A recent movie that threatened to pass by unnoticed, makes a surprise appearance on HK DVD with English Subtitles - discs fine, barebones and probably simply a port of the Japanese disc out at almost exactly the same time. Chance also to catch another mainstream appearance by Ryuhei Matsuda, as a key character but in minimal screen time, and a dark teen movie with strangely adult subject matter.
A strange film though, a real mixed-bag of bad decisions in almost every department. Not entirely easy to explain because of the way if drifts, the illogical and completely void of artistic merit plot, the all too familiar story hidden from view by a whole series of concepts that make for a film which lacks cohesion. A murder mystery then, with killer and hunter crossing paths online, set partially within the Yakuza world, partly within technology and the internet, and completely within the most inappropriate fantasy world I can think of because it lacks a grounding in reality. Oddly dismissive of many truths, strangely disconnected use of adult subject matters and the dangers within, it's a really strange commercial teen movie to say the least.