Lady Joker 
|
|
| Our Price : |
$48.99 |
| List Price : |
69.99 |
| You Save : |
$21.00 (30.00 %)
|
| Availability : |
7 - 10 Days |
|
|
|
| Product Details : |
|
| Format : |
 |
Distributor : |
- |
| No. of discs : |
1
|
Video : |
NTSC |
| Shipping Origin : |
Japan |
Running Time : |
121+ |
| Release Date : |
21 Jun 2005 |
|
| DVD Region Code : |
|
| DVD Screen Format : |
Letterbox 16:9 Vista |
| DVD Audio Specs : |
Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| DVD Remark : |
Making of, Interviews, Trailers, TV spot, Photo Gallery... |
|
Based on a best-selling novel by Kaoru Takamura thought hard, if not impossible, to film, 'Lady Joker' is slower, darker and more offbeat than the Hollywood genre standard. The snatching of a beer company president -- which would have been a key scene if Bruce Willis had been leading the kidnapping gang -- is not even shown, though the aftermath has its share of confrontations and dustups, deadly and otherwise. The kidnappers, led by one Seizo Moroi (Tetsuya Watari) -- an elderly but still formidable drugstore owner -- first meet at a racetrack, where they have come less to make a killing than to kill time. They include Handa (Koji Kikawa), a cynical police detective; Matsudo, a punkish young shop rat; Ko (Mitsuru Fukoshi), a street-smart credit union employee; and Nunokawa (Ren Osugi), a short-fused truck driver whose teenage daughter, nicknamed Lady, doesn't speak and is confined to a wheelchair.
These five have skills, if not temperaments, that complement each other and, when they decide to kidnap Kyosuke Shiroyama (Kyozo Nagatsuka), the saturnine president of Hinode Beer, their plan goes like clockwork. The police frantically search for leads, but their prime suspects -- a group of corporate extortionists -- turn out to innocent... DVD Special Feature: Making of / Interviews / Trailers / TV spot / Photo gallery... |
| 
| 
Email A Friend
