Asian Westerns: Trailers

Director: Takashi Miike (One Missed Call, Visitor Q, Audition, Dead or Alive)

Actors: Hideaki Ito (Onmyoji 1,2, The Princess Blade), Koichi Sato (When the Last Sword Is Drawn, Ring 2: Spiral), Yusuke Iseya (Casshern), Masanobu Ando (Nightmare Detective, Battle Royale, Kids Return), Takaaki Ishibashi, Shun Oguri (Ghost Train, Azumi), Yoshino Kimura

Plot: Set during "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk.

• all japan actors speak in english
• cult director Quentin Tarantino has a episode role in the movie
• based on the movie's cast Shogakukan began manga adaption, drawn by mangaka Kotobuki Shiriagari

Director: Ji-woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters)

Actors: Byung-hun Lee (A Bittersweet Life, Three... Extremes, JSA: Joint Security Area), Kang-ho Song (The Host, Lady Vengeance, Memories of Murder, JSA: Joint Security), Woo-sung Jung (The Restless, Daisy, Musa the Warrior)

Plot: Set in 1930s Japanese occupied Manchuria, tells the story of three Joseon mounted bandits who get their hands on a treasure map, only to be pursued by the army of national independence, who believe that the outlaws have a map for a new railway to be built by the Japanese army.

• budget: US$10,000,000 (HK$78,000,000)
• filming took place mostly in China (around six months), the rest being shot in Holliwood and Korea
• $10 million dollar film has been sold in Cannes for "a high six-figure pre-sale deal with France's ARP Selection"

Director: Chalerm Wongpim (Tom yum goong)

Actors: Dan Chupong (Ong-bak), Phutiphong Sriwat / Leo Phut (The Story of X-Circle), Samart Payakaroon (The Legend of Suriyothai), Panna Rittikrai (Ong-bak, Tom yum goong)

Plot: The story taking place in the 1920s, basically involves a young British educated lord who sees his opportunity to get rich by replacing the traditional agricultural tool, cattle, with the new intention, the tractor. In order to create a demand for this expensive product, the lord enlists cattle rustlers. Jone Bang Fai gets involved in the battle between the cattlemen and the rustlers while seeking the man who killed his parents.

Story: Inspired by the Tonino Valerii's My Name Is Nobody (1974)

Stuff:

• original title - Kon Fai Bin means literally "flying man of fire"
• working title was Tabunfire,but was renamed by Sahamongkol Film International chief executive Somsak Techaratanaprasert who wanted the film's name to be similar to the Thai title for Chen Kaige's The Promise, which was Kon ma bin (literally "flying horseman")
• filming for several months in a small village in Phu Wiang district, Khon Kaen Province. "With over a hundred buffalo in the village, it provided the perfect backdrop for the movie," star Dan Chupong said in an interview.

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