BIFFF: Kei Fujiwara's ID (IDO)
FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE
[STILL ANOTHER UPDATE: With regard to the belowmentioned Screen Entertainment release of the original version of Id on DVD, the DVD is now available for pre-order from ScreenAnarchy affiliate Amazon.co.uk (Amazon EU SARL and Amazon Services Europe SARL) - see the bottom of this article for link.]
The original (i.e., 104-minute) version of Kei Fujiwara's Id (Ido) is scheduled to be screened at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) on April 11th and 12th. That version opened at Fujiwara's Strange Underground Cavern - Blue Miracle (Fushigi chitei kutsu - ao no kiseki) establishment in Tokyo on September 1, 2005. A 93-minute version of the movie was screened in competition at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai) in Hokkaido, Japan on February 24th and 25th of last year. Media Blasters Inc. is scheduled to release the original version on DVD (TSDVD-0724; NTSC, region 1, Japanese w/ English subtitles) in the U.S. on June 12th; the DVD is available for pre-order from ScreenAnarchy affiliate Amazon.com Inc.. Screen Entertainment Ltd. is scheduled to release the original version on DVD (TERRA 14; PAL, region 2, Japanese w/ English subtitles) in the U.K. on April 23rd.
The principal cast of Id is as follows: (Kei) Fujiwara, Kimihiko Hasegawa, Kenji Nasa, Baiken Jukkanji, Yoshiaki Maekawa, Yasuyuki Mineta, Shôzô Tôjima, Sayaka Kai, Yukari Endô, Hiroshi Kitano, Eiji Hayashi, Masamitsu Mizuguchi, Chatarô Takahashi, Norio Shindô, Juri Shiina, Masami Akimoto, Ryô Ôkubo, Sakae Yamazaki, Daisuke Miyaji, Masanobu Asakawa, Yûki Awano, Mito Awano, Kikuzô, Noriaki Kawasaki, and Yamato Yasumura.
Fujiwara was also the screenwriter, production designer, cinematographer, and editor of Id. She similarly was also the screenwriter, co-production designer, cinematographer, and lead actress of her 1996 movie Organ (Orugan).
Here's a description of Id from the BIFFF website: "A bloodthirsty killer roams the forest. The sound of water flowing deep beneath the earth, fills his mind. He hears an unknown voice, passing through the depths of his unconscious, his id, emanating from the murmuring of an underground stream. Captivated by this voice, the man descends and is swept away by raging river waters. He's rescued by the people of a small town steel mill. Soon, terrible incidents begin occurring at the mill. The factory manager is found beaten to death. The perpetrator is a female employee of the mill. It's her voice that has summoned the killer here. The combined hatred and sorrow of these two brings about the appearance of the foul smelling human-hog monster. At that moment, the detective who has been pursuing the man, arrives at the mill town as if summoned by fate. ¶ Kei Fujiwara does not only star in Id, she also serves as screenwriter, production designer, cinematographer and editor. Her second film is even more disturbing than her debut, Organ, from 1996. The instinctive drive and unconscious desire is the basis of what consists our self, our ego, our id. Fujiwara's cosmic view of these hidden desires, of life and death is sublime to the point of grotesque and is eccentrically and humorously depicted in the film. ¶ Kei Fujiwara (1957) is a Japanese actress, playwright, cinematographer, producer and film director. She starred in Shinya's Tsukamoto's Denchu Kozo and played the lead in Tetsuo: The Iron Man. She debuted as a director with the horror film Organ. Id is her second long feature."
For more information on Id, see ScreenAnarchy's seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.
Id trailer #2 (no dialogue; downloadable 3.5 MB MOV file)
Id trailer #1 (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 5.6 MB WMV file)
Id U.K. DVD cover - front (see above left - 52 KB JPEG version)
Id official subsite
Eleven Arts: Id
BIFFF: Id
Amazon.com: Id U.S. DVD
Amazon.co.uk: Id U.K. DVD
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Organ trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3.1 MB MOV file)
Eleven Arts: Organ
Amazon.com: Organ U.S. DVD
