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Willem Dafoe to Topline 'Miso Soup'
Thursday, May 22, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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This week The Hollywood Reporter interviewed writer-director-producer-actor Wim Wenders (The American Friend, Wings of Desire) who revealed to the trade magazine that his next film might be horror. Grab a little Miso Soup and read on for all of the details.

"It is going to be very exciting," he tells the Hollywood Reporter. "Horror is one genre that is used much less than others to transport other things. Lots of people have used great thrillers to transport political messages but the horror film is rarely used to transport anything but fear. And that I think makes it very interesting to try. It's called Miso Soup and is based on a famous Japanese novel. Willem Dafoe is attached to star. We will shoot in Tokyo next spring. But I'm not telling you anything else."

"Miso Soup" was written by Ryu Murakami: Easygoing young Kenji makes good money guiding Americans through Tokyo's seamy nightlife. His teenage girlfriend has no objections, as long as he reserves New Year's Eve for her. But Kenji's latest client, a simmering psychopath called Frank, disrupts those holiday plans. He wants to regale Kenji with crazy monologues as he hypnotizes low-level sex workers. A fat man with superhuman strength, skin that's metallic to the touch, and an unsettling habit of telling contradictory lies, Frank immediately raises the guide's hackles. Kenji even suspects that this ugliest of Americans dismembered a local schoolgirl and immolated a homeless man. But until he can prove his suspicions--and for a disturbing while after--Kenji will keep leading this monster man from one bizarre scene to another. It's a compelling nightmare for Kenji and the reader, who both hope he'll either wake up screaming or escape and alert the cops. Instead, everyone remains in evil's thrall until it's too late. A wicked meditation on the worst traits of American and Japanese society, this is a creepy culture clash indeed. -Amazon


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MetalMachine489
3:18pm, May 22, 2008

Sounds interesting and a perfect role for Dafoe as Frank.


Skcumfuvker25
4:46pm, May 22, 2008

If they follow the book the karaoke scene is going to be fucking great. Do yourselfs a favor and go read this book, some really disgusting/disturbing shit in there.


BloodyCape
9:00am, May 23, 2008

miso horny. Willem is the man.


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