DEAD END RUNRegion 0 (ALL REGION PLAY / NO REGION CODE) - NTSC Format *CUSTOM DVD* YEAR: 2003 Running Time: 60 mins. approx. CAST: Yusuke Iseya Masatoshi Nagase Tadanobu Asano Urara Awata Mikako Ichikawa Jun Kunimura Yoji Tanaka Ken Mitsuishi Directed by: Sogo Ishii Cult filmmaker Sogo Ishii's follow-up to his spectacular "Electric Dragon 80,000 V" consists of three short films. Continuing on the road he had taken, Ishii throws every trick in the book at us; rapid cuts, bouncing cameras, fast close-ups, wacky angles, vibrating zooms, and quick dissolves turn out a triumphant display of knockout visuals. All three stories deal with a "running man" who ends up in a dead-end alley. In the first part, we see a man (Yusuke Iseya, director of KAKUTO) pursued by a woman who turns out to be "more than human." Part two stars Masatoshi Nagase ("Electric Dragon 80,000 V," "Party 7") as the man who is driven into the dead-end alley by a hit man. In part three, Tadanobu Asano (also from "Electric Dragon 80,000 V," "Party 7") is chased by the police, and ends up on a rooftop where he kidnaps a woman who was there to commit suicide. As usual, Ishii's technique combines breathless action scenes with the hard-edged feel of this experimental film. Video: 16:9 / Widescreen / Letterboxed (1.85:1)Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 DTSLanguage: Japanese LanguageSubtitles: Removable English SubtitlesFeatures:Theatrical Trailer
