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The Vanished (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Malaysia Version) DVD Region 3

Maki Yoko (Actor) | Narumi Riko (Actor) | Wada Soko (Actor) | Tanaka Makoto (Director)
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Though the J-horror genre has become rather predictable in recent years, The Vanished (a.k.a. Ame no Machi) assembles some fresh names for a scary surprise. This 2006 horror is based on a short story by Kikuchi Hideyuki, the writer of Vampire Hunter D, Demon City Shinjuku, and Wicked City, and he even makes an appearance in the film. Directing duties fall on Tanaka Makoto, whose varied credits include associate producer of Casshern, artwork for Devil May Cry, and animator on My Neighbor Totoro. The Vanished also gets an extra boost from the solid young cast of Wada Toshihiro (Battle Royale II), Maki Yoko (Sway, Summer Time Machine Blues), and up-and-coming talent Riko Narumi from How to Become Myself, Calling You, and Shindo.

Freelance reporter Kaneishi (Wada Toshihiro) is covering the strange case of a child who was found dead with no internal organs. The case only gets weirder when he witnesses the child coming back to life and escaping the mortuary. He follows the leads to an old village where he learns that a group of school children mysteriously disappeared 35 years ago. Since then, whenever it rains the children reappear, looking the same as they did on the day of disappearance. In a picture of the missing children, Kaneishi finds the boy he's investigating. Just as he's trying to piece together the puzzle, one of the missing girls (Riko Narumi) suddenly appears...

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Product Title: The Vanished (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Malaysia Version) 雨之町 (DVD) (中英文字幕) (馬來西亞版) 雨之町 (DVD) (中英文字幕) (马来西亚版) 雨の町 The Vanished (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Malaysia Version)
Also known as: Ame no Machi 迷離三十年 迷离三十年 Ame no Machi Ame no Machi
Artist Name(s): Maki Yoko (Actor) | Narumi Riko (Actor) | Wada Soko (Actor) 真木陽子 (Actor) | 成海璃子 (Actor) | 和田聰宏 (Actor) 真木阳子 (Actor) | 成海璃子 (Actor) | 和田聪宏 (Actor) 真木よう子 (Actor) | 成海璃子 (Actor) | 和田聰宏 (Actor) Maki Yoko (Actor) | Narumi Riko (Actor) | Wada Soko (Actor)
Director: Tanaka Makoto 田中誠 田中诚 田中誠 Tanaka Makoto
Release Date: 2009-02-02
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese, Malay
Place of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Publisher: PMP Entertainment (M) SDN. BHD.
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1014396327

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Director: Makoto Tanaka

SOTA KANEISHI, a freelance writer for a lowbrow tabloid magazine, visits a local town to investigate the mysterious case of a dead child whose internal organ is completely missing. While interviewing, a doctor in a morgue, the dead child suddenly humps off the stretcher and runs away. With a help of FUMIO KOSAKA, a female officer at the village office, SOTA further investigates the incident of a sudden disappearance of a group of children happened there 35 years ago. They find a photo album of children at the now deserted elementary school, and one of the children in the album's photo, taken 35 years ago, is the dead boy who escaped from the hospital...
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Professional Review of "The Vanished (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Malaysia Version)"

May 26, 2008

This professional review refers to The Vanished (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
Tell me that Ingmar Bergman made a bad film and I'd have to defer to your better judgement. Tell me that chocolate is bad for me and I would accept the overwhelming medical evidence. You could even try to convince me that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have been overwhelmingly positive influences, and not the agents of international marketing and cultural imperialism, and I would listen carefully, bite my tongue, and reluctantly accept that that could be true. But if anyone tries to convince me that children are anything other than monstrous shortarses with a blanket permission to destroy the peace of any public environment, I simply will not listen to them.

I know that to quote Whitney Houston, and, intriguingly according to Google, the British National Party, "children are the future", and I know that "we were all young once", and I realise that hating brats makes me a social outcast, but I do, I just can't help myself. So when I tell you that The Vanished begins with a scene where a young schoolboy's pleas are ignored when he knocks at his parents door and then gets chased by a man with a cudgel who stuffs him in a large box, you will know that this is a film that has already got me on its side. That the rest of the film is spent explaining why this monster in shorts is richly deserving of his treatment can only convince you that my misanthropy has finally found the perfect cinematic mirror.

For well adjusted people, I am quite sure that the movie's opening is shocking and causes the spectator to demand an explanation. It is a truly wonderful beginning and from there we are introduced to Souta in the way of a flashback to his horrible youth as a latchkey kid to a dead loss mother. When we join him in the present we find him investigating child exploitation much to his magazine boss' disgust who sends him off to the country to look into the strange case of a young child found with out any internal organs. When the dead child walks out the mortuary, Souta follows clues which lead him to a remote village where 30 children disappeared 40 years ago. He then meets two of the children and they are wearing the same uniforms and have the same names and faces as two of the disappeared. Stranger still, the two remaining households in the village live in fear and ignore the children's pleading to be let in. Souta soon learns the truth and is an unwitting accomplice to carnage.

Written and directed by Makoto Tanaka, The Vanished is an unpredictable and challenging entertainment. Once the macabre opening gives way to Souta's investigation, the movie manages to maintain the interest and suspense through the various reveals that offer comparison to stories like The Midwich Cuckoos. The best attributes of the film is that it does not seek to over-explain and allows the viewer to enjoy the relatively restrained violence and the build up to each scare by providing interesting characters and offbeat ideas. By introducing Souta's awful childhood he is revealed as someone whose interest in the case is driven by empathy rather than pure curiosity, a man who is still a bullied child at heart, and the adult characters he meets are Coen-like in their interesting eccentricity.

Less positively, the film does have a botched ending which requires formulaic thinking to assume that Souta has acquired the only young adult woman in the cast as his partner. The computer generated effects are effective in the revealing of the children's nature, and the shock moments are well delivered by using a real life aesthetic rather than a heightened look. The adult actors are fine, Souta is played by a Tadanobu Asano double and his main squeeze is pretty but odd looking as well, and the dreadful children's performances are a mix of winsomeness and deadly potential, something that I believe requires no pretence on their part.

A surprising and relatively original film, a movie which will horrify those of you committed to continuing the species, and it provides further evidence that my warped conception of offspring is entirely correct. The short running time allows for little fat on the tale, but that is a real benefit in a world where scary movies can go on far too long. The Vanished is a good, effective horror flick.

DVD
The photography of the film is rather downbeat and the feature presentation here is loyal to the lack of brilliant colours. The transfer is anamorphic at the original aspect ratio and a little soft looking with detail away from the centre of each frame lacking definition. Colours are autumnal and true and the contrast is confident in dealing with the darker sequences. I am sure that it would have been possible to have been sharper, but this is a goodish budget presentation.

The sound comes in a single stereo Japanese track which is clear and consistent and strong enough. The English subtitles are less impressive with occasional mis-spellings and grammar that requires a little decoding. The single extra here is a photo gallery which measured up against the Japanese release is paltry as that disc has interviews, and a trailer (albeit without English subs).

Overall
Something of an enjoyable surprise available here as a budget disc. For the rather small price and the lack of other options, I think fans of offbeat grown-up horror will be happy to pick this disc up.

by John White - DVD Times

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