{"id":6759,"date":"2003-12-22T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/12\/22\/duel-project-licensed-for-american-release\/"},"modified":"2003-12-22T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T14:54:00","slug":"duel-project-licensed-for-american-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/duel-project-licensed-for-american-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Duel Project Licensed for American Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlareleasing.com\/main\/templates\/home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">TLA Video<\/a>, the American distributor of Sion Sono&#8217;s disturbing film Suicide Circle, has confirmed its acquisition of American distribution rights to Yukihiko Tsusumi&#8217;s recent film 2LDK. (The title &#8220;2LDK&#8221; is the Japanese abbreviation for an apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, dining room, and kitchen.) 2LDK is a violent satire about an argument between two female roommates that progressively escalates into a bloody battle with samurai swords and chainsaws. The film was made as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duel-movie.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duel Project<\/a>, a friendly competition between directors Yukihiko Tsusumi and Ryuhei Kitamura to make a short film about a duel between two characters set in a single location.<\/p>\n<p>TLA Video also confirmed that Ryuhei Kitamura&#8217;s half of the Duel Films Project, the supernatural samurai swordplay action film Aragami, has already been licensed for American release by a so far undisclosed distributor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangoria.com\/news_article.php?id=1777\" target=\"_blank\">Fangoria Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLA Video, the American distributor of Sion Sono&#8217;s disturbing film Suicide Circle, has confirmed its acquisition of American distribution rights to Yukihiko Tsusumi&#8217;s recent film 2LDK. (The title &#8220;2LDK&#8221; is the Japanese abbreviation for an apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, dining room, and kitchen.) 2LDK is a violent satire about an argument between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}