F r o m I m a g I n e e n t e r t a I n m e n t a n d s e I n e p I c t u r e s

$59.8M
Another manga adaptation,  
this one a comedy about an 
ancient Roman transported to a 
Japanese hot spring bath. 
3 
Bayside 
Shakedown 4 — The Final 
$59.7M
Billed as the last in the
hugely successful series of cop 
caper big-screen spinoffs from 
Fuji TV’s drama.
4 
Mission: Impossible — 
Ghost Protocol
$53.8M
The lone imported movie in the 
top five, with the only  
Hollywood star who is still a 
major draw in Japan.
5 
Evangelion: 3.0  
You Can (Not) Redo
$53M
The third, and biggest-grossing, 
full-length animated  
feature from the Evangelion 
franchise spawned by the cult 
mid-90s anime series.
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KIDS POLICE  ＜コドモ警察＞
Directed by Yuichi Fukuda
Screening: Thu, May 16, 10am / Sat, May 18, 10am
Cast :
Fuku Suzuki, Ryo Katsuji, Yo Marius(Sexy Zone)
Release date :
March 20, 2013
Official Website :
http://kodomokeisatsu.com/
Running Time:
100 minutes
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler　＜中学生円山＞
Directed by Kankuro Kudo
Screening: Fri, May 17, 10am / Sun, May 19, 10am
Cast :
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi ("BEAUTIFUL WORLD"), Takuma Hiraoka
Release date :
May 18, 2013
Official Website :
http://maruyama-movie.jp/ 
Running Time:
119 minutes
Orpheus' Lyre  ＜桜、ふたたびの加奈子＞
Directed by Minoru Kurimura
Screening: Fri, May 17, 12:30 / Sun, May 19, 12:30
Cast :
Ryoko Hirosue ("Villon's Wife", "Departure"), Goro Inagaki 
Release date :
April 6, 2013 
Official Website :
http://sakura-kanako.jp/
Running Time:
106 minutes
Do You Know What My Name Is?   
Documentary
Directed by Naomi Kazama, Shigeru Ota
Screening: Fri, May 17, 3pm / Sun, May 19, 3pm
Official Website :
http://doyouknow.jp/
Running Time:
83 minutes
The God Of Ramen ＜ラーメンより大切なもの＞  
Documentary
Screening: Thu, May 16, 12:30 / Sat, May 18, 12:30
Cast :
Shosuke Tanihara (Narration)
Release date :
June 8, 2013
Official Website :
http://ramen-eiga.jp/
JUDAS  <ユダ＞
Directed by Izumi Ohtomi
Screening: Fri, May 17, 5:30pm / Sun, May 19, 5:30pm
Cast :
Ayame Misaki, Syo Aoyagi, Kenji Mizuhashi, Yusei Tajima, NorA
Release date :
January 26, 2013 
Official Website :
http://judas.jp/
Running Time:
109 minutes
A finest Special Investigation Detective team poisoned by Red Venus crime group, which make 8 veteran agents looks all kids.
PONY CANYON  2013 Spring Lineup
Legendary Kazuo Yamagishi is known as "The God of Ramen" in Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo. For more than 45 years, there was
always two-hour wait line to partake his Ramen noodle, but he says "There is more important thing than just Ramen."
A high school girl who hurt mentally found her place in a hostess bar. Broken with the past, she rises to the top rank of the hostess
in Kabukicho, NO.1 nightclub spot in Japan.
Staying 14 forever is better than being a brain-dead adult!
A forever fantasy of mid teen boys, totally visualized by wiz writer/director
Kankuro Kudo at suburb apartment district in nowhere Japan.
 ☆Udine Far East Film Festival
After losing her young daughter, Yoko (Ryoko Hirosue) believes there must be her daughter's
reincarnation nearby.
“For a year now, asking this question has been my daily task. The people that I ask though, are those who have three times the
life experience that I do.” Without medicines nor surgery, Kumon drill program countracts Alzheimer’s desease.
☆American Documentary Film Festival / Audience Favorite Award
☆Cleveland International Film Festival
Midsummer 's Equation  ＜真夏の方程式＞ 
a.k.a MIDSUMMER FORMULA
Footage Screening: Thu, May 16, 5:30pm
Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
/Sat, May 18, 5:30pm
Cast :
Masaharu Fukuyama
 ("
SUSPECT X
", "Amalfi"), Yuriko Yoshitaka
Release date :
June 29, 2013
Official Website :
http://galileo-movie.jp/
The After-Dinner Mysteries  ＜謎解きはディナーのあとで＞ 
a.k.a A CLUE IS AFTER DINNER
Footage Screening: Thu, May 16, 3pm
Directed by Masato Hijikata　
/Sat, May 18, 3pm
Cast :
 Sho Sakurai (ARASHI), Keiko Kitagawa, Kippei Shiina 
Release date :
 August 3, 2013 
Official Website :
KIYOSU KAIGI*　　＜清須会議＞
Directed by Koki Mitani
 ("Suite Dreams", "Magic Hour", "A Ghost of a Chance")
              Cast :
              Release date :        November, 2013
MOGURA NO UTA*   ＜土竜の唄＞　
Director Takashi Miike
Cast :
Toma Ikuta  
Release date :
2014
Official Website :
http://mogura-movie.com/
THERMAE ROMAE II*  ＜テルマエ・ロマエ パートII＞
Directed by Hideki Takeuchi　
Cast :
Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto
Release date :
Spring 2014
Official Website :
http://thermae-romae.jp/index.html
All Screenings are strictly private by reservation. Please contact to in advance.
A “Galileo” series turn to be another feature film to follow a great success of "SUSPECT X”(2008). 
A good looking highly intelligent physics professor solves a perfect crime!
A millionaire lady police officer has lack of clue of suspect while her butler serves a perfect dinner
and reasoning saying "where on the earth are your eyes, madam?"
Koji Yakusho, Yo Oizumi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Koichi Sato,
Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terashima, Denden, Kenichi Matsuyama
Yusuke Iseya, Kyoka Suzuki, Miki Nakatani, Ayame Goriki, Minosuke Bandou, Kenji Anan
Shinpei Ichikawa, Shota Sometani, Eisuke Sasai, Keiko Toda, Zen Kajiwara, Catherine Seto
Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuyuki Asano, Kankuro Nakamura, Yuki Amami, Toshiyuki Nishida
              After big boss Nobunaga was killed at Honnoji, all clans gathered to find who will
              be the next to lead the Sengoku(the age of civil wars) without blood fighting.
A sequel of 75 million dollars big hit comedy. A roman spa architect transform in time to today's
Japanese natural hot springs resort.
 
(”Thirteen Assassins“, “Hara-Kiri”, “Shield of Straw”)
Story moves every 5 minutes in unpredictable undercover comedy?!
An outageous, handsome, horny but righteous police officer under-covers Yakuza society!!
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
Promo Screenings everyday at 9:30am, Noon, 2:30pm, 5:00pm. (approx. 30 mins)
Running Time : 
90 minutes
International Sales by PONY CANYON INC. - Cannes Office & Private Screening Room: Riviera #F2
Shinji Sakoda | e-mail: [e-mail]
Global Mobile : [phone] | Tokyo Head Quarter : [phone]
http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/intl/
* Tentative Titles
http://www.nazotoki-movie.jp/
Directed by Takashi Innami
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KIDS POLICE  ＜コドモ警察＞
Directed by Yuichi Fukuda
Screening: Thu, May 16, 10am / Sat, May 18, 10am
Cast :
Fuku Suzuki, Ryo Katsuji, Yo Marius(Sexy Zone)
Release date :
March 20, 2013
Official Website :
http://kodomokeisatsu.com/
Running Time:
100 minutes
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler　＜中学生円山＞
Directed by Kankuro Kudo
Screening: Fri, May 17, 10am / Sun, May 19, 10am
Cast :
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi ("BEAUTIFUL WORLD"), Takuma Hiraoka
Release date :
May 18, 2013
Official Website :
http://maruyama-movie.jp/ 
Running Time:
119 minutes
Orpheus' Lyre  ＜桜、ふたたびの加奈子＞
Directed by Minoru Kurimura
Screening: Fri, May 17, 12:30 / Sun, May 19, 12:30
Cast :
Ryoko Hirosue ("Villon's Wife", "Departure"), Goro Inagaki 
Release date :
April 6, 2013 
Official Website :
http://sakura-kanako.jp/
Running Time:
106 minutes
Do You Know What My Name Is?   
Documentary
Directed by Naomi Kazama, Shigeru Ota
Screening: Fri, May 17, 3pm / Sun, May 19, 3pm
Official Website :
http://doyouknow.jp/
Running Time:
83 minutes
The God Of Ramen ＜ラーメンより大切なもの＞  
Documentary
Screening: Thu, May 16, 12:30 / Sat, May 18, 12:30
Cast :
Shosuke Tanihara (Narration)
Release date :
June 8, 2013
Official Website :
http://ramen-eiga.jp/
JUDAS  <ユダ＞
Directed by Izumi Ohtomi
Screening: Fri, May 17, 5:30pm / Sun, May 19, 5:30pm
Cast :
Ayame Misaki, Syo Aoyagi, Kenji Mizuhashi, Yusei Tajima, NorA
Release date :
January 26, 2013 
Official Website :
http://judas.jp/
Running Time:
109 minutes
A finest Special Investigation Detective team poisoned by Red Venus crime group, which make 8 veteran agents looks all kids.
PONY CANYON  2013 Spring Lineup
Legendary Kazuo Yamagishi is known as "The God of Ramen" in Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo. For more than 45 years, there was
always two-hour wait line to partake his Ramen noodle, but he says "There is more important thing than just Ramen."
A high school girl who hurt mentally found her place in a hostess bar. Broken with the past, she rises to the top rank of the hostess
in Kabukicho, NO.1 nightclub spot in Japan.
Staying 14 forever is better than being a brain-dead adult!
A forever fantasy of mid teen boys, totally visualized by wiz writer/director
Kankuro Kudo at suburb apartment district in nowhere Japan.
 ☆Udine Far East Film Festival
After losing her young daughter, Yoko (Ryoko Hirosue) believes there must be her daughter's
reincarnation nearby.
“For a year now, asking this question has been my daily task. The people that I ask though, are those who have three times the
life experience that I do.” Without medicines nor surgery, Kumon drill program countracts Alzheimer’s desease.
☆American Documentary Film Festival / Audience Favorite Award
☆Cleveland International Film Festival
Midsummer 's Equation  ＜真夏の方程式＞ 
a.k.a MIDSUMMER FORMULA
Footage Screening: Thu, May 16, 5:30pm
Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani
/Sat, May 18, 5:30pm
Cast :
Masaharu Fukuyama SUSPECT X
Release date :
June 29, 2013
Official Website :
http://galileo-movie.jp/
The After-Dinner Mysteries  ＜謎解きはディナーのあとで＞ 
a.k.a A CLUE IS AFTER DINNER
Footage Screening: Thu, May 16, 3pm
Directed by Masato Hijikata　
/Sat, May 18, 3pm
Cast :
 Sho Sakurai (ARASHI), Keiko Kitagawa, Kippei Shiina 
Release date :
 August 3, 2013 
Official Website :
KIYOSU KAIGI*　　＜清須会議＞
Directed by Koki Mitani
 ("Suite Dreams", "Magic Hour", "A Ghost of a Chance")
              Cast :
              Release date :        November, 2013
MOGURA NO UTA*   ＜土竜の唄＞　
Director Takashi Miike
Cast :
Toma Ikuta  
Release date :
2014
Official Website :
http://mogura-movie.com/
THERMAE ROMAE II*  ＜テルマエ・ロマエ パートII＞
Directed by Hideki Takeuchi　
Cast :
Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto
Release date :
Spring 2014
Official Website :
http://thermae-romae.jp/index.html
All Screenings are strictly private by reservation. Please contact to in advance.
A “Galileo” series turn to be another feature film to follow a great success of "SUSPECT X”(2008). 
A good looking highly intelligent physics professor solves a perfect crime!
A millionaire lady police officer has lack of clue of suspect while her butler serves a perfect dinner
and reasoning saying "where on the earth are your eyes, madam?"
Koji Yakusho, Yo Oizumi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Koichi Sato,
Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terashima, Denden, Kenichi Matsuyama
Yusuke Iseya, Kyoka Suzuki, Miki Nakatani, Ayame Goriki, Minosuke Bandou, Kenji Anan
Shinpei Ichikawa, Shota Sometani, Eisuke Sasai, Keiko Toda, Zen Kajiwara, Catherine Seto
Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuyuki Asano, Kankuro Nakamura, Yuki Amami, Toshiyuki Nishida
              After big boss Nobunaga was killed at Honnoji, all clans gathered to find who will
              be the next to lead the Sengoku(the age of civil wars) without blood fighting.
A sequel of 75 million dollars big hit comedy. A roman spa architect transform in time to today's
Japanese natural hot springs resort.
 
(”Thirteen Assassins“, “Hara-Kiri”, “Shield of Straw”)
Story moves every 5 minutes in unpredictable undercover comedy?!
An outageous, handsome, horny but righteous police officer under-covers Yakuza society!!
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
Promo Screenings everyday at 9:30am, Noon, 2:30pm, 5:00pm. (approx. 30 mins)
Running Time : 
90 minutes
International Sales by PONY CANYON INC. - Cannes Office & Private Screening Room: Riviera #F2
Shinji Sakoda | e-mail: [e-mail]
Global Mobile : [phone] | Tokyo Head Quarter : [phone]
http://www.ponycanyon.co.jp/intl/
* Tentative Titles
http://www.nazotoki-movie.jp/
Directed by Takashi Innami
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JAPAN
 
SPECIAL FEATURE
lion at the Japanese box offi  ce in 
April, dwarfi ng the $9.4 million and 
$8.5 million that the Hollywood live-
action Dragonball Evolution earned 
in the U.S. and Japan, respectively, 
in 2009. The critical and com-
mercial troubles of the U.S. version, 
produced and distributed by 20th 
Century Fox, have become a byword 
in the Japanese industry for what 
can go wrong in Hollywood. “Manga 
artists talk about the ‘Dragon Ball 
problem’ and say they don’t want 
their stories ending up like that,” 
says one manga industry insider.  
Since 1978’s Superman, Holly-
wood has honed its fi lm adaptations 
of American comics to the point 
where they earn billions (Iron Man 3, 
anyone?). Adapting stories from 
something as culturally diff erent as 
on manga, with a domestic take just 
shy of half a billion dollars. 
Given the steady stream of adapta-
tions at home and in Asia, the multi-
billion manga industry isn’t ready to 
bend over backward for Hollywood. 
“One reason our properties have 
been adapted in Europe or Asia but 
not in Hollywood is that U.S. studios 
want to buy the rights rather than 
license them,” says Takase. Artists 
and publishers are reluctant to sell 
the rights to their creations because, 
says Takase, they “would lose various 
license opportunities based on the 
manga, such as TV drama, TV anima-
tion and theatrical feature.”
Given the smaller and dwindling 
market of Americans who grew 
up on manga, Hollywood has also 
halved the value of its off ers in the 
past decade, says Takase, who 
recalls a time when “$1 million for a 
top property wasn’t unusual.” 
Creative control also is an issue. 
Unlike the situation for comics in the 
U.S., the rights to manga remain with 
the artists, “and publishers like us 
are more like agents,” says Susumu 
Hieda, a producer at Shueisha, 
responsible for many of the biggest-
selling titles in recent years.  
Adaptations in Japan usually are 
faithful to the original material, and 
creators are consulted throughout 
on storyline and character design. 
Audiences respond to a sense of 
faithfulness to the source manga: The 
promotion for Dragon Ball Z in Japan 
puts the name of the original creator, 
Akira Toriyama, front and center. 
“In the U.S., when studios license 
something, unless it’s considered a 
sacred text like Harry Potter, people 
feel they have the right to basically 
change almost anything,” says Jason 
Hoff s, producer at Viz Productions, 
an L.A.-based venture created by 
Shueisha and Shogakukan to facili-
tate sales of properties to Hollywood. 
Adds Hisashi Sasaki, deputy 
director of the boys’ manga group 
at Shueisha, “We want to work on 
adaptations with people who have 
a real interest in manga and will 
respect the original artist.”
WHY CAN’T HOLLYWOOD
ADAPT JAPANESE COMICS?
Manga off ers a treasure trove of source material, but obstacles ranging from cultural 
diff erences to disputes about rights and option fees remain 
by Gavin J. Blair
Three
Manga Titles 
Ripe for
the Hollywood 
Treatment
As the number of American comics 
that haven’t yet been adapted for the 
big screen dwindles, Hollywood stu-
dios looking for the next big block-
buster franchise might have to cast 
their net wider. Japanese manga is a 
phenomenally rich and varied well of 
creative potential. But Hollywood’s 
manga adaptation record is less than 
stellar: no box-offi  ce hits, and many 
projects stuck in the production 
pipeline. The diff ering fortunes of the 
U.S. and Japanese adaptations of 
Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga 
illustrate the point. 
The new animated Dragon Ball Z 
— Story of the Gods took in $28 mil-
Dragon Ball Z — Story of the Gods has taken in three times as much 
in Japan as American adaptations of the manga.
Japanese manga, of course, is far 
more challenging. 
One problem is that manga pub-
lishers like Shuiesha and Shogakukan 
loom larger in Japanese culture than 
comics publishers like Marvel/DC 
do in the U.S. Japanese print manga 
sell about $4 billion annually — not 
counting hundreds of millions in 
electronic editions, spinoff  products, 
licensing revenue or overseas sales. 
Manga are not seen as childish — 
salarymen read them on trains, and 
they’re available on every corner. 
The U.S. market for manga peaked 
in 2006 at about $200 million, says 
Milton Griepp, president of trade 
publication ICv2. “It was about $100 
million last year, well over 10 percent 
of the U.S. comics market,” Griepp 
says, adding that the U.S. market 
was more driven by teenage girls, 
whose interest waned when Cartoon 
Network replaced manga shows with 
original programming, mall outlets 
dried up, and Twilight blew up. 
In Japan, manga has been an even 
more important source of stories 
for movies, anime and TV dramas 
than U.S. comics have been for 
Hollywood. From manga sprang the 
three Sunset on Third Street fi lms, 
which grossed about $135 million in 
Japan, and Takashi Miike’s gruesome 
tale of a disturbed hit man Ichi the 
Killer, banned in at least three coun-
tries. Fifteen of the 25 top-grossing 
Japanese fi lms of 2012 were based 
7 SEEDS
Yumi Tamura’s award-winning 7 Seeds, 
about fi ve groups of young people who 
awaken from cryogenic preservation to a 
postapocalyptic future world, never has 
been brought to the screen, though it has 
been adapted for radio. “There are manga 
that would be diffi  cult to make into mov-
ies in Japan because of their scale, and 
we’d like to see them produced in Holly-
wood,” says Ichiro Takase of the inter-
national licensing division at publisher 
Shogakukan. “7 Seeds is one of those.”
HETALIA:
AXIS
POWERS
The protagonists of the Hetalia manga are 
irreverently caricatured personifi cations 
of the three Axis powers of World War 
II: Germany, Italy and Japan. Characters 
representing the Allied powers also 
make appearances to poke fun at their 
respective national stereotypes. Hidekazu 
Himaruya’s quirky creation already has 
spawned a hit anime series and a full-
length animated feature, but a live-action 
version never has been attempted. 
DORAEMON
In March, Doraemon overtook Godzilla as 
the biggest fi lm series in Japan, clocking 
more than 100 million admissions for the 
animated adventures of the blue “cat-
type robot” from the future. Since 1980, 
34 Doraemon fi lms have been released  
based on more than 1,300 manga stories 
penned by Fujiko Fujio between 1969 and 
1996. While the manga, movies and TV 
anime series all are hugely popular across 
Asia, Doraemon never has had offi  cial 
English-language versions. 
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Nick Meyer was 
photographed by 
Peter Bohler on  
May 3 in his  
Beverly Hills office.  
G
ROWING UP IN SCARSDALE, N.Y.,  
Nick Meyer was half film geek, half hard-
driven jock. He’s still fiercely competitive, 
which might explain why he’s in such a 
good mood these days. Sierra/Affinity, the L.A.-
based venture he runs with Marc Schaberg, has 
emerged as one of the top financing, produc-
tion and international sales outfits in only a few 
years. Sierra has formidable investors in Gigi 
Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment (Pritzker’s 
family owns Hyatt hotels), Michel Litvak’s Bold 
Films and Incentive Filmed Entertainment and 
is the exclusive international sales agent for all 
three, plus Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. This 
gives the company a direct pipeline to plum 
projects like critical darling Drive and current 
indie hit The Place Beyond the Pines, both of 
which did substantial business overseas. Sierra 
co-sells some projects with Lakeshore and han-
dles numerous third-party titles. At this year’s 
Cannes Film Market, Meyer’s team will be pitch-
ing foreign distributors on high-profile projects 
including Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllen-
haal. On the eve of Cannes, Meyer, 44, who lives 
in Los Angeles with his wife and three children, 
sat down with THR to talk about what’s ahead 
for Sierra — think Ender’s Game, the adaptation 
of the Orson Scott Card novel starring Asa But-
terfield and Harrison Ford — and why he likes 
working outside of the studio system.