Ryuhei Kitamura: Love Death

[daisho2004]

Has anyone seen this movie it looks and sounds pretty wild? I seen on e-Bay there is an uncut Director's edition.

The samurai filmmaker , Ryuhei Kitamura is back.

More wild, more radical, more crazy.

Fight for love. Die for love.

The world where everything is settle d by bullets.

Anarchic world of no rules.

Sex, ultra violence, and bowling.

Unpredictable. Super cool .No limits. No brakes.

Unstoppable filmmaker , Ryuhei Kitamura‘s new legend is here.

Experience a typhoon of love , blood, and bullets.

Witness the war of love that no one has ever seen.

Can you die for love?

STORY

They fell in love the moment they met.

3 days later, she disappeared.

342days later, they meet again.

That was a beginning...

In a man’s life, there is turning point like you see in a marathon.

We call it Chrysalis Day.

It’s Fate’s Day.

The rest of your life depends on how you spend Chrysalis Day.

If you make it, the rest of your life is like the color of roses.

But, if you mess up , the rest of your life is worth shit.

This is a story of a guy and a girl going through Chrysalis Day.

Faith and betrayal. Love and hate. Sex and death.

A girl who mesmerizes everyone .

A guy who holds on to her for love.

Everyone fights for love and dies for love.

Yakuza, cop, and assassins.

Everyone is after them.

Running full throttle through the battlefield of love.

This is a story of Sai and Sheila.

Here is the trailer:

[Skepparkrans]

I saw a trailer back in 2006 when it was going to be released.. The trailer looks just insane

I have been looking but never seen any dvd release..

if its out on dvd now i will surely search for it.. Im not as crazy about Kitamura as i was back then but still enjoy his style..

[daisho2004]

You can get it on eBay that is where I seen the uncut version or on Amazon.com both sites have it under $10.00 it hasn't got a US release so these are oversea releases, but I buy those all the time and there excellent pressed copies, which is like a legit DVD.

[Juon 408]

I'm kinda wondering why Tokyo Shock hasn't gotten their hands on this, Longinus, Heat After Dark, and Down to Hell. You'd figure they would've by now.

[daisho2004]

I'm kinda wondering why Tokyo Shock hasn't gotten their hands on this.

And this movie has been out for a few years from its release date in 2006'.

[Juon 408]

And this movie has been out for a few years from its release date in 2006'.

Exactly! They need to get back on the ball over there and stop with the countless Miike re-releases.

[Vegeta84]

I wonder what is going on with Tokyo Shock. A few years ago they were releasing so many great modern Japanese films. Now we are lucky if we get one every two months.

[Takuma]

No one has probably licensed the film because it's so bloody bad. And this comes from someone who likes Kitamura's films in general. It's basically a 160 minute True Romance in Japanese, except that almost everything goes wrong. Kitamura's worst film, certainly.

Kitamura is known for his hyperactive style and it works in action but here he does it with characters... you have a retarded cop who's constantly screaming and running around, a "cool" yakuza with vibrator gun, a detective who knows he's an actor in a movie called LoveDeath (ha-ha-ha). Female lead NorA is as convincing as her artist name...

Riki Takeuchi's in the movie, too. Every time there's an action scene the film is interrupted by a Takeuchi flashback.

On the positive side there's a couple of good jokes, plus Kitamura's vision of free American souls, oops, I mean Japanese souls, on a run through Amer... ah, Japan that is, is occasionally atmospheric. Nice Corvette. And the pink Cadillac ain't bad either.

a point of non-interest, the film has a couple of spin off stories attached to it (like Versus did, and all of the new Japanese gore films do). Seemed even less interesting than the main feature, and I sold my dvd as soon as I finished watching it so I can't check it again unfortunately.

I only miss the dvd artwork..