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Princess Raccoon

Operetta tanuki goten

Japan

2005

111 Min
Color
Japanese
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Seijun Suzuki

PROD Satoru Ogura

SCR Yoshio Urasawa

DP Yonezo Maeda

CAST Zhang Ziyi, Jô Odagiri, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mikijiro Hira

ED Noboyuki Ito

MUSIC Michiru Oshima

Cannes (Out of Competition)

Synopsis

Amechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn’t mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale. —IMDb

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Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順, Suzuki Seijun?), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎 Suzuki Seitarō) on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal but was blacklisted for 10 years. As an independent filmmaker he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991).

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Princess Raccoon Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
If things work out as appears likely and octogenarian director Seijun Suzuki’s failing health means that Princess Raccoon is his final work then give this to the man: he is going out on top of his game
read on Twitchfilm.com

Princess Raccoon Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
If things work out as appears likely and octogenarian director Seijun Suzuki’s failing health means that Princess Raccoon is his final work then give this to the man: he is going out on top of his game
read on Twitchfilm.net

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