Jason Gray

RENOIR now officially listed on the Cannes ticket website. What a journey…

Back in Paris.
Sacré-Cœur - uncrowded rear view

Extremely honored and pleased to announce that our production of Chie Hayakawa's RENOIR will have its world premiere in the Competition section of the 2025 Festival de Cannes! #Cannes2025

Thanks a lot, Matteo!

Shochiku lobby

Masahiro Shinoda obituary: Japanese New Wave director behind Pale Flower and the original Silence Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films.

Masahiro Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films

www.bfi.org.uk/features/mas...

Good test screening at Tokyo Cine Center in Shimbashi. They’ve kept their facility and equipment well up to date over the years.

First day back in Tokyo - snow in mid-March!

Filmart 2025: the buzz titles from Japan A murder mystery starring Ken Watanabe, the latest from Plan 75 director Chie Hayakawa and a true story from Takashi Miike are showcased by Japanese sellers at Filmart.

Asia pre-sales for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR at HK Filmart (Goodfellas handling rest of the world).

www.screendaily.com/features/fil...

Rare multihyphenate?
Producer-Subtitler.

Heroes of 3.11
3.11のヒーローたち

#Tohoku #quake #東北 #石巻 #女川 #南三陸

映画『ルノワール』公式サイト｜6/20（金）全国公開 第75回カンヌ国際映画祭 カメラドール特別賞受賞＆アカデミー賞日本代表選出『PLAN 75』監督・脚本：早川千絵 世界待望の最新作

Announcing Loaded Films' latest production – RENOIR – written & directed by Chie Hayakawa (PLAN 75). Set in the late 80s, RENOIR stars newcomer Yui Suzuki, Hikari Ishida, Lily Franky, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, and Ryota Bando. Released 6/20 nationwide!

happinet-phantom.com/renoir/ (J)

Feb 15 was the world premiere of Ido Fluk’s KÖLN 75 at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

Our recently established company Kinofaction invested a modest amount in the film. Co-founders Eiko Mizuno-Gray & Masahide Kinoshita are credited as Assoc. Producers

www.berlinale.de/en/2025/prog...

Huge billboard for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR outside of our international sales agent Goodfellas’ “house” at the European Film Market, Berlin.

One of Paris’ many beautiful cinemas.

“Japan corner” at the legendary Studio Ferber in Paris. Working on the soundtrack for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR
Apparently Serge Gainsbourg and a lot of famed musicians have recorded here.

Japanese BLOW-UP poster at a Paris café/restaurant I like called Transistor, on Rue du Faubourg St. Denis.
#Paris

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in the 10th Arrondissement.
The afternoon sun always hits it perfectly.
#Paris

In Paris for post-production on Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR 🇫🇷 🎞️ 🇯🇵

Search for suspect underway after fatal stabbing at Nagano Station One person died in the attack, which happened around 8 p.m., while two others sustained injuries.

I’m shocked and saddened by the violent, apparently random attack at JR Nagano station yesterday evening.
My wife is from Nagano City and I consider it my 2nd home in Japan. I always arrive to such a peaceful, pleasant vibe.
The attacker is still at large.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01...

Back in the saddle…
#MuayThai

Unrealized housing project in the ‘hood that has stood abandoned for years. Nature has taken over.
#東京 #練馬

And I’m glad we got to venture inside the Soviet-era Uzbekkino building and explore the archives before it was torn down not long after 😢

Is Uzbekistan the next great architectural destination? | CNN The former Soviet republic is teeming with brutalist, orientalist, modernist, futurist and neoclassical buildings — and has ambitious plans for new architectural landmarks.

In 2018 we shot inside and on the rooftop of the brutalist Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent, among many other locations in across the city and country, for our production of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 「旅のおわり世界のはじまり」.
#Uzbekistan
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/s...

75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025 Expect films from Chloe Zhao, Carla Simon, Julia Ducournau, Anne-Marie Jacir, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynne Ramsay and (possiby) Lucrecia Martel.

Our production of PLAN 75 director Chie Hayakawa's upcoming film RENOIR made @Screendaily's list of "75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025".

www.screendaily.com/features/75-...

Some kaiju-themed sake for oshogatsu?
#お正月

Sunday zoom meeting done. Last sunset at the Loaded Films/Kinofaction offices for this year.
#東京 #渋谷区

When buildings are torn down in Tokyo you get views you’ve never seen before — temporarily. And then the view gets even worse.
Yoyogi ekimae.
#東京 #代々木

First official senden (PR) meeting for the film’s release next year.

Dusk over Nerima, Christmas Eve…
#東京 #練馬