with the legendary score for Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), starring David Bowie. He afterwards gained an Oscar with his tunes for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Very last Emperor (1987) and a Golden World nomination for his compositions for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015). The partnership with Kore-eda marks his to start with perform on a high-profile Japanese title in some time.
Monster is also Kore-eda’s to start with Japanese film because he received the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters. It follows the director’s French film The Fact, which opened the Venice Film Pageant in 2019, and his Korean title Broker, released before this yr.
Tale aspects for Monster are remaining kept below wraps, but Gaga disclosed Thursday that Sakura Ando, the breakout star of Shoplifters, will guide the new film’s cast. Rounding out the cast are Nagayama Eita (Hokusai), Mitsuki Takahata (Japanese Ladies Under no circumstances Die), Akihiro Kakuta (Spring Has Arrive), Shido Nakamura (Twisted Justice), Yuko Tanaka (Midnight Diner), and little one actors Soya Kurokawa and Hinata Hiiragi.
Presently in postproduction, Monster will launch in Japan on June 2. The release date sets the film up for a likely earth premiere in May possibly at Cannes, wherever Kore-eda is a frequent.
Monster will be the 2nd film directed by Kore-eda that he did not also create himself, following Maborosi, which premiered at the Venice Film Pageant way back again in 1995. The new movie is scripted by Yuji Sakamoto, the author of this sort of Japanese Television series hits Mom, Woman and Matrimonial Chaos. Prolific writer-director Genki Kawamura, whose directorial effort A Hundred Flowers recently received ideal director at the San Sebastián festival, is direct producer of Monster.
This write-up initially appeared in THR.com.
