The Shonen Merikensack (DVD) (Deluxe Edition) (Japan Version) DVD Region 2
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A step away from losing her job, record company employee Kanna (Miyazaki Aoi) comes across an awesome punk rock band called Shonen Merikensack on the Internet, and sets out to sign them. With her job on the line, she discovers too late that the video she saw is actually an old clip from the 80s, and the members - bassist Akio (Sato Koichi), guitarist Haruo (Kimura Yuichi), drummer Young (Miyake Hiroki), and vocalist Jimmy (Taguchi Tomorow) - are now all down-on-luck middle-aged fogies. As buzz for the mystery band grows, Kanna's record company, still in the dark about the truth, decide to launch a concert tour for Shonen Merikensack, and they want Kanna to be the band's manager!
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| Product Title: | The Shonen Merikensack (DVD) (Deluxe Edition) (Japan Version) The Shonen Merikensack (DVD) (豪華版) (日本版) The Shonen Merikensack (DVD) (豪华版) (日本版) 少年メリケンサック デラックス・エディション The Shonen Merikensack (DVD) (Deluxe Edition) (Japan Version) |
| Also known as: | Brass Knuckle Boys Brass Knuckle Boys Brass Knuckle Boys Brass Knuckle Boys Brass Knuckle Boys |
| Artist Name(s): | Miyazaki Aoi | Sato Koichi | Aikawa Sho | Tanabe Seiichi | Yusuke Santamaria | Pierre Taki | Taguchi Tomorowo | Kimura Yuichi | Nakamura Atsuo | Torimaru Setsuko | Imuzuka Hiroshi | Katsuji Ryo | Ishida Hoshi | Namioka Kazuki | Sato Tomohito 宮崎葵 | 佐藤浩市 | 哀川翔 | 田邊誠一 | 中山裕介 | Taki Pie-ru | Taguchi Tomorowo | 木村祐一 | 中村敦夫 | Torimaru Setuko | 犬塚弘 | 勝地涼 | 石田法嗣 | 浪岡一喜 | 佐藤智仁 宫崎葵 | 佐藤浩市 | 哀川翔 | 田边诚一 | 中山裕介 | Pierre Taki | Taguchi Tomorowo | 木村佑一 | Nakamura Atsuo | Torimaru Setsuko | 犬冢弘 | Katsuji Ryo | 石田法嗣 | 浪冈一喜 | 佐藤智仁 宮崎あおい | 佐藤浩市 | 哀川翔 | 田辺誠一 | ユースケ・サンタマリア | ピエール瀧 | 田口トモロヲ | 木村祐一 | 中村敦夫 | 烏丸せつこ | 犬塚弘 | 勝地涼 | 石田法嗣 | 三宅弘城 | 浪岡一喜 | 峯田和伸 | 佐藤智仁 Miyazaki Aoi | Sato Koichi | Aikawa Sho | Tanabe Seiichi | Yusuke Santamaria | Pierre Taki | Taguchi Tomorowo | Kimura Yuichi | Nakamura Atsuo | Torimaru Setsuko | Imuzuka Hiroshi | Katsuji Ryo | Ishida Hoshi | Namioka Kazuki | Sato Tomohito |
| Director: | Kudo Kankuro 宮藤官九郎 宫藤官九郎 宮藤官九郎 Kudo Kankuro |
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| Release Date: | 2009-08-07 |
| Publisher Product Code: | VPBT-13356 |
| 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: | VAP |
| Other Information: | 2DVDs |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1020135994 |
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宮藤官九郎監督＆豪華キャストが贈る、ノンストップ・エンターテインメント。特典ディスクつきでリリース。 奇才・宮藤官九郎が監督＆脚本を担当した、ノンストップ・エンターテインメント。監督自身がこだわり抜いた"パンクバンド"をテーマに、豪華キャストが結集。宮?あおいが見事なコメディエンヌぶりを披露しているほか、佐藤浩市や木村祐一、田口トモロヲ、三宅弘城といったパワフルな面々がオッサン・パンクロッカーを熱演している。メインテーマを銀杏BOYZ、音楽を向井秀徳が担当。コアなファンを擁する2組の音楽性が、宮藤ワールドをより際立たせている。 ■映像特典：予告編・TVスポット集／特典DISC付
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As the writer of Takashi Miike's Zebraman, cult hit Maiko Haaan and his own directorial debut Yaji and Kita, The Midnight Ramblers, multi-talented writer-director-actor-musician Kankuro Kudo has become one of the most visible faces for the sort of manic, extreme Japanese comedy that cult film fnas lap up on the festival circuit around the world. But what often gets forgotten is that Kudo is also a hugely acclaimed - and award winning - dramatist as well, his theatrical productions having won some of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, while the scripts he wrote for Ping Pong and Go early in his career also show a sensitivity to character and dramatic tension seemingly at odds with his more manic moments. Bear that in mind when approaching Kudo's latest directorial effort, The Shonen Merikensack. While very distinctly a Kudo-written comedy, Merikensack is far more in keeping with Kudo's earlier work than it is with his brash and colorful self. Go in expecting Yaji And Kita part two and you'll be sorely disappointed. Let it be what Kudo wants it to be and you'll find a whole lot to love.
Aoi Miyazaki stars as Kanna, a small town girl with a love for all things cute. Dreading the prospect of a small town life spent working in her father's restaurant, Kanna has made her way to the big city and found work as a low-level A&R rep - a talent scout, basically - for a powerful record label. But Kanna's contract is about to expire and, unless she can find something to impress her boss Kanna is on her way out. The answer? The Shonen Merikensack. Despite loathing the genre herself, Kanna discovers the blazing punk rock act via an online video and, recognizing the potential shows it to her boss who is so enthused that he posts it on the record label website and books a tour before even seeing the band play live - never mind actually signing them to a contract - leaving those pesky details in Kanna's care. The video a huge online sensation and the tour selling out long in advance, Kanna's career should be made, but when she travels to meet the guitar player who leads the band and get the contract signed she realizes her fatal mistake. The video is twenty five years old, the band long since broken up. The brothers who made up the core of the band have refused to speak to each other for years. The singer? Nearly catatonic and confined to a wheelchair after an unfortunate, on-stage guitar swinging mishap. This is clearly a disaster waiting to happen but Kanna has no choice, she's gone past the point of no return. She must hide the truth from her boss, get the band back together and then hit the road and try to keep them back together at least long enough to make it through the shows that have already been sold. Though definitely not without its goofy side - the interactions between Kanna and the band are frequently hilarious - The Shonen Merikensack is ultimately a smart, character based bit of work. It's a classic road movie, all of the players forced to learn and grow thanks to the enforced proximity to one another, all of them forced to confront the bad decisions of their pasts and chart a course for the future. The structure of it is nothing you haven't seen before - it's a classic triumph of the little guy, feel good approach - but it's Kudo's execution of the characters and story that make it special. The entire cast is sterling from top to bottom, the comedy and drama elements neatly balanced throughout. Like most Japanese films it runs a touch long and doesn't have the immediate hook that much of Kudo's work does but The Shonen Merikensack rewards with the detail and craftsmanship of its work, ending up as a film that sticks with you for a good while past the closing frames. by Todd Brown - Twitchfilm.net |
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"The Shonen Merikensack" belongs on the short shelf of hilarious rock-themed comedies with the classic "This is Spinal Tap" and Hong Kong's "The Heavenly Kings". Unsuccessful A&R rep Kanna (Aoi Miyazaki) has one last chance to find a successful act for her record company employer, when she stumbles upon a punk rock video on the internet that is creating a lot of buzz. Her boss, a closet punk rocker himself, leaps at the chance to sign this new act. However, when Kanna seeks to contact the band, she is mortified to learn that they are not a hot young act -- the video playing on the internet is 25 years old and the band now is a bunch of middle-aged losers. Desperate to avoid having to return to working in her father's sushi bar, Kanna tries to whip the four former punks into some semblance of their former selves and take them in the road for a series of heavily-promoted club performances. At the same time, she's trying to hold together her relationship with her wet-noodle aspiring folk singer boyfriend. Can the tireless Kanna pull it off? Amid the side-splitting comedic carnage wreaked by these endlessly quarreling codgers, the film adds a human dimension of hopes squelched, lives squandered, and loves misplaced. Through it all Miyazaki Aoi is a frenzied, frantic delight. She delivers one of the great comic performances of the year. "The Shonen Merikensack" often is crude, but it is one of the funniest movies I've seen in quite a while. |
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