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#78. Takashi Miike's Straw Shield Gist: Based on a novel by Kiuchi Kazuhiro, Straw Shield will follow Fujiwara, a ‘child killer,’ who’s been captured and...

Dubbed as one of Takashi Miike’s best pic in years, Magnet Releasing have made the type of pick-up that demonstrates that it's perhaps the healthiest genre label in the U.S. market (theatrical, fantasy festivals, VOD) on the fantasy genre type film front. Magnet is setting the Venice and TIFF preemed Miike’s 13 Assassins for a first quarter of 2011 release and are placing it as the Closing Night film at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin.

You can call this year's Masters section the "re-showing of old filmmaker favorites from Cannes". Plenty of the names selected here Godard, Lee Chang-dong, Ken Loach, Manoel de Oliveira and Palme D'or winning Apichatpong Weerasethakul were expected to show up, added to the Cannes titles we have a trio from Venice in: Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins, Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing and Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty. The one world premiere is from Amos Gitai (Roses à Crédit).

Takashi Miike’s first English language film is his homage to the spaghetti western genre but includes samurai swords and guest appearance from master of the homages Quentin Tarantino. One of the more interesting titles in the Midnight Madness section at TIFF, you can bet that Sukiyaki Western Django will make waves on the world film circuit. We've got the trailer below.

The cell phone rings, you don’t recognize the number, but you do know the voice; it’s your own, and you are being murdered. That’s the premise behind French filmmaker Eric Valette’s remake of Takashi Miike’s 2003 Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)”.