Friday 9 March 2018

Re:Born (2016)



"Lots & Lots & Lots of Fighting"

Yuji Shimomura's stripped down action-packed close-combat picture gets a dual format release from Eureka.


Tak Sagaguchi is Toshiro. When he was a special forces operative, Toshiro was known as "Ghost" for his skill of creeping up on and massacring large numbers of the enemy undetected. Now Toshiro runs a shop and looks after his little niece. 


Unfortunately, one of Toshiro's old buddies (yes the subtitles do use that word), Phantom, has gone over to the dark side, acquired a facial scar, dark glasses, and a veritable army of assassins which he sends to bump off his former colleague. When individual attempts fail, the gang kidnaps Toshiro's niece, at which point he goes on a mass killing rampage (mainly in a forest in a bit that goes on for quite a bit) before the inevitable confrontation with his enemy.


There's a lot of violence in RE:BORN. The press release refers to the fight technique as 'Zero Range Combat' which basically looks like people beating each other up realistically as opposed to perhaps the more balletic, over the top fight choreography of other martial arts movies. If this is your thing you'll love it. If not, you'll be using the fast forward button through the lengthy forest massacre. 



Eureka's Blu-ray is 1080p with a progressive encode on the DVD. The disc comes with a cheerful introduction from the director and leads at the Fighting Spirit Festival, where we get a brief on-stage demonstration of the Zero Range Combat technique. You also get two trailers.

RE:BORN is out from Eureka on dual format Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 12 March 2018

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