Product Description
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If you are chosen by the bizarre black sphere known as the
Gantz, you are already dead - yet you might be able to recl
your mortality. First, the Gantz demands that you undertake
brutal missions of madness, killing aliens hidden among the
population. It is your only chance and you have no choice. You
must play this disturbing game. And if you die again – and you
likely will – it's permanent.
Bonus Content:
Disc 4:
* Interview with Director Ichiro Itano
* Interview with Director Ichiro Itano & Yasuhiro Kato (CG
Director)
* Gantz Music Video
* Textless Opening Song
* Textless Closing Song
* Trailers
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As Gantz opens, alienated high-school student Kei Kurono and his
childhood friend Masuru Kato are killed rescuing a wino who's
fallen on the subway tracks. They wake up in a room dominated by
Gantz, a mysterious black sphere that sends them and other newly
dead people on missions to kill weird aliens hiding on Earth.
Among the recently departed is buxom redhead Kei Kishimoto, and
Kurono's visible reactions to her overendowed figure constitute
one of the running gags in the series. But Kei falls for Kato,
who can't bring himself to shoot even the most grotesque
alien--although he has no qualms about beating a menacing
upperclassman to a pulp. After each assignment, Gantz awards the
surviving participants points: if anyone makes it through enough
battles and takes out enough aliens to acquire 100 points,
they're set free. The inane plot is little more than an excuse to
show all the blood, gore, and nudity the filmmakers can pack into
each 22-minute episode. Although Kurono goes berserk fighting
aliens, he can't save his friends from being crushed, ,
eviscerated, and cut in half. The story shifts illogically,
violating rules that were established a few episodes earlier,
before stumbling to a conclusion that has nothing to do with most
of the previous action. Gantz feels like a throwback to the early
'80s, despite director Ichiroh Itano's heavy-handed efforts to
jazz things up with split-screen effects, reverse colors, badly
integrated CG, and odd camera angles. Gantz was heavily edited
when it was broadcast in Japan in 2004, but these uncut episodes
seem less like the focus of the battle over censorship Itano
describes in his interview than a cheesy exercise in gratuitous
violence. A live-action feature adaptation of Gantz debuted in
Japan in January 2010. (Rated TV MA; suitable for ages 17 and
older: nudity, sexual and toilet humor, graphic violence,
violence against women, violence against children, torture,
explicit sexual situations, suicide, grotesque imagery, extensive
profanity, and drug use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles
Solomon
(1. It's the Beginning of a Brand New Day, 2. They Aren't Human,
3. Kei, You're Awesome, 4. Okay Hear Are Your Skores (sic), 5.
That Means at the Time, 6. All Right! 7. We're After You, 8.
Uh-oh! 9. I'll Kill You Without a Moment's Hesitation, 10. Yuzo?
11. He Can't Shoot, 12. Kato, You Wait Here, 13. Please Die, 14.
Goodbye, 15. I Wanna Be There Now! 16. I'm on It! 17. I Can Shoot
Them, Can't I? 18. Welcome Back! 19. What the Hell Is That? 20.
Just Shoot Me! 21. Big Brother, 22. Don't Ever Say That Again!
23. Kurono Alien! 24. No Labyrinth Is Inaccessible, 25. Let's All
Go Back Alive, 26. Please Live)