Witness a battle no one has ever seen.
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
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Unpretentious, plot-driven, relentless and raw.
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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- LastCaress1972on TMDB · Aug 2013
Mad-as-a-bag-of-badgers Japanese Yakuza/zombie/Highlander hybrid (I think), made on a micro-budget by Ryûhei Kitamura, the guy who would go on to direct enjoyable gore-fest The Midnight Meat Train. Honestly, if they spent more than two hundred quid on this thing, then I can't see where the money went. I kind-of liked it though, in a bizarre way. So what's it all about then? Hm. Fecked if I know, to be truthful. We're informed early on that there are apparently 666 portals to "the other side" on Earth, all hidden from man. Our story takes place in the "Forest of Resurrection" in Japan, the 444th portal. We open with a medieval Japanese warrior, in said forest, surrounded by what appears to be similar Japanese warriors, but undead ones. Anyway, no sooner has our man cut down these ghoulies with a swish and a slash, than he himself is cut in half by what appears to be some sorcerer/warrior fellow, who in turn is already (I think) facing off against some other mean-looking samurai-type. Then, title card, then, um, a pair of modern-day escaped prisoners running through what I suppose must be the same forest, en route to a rendezvous with a bunch of Yakuza hoodlums sent to... what? help
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Cast
- Tak SakaguchiPrisoner KSC2-303
- Hideo SakakiThe Man
- Kenji MatsudaYakuza Leader with Butterfly Knife
- Minoru MatsumotoCrazy Yakuza with Amulet
- Yuichiro AraiMotorcycle-riding Yakuza with Revolver
- Chieko MisakaThe Girl
- Kazuhito OhbaYakuza with Glasses
- Takehiro KatayamaRed-haired Assassin
- Ayumi YoshiharaLong-haired Female Assassin
- Shoichiro MasumotoOne-handed Cop
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- Ryuhei KitamuraDirector
- Yudai YamaguchiScreenplay
- Ryuhei KitamuraScreenplay
- Takumi FuruyaDirector of Photography
- Nobuhiko MorinoOriginal Music Composer
- Shuichi KakesuEditor
- Keishiro ShinProducer
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