In RING a group of teenagers are found murdered and mutilated within a week of watching a strange video and a curious journalist finds herself drawn into the web of fear.
Plot: Collection of three spooky Asian thrillers, later remade in Hollywood. Includes RING, DARK WATER and PREMONITION.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): TARTAN VIDEO; WORLD CINEMA; SONY DADC
Languages
Main Language: English\Japanese
Subtitle Language: English
DVD Description
In RING a group of teenagers are found murdered and mutilated within a week of watching a strange video and a curious journalist finds herself drawn into the web of fear.
In DARK WATER a mother and her young daughter move into a rundown apartment building. The discovery of an abandoned schoolbag sets of a series of chilling events.
PREMONITION finds Hideki Satomi is a professor whose world is turned upside down when he reads an obituary foretelling his daughter's death in a car crash, which in fact comes to pass later that same day.
Technical information
Special Features: Making of, Press conference, Visual FX featurette,
Advantages: The gore and all the deaths Disadvantages: how sick some friends are to each other
...see this if they like horror because the extreme lenghts people will go to survive is the most horrorifing aspect of human nature
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sousuke Takaoka
Directors: Kinji Fukasaku
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Language Japanese
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Wide Screen:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification:
Studio: Tartan Video
DVD Release Date: 21 Jan 2002
Run Time: 109 minutes
Average Customer Review: (134)
DVD Features:
Main Language: Japanese
Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital
Sub Titles: English
Disc Format: DVD 5
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
Stills Gallery
Mark Wyatt Film Notes
AsiaExtreme Trailer Reel
ASIN: B00005UDYA...
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Advantages: Detailed, Complex, Realistic, Compelling Disadvantages: Sexual Violence, Very complex, Subtitles, Short Version
...comedic and romantic moments. Kenzaki is a very convincing Yakuza, shirtless and clad in a leather jacket for the majority of the film.
This film manages to be the definitive word in Yakuza films, to my mind, and is worth watching multiple times to fully understand it's complexities and characters
Originally released for a limited theatrical run in Japan and then as a longer two part video release. This version is the theatrical version that runs at two and a half hours.
Unfortunately, my only gripe is this version misses out much of the plot concerning Kenzaki's girlfriend (one of the only female characters) leaving her as a slight romantic interest in a couple of scenes. In fact there is another fifty minutes of footage in the full version! But I suppose the running time would then be nearing three and a half hours
Extras on the DVD...
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Advantages: This is bound to be a cult classic Disadvantages: Unsatisfying extras
...listing this as a special feature)
Original theatrical trailer
Stills gallery
Film Notes
Asiaextreme trailer reel
None of them too interesting. The film notes make a vaguely interesting read, but do not do the job that a short, well constructed documentary would. Not commentary, which is fair enough, as I am sure than not all involved can speak English.
I have few criticisms of this film. One would be the acting, which is very hit and miss (which I guess is to be expected if you have 40 child actors). The subtitles I am guessing are a little bit poorly translated at points. Certain pieces of dialogue did make me laugh. Other than that, if it sounds like your sort of film, you can't really go wrong....
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