木乃伊3

　　Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
　　Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

　　映画『マザーレイク』が、2016年夏に公開される。
　　同作は、世界的な写真賞を受賞して滋賀に戻ってきた31歳の藤居亮介を主人公に、11歳の亮介が琵琶湖に棲むとされる首長竜・通称「ビワッシー」の存在を証明するために繰り広げた、ひと夏の冒険を描いた作品。「夢を追いかけること」と「信じること」、「夢を諦めること」と「疑うこと」をテーマに掲げ、全編にわたって滋賀で撮影が行われるという。
　　キャストには、31歳の亮介を演じる内田朝陽をはじめ、鶴田真由、高橋メアリージュン、木ノ本嶺浩、高橋ユウ、津田寛治、斉木しげる、大和田伸也、別所哲也らが名を連ねている。また、公開オーディションで選出された地元のキャストや50人以上の子どもたちも出演する。
　　監督は、高岡蒼佑の主演映画『ROUTE42』などを手掛けた瀬木直貴。脚本は、演劇作品に加えて映像作品も発表している劇団「月面クロワッサン」の代表・作道雄が担当している。

　　Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and clear his name.

　　Despite qualifying for armed force, Karthik ('Jayam ' Ravi) prefers to be a traffic cop in Ooty as he believes that such a no risky job would help him get enough time to look after his cute little sister Vidhya (Baby Anikha). Karthik also has a short lived one side love story with Renu (Lakshmi Menon), who is a doctor. When a hazardous chemical in the nearby industry gets leaked, a dog consumes it and turns into a zombie. As the dog bites a watchman, he too becomes a zombie and eventually, the virus spreads rapidly across the town. Can Karthik save his sister and the city ?