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SATO SHIMAKO (K-20): JAPANESE ACTION WOMAN DIRECTOR
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2009 8:07PM / News / Asian Cinema / Members only
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On April 27^th, just before the screening of “K-20: The Legend of the Mask”, a “masked action movie” starring Takeshi Kaneshiro (“Red Cliff”) and Toru Nakamura (“2009 Lost Memories”)...

...Sabrina Baracetti, the president of the Far East Film Festival, introduced the film director Sato Shimako (who came on stage with her producer Abe Shuji), as the Japanese Kathrynn Bigelow, since she’s the first woman director to make such a big budget action movie in Japan.

Sato Shimako and Sabrina Baracetti (April 28th, 2009)

Luckily, I was asked by the German distribution company of “K-20” to shoot some DVD extra materials for them in Udine, so the day after the screening, I attended the official press conference with the director and producer of the movie.

But it was a group interview (and 45 minutes only instead of the usual 2 hours) and since I was one of the few English speakers, they gave the priority to the Italian press, and I could ask only a couple of questions at the end.

Sato Shimako and Abe Shuji (April 28th, 2009)

Hopefully, I had the chance to discuss with Sato Shimako later on, and she accepted to have a solo interview with me in the afternoon. And I finally got 45 more minutes with her in English. Yeah!

Frédéric Ambroisine (April 29^th, 2009)

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JoeyTerracotta
posted on Sunday, May 3, 2009 6:29AM [Report]

salut fred. good to hear your news from the fest. so what happened, you didnt stay till the end? its like read the daily news of what i missed after i left! i saw ann hui on my way to the bus stop and said hi.
i really liked K20 but no one else does!!

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Born in Istres (France), Frederic Ambroisine studied mathematics, then filmmaking in Paris in his twenties...
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Born in Istres (France), Frederic Ambroisine studied mathematics, then filmmaking in Paris in his twenties. At the same time, he was also trained as a stuntman by the Figlarz Action crew (SCORPION, 36, BABYLON A.D., LARGO WINCH etc.). He started as a filmcritic in 2000 on the website DVDRAMA, which is now one of the most popular French daily e-magazines about movies and DVD. Since 2002, he also wrote in several French magazines specialized in Asian Cinema, including KUMITE, ASIA PULP, MAD ASIA and SCORE ASIA. At the end of 2003, Frederic started to work as a documentary director on the SHAW BROTHERS French DVD collection distributed by WILD SIDE FILMS. He interviewed hundreds of Hong Kong artists and did more than 60 short documentaries between 2004 and 2006 related to Shaw Brothers kung-fu classics, inlcluding THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN, THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, COME DRINK WITH ME, KILLER CLANS, KING BOXER, THE 8 DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER etc. He also directed a few dozens of short documentaries about recent Hong Kong movies including the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy, ONE NITE IN MONGKOK, P.T.U., DUMPLINGS, S.P.L., DOG BITE DOG... In 2006, he directed INSIDE HO YUK, his first 52-minute documentary (the other ones were 26 minutes or less). He’s now preparing his first musical documentary, ROCK 'N' ROLL GIRLS.
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