The Longest Cop Festival
Nippon Digital ½
The Sparkling Oddities Of Makoto Shinozaki
Makoto SHINOZAKI is a well known film critic, curator and international renown director (OKAERI). At Nippon Connection he frequently presented the "Cop Festival" cinema series, which is organized by himself. Famous directors produce short B-movie juwels for this series. This year we present two of SHINOZAKIZ's own contributions to the bizarre series, and as a special attraction a top secret international premiere.
Guests:
Makoto SHINOZAKI
Thu., April 19, 2007, 18:00
Studierendenhaus
In presence of Makoto SHINOZAKI
Original with English subtitles
Makoto SHINOZAKI 篠崎誠
The Unforgettable Detectives (Director's Cut)
A terribile bloodbath – and an incompetent team of police detectives. A hilarious crime-comedy starring illustrous actors.
Japan 2002
25 minutes
Director
Makoto SHINOZAKI
Script
Makoto SHINOZAKI
Cast
Sansei SATOMI, Tomio AOKI, Kanji TSUDA
About Makoto SHINOZAKI
篠崎誠
Makoto SHINOZAKI was born in Tokyo in 1963 and studied at Rikkyo University, where he also started shooting 8mm films. After that, he worked as a film critic and journalist. In 1995 he gave his feature film debut with OKAERI, which won the Wolfgang Staudte Award at Berlinale. In 2003 he published a book on the history of horror film together with fellow director Kiyoshi KUROSAWA. He is also active as a producer and works as a professor of psychology at Rikkyo University.
Makoto SHINOZAKI 篠崎誠
The Cop With No Sixth Sense
A bumbling policeman, his ghost-seeing wife, and a shifty spezial agent all hunt for a brutal murderer. A wacky horror comedy.
Japan 2004
40 minutes
Director
Makoto SHINOZAKI
Script
Makoto SHINOZAKI
About Makoto SHINOZAKI
篠崎誠
Makoto SHINOZAKI was born in Tokyo in 1963 and studied at Rikkyo University, where he also started shooting 8mm films. After that, he worked as a film critic and journalist. In 1995 he gave his feature film debut with OKAERI, which won the Wolfgang Staudte Award at Berlinale. In 2003 he published a book on the history of horror film together with fellow director Kiyoshi KUROSAWA. He is also active as a producer and works as a professor of psychology at Rikkyo University.