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Kiyoshi the director

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About Me

As I am half Asian-American myself, I would like to do my best to represent Asians in American cinema because there is minor support in that area in film. Somebody's gotta do it so it might as well be me. If at all possible, I would like to make films in both Asian languages(any) and English. I also hope to be innovative and original but first and foremost, I would like all of my films will be fun and enjoyable!

New Projects (Coming Soon):
NOTHING AT THE MOMENT
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CHECK OUT MY SHORT FILMS BELOW!

MY THIRD SHORT FILM! PLEASE ENJOY!
THE PRICE OF (NEAR) FAME The Price of (Near) Fame

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MY SECOND SHORT FILM! PLEASE ENJOY!
CONFESSIONS OF A JAPANESE ACTRESS

MY FIRST (decent) SHORT FILM! ENJOY!
PERIOD .

My Interests

Films and the process of filmmaking.

My main focus's:
• Directing
• Writing
• Editing

I'd like to meet:

Existing and future fellow filmmakers or anyone else in the business of and/or with an interest in film!

Music:

Film scores.

Favorite composers:
• Danny Elfman
• John Williams
• Masamichi Amano
• Joe Hisaishi
• Michael Giacchino

Movies:


My favs. In no particular order:
GhOstbusters
Star Wars (all of them)
Back to the Future trilogy
Austin Powers trilogy
Wayne's World 1&2
the Goonies
Dick Tracy
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
As Good as it Gets
Kill Bill (I consider it one whole movie)
Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day
Howl's Moving Castle
Gosford Park
Shaun of the dead
Hot Fuzz
The Full Monty
Keeping Mum
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Stranger Than Fiction
Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls - US Title)
Kiraware Matsuko no isshou (Memories of Matsuko - English title)
Dai Nipponjin
The Host
Memories of Murder
Little Miss Sunshine
Various Hong Kong Action Flicks
All of Satoshi Kon's works which include:
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika
All of Brad Bird's films which are:
The Iron Giant
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Park Chan Wook's films:
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Oldboy
Lady Vengeance
Cut
Alexander Payne's films:
Election
About Schmidt
Sideways
I LOVE anything directed by Tim Burton .
I might as well list them:
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Beetlejuice
Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Batman Returns
Nightmare Before Christmas(Producer)
Ed Wood
Mars Attacks
Sleepy Hollow
Big Fish
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Corpse Bride
Sweeney Todd
You'll notice that i didn't include Planet of the Apes! It was his worst movie! Although I do like it on some level but I'm not sure what level that is!
Movies by Jean-Pierre Jeunet:
Delicatessen
the City of Lost Children
Amelie
A Very Long Engagement
Guillermo Del Toro:
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
All Christopher Guest movies are great:
Waiting for Guffman
Best in show
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration

Heroes:

• Tim Burton
• Park Chan-Wook
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Alexander Payne
• Guillermo Del Toro
• Brad Bird
• Christopher Guest
• Satoshi Kon
• Miike Takashi
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Jackie Chan
• Sammo Hung
• Danny Elfman

My Blog

Sweeney Todd, a young japanese girl breakdancing and my new short.

On the Sweeney Todd front, it was one reviewers favorite Tim Burton film, some guy from the L.A. times thinks it's the best film of 2007 and the Hollywood Reporter seems to love it so I have high hope...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:05:00 PST

JET LI and JACKIE CHAN IN - THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM!

I was a little skeptical at first being that this flick was directed by the same guy who brought us a couple of Roger Rabbit shorts, the Lion King, Stuart Little and the Haunted Mansion but I gotta sa...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:52:00 PST

BURTON/DEPPS SWEENEY TODD TRAILER & MY NEW SHORT FILM

The first and second trailers for Johnny Depp's and Tim Burton's SWEENEY TODD. It's a musical for those of you who don't know. And no, none of it is scored by Danny Elfman. =( It's based on a pre-exis...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:53:00 PST

MY NEW SHORT FILM!

Everyone check out my new short film!CONFESSIONS OF A JAPANESE ACTRESSCast Natsumi: Kie IkutaArrogant Actor: Masafumi MatsumotoCreepy Crew: Hayato Takeda Kensaku Takagi ...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:57:00 PST

2 more friggin’ years till......

Crap! I'm 28 today. 2 more years until the big THREE UH OH(30)! They say that for men, life begins at 30. I certainly hope they're right because if they're not I'm going to kick their asses, whoever "...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

Writing and worrying!

Writing is hard, but man is it fun. The prospect of writing down a huge story that you have complete control over is very, very exciting. You control people's lives albeit fictional people, but people...
Posted by Kiyoshi the director on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:52:00 PST