DVD movies review

• Production: Fukasaku Kenta, Kataoka Kimio
• Director: Fukasaku Kinji
• Music: Amano Masamichi
• Edition:
• Distributor:
• Genre: Thriller, Action

In a near future, a hypothetical Asian State, a cause of social and economic problems more and more in ascent, launches a law that finds to re-educate the youths. Each year a third class of middle school is involved, chosen in base to a democratic national draw. The class is abduct during a simple school trip. The pupils are transported at their unknown in a  island, that is evacuated for the occasion. During the kidnapping, while they are unconscious, on each pupil's neck is put an... [Continue...]

• Production: Wakamatsu Jisashiki, Kawanishi Migaku
• Director: Takeuchi Hideki, Nishiura Masaki, Kobayashi Kazuhiro
• Music: Face 2 fAKE
• Edition: Japanese box with 7 DVDs.
• Distributor: no one
• Genre: Comedy, drama, romance, slice of life

Densha Otoko has been and is stil now a true phenomenon. It has been made into film, manga, OVA, it takes inspiration from a true story and has now become a modern fable. Tsuyoshi Yamada is a young man of contemporary Japan. He is an otaku, a shy and unsociable person who have interest only in work and anime and mangas. All his life, friendship included, centres around these two strong passions. One day while he was coming back home by train he sees a gorgeous woman, Saori. He observes the... [Continue...]

• Production: Office Kitano
• Director: Takeshi Kitano
• Music: Joe Hisaishi
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• Distributor: Palm Pictures
• Genre: Drama

In this film Takeshi Kitano shows his poetic and passionate side and gets rid of his usual laconic characters and noir style. In fact he describes three love stories between characters moved like puppets by events and by destiny (The film opens with Bunraku, the puppet used in the classical Japanese theatre). The three love stories are pure, supreme, and tragic like the ones only Greek theatre can put on scene; such strong love which seems be out of the human world, and can be understood and... [Continue...]