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Director:
Ryûhei Kitamura
Writers:
Tsutomu Takahashi (comic book)
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Tagline:
A life worse than death.
Plot:
After survivng his own execution, Tenshu choses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Hideo Sakaki ... Tenshu Yashiro
Ryô ... Yurika Saegusa

Koyuki ... Asuka Saegusa
Shun Sugata ... Matsuda
Erika Oda ... Misako Hara
Tak Sakaguchi ... Zeros
Jun Kunimura ... Kojima
Ryûshi Mizukami ... Warden 1
Keita Kimura ... Warden 2
Minoru Aoki ... Warden 3
Boba ... Hair Cut Guard
Takanori Hamachika ... Guard 1
Makato Kitami ... Guard 2
Seki Watanabe ... Guard 3
Suenari Matsubara ... Guard 4
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Company:
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Goofs:
Factual errors: When Takutake shoots Zeros after he is defeated, you can clearly hear the sound of a shell casing of a pistol hitting the ground. As Takutake is using a revolver, which does not eject spent shells after each shot, this would make no sense. more
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Comic is way better, 20 April 2004
Author: thurd from Poland

The movie is based on a manga series created by Tutomu Takahashi and as usual in such cases 'the book was better'. I haven't enjoyed the movie at all, despite its unusual atmosphere, it is just too long. A good film consists of many elements and one of them is right pace, which this film is lacking. What struck me the most was decreasing quality of the special effects, as if they spent most of the money in the beginning and then tried to do the ending with whatever was left. Ah I forgot to mention the 'mutant from space' character, which was omitted in the comic book, that gave the final scenes a 'Dragon Ball' feel and only distorted the depth of the comic ending.

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