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Tak Sakaguchi,
Tak Sakaguchi,
Hideo Sakaki,
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Ryuhei Kitamura,
Ryuhei Kitamura
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: Not Rated
: Distant Horizon/Tokyo Shock, Tokyo Shock
: Action, Foreign, Horror, Japan, Zombies, Yakuza, Asian Horror, Martial Arts
: English, Japanese
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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
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| R-Rated Version, not Unrated/Director's Cut
by Jihatsuteki
January 29, 2007 - 2:16 PM PST
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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Greencine lists the film as being the unrated version (and given the bonus disc available for rental, everything should indeed be from the Special Edition set). However, the disc that I received (the first disc -- I did not rent the bonus one) was the R-RATED version. Perhaps it was just a stroke of incredibly bad luck, but I'll happily splurge $30+ if it means I get to see the film uncut and uncensored the first time around rather than see something that's incomplete.
Just a note for those as picky about film versions (and perhaps other things, though I'd hope not) as I am. |
| underbudget but interesting
by JTabor
March 2, 2006 - 8:46 AM PST
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| Versus was a good film that kept my interest the entire 2 hours. I wanted to like this movie more than I did. It had a good plot, almost believeable action, and zombies. In my book, that's usually a formula for success. I think if the film had a bigger budget, it would have been an 8 or 9. It wasn't exactly a horror movie which made it different than other J. Horror. I agree with the other reviewers as it was an action movie with zombies in it. |
| I now own this
by JBellows
June 14, 2004 - 4:24 PM PDT
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3 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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| This is totally sweet. Its an underbudget indie Japanese homage to all the horror films the directors and crew loved. Its a Japanese zombie movie with attitude. Must rent, and a must buy in my opinion. |
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