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:
篠崎誠
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.
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.
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.