TIFFCOM: Gaga ‘We Make Antiques!’ and ‘#Manhole’

Japanese indie studio Gaga is activating worldwide gross sales on a handful of movies in post-production, with the “We Make Antiques! Osaka Desires” and “#Manhole” the headline titles.

“Antiques” is a comedy about get wealthy fast schemes, artwork forgeries and the world of antiques. It’s directed by Take Masaharu, the hitmaker with credit that embody “100 Yen Love,” “The Gun” and “The Bare Director.” Starring Nakai Kiichi, Sasaki Kuranosuke and Yasuda Shota the movie is about to succeed in Japanese cinemas on Jan. 6, 2023, anticipated to be a busy time for theaters.

The corporate can be in submit on “#Manhole,” a suspense thriller that it launched throughout the Cannes market in Might with none solid particulars.

Directed by Kumakiri Kazuyoshi and scripted by Okada Michitaka, the movie depicts a promising younger man, with every thing going for him, who falls to the underside of a deep manhole on the eve of his marriage ceremony. Trapped and imagining all form of horrors, the potential bridegroom makes use of his smartphone to succeed in out to associates, the police and social media. However his predicament turns into worse. And it’s removed from positive that he makes it to the altar on time.

Gaga now confirms that rising star Nakajima Yuto is the male lead and that the movie is focusing on a February 2023 launch in theaters.

Within the case of each movies, Gaga says that remake rights can be found.

The corporate can be selling “Break of Daybreak,” an animation title that beforehand performed on the Sitges pageant and launched on Friday in Japanese theaters. Based mostly on a manga “Bokura no Yoake” by Imai Tetsuya, the movie is directed by Kurokawa Tomoyuki and contains a child who befriends an extra-terrestrial who inhabits the physique of an AI robotic.

Gaga was busy on the current Busan movie market the place it gave market screenings to 4 accomplished titles. They included “Akai” a documentary a couple of TV presenter who was beforehand a boxer; biographical drama “A Mom’s Contact,” which releases in Japan subsequent week; dementia drama “A Hundred Flowers”; and the Abe Hiroshi-starring “Offbeat Cops,” which not too long ago performed on the New York Asian Movie Competition.