This DVD features two films from Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Ryuhei Kitamura who were challenged by Shinya Kawai to each create a feature length movie with two principal actors battling in one setting and filmed entirely in one week. 2LDK (Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi) Aspiring actresses Nozomi (Koike) and Lana (Nonami) belong to the same talent agency share an apartment and have just auditioned for the same part in a film called Yakuza Wives. Nozomi is a country girl who has come to Tokyo with big dreams of becoming an actress while Lana's sharp tongue and flashy appearance is completely at odds with soft spoken demure Nozomi. Waiting for the phone call that will decide their future petty arguments escalate into hysterical violence bringing the girls' hatred of one another to the surface as they confront the reality of their empty unfulfilled lives. Aragami (Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura) (2003): Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi who now lives an endless existence as Aragami a god of battle.
A positively epic exercise in filmmaking and storytelling the blockbuster 20th Century Boys trilogy has proven to be one of the most ambitious and most successful undertakings in Japanese Cinema. Director Tsutsumi Yukihiko's bravado efforts to release three films in one year based on Urasawa Naoki's acclaimed manga has brought to life a stunning doomsday thriller that spans multiple generations and genres and bites into conspiracy theory pop culture nostalgia and spectacular special effects. This DVD set comes with all three films in the trilogy plus Chapter 1 is packaged as a Special Edition 24 Page Book with an extra disc packed full of bonus extras.
Japan's Number 1 Box Office smash finally hits our screens with a blend of high drama and outrageous fantasy!
Based on an incredible true story, Hayabusa tells the story of the eponymous unmanned spacecraft that embarked on an impossible seven-year mission to land on a distant asteroid and collect samples that could possibly unlock the secrets behind the origins of the universe. But disaster strikes when the spacecraft experiences multiple system failures on its way back to Earth and the scientists at JAXA, the Japanese space agency, must scramble to save the multi-billion dollar mission and its precious cargo.
The trail of an unsolved murder case involving internal police corruption leads the new young female police chief Jun Shibata to a remote island. Here the daughter of a couple who were murdered under mysterious circumstances on a passenger boat executes her revenge on the remaining survivors. Official selection for the Milan International Film Festival.
20th Century Boys: Chapter 2 (2 Discs & 24 Page Book)
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