Distance (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
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| Product Title: | Distance (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) 這麼 ... 遠, 那麼近 (香港版) 这么 ... 远, 那么近 (香港版) Distance (Overseas Version) Distance (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Asano Tadanobu (Actor) | Iseya Yusuke (Actor) | ARATA | Terajima Susumu | Alan W. Arata 淺野忠信 (Actor) | 伊勢谷友介 (Actor) | ARATA | 寺島進 | Alan W. Arata 浅野忠信 (Actor) | 伊势谷友介 (Actor) | ARATA | 寺岛进 | Alan W. Arata 浅野忠信 (Actor) | 伊勢谷友介 (Actor) | ＡＲＡＴＡ | 寺島進 | Ａｌａｎ Ｗ． Ａｒａｔａ Asano Tadanobu (Actor) | Iseya Yusuke (Actor) | ARATA | Terajima Susumu | Alan W. Arata |
| Director: | Kore-eda Hirokazu 是枝 裕和 是枝裕和 是枝裕和 Kore-eda Hirokazu |
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| Release Date: | 2003-12-08 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Rating: | I |
| Duration: | 132 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Panorama (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1003002533 |
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* Screen Format : 16:9
* Sound Mix : Dolby Digital 5.1, Stereo
* DVD Type : N/A
* Extras : N/A
導演︰是枝裕和
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
康城影展官方競賽
第16屆高崎電影節最佳電影大獎
是集體救贖抑是個人犧牲？
是人性沉淪抑是拾身取義？
是異端邪說抑是不朽傳奇？
登上挪亞的真理方舟，駛往生命的最終點！
是夫婦，是兄弟，是親人，是每天相近但又心靈相距的親人。這麼近，那麼遠。大扺這是3年前東京一次宗教狂熱份子集體行動背後的因由。恐怖行動之後，剩下的是他們的親人，在這3年目 夏，回到骨灰散落的這個夏天寧靜的海，憑弔、緬懷、和追憶。那邊廂，不相識的又會天天上醫院，送花送慰藉，這麼遠的又會那麼近。是枝裕和淡然的將段段感情，通過回憶和重整，深刻刺痛地觸碰還未縫合的傷口，感情的距離，心靈的整合，在這百合花盛開的季節中，繼續暴烈地溫柔。是枝裕和，無疑是日本當的電影詩人。
A massacre initiated by the followers of an apocalyptic religious sect, the Ark of Truth, leaves more than a hundred people dead - including the self-appointed executioners, slain by fellow cult members. Three years pass. On the anniversary of the slaughter, four friends who lost loved ones in the tragedy seek solace by journeying to the secluded lake where it all began. They encounter a man who was with the executioners until the very moment the killing began, and their pilgrimage takes a strange, unexpected turn.
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Awards
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Cannes International Film Festival 2001
- Golden Palm Nomination, Kore-eda Hirokazu
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Professional Review of "Distance (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)"
This professional review refers to DISTANCE (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda has produced a film that has touched upon one of the most sensitive issues for contemporary Japanese filmmakers: terrorist cults. Even though Koreeda's film is fictional, there is always the inevitable comparison with the Aum cult's sarin gas attack. There are a number of films, such as Canary, dealing with this sensitive problem. However, no filmmaker has probed the aftermath of the issue so poignantly and innovatively as Koreeda. Distance has a very basic story: four people related to the deceased cult members, and an ex-member, visit the sect's former headquarters to mark the anniversary of their deaths. The visitors confide in each other by recalling memories of their family. Lengthy amounts of dialogue between the mourners push the film along at an extremely slow pace. Although this may be a little too tiresome for some to sit through, it does finally amount to a poignant and touching pastiche of the lives of those associated with cult members. Interspersed with the dialogue are vivid flashbacks of moments before the cult members' suicide. It's during these flashbacks that Koreeda really excels as a filmmaker; the level of detail that he gets from his performers and crew vividly color the entire film. Despite the extensive amount of dialogue, it is unclear what Koreeda is really trying to articulate in this film. At times, it's difficult to surmise what the visitors are there for: is it salvation for their departed loved ones, apology, respect or just sentimentality? This is even more confusing in light of the character named Sakata (played by Asano Todanobu) who used to be one of the cult's ex-members. This vagueness isn't a negative attribute, but rather elicits conflicting feelings within the viewer - feelings of (a) resentment for what the cult did and (b) sorrow for the tragic loss of their lives. Aside from the film's basic plot, the most notable aspect is likely to be its stylistic attributes. Most widely talked about are Koreeda's roving camera, long takes and minimalist soundtrack. These aspects provide the film with a sense of realism. The realist approach complements the dialogue-heavy scenes well, as if the characters are documenting their memories. At other times, the stylistic attributes work in a contrasting manner, providing the film with a haunting presence which lingers on well after you have finished watching the film. Overall, Koreeda has created an extremely rewarding film, in which his direction is infallible and the performances are outstanding, especially from the always-excellent Asano Todanobu. 8 tranquil lakes out of 10 by Jason Dow - heroic-cinema.com |
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Customer Review of "Distance (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)"
July 13, 2004
This customer review refers to DISTANCE (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu Duration: 132 minutes If one has seen Kore-eda's movies, such as _Maboroshi_ or _Afterlife_, one knows that his films tend to be on the melancholy side, dealing primarily with the theme of death. _Distance definately does not deviate from Kore-eda's tried and tested theme of loss and remorse. At the beginning of the film the viewer learns that a Japanese suicide cult, the Ark of Truth, recently poisoned a community's water supply which lead to the deaths of over 120 people and the injury of over 8000. However, instead of meeting individuals who had family members who died from the attack or individuals hurt by the virus themselves, we are introduced to four people, three men and one woman, whose family members were the actual perpertrators. The perpetrators were killed and incinerated by their fellow member of the Ark of Truth after they poisoned the water supply. Every year on the anniversary of the attack, these four individuals meet and pay their respects to their dead loved ones at a dock near the former home of the cult members. Also visiting the site is a man who was a member of the Ark of Truth, played by a very taciturn Asano Tadanobu, but who had run away before the poisoning. However, instead of a brief trip, the four friends are forced to stay at the old residence of the Ark members when theit vehicles are stolen. What follows are sad flasbacks of the foursome's loved ones cutting themselves off from their familes to join the Ark of Truth, and the former member's stories of the contentment the perpetrators found in their new religion, even if that religion asked them to kill the "unsaved". This film will be much more poignant to individuals familiar with Asahara Shoko and the Aum Shinrikyou, the doomsday cult that bombed the Tokyo subways on March 20, 1995. The film goes into the motivations of why people join groups like the Ark of Truth,i.e. Aum, and it shows the suffering of family and friends who lose their loved ones to these groups. As with _Afterlife_ there is no soundtrack and the camera work is very dark. A good, but slow film |
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