20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

A burned-out rocker discovers his doom-struck adolescent fantasies are coming true in this futuristic thriller from Japan. Ever since his career as a musician crashed and burned, Kenji (Toshiaki Karasawa) has been making a living working at a quick-stop store and living with his family. One day, police officers stop by and ask Kenji about a family of regular customers who've gone missing, though Kenji has hardly noticed their absence. When Kenji visits the home of the missing family, he notices a strange piece of graffiti on the wall, and is startled when he remembers it was the symbol of a club of teenage misfits he belonged to years ago. Kenji and his friends in the club created an amateur comic book that imagined an apocalyptic future in which strange illnesses and bands of armed insurgents threatened to destroy the world. As a wave of unexplained murders sweeps through the city, overseas the events of Kenji's old comic are beginning to come true; a fanatical cult known as Friend found the book and under the leadership of Sadakiyo they've made it their business to turn it into a reality, and now Kenji and his old friends have to infiltrate the cult and stop them before it's too late. 20-seiki shonen (aka 20th Century Boys) was adapted from a best selling manga by Naoki Urasawa and became a major box office hit in Japan. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Subtitle: Eng
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • 20th Century Boys original and English trailer
  • Viz Pictures presents

AWARDS

• New York Asian Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Toshiaki Karasawa
       Arata
       Takako Tokiwa
       Teruyuki Kagawa
       Airi Taira
       Fumiyo Kohinata

• Director:

  Yukihiko Tsutsumi

• Producer:

  Nobuyuki Iinuma, Morio Amagi, Ryuji Ichiyama

• Screenwriter:

  Yasushi Fukuda, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa, Yusuke Watanabe

• Cinematographer:

  Satoru Karasawa

• Composer (Music Score):

  Ryomei Shirai, T. Rex

• Editor:

  Noboyuki Ito

• Production Designer:

  Naoki Soma

• Co-producer:

  Futoshi Ohira

• Executive Producer:

  Seiji Okuda

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Mitsuo Tokita

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Koji Nozaki

• Lighting:

  Akio Kimura