maboroshii productions is a small west hollywood based production company.

started in 1995, it has produced over 30 short films and multiple feature screenplays.

new!

(may 31, 2007 update)

!new! maboroshii productions now has a blog! the blog will become the primary repository for daily information about all things maboroshii productions and nicholas rucka related. please visit there for more frequent updates. thanks!

!new! maboroshii productions 2002 documentary real doll doctor will be screening as a part of the 2007 rooftop film festivals summer series. please visit the mab-pro blog for scheduling updates.

!new! out of the darkness just screened at the 2007 little rock international film festival.

!update! the "out of the darkness" dvd-- filled with loads of extras -- is completed. we should have the dvd wallets back from the printers this week! dvd will be available early to mid-june.

"out of the darkness" has had some good press!

todd brown at twitchfilm.net writes:

"It's very good, a pretty simple premise executed very well. [Nicholas has] got a great eye and shoots things very American gothic, kind of what The Reflecting Skin would look like if you were to desaturate it and make it into a black and white. The score is definitely a big part of why it works so well, it's got kind of an Angelo Badalamenti quality to it - a lot of atmospheric swells of sound bolstering and foreshadowing what's coming. Really quite surprising that this hasn't done more on the festival circuit..." (link)

and kevin lyons at eofftv.com writes:

"Nicholas Rucka's Out of the Darkness [2006] was Frightfest 2006's second short film and it was a lot better than yesterday's disappointing Gasoline Blood. Shot in black and white, it's a neat reality- bending ghost story which keeps the audience as off-guard and bewildered as its protagonist. Look out for a couple of unforgettably scary images near the end." (link)

summer 2006: nicholas rucka was interviewed by the philadelphia inquirer for an article on j-horror. the article has since been picked up by knight/ridder tribune newspapers around the country and is posted on the tartan films (usa) website among other places. read it here.

"out of the darkness" trailer! (google video, quicktime & i-pod video [right click])

 

older!

"the mule" (2003), which won numerous awards domestically and was screened at the directors guild of america in los angeles, california.(view invite), has been picked up by HBO Latin America for tv broadcast! more info as we get it.

maboroshii productions also has an incredibly unispired myspace page.

nicholas rucka edited edgewood pictures new feature documentary on the japanese tokkotai/kamikaze pilots entitled, "beyond the sun: the legacy of the kamikaze." it has since been renamed: "wings of defeat" and is now starting to screen internationally.