Bandage
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Also Known As:
バンテイジ (Japanese Title)
Bandeiji (Romanized)
Year: 2009
Country: Japan
Director: Takeshi Kobayashi
Writer: Shunji Iwai (Screenplay), Chika Kan (Novel)
Genre: Drama, Music
Runtime: 119 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (Thanks to NewsHFan)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482459/
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cast:
Jin Akanishi - Natsu Takasugi
Kie Kitano - Asako Suzuki
Kengo Kora - Yukiya
Yuki Shibamoto - Arumi Suzuhata
Hideyuki Kasahara - Kenji Yamane
Nobuaki Kaneko - Ryuji
Anne Watanabe - Miharu
Ayumi Ito - Nobuko Yukari
Kazuo Zaitsu
Yoshiyuki Ishizuka
Mayu Kitaki
Yoshimasa Kondo as Kokubo
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Yuki Saito
Sogen Tanaka
Kazuma Suzuki
Toru Kizu
Synopsis/ Plot:
Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands.
Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya.
When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band's members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band's practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager.
LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
Notes:
1. LANDS (Jin Akanishi and Takeshi Kobayashi) have ranked in #1 in the Oricon ranking with the album OLYMPOS (released on January 13). This is LANDS 2nd consecutive #1 after the first single called BANDAGE, which was released in November 25 last year. The only other time in history that an album released in the name of a movie character was placed in 1st place, topping the Oricon charts was in October of 1996, when the band YENTOWN in Shunji Iwai's directed film Swallowtail Butterfly released an album called MONTAGE.
2. LANDS had their first and last concert on January 19th, called "LANDS LAST LIVE".
3. Movie distributor Toho revealed that on November 26th that Bandage sold a whopping 70,000 advanced tickets on its first day of availability - setting a live action film record. In comparison, "Gokusen: The Movie" sold 25,000 advanced tickets on its first day of availability and "20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End" sold 2,500 advance tickets.
4. The pre-screening of the movie was on November 2nd, 2009 at the Tokyo International Forum
5.BANDAGE currently leads the nomination for Best Movie at the 2010 (23rd) Nikkan Sports Film Awards by an overwhelming margin, taking more than 60% of the votes.
6.On Czech Republic, it got a PG-14 rating.
File/Video Technical Info
VIDEO
File Type: AVI
Video Codec: DivX
Video Format: 720x480
Video Bitrate: 1222 kbps
Video Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
File Source: DVD Jap
AUDIO
Audio Codec: MP3 CBR
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
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REFERENCES
Official Site:
Wiki: http://asianmediawiki.com/Bandage
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Also Known As:
バンテイジ (Japanese Title)
Bandeiji (Romanized)
Year: 2009
Country: Japan
Director: Takeshi Kobayashi
Writer: Shunji Iwai (Screenplay), Chika Kan (Novel)
Genre: Drama, Music
Runtime: 119 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (Thanks to NewsHFan)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482459/
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cast:
Jin Akanishi - Natsu Takasugi
Kie Kitano - Asako Suzuki
Kengo Kora - Yukiya
Yuki Shibamoto - Arumi Suzuhata
Hideyuki Kasahara - Kenji Yamane
Nobuaki Kaneko - Ryuji
Anne Watanabe - Miharu
Ayumi Ito - Nobuko Yukari
Kazuo Zaitsu
Yoshiyuki Ishizuka
Mayu Kitaki
Yoshimasa Kondo as Kokubo
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Yuki Saito
Sogen Tanaka
Kazuma Suzuki
Toru Kizu
Synopsis/ Plot:
Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands.
Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya.
When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band's members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band's practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager.
LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
Notes:
1. LANDS (Jin Akanishi and Takeshi Kobayashi) have ranked in #1 in the Oricon ranking with the album OLYMPOS (released on January 13). This is LANDS 2nd consecutive #1 after the first single called BANDAGE, which was released in November 25 last year. The only other time in history that an album released in the name of a movie character was placed in 1st place, topping the Oricon charts was in October of 1996, when the band YENTOWN in Shunji Iwai's directed film Swallowtail Butterfly released an album called MONTAGE.
2. LANDS had their first and last concert on January 19th, called "LANDS LAST LIVE".
3. Movie distributor Toho revealed that on November 26th that Bandage sold a whopping 70,000 advanced tickets on its first day of availability - setting a live action film record. In comparison, "Gokusen: The Movie" sold 25,000 advanced tickets on its first day of availability and "20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End" sold 2,500 advance tickets.
4. The pre-screening of the movie was on November 2nd, 2009 at the Tokyo International Forum
5.BANDAGE currently leads the nomination for Best Movie at the 2010 (23rd) Nikkan Sports Film Awards by an overwhelming margin, taking more than 60% of the votes.
6.On Czech Republic, it got a PG-14 rating.
File/Video Technical Info
VIDEO
File Type: AVI
Video Codec: DivX
Video Format: 720x480
Video Bitrate: 1222 kbps
Video Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
File Source: DVD Jap
AUDIO
Audio Codec: MP3 CBR
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
ALTERNATE POSTERS
SCREENSHOTS
MOVIE TRAILER
REFERENCES
Official Site:
Wiki: http://asianmediawiki.com/Bandage