The New York Comic Con is running this weekend over at the Javits Center and we’re in it up to our earlobes. The big event is, of course, Takashi Miike and Sho Sakurai presenting the World Premiere of Miike’s new movie, YATTERMAN. His assistant director (who’s traveling with him) says it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before. We haven’t watched the film yet, but the bits and pieces we’ve heard about it sound insanely fun. Full information on all the YATTERMAN events can be found here.

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But that’s not all! Magnolia is presenting DAI NIPPONJIN (aka BIG MAN JAPAN) at Comic Con. If you saw it at the New York Asian Film Festival you know that’s it’s GODZILLA meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP and you feel a strange warmth in your heart, and in your pants, whenever you hear its name. It’ll be playing at Comic Con on Friday, February 6 @ 3:15PM, in room 1A04.

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And there’s more! Magnolia is also using New York Comic Con to present CHOCOLATE, the butt-kicking Thai action film starring fighting femme, Jeeja! The premise: an autistic girl has total muscle memory and is addicted to chocolate and martial arts movies (plus she lives next door to a muay thai academy). To get money for her mom’s operation she takes a book with names of people who owe her mom (once a gangster’s girlfriend) outstanding debts and she begins knocking heads to get them to cough up the cash. This is the best Thai action film since ONG BAK, BORN TO FIGHT and DYNAMITE WARRIOR and Magnolia will be screening it Midnights at the Landmark Sunshine, starting Friday February 6th. (Watch the trailer)

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