Shôta Sometani

Tuesday, 09 November 2021

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Two 'Detective Chinatown' films get Japan release dates

China.dot.org 14 Aug 2021

Chinese tentpole blockbuster "Detective Chinatown 2" will be released in Japan on Nov ... Tokyo Mission" and "Detective Chinatown ... The film also stars several Japanese actors, such as Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masami Nagasawa, Shôta Sometani, Honami Suzuki, Tadanobu Asano, and Tomokazu Miura.  ... New York Mission." ... .

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First Love review – brilliantly bizarre, ultra-violent yakuza caper

The Observer 13 Feb 2020

Japan’s maestro of pulp Takashi Miike is approaching his 60th birthday (this August) and, far from slowing down, remains fanatically prolific ... One of the yakuzas, Kase (Shôta Sometani) is in league with a corrupt cop (Sansei Shiomi), planning to steal the gang’s drugs and blame it on Monica ... It’s bizarre and very unwholesome. But weirdly inspired ... .

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Film Shorts

Fort Worth Weekly 29 Jan 2020

Judy (R) Looking bleary, alcohol-soaked, and prematurely aged, Renée Zellweger does an uncannily precise imitation of Judy Garland in this biopic that takes in the singer as she plays five weeks in a London nightclub in the winter of 1968 ... Brown ... Also with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masami Nagasawa, Shôta Sometani, Tadanobu Asano, Zhang Zifeng, and Tony Jaa.

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'Detective Chinatown 3' assembles cast of Asian megastars

China.dot.org 16 Jan 2020

14, 2020. [Photo courtesy of Dark Horse Marketing] ... "Detective Chinatown 3," written and directed again by Chen Sicheng, stars Chinese actors Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang; Japanese actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masami Nagasawa, Shôta Sometani, Honami Suzuki, Tadanobu Asano, Tomokazu Miura as well as Thai kung fu star Tony Jaa.  ... 1, 2020 ... .

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Review: A boxer takes on the mob in Takashi Miike’s joyous thriller-romance ‘First Love’

The Bryan Eagle 27 Sep 2019

The madly prolific and often just plain mad Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has a knack for the deeply disturbing image ... The plot is set in motion when the conniving young Kase (Shôta Sometani), a junior yakuza who suggests that even organized crime has its upstart millennials, secretly ignites a turf war between his gang and rival Chinese triads.

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‘First Love’: Takashi Miike’s Wild, Decapitation-Heavy Orgy of Cinematic Pleasure

The Daily Beast 27 Sep 2019

The man chasing her is her date, police officer Otomo (Nao Omori), who’s teamed up with a scheming mid-level Yakuza henchman named Kase (Shôta Sometani) to steal and sell his crew’s drugs, and to then pin the heist on Monica and a rival Chinese gang run by one-armed bigwig Wang ...

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Virtually every film coming out this fall

The Bryan Eagle 02 Sep 2019

We’ve compiled a list of films set to premiere this fall, from Sept. 6 through Nov. 8. All dates subject to change. FRIDAY. “Becoming Nobody”. Documentary on the life and teachings of Ram Dass. Directed by Jamie Catto. Love Serve Remember Films / Google Empathy Lab. “Blink of an Eye” ... 1091 ... “Edie” ... Yakuza noir with Masataka Kubota, Shôta Sometani, Nao Ohmori.

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'First Love': Cannes Review

Screen Daily 17 May 2019

The plot is convoluted and the energy is ferocious as we discover that Yuri is a key figure in a plot to steal a large drug stash that involves everyone from a corrupt cop to treacherous gang member Kase (Shôta Sometani), implacable yakuza bosses and an assassin working for the Chinese triads ... Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Shôta Sometani.