Year: 2006
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
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Trailer: link
Amazon link: link
Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon link: link
Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
- 11/2/2008
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