DISTANCE (Japan Version - English Subtitles) DVD Region 2
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| Product Title: | DISTANCE (Japan Version - English Subtitles) 這麼 ... 遠, 那麼近 (日本版 - 英文字幕) 这么 ... 远, 那么近 (日本版 - 英文字幕) DISTANCE (日本版) DISTANCE (Japan Version - English Subtitles) |
| Artist Name(s): | ARATA | Ryo | Kore-eda Hirokazu | Iseya Yusuke | Terajima Susumu | Natsukawa Yui | Asano Tadanobu ARATA | Ryo | 是枝 裕和 | 伊勢谷友介 | 寺島進 | 夏川結衣 | 淺野忠信 ARATA | Ryo | 是枝裕和 | 伊势谷友介 | 寺岛进 | 夏川结衣 | 浅野忠信 ＡＲＡＴＡ | りょう | 是枝裕和 | 伊勢谷友介 | 寺島進 | 夏川結衣 | 浅野忠信 ARATA | Ryo | Kore-eda Hirokazu | Iseya Yusuke | Terajima Susumu | Natsukawa Yui | Asano Tadanobu |
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| Release Date: | 2002-06-25 |
| Publisher Product Code: | BCBJ-1208 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, 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: | Bandai |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1001838281 |
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カルト教団の信者が東京の水道にウィルスを混入させ、大量の死傷者を出すという事件が起こった。その後実行犯たちは教団に殺され、教祖は自殺した。それから3年。夏のある日、殺された実行犯の遺族4人がとある田舎の小さな駅で顔を合わせた。彼らは大量無差別殺人犯の家族であると共に、教団に殺害された被害者の家族でもあるという自分たちの立場に苦悩していた…。 映像特典：オリジナル劇場予告編／カンヌまでのディスタンス／「ディスタンス〜旅のはじまり〜」／キャスト・スタッフ・プロフィール（静止画）
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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 (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 (Japan Version - English Subtitles)"
July 13, 2004
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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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