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A downloadable trailer for Kei Fujiwara's Id (Ido) has been added to the website of Eleven Arts Inc.. Distribution rights for the original (i.e., 104-minute) version of the movie are being offered for sale by Eleven Arts.
The original version of Id opened at Fujiwara's Strange Underground Cavern - Blue Miracle (Fushigi chitei kutsu - ao no kiseki) establishment in Tokyo on September 1st of last year. 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 this year.
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 synopsis for Id from Eleven Arts' website: "A man known as the 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 the underground stream. Captivated by this voice, the man descends beneath the woods and is swept away by raging river waters, flowing high in the midst of a storm, and is picked up by a small-town steel mill along the bank of the river. In front of this factory, just next to a pig farm, there is an ancient waterway held together by a large spigot. The waterway resonates with the heat of the water in the man's most primal desires, his id. Before long, terrible incidents begin occurring amongst the frugal people of the mill, until one morning it is discovered that the factory manager has been beaten to death. The criminal is a female employee of the mill, and it is her voice that has summoned the man here. The hatred and sorrow of these two, drawn together in the realm of their id, brings about the appearance of the 'Human-hog' monster, which resonates a foul stench. At that moment, the ex-detective who has been pursuing the man arrives at the mill town, as if summoned by fate."
For more information on Id, see ScreenAnarchy's 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 official subsite
Eleven Arts: Id
Organ trailer (Japanese w/ English subtitles; downloadable 3.1 MB MOV file)
Eleven Arts: Organ
Amazon.com: Organ U.S. DVD
GOMORRAHY.com: Trailer Park subsite