SAKI Soundtrack

It's a SAKI soundtrack extravaganza!

Original SAKI soundtrack by Daichi Yoshida - dark, moody, and then some cutting action. It's got all the ranges of emotion that drive the feature film SAKI!

DemoMix Movie/Trailer

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Original song by Jazzminshroom featured in the original SAKI trailer.

01 Don't Login Me

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This is the original version Don't login me by Jazzminshroom Album Livin' in Caleuph

Here is a title track from the feature film SAKI, produced by Atsuyuki Kono/Jazzminshroom with Vocal by David Hiestand and Sabine Esmaili!

02 Running to you

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Movie sound track of Saki Running to you Produced by Atsuyuki Kono/Jazzminshroom Vocal by David Hiestand and Sabine Esmaili

Another title track by Jazzminshroom featured in the film SAKI. Dig the the light fun theme - after all Saki goes from SoCal fun under the sun cutie to LA night thrill-kill.

03 See you again New Mix

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See you again from the Album Livin' in Caleuphoria by Jazzminshroom This is the new mix for feature film SAKI

Another title track from SAKI, produced by Atsuyuki Kono/Jazzminshroom. Listen to the complete track!

04 Let it go New Mix

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Let it go from the album Livin' in Caleuphoria by Jazzminshroom special mix for the sound track of the feature film SAKI

SAKI Original Trailer

Original SAKI trailer featuring the track "Don't Login Me" by Jazzminshroom.

SAKI the movie - trailer 1

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WARNING ADULT CONTENT! SAKI: A feature film of a Japanese woman exiled to America, finding herself teaching art to a unique group of students. But when her grandfather visits from Japan, hell comes with him and Saki finds strength in the demons of her...

Macbook Screen Rotation

Here's a cool trick to rotate your Macbook screen:

- Launch System Preferences (QUIT it if it's already open).
- Hold down the Command+Option keys and click on "Display."
- Look for 'Rotation' on the right side of the Display window and take your pick.

Obviously turning your Macbook on it's ear is not effective for typing but I find it useful for sorting my long vertical list of scenes when I outline for a feature script.

SAKi Official Movie Website

Don't forget to check out SAKI's official movie website!

Samurai Hollywood Label

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国分佐智子主演、全編ハリウッド制作の映画。世界的に有名な編集​者、横山智佐子さんの初監督作品。

Really getting somewhere

Another solid Korean thriller, THE MAN FROM NOWHERE. Not quite the "artistry" of I SAW THE DEVIL but with much more sentimentality (which is not necessarily a bad thing). It's really brief but I like the "wallet vs knife" scene - in just one move it reveals the bad-assness of the main character.

The Man From Nowhere Trailer (Official English Trailer) starring Won Bin

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Anatomy of SAKI character design: Kanekichi

People seem to have an affinity for the character Kanekichi. Again a testament to the efforts of the cast and crew that brought the initial character design to life.

Concept Art

Anatomy of SAKI character design: Saki

From concept to completion, the SAKI cast and crew did a fantastic job bringing the characters to life.

Concept Art

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Midnight Chill

So if you're up at midnight PST (4pm Japan time) looking for a nice diversion in Japanese, check out HanaHanaTV hosted by the director of TAKAMINE. Since midnight is my script writing time, I just kick back with chilled glass of umeshu (plum wine), tune into the stream and listen to the chatter as I write.

野毛HanaHanaTV on Ustream

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野毛HanaHanaTV @ USTREAM: 8月1～20日の毎日16時～17時30分、野毛の旧コロンビア​から、Hana＊HanaTV～シドモアさんを探せ～、生放送を​行います。 番組主旨 ワシントン市ポトマック川畔に桜が日本から贈られて、 来年(1912年・3月)で100年 を数えます。桜を介し、日本と米国...

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Scarlet Influence

Wow, you can watch the entire film of director Fritz Lang's SCARLET STREET on Youtube. This is the film that inspired the writer and the thematic connection between death and art in the film SAKI. And if you pay close attention to the ending 3rd act you'll get a glimpse of some of the themes that will emerge in SAKI 2!

Scarlet Street

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Middle-aged Chris Cross has a gold watch and little else. One rainy night, he rescues the delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend, Johnny. Chris is smitt...

TK Carter knife fight that inspired SAKI movie knife fight

You can see T. K. Carter's knife fight from the American TV show "Punky Brewster" that inspired the knife fight in SAKI. It starts right around 5:00.

fenster hall pt 5

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Punky catches a boy breaking into her room and stealing from her. Henry takes the boy to Fenster Hall where Mike Fulton, one of the workers there, tries to bond with him. Stars Soleil Moon Frye - Punky Brewster Cherie Johnson - Cherie Johnson George Gaynes - Henry Warnimont Betty Johnson - Sus

Punky beginnings

Trivia: When killer Kanekichi 1st attacks Saki's grandfather, Shin, the Old Man takes off his sweater and wraps it around his arm to fight against Kanekichi's tanto knife. This action sequence was originally conceived by the writer as a child many years ago while watching an episode of the American TV show "Punky Brewster" where Punky's teacher (played by T. K. Carter) saves her from a trouble maker named Blade by wrapping a handkerchief around his hand to prevent from getting cut.

Dreams that lie to me

In my dream, my friend Sean explained that a young electric ukulele musician named Walt would train mice to bite down on his cables in order to prevent them from getting tangled. The 1st mouse he trained was named Mickey and thus the legend of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse began. Oddly enough if he wasn't explaining this to me while being bored in a Japanese hostess club, I would've believed him.

Subtext of subtitles

I don't know how many writers get to do their own subtitles but for SAKI it's been a good lesson on how to keep dialog tight and efficient. Nobody wants to read a fricken novel on the screen. Keep It Simple Scriptwriters!

3D to come

Sam K Yano

I'm game Mr. Scott. And I'm certainly looking forward to PROMETHEUS to convince me.

Ridley Scott vows to work only in 3D | 3D Radar - 3D news and reviews

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Anime Toy Story

Although I can identify with the movie TOY STORY, my childhood toy play was imagined more like this...

Final Fantasy Stop motion- Sephiroth the World's Enemy 世界毀滅者

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The return of Sephiroth, see how Cloud will do to fight back against Sephiroth, main skills is green screen, effects mainly practicing fire,twist fire, color...

SAKI Writer/DP Production Notebook

In prepping for my next script I came across the production binder for my feature SAKI. There's a lot of sweat & tears in these pages but it's all about collaborating with a great group of artists.

Dreams of War

Just woke up from a dream that was frightening - it wasn't the fact that it was terrifying but rather the relative scale of the destruction and the fact that it unfolded before my eyes and the consequences it meant for each moment after it occurred. I myself was a child in the dream, maybe about 12, but I was not in the house I grew up in. I was in a house more similar to the one I live in now with a view of the harbor. This view would normally be the welcome sight of swaying palm trees and rolling waves but this time there was a warship positioned a few miles out. I stood there marveling at the massive hulk of metal though from my view it appeared no larger than a toy - but that realism was the horror of the scene, the fact that this did not seem like a movie where the camera was right up close to action. I could hear the news on the TV blaring in the background, sounding off the play-by-play of the subtle event that started simply with a transport helicopter flying around the warship. In the next moment I could see smoke perforating through the helicopter in rapid succession followed by a black billowing cloud that trailed the helicopter as is tipped forward then twisted down to the water below. As the rotor blades hit the sparkling blue they crumple and thrash in the fraction of a second before the whole mass just belly flopped into one big splash. But before any question of consequence could wash over me I could see puffs of smoke silently pop from the warship followed the sound of distant thunder and then that was followed by an even louder boom and grumble that was certainly the exploding target of the warship's massive gunfire. I couldn't see what was being hit but from the sounds I could tell it wasn't far from where I was. I could hear the crazed yelling of the news reporter from the television down stairs. Then the screams of fighter jets above. But the next onslaught wasn't from these jets, it was from a projectile that seemed to have been launched from under the water. It was like a snake that struck just above the water then it smacked into the warship just above it's hull. What followed was a spectacular explosion that finally made be flinch as the whole center of the metal monster of a boat just burst backwards then crumbled into smaller pieces as if the ship was made of Legos. What was left of the front and rear just seemed to flatten and melt into the harbor, a mass of debris would be the only trace that a warship was ever there. And then that wash of consequence came over me as I ran out of the room - the world, the one I knew, was no longer movies and video games. As I raced down stairs, following the frantic reporting from the TV, I called for my parents and my sister. But when I got to the living room it was empty except for the television with the news replaying the very events that I had witnessed with my bare eyes. The dream didn't end there, I actually ran back up the stairs and would find my sister on the phone. But in that moment of standing in that empty living room I thought that some invisible force from the blast might have evaporated my family (remember in my dream I was only 12) and that I was the only person left on the planet. It was a chilling sadness that that sucked itself into a hole in my heart and I felt my knees weaken. In this case I was able to escape by waking up, but the fear is always that next time there will be no escape.

True to it's Grit

TRUE GRIT is great. When I polished the English dialogue for TAKAMINE I researched 1900's literature and found that they didn't use contractions back then (do not vs. didn't) but I found the dialog clunky & funny so I restrained myself & kept the dialog semi modern. But the Coen bro in TRUE GRIT really take that clunky & funny dialog & make it their own - very admirable writing as always.

KS x RP

Have a new script I want to write - I even know who I want to cast. But I have two other scripts I have to write before I can get to this one!

Production Binder

Really digging the writing software Scrivener as my research and production binder. Jumping in with both feet using it to break the script into scenes and packaging scenes with translations (script is in Japanese), location photos, shooting floor plans, etc. I can add keywords/tags so that if I want only certain information I can do a search and then output a PDF with only the info I want or I can output the whole binder and push it to my iPad to reference on the road.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html