Los Angeles, CA – August 1, 2012 – The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia
Home Entertainment and Phase 4 Films announced today they have jointly
acquired North American rights to the Mark Hamill film SUSHI GIRL. The
revenge thriller had its international premiere at the Fantasia
International Film Festival on July 21st 2012, to be followed by a
theatrical release in the U.S. and cable VOD by Phase 4 Films in late
2012, with Blu-ray™, DVD and digital VOD release by Magnolia Home
Entertainment under the Magnet Releasing label in early 2013. Phase 4
Films will also distribute the film theatrically and on home video in
Canada.
The hotly anticipated genre-bending thriller by director Kern Saxton
(co-writer of the film along with Destin Pfaff) is produced by Assembly
Line, a team including Neal Fischer, Pfaff, Saxton and Suren M. Seron,
in association with Level Up Productions.
Mark Hamill (Star Wars Franchise) and Tony Todd (Candyman) lead a cast
of cult heroes including Noah Hathaway (The NeverEnding Story), James
Duval (Donnie Darko), Andy Mackenzie (MacGruber), David Dastmalchian
(The Dark Knight) and Cortney Palm (Superbad). Sushi Girl also includes
feature appearances by Michael Biehn (Aliens), Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill
Vol. 1), Jeff Fahey (Grindhouse) and Danny Trejo (Machete).
The film centers on the compelling character of a man called “Fish,”
just released after six years in jail after successfully not ratting on
those involved in the robbery that sent him to prison. The night he is
released, the men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a
congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off
the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems
catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things
become dangerous. Sure enough, the unwieldy thieves can’t help but open
old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot, with violent
results.
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