Exclusive: London -based SC Films International has chosen the latest BRILLANTE MENDOZA project, chameleonFor sales around the world before the Cannes market.
Currently, in the post -production stage, the Filipino and Japan crime drama focuses on the Filipino transcendent dancer called Mary (playing the role of Marico Ledisma) that joins the Japanese world, Yakuza. Mary is located in early 2000 Sapporo, Japan, with the dangerous world of Yakuza after the migration raid pushed her to the deadly Yakuza orbit. Desperate, she takes a job at CHAMELEON Club and soon becomes a favorite of Yakuza president, named Shimamura. Mary should find a way to escape even though the promise of freedom may be transient.
The first footage of the film will be available during the Cannes Festival, as the film received support from the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs. Production occurred over two years in Japan.
chameleon Veteran Japanese actor EGO Ocoda (pianistand Like a circulating stone) As the coach of Yakuza Shimamura, along with the Tsuiushi IHARI (13 killerand Messages from Iwo Jima), Reina Takda (Titan attackShogen (Gensan Punch).
Besides Lidyesma, the Filipino actors in chameleon It includes Ruby Ruiz, Gigi Hernandez and Venice Releon.
Mendoza won the Best Director of the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 for his feature film Kinatay.
Troy Espiritu, who also worked as a writer in Mandoza's 2016 entry What is RosaThe scenario was formulated chameleon Besides Mendoza.
chameleon It is produced by the same group of producers who previously collaborated on the biography of the boxing PunchWho won the Kim Jessyuk Award at the 2021 Busan International Festival. Among the producers of Takahiro Yamashita from the Japanese Yaman films, and Christma MacLang Vagardo from the productions of the UK UK Center Suzuki Lancaster from Scuc Films International and Bobo.
The film is also an executive produced by Hionobu Arai and Yoshi, with music composed by Yoshiro Hanno (You may leave mountains).
“We are pleased to coexist with director Brylanti Mendoza and his distinguished team,” said Lancaster, who is of its kind of film producers. “This strong film, which belongs to a deep root in the unique Mindoza vision, has shed light on the indescribable stories of the Philippines who came to Japan in the early first decade of the twentieth century with the hopes and dreams of a better life. After our successful cooperation on PunchI pray HBO who won a praise at the Busan International Film Festival, we are proud to continue supporting Brillante's bold novel on the world stage. “
