Star crossed lovers in FLYING DAGGERS, Takeshi Kaneshiro and lovely Zhang Ziyi will star in a new film entitled GREEN DRAGON SABER for director Li Shaohong(BOARBER IN LOVE).

In GREEN DRAGON SABER, Takeshi will play General Kwan, one of China’s legendary figures from the Three Kingdoms period and Zhang Ziyi will play his lover.

The film is planned to cranck in in mid-2006.

You can check oout Ziyi in GEISHA now and her latest NIGHT BANQUET willopen in 2006. Kaneshiro’s latest PERHAPS LOVE has just released on DVD in Hong Kong. 

First of all, how does this guy keep getting all the big budget project off the ground? Has anyone seen XXX or FAST and FURIOUS or even worse STEALTH? Maybe nobody has. Thats is why. Rob Cohen will produce the live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime KITE. Mexican directors Jorge and Javier Aguilera will direct (I don’t know who they are). It is about a young woman whose parents have been murdered is taken in by a corrupt detective. She get trained to exact street justice against the detective’s chosen targets, then turns herself against him. Now I haven’ seen the original anime of KITE but as for any anime, I’m sure it is stylistically cool with violence and sex.
For anime fans, at least he isn’t directing the film. For everyone else, we can put it on not to see list alreday for 2006.

Asian Fever’s favorite Distribution company Tartan Asia Extreme has announced plenty of goodies to be released this spring.
Those includes MAREBITO, a new film from acclaimed master of horror Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On, The Grudge), PRAYER, a part of the New Generation Thriller series, ANOTHER PUBLIC ENEMY, a sequel to the hit Public Emnemy, and HEIRLOOM, a Taiwanese horror! Click on a link below to see info and specs for these titles!

Actress Kyoko Fukada (Kamikaze Girl) will be playing a lovely angel in a film TENSHI (ANGEL) , an adaptaion of Erika Sakurazawa’s popular manga of the same title.
Fukada, 23, plays the role of an angel who helps a man and his girlfriend iron out a few problems after their relationship sours. The film will be opening theatrically in Japan on January 21st. Expect Asian Fever review of the film coming soon.

That’s right. New animated FIST OF NORTH STAR film. This is one of the five features that will be produced until the spring of 2008. It sure does look like it will please the long time fans as well as find the new fans. Check out the official site for trailer and more info.