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Director:
Writers:
Tsutomu Takahashi (comic book)
Ryûhei Kitamura (screenplay) ...
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Tagline:
A life worse than death.
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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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Comic is way better more (19 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:MA (2006) | New Zealand:R16 | Germany:16 | Singapore:NC-16
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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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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.