Rating: NR
Genre: Action
Release Date: 07/29/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Japanese/English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 119 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Tokyo Shock

Evil Dead 2 meets Street Fighter by way of The Matrix in this wild and woolly zombie/yakuza/samurai/kung fu/splatter flick directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Throughout the world there are 666 portals to the other side; the 444th is Japan and is called the Forest of Resurrection, where good has battled evil for time immemorial. The film opens with prisoner KSC2-303 (Tak Sakaguchi) and his fellow cellmate escaping a maximum-security prison and ending up in the forest where they are supposedly to be picked up by a band of gangsters in a shiny Mercedes and taken to a safer place. Instead, the gangsters try to use them and a female hostage (Chieko Misaka) as pawns in a larger power struggle. A gunfight ensues killing KSC2-303's colleague and the mob boss, but just as the standoff is about to yield more violence, an odd thing happens -- the dead get up and attack the living. In the chaos, KSC2-303 and girl disappear into the forest with a band of slickly coifed yakuza in hot pursuit. High-kicks, machine guns, and rampant disembowelments ensue. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.

~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Be the first to review this product!

Cast:
Tak Sakaguchi -
Hideo Sakaki -
Chieko Misaka -
Kenji Matsuda -

Production:
Ryuhei Kitamura - Director
Keisho Shin - Producer
Nobuhiko Morino - Composer
Ryuhei Kitamura Yudai Yamaguchi - Screen Writer
Yûji Shimomura - Fights Choreographer

Bio Zombie
    NR / 2001
Shogun Assassin
    Tomisaburo Wakayama / R / 1980
Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death
    R / 1973
Dawn of the Dead [Blu-ray]
    Scott Reiniger / NR / 1978
Dead Alive
    Timothy Balme / NR / 1992