RENOIR now officially listed on the Cannes ticket website. What a journey…

Back in Paris. Sacré-Cœur - uncrowded rear view

Extremely honored and pleased to announce that our production of Chie Hayakawa's RENOIR will have its world premiere in the Competition section of the 2025 Festival de Cannes! #Cannes2025

Shochiku lobby

Masahiro Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films www.bfi.org.uk/features/mas...

Good test screening at Tokyo Cine Center in Shimbashi. They’ve kept their facility and equipment well up to date over the years.

First day back in Tokyo - snow in mid-March!

Asia pre-sales for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR at HK Filmart (Goodfellas handling rest of the world). www.screendaily.com/features/fil...

Rare multihyphenate? Producer-Subtitler.

Heroes of 3.11 3.11のヒーローたち #Tohoku #quake #東北 #石巻 #女川 #南三陸

Announcing Loaded Films' latest production – RENOIR – written & directed by Chie Hayakawa (PLAN 75). Set in the late 80s, RENOIR stars newcomer Yui Suzuki, Hikari Ishida, Lily Franky, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, and Ryota Bando. Released 6/20 nationwide! happinet-phantom.com/renoir/ (J)

Feb 15 was the world premiere of Ido Fluk’s KÖLN 75 at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Our recently established company Kinofaction invested a modest amount in the film. Co-founders Eiko Mizuno-Gray & Masahide Kinoshita are credited as Assoc. Producers www.berlinale.de/en/2025/prog...

Huge billboard for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR outside of our international sales agent Goodfellas’ “house” at the European Film Market, Berlin.

One of Paris’ many beautiful cinemas.

“Japan corner” at the legendary Studio Ferber in Paris. Working on the soundtrack for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR Apparently Serge Gainsbourg and a lot of famed musicians have recorded here.

Japanese BLOW-UP poster at a Paris café/restaurant I like called Transistor, on Rue du Faubourg St. Denis. #Paris

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in the 10th Arrondissement. The afternoon sun always hits it perfectly. #Paris

In Paris for post-production on Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR 🇫🇷 🎞️ 🇯🇵

I’m shocked and saddened by the violent, apparently random attack at JR Nagano station yesterday evening. My wife is from Nagano City and I consider it my 2nd home in Japan. I always arrive to such a peaceful, pleasant vibe. The attacker is still at large. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01...

Back in the saddle… #MuayThai

Unrealized housing project in the ‘hood that has stood abandoned for years. Nature has taken over. #東京 #練馬

In 2018 we shot inside and on the rooftop of the brutalist Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent, among many other locations in across the city and country, for our production of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 「旅のおわり世界のはじまり」. #Uzbekistan edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/s...

Our production of PLAN 75 director Chie Hayakawa's upcoming film RENOIR made @Screendaily's list of "75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025". www.screendaily.com/features/75-...

Some kaiju-themed sake for oshogatsu? #お正月

Sunday zoom meeting done. Last sunset at the Loaded Films/Kinofaction offices for this year. #東京 #渋谷区

When buildings are torn down in Tokyo you get views you’ve never seen before — temporarily. And then the view gets even worse. Yoyogi ekimae. #東京 #代々木

First official senden (PR) meeting for the film’s release next year.

Dusk over Nerima, Christmas Eve… #東京 #練馬

Some salarymen use Shinjuku Chuo park as a temporary office. Good choice. #東京 #新宿

When you crave ramen, nothing else will suffice… #ラーメン #東京 #練馬

Orange moon over Yokohama. #横浜

ADR session today for our latest production — Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR.

Poster for Gosha Hideo’s VIOLENT STREETS 「暴力街」 in the vintage book shops of Jimbocho.

View of Shinjuku from Nerima City Office. #東京 #新宿

RIP singer and actress Nakayama Miho (54) #中山美穂

I love November and December in #Tokyo as it’s usually very crisp and sunny, with fall colors popping.

Cruising through my ‘hood… #東京 #練馬 #Tokyo

Friedkin’s CRUISING on re-release at Cinemart Shinjuku (who also screened the SORCERER remaster back in 2018).

Enjoying Netflix series RIPLEY but feel it was a lost opportunity not to switch from the inky monochrome of the NYC scenes to color when he reaches Italy…

Autumn colors in Tokyo. #紅葉 #光が丘

What helped immensely to get away from the (literal) horrorshow of #Twitter #X was simply burying the app icon in the recesses of a folder on my mobile. I went from near constant checking throughout the day to almost 0 in one day.

Annual J-E screenplay translation work. Story of a post-WWII zaibatsu dynasty. #translation

Filming in The Philippines done and now back in Japan. Pictured: Tali Beach, Batangas.

Upcoming Kinofaction project THE RETURNING, directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi (OH LUCY!) won two prizes at QCinema’s QPM project market yesterday. Pictured: producer Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Atsuko Hirayanagi, CMB Film Services rep, producer Wilfredo Manalang (Fusee).

Greetings from Tokyo. Looking to discuss the art & business of cinema. (Photo: evening view from the Loaded Films / Kinofaction offices).