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After scoring three commercial and critical hits in 2007 with action fests Sukiyaki Western - Django, Crows Zero, and Like a Dragon, maverick director Miike Takashi takes an unexpected turn from physical violence to physics in his latest film Kamisama no Puzzle (a.k.a. God's Puzzle). Quick physics lesson: according to theory, with a large and powerful enough particle accelerator, it is possible to re-create the Big Bang, the cosmic explosion believed to have given birth to the universe billions of years ago. Said issue has been of particular interest among laymen in 2008 because of the recent unveiling of the world's largest particle accelerator in Switzerland, which has driven some people to trump about the end of the world. Scientists dismiss the cries of Armageddon, but Miike and producer Kadokawa Haruki offer their own insight in their cerebrally nerdy and thoroughly wacky doomsday romantic comedy. In his own words, Kadokawa was inspired to make Kamisama no Puzzle because of visions he had while serving a prison sentence for drugs. The film also owes much to sci-fi novelist Kimoto Shinji's award-winning bestseller.

Popular actor Ichihara Hayato (All About Lily Chou Chou) takes on dual roles as twins, one a physics student, the other an aimless musician. At his brother's request, wannabe rocker Motokazu steps in to take a physics seminar and befriends bristly prodigy Saraka (Tanimura Mitsuki, Real Oni Gokko). After a hearty class debate over whether it's possible to create a new universe with a particle accelerator, professor Hatomura (Ishida Yuriko) challenges Saraka and hapless partner Motokazu to prove her argument through a special project. Hatomura was thinking more on a theoretical level, but Saraka sets out to end the world.

This edition includes the following special features:

  • Weightless Experience - In-flight Footage
  • Weightless Meet & Greet
  • Gala Premiere
  • Interview with Cast
  • Interview with Director
  • Making Of
  • Teaser, Trailer & TV Spot
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    Product Title: Kamisama No Puzzle (DVD) (Japan Version) 神之Puzzle (DVD) (日本版) 神之Puzzle (DVD) (日本版) 神様のパズル Kamisama No Puzzle (DVD) (Japan Version)
    Also known as: God's Puzzle God's Puzzle God's Puzzle God's Puzzle God's Puzzle
    Artist Name(s): Ishida Yuriko | Matsumoto Rio | Ichihara Hayato | Kikawada Masaya | Tanimura Mitsuki 石田 百合子 | 松本莉緒 | 市原隼人 | 黃川田將也 | 谷村美月 石田百合子 | 松本莉绪 | 市原隼人 | 黄川田将也 | 谷村美月 石田ゆり子 | 松本莉緒 | 市原隼人 | 黄川田将也 | 田中幸太朗 | 岩尾望 | 谷村美月 Ishida Yuriko | Matsumoto Rio | Ichihara Hayato | Kikawada Masaya | Tanimura Mitsuki
    Director: Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi
    Release Date: 2008-11-21
    Publisher Product Code: DSZD-8527
    Language: Japanese
    Subtitles: Japanese
    Country of Origin: Japan
    Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
    Disc Format(s): DVD
    Region Code: 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it?
    Publisher: Toei Video
    Other Information: DVD
    Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
    YesAsia Catalog No.: 1011632752

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    タイトル:神様のパズル
    出演:市原隼人／谷村美月／松本莉緒／田中幸太朗／岩尾望／六平直政／塩見三省／遠藤憲一／李麗仙／笹野高史／黄川田将也／國村隼／若村麻由美／石田ゆり子
    監督:角川春樹(エグゼクティブプロデューサー)／三池崇史(監督)／機本伸司(原作)／ＮＡＫＡ雅ＭＵＲＡ(脚本)／鳥山雄司(音楽)／山本英俊(制作)／大杉明彦(プロデュース)／遠藤茂行(プロデュース)／伊藤満(プロダクション統括)／松井一浩(プロデューサー)／川崎隆(プロデューサー)

    双子の弟・喜一が、突然海外旅行へ行ってしまった。残された俺（基一）は、弟とは正反対の学力・性格。そんな俺が、弟の代わりにゼミに出席しなければならなくなった。「代返だけしていればいいんだろ！」と気軽に引き受けた。ところがある日、担当教授から、不登校の女子学生・穂瑞沙羅華（ホミズ　サラカ）をゼミに参加させるようにとの無理難題の指令が下った。天才さゆえに大学側も持て余し気味という穂瑞。なんでそんな役を俺が・・・。弟のためと割り切り、チョッピリ彼女に興味もあったので、彼女の自宅まで行ってみることにした。会って話しているうちに、彼女の不思議なパワーに引き込まれていき、思わず、究極の疑問「宇宙をつくることはできるのか？」を彼女にぶつけてしまう。俺の役割は果たせたのか・・・？翌日、なんと彼女はゼミに現れた！究極の疑問は大成功だった。しかし面倒な事に、俺は穂瑞と同じチームで、宇宙がつくれることを立証しなければならないことになるのだが・・・。
    落ちこぼれ大学生と飛び級天才少女の２人が、“宇宙創生”なる壮大なテーマに挑む！！第３回小松左京賞を受賞した、機本伸司著『神様のパズル』。“宇宙のつくり方”という途方もないテーマを、エグゼクティブプロデューサー・角川春樹、監督・三池崇史という強力タッグで映画化。三池監督は公言する。「前半は学園ラブ・コメディ、後半はパニック・ムービー（笑）」（　『恋空』　＋『コンタクト』＋『アルマゲドン』）÷３＝「？」キャンパス、恋、笑い、ＳＦ、アクション、パニック！ラストは、落ちこぼれ学生の愛が、孤独な天才少女の心を溶かすという涙まで・・・。映画のあらゆるエッセンスを注入し、鬼才２人の化学反応で映画界に新たなビッグ・バンを巻き起こす。恋と笑いのその先は、宇宙創生か？はたまた人類滅亡か？

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    色:カラー
    画面:16:9LB
    言語／音声:日本語:ドルビーデジタル５．１ｃｈサラウンド

    その他の情報
    製作年:2008
    著作権:(C)2008 「神様のパズル」製作委員会
    備考:1枚組
    ピクチャーレーベル
    映像特典：初日舞台挨拶、メイキング、インタビュー他
    日本小売価格:￥4700
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    Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6 out of 10 (1)

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    February 22, 2011

    This customer review refers to God's Puzzle (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version)
    Miike's puzzle Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6 out of 10
    "God's Puzzle" begins promisingly, but ends a silly mess. Motokazu (Ichihara Hayato) is a budding sushi chef, rock guitarist of dubious skill, and general layabout. When his brilliant physics whiz twin brother leaves Japan to follow his girlfriend, he asks Motokazu to attend his physics class in his stead. Motokazu, of course, is singularly ill-equipped to fill that role. Nonetheless, he attends and there he meets Saraka (Tanimura Mitsuki), a child prodigy of physics. Saraka, unfortunately, has serious emotional problems. She was a test-tube baby who believes her mother specially created her to be a genius, a role she resents and one she feels seals her off from being able to relate to others. She becomes determined to create a new universe (and destroy the world) by hijacking a particle accelerator that she inspired or, failing that, to commit suicide. Hapless Motokazu tries to help Saraka become more normal, but Sarakara appears to have sunk too deeply into her depression.

    The movie piles implausibility upon implausibility (including the central implausibility that one could create a new universe and destroy the world with a particle accelerator), interrupts the flow with a long of the story with a long physics lecture about the creation of the universe delivered very implausibly by Motokazu, and further interrupts the flow with utterly pointless scenes of Motokazu's twin brother hanging out in India. Its climax, as Saraka seeks to carry out her plan and Motokazu tries to save her ... with bad rock music and wet sushi, is almost laughable. No, I take that back -- it is laughable, but not in a good way.

    The film's saving grace is Tanimura Mitsuki as the tortured Saraka. It is a nicely controlled performance, showing a veneer of calm covering a battle of inner demons. Too bad the filmmakers of "God's Puzzle" failed to deliver a similarly controlled performance. Their silly, over-the-top ending wastes the nice groundwork they had laid.
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