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  • Actors: Teah, Michelle Reis, Kôji Kikkawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Patricia Manterola
  • Directors: Takashi Miike
  • Writers: Ichiro Ryu, Seishu Hase
  • Producers: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kazunari Hashiguchi, Toshiki Kimura, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa, Yasuyoshi Tokuma
  • Format: Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language English, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Tai Seng
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Dec 2001
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005RYA2

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A stylised and violent thriller, prolific director Miike Takashi's The City Of Lost Souls (2000) is set in the ganglands of Tokyo and pays homage to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and, in a daft, animated cockfighting sequence, The Matrix. Mario (Teah) is the Japanese-Brazilian gunslinger fresh out jail who, in a hilariously audacious action sequence, hijacks a helicopter to save his Chinese girlfriend Kei (Michelle Reis) from deportation. He must then secure 18 million yen to secure fake passports for both of them to make a new life for themselves in Australia. In a misconceived operation, Mario arrives at the lair of the intriguing Ko, Kei's ex-boyfriend--a self-assured, effeminate young exchange student--who is somehow head of a vicious gang of Triads. He is on the point of buying a consignment of cocaine from decadent, cold-blooded Yakuza gangster Fushimi when Mario's arrival triggers a shootout, with Mario escaping with the wrong suitcase. Now, in time-honoured True Romancefashion, Mario and Kei are on the run from the mob.

Although visually tricksy with some strong set-pieces, The City of Lost Souls is rather hazy when it comes to story and characterisation. We get little sense of the runaway couple as people. A young blind girl is introduced into the tale and there are romantic moments between Mario and Kei but these feel like sugary palliatives to the bloodshed rather than touching moments. Better perhaps to check out Takashi's Audition, a brilliantly gruesome satire on male Japanese attitudes towards womanhood. This is a flashier, faster but less artistically satisfying affair.

On the DVD: The City of Lost Souls is presented in video aspect ratio 1.85:1, with reasonable clarity and sharpness. However, the English subtitles are a little pidgin and slapdash in places, none of which improves the main special feature, a rather dull and vague interview with director Takashi. --David Stubbs

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Blisteringly Eclectic Frantic Action Romance....., 13 Jan 2003
By Alexander White "smdge." (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City Of Lost Souls [2000] [DVD] (DVD)
Miike Takashi (or Takashi Miike as he's shown in credits) is one of asia's finest directors. He is in every sense of the word an 'autuer'. But unlike most autuers, he is often mis-understood and not fully appreciated. His films are consistant, connected, and show a natural progression for the most part. And as he somehow manages to churn out around 7 films every year ( !!!! ) he is surely one of the hardest working film-makers in the world.

Having seen his beautifully creepy Audition, i read great things about his others works, and seeing that 'Dead or Alive' and 'The City of the Lost Souls' were both out here i quickly snapped them up. I just watched 'City...' and will be off in a sec to watch 'Dead or Alive', but havent yet so i apologise for the lack of reflection between the two.

City of the Lost Souls is a crzy, primary colored, fierce look at the seedy underworld of Asia. But unlike most films like this, it centers around a romance story, that whilst never really being explored, is tragically beautiful enough to keep the story going. The editing of this film is clearly were it made its mark, and i applaud it for its gorgeous and inventive scenes of metaphorical madness, and imaginative sequences of magical make-believe. Like a honey coated cross between Natural Born Killers, True Romance, Doom Generation, Nowhere, and a Wong Kar-Wai flick, we are driven through cut after cut of almost surreal visual narrative.

Whilst it's slightly hard to follow in places, and is really only worth watching if (like me) you crave visual substance and pure creative energy, the film still manages to carve out a seat for itself amongst Asia's finest. It has none of the meditative poetry of say Takashi's Hana-bi, and none of the blurry romantic urbaness of a Wong Kar-Wai film, but it is so damn inventive that you have to sit up and take notice. If it had not been handled so perfectly one could almost imagine it as yet another terribly acted, and abysmally directed Asian fantasy films that 98% of the world loath ! But thank god the fantasy elements here are plucked straight as an insight into the lead characters minds, and more importantly - Miike Takashi's.

Apparantly Dead or Alive is even better ! So i'll be back to review it in a bit.

If you like this then check out the beutifully filmed 'Bangkok Dangerous' and a personal fav of mine 'Nowhere To Hide'.

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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a full throttle ride!, 4 April 2003
This review is from: City Of Lost Souls [2000] [DVD] (DVD)
I thought this film was intense, stylish and widly enjoyable. It had all the qualities i expected from a typical Miike Takashi yakuza movie with a multicultural context involved. This is without a doubt the best Miike Takashi has come up that's currently on the dvd market, although when Ichi the killer is released i'm sure it will surpass the competition by miles!
Nonetheless a great anarchic and character involvement movie from the veteran Miike Takashi.
Keep em'coming!
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It was ok, 7 Oct 2007
This review is from: City Of Lost Souls [2000] [DVD] (DVD)
But I enjoyed Gozu a lot more. Yes, the energy and ideas were there, but regular violence substituted for a more satisfying plot. Nice to see a bit of Capoeira in a film, it could have been made more of. Gozu is the one to see, so far for me.
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