Interesting Asian Cinema News

The latest Ain’t It Cool News Asian-AICN includes several interesting articles including new details on 40 minutes of previously unseen original footage from Bruce Lee’s Game of Death that was recently discovered “in the back of the Golden Harvest archives covered in chicken crap and half exposed to the sunlight”; and an interesting competition in Japanese cinema. Apparently top producer Shinya Kawai has convinced Ryuhei Kitamura, director of Versus (2000), and Yukihiko Tutumi, director of the strange cop comedy Oboreru Sakana (2000) to both direct new short films to directly compete in box office and home video profit. The loser of the competition will have to shave his head, appear in the winning director’s next film as an extra, and work on the winning director’s next film as a lowly production assistant. Ryuhei Kitamura has already completed shooting his short film, “Aragami” – a samurai zombie movie.