Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 07/29/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/Japanese
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 118 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
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