Isn't Anyone Alive? ( Ikiterumono wa inainoka ) ( Is not Anyone Alive? )

Isn't Anyone Alive? (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ikiterumono wa inainoka
Alternate Title: Is not Anyone Alive?
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
113 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Gakuryu Ishii

Written By:
Shirô Maeda

Actors:
Eri Aoki
Kôta Fudauchi
Keisuke Hasebe
Tatsuya Hasome
Asato Iida
Ami Ikenaga
Hiroaki Morooaka
Jun Murakami
Okito Serizawa
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Hakka Shiraishi
Shôta Sometani
Chizuko Sugiura
Yumika Tajima
Mai Takahashi

Synopsis:

When people talk about a bizarre urban myth at a University hospital people start dying inexplicably one after another... With the air of this 'energy void' throughout, the world of this absurd black comedy, based upon the theatre play of the same name, starts to take over the world. With 'Crazy Thunder Road' (1980), 'Burst City' (1982), 'The Crazy Family' (1984), 'Angel Dust' (1994), 'Electric Dragon 80,000V' (2001) and more, Gakuryu Ishii (previously known as Sogo Ishii) has been amusing us with his talent of totally overstepping genre boundaries with striking images and music. In his latest feature film he has adapted the Shiro Maeda play 'Isn't Anyone Alive', an avant-garde story of 18 young students dying one after another.

Cult Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (formerly known as Sogo Ishii, a longstanding influence on Quentin Tarantino) presents a world coming to an end. On a university campus the students separately rehearse a performance, discuss an urban myth and debate the future of an unborn child, but all are inconvenienced by their sudden unexplained deaths. Adapting the screenplay from his own play, writer Shiro Maeda's dialogue is shot through with absurdist observations and deftly mixes dread with farcical comedy.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 November, 2012.