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Zeiram 2 is the sequel to Zeram, (I don’t know why “i” was dropped in the Fox Lorber release of the fresh, but “Zeiram” is the suitable transliteration of the Japanese spelling of the title monster’s name) a low-budget, charming science fiction/monster-in-the-rubber suit film directed by Amamiya Keita and starring supercool Moriyama Yuko. Endowed with a slightly bigger budget, the sequel is even more of a delirious fun. Moriyama returns, of course, and so does Zeiram, now wrapped in layers of body armor and heavy artillery.
I have to say Zeiram is a tremendous monster. Its compose is obviously inspired by noh theatre aesthetics, including the ultra-creepy, pasty, rouge-lipped noh hide face attached to a long, snakelike neck that serves as a feeding mechanism. This fraction of Zeiram devours chunks of whatever organic creature it encounters and manufactures a “capsule monster” out of its genetic material: shades of Ultra Seven! Every time Zeiram makes appearance it is accompanied in the soundtrack by rumbling male chorus and percussion, as if it is a supernatural presence in a noh play. The relationship between two bumbling electricians and Iria, the rogue investigator and arch-enemy to Zeiram, is also highly current in a science fiction setting, in that it is a favorable friendship (between male and female) developed from mutual admiration for each others’ abilities and resourcefulness. Although these two guys, Kamiya and Teppei, are inserted in the series as kyogen (comical noh) figures, here they net to deny different shades of their characters. All these human dimensions are completely missing in the anime version. (Who (…) needs to know about Iria’s brother? )
Media Blaster’s DVD transfer is generally obliging. I suspect that the source material was Japanese laserdisc, which tends to have itsy-bitsy depth in dark levels, so the resolution does suffer a bit during nighttime sequences in the last 10 minutes of the movie. You may have to adjust brightness and inequity levels of your TV site to gain the best portray. However, no compression noise or artifact problems seem to be indicate, at least overtly noticeable ones. Subtitles are grand better than usual, and English dubbing is glorious well done as well. Far obliging to the unusual Fox Lorber edition on this count. However, it is disappointing that the “Making of Zeiram 2″ featurette, a very scrumptious and personable story of low-budget science fiction filmmaking, is not available as an extra. It came free with the Japanese VHS, never mind laserdisc! Don’t stint on the extras please!
This is probably the first time that an anime series has inspired me to examine the unusual film. Zeiram, the animation is actually a prequel to this film in which director Keita Amemiya tells the memoir of bounty hunter Iria’s origins. Zeiram and Zeiram 2 occur later and are reprises of Iria’s running battles with the cyborg-like Zeiram – robots powered by peculiar creatures that examine like Noh masks and will eat anything including your dog.
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In Zeiram 2, Iria and her ‘assistant’ Fujikuro are tracking down an customary artifact called the Carmarite. Fujikuro betrays Iria knocks out her faithful computer friend Bob, leaving her facing some 50 combatants with only the assist of an experimental cyborg helper who looks an abominable lot like – you guessed it – Zeiram. After literally mowing down the abominable guys, Zeiram goes out of control (terrible programming, of course) . Also interested are two of Iria’s worn friend, Kiyama and Tepphei, who are the Abbott and Costello of the electronic repair business.
What follows is the kind of savory silliness that Amemiya is well-known for – a hectic action region that is corpulent of droll crises and courageous stunts. Everyone, including Zeiram, catch to ham it up with Power Ranger class stunts as the action shifts from temple to factory to shrine with impunity. If all you have seen before this film is the animation, which has a powerful more serious space, it will catch you a while to realize that all this vaudeville is intentional rather than poor acting.
Special effects, costumes, and sets are truly imaginative, reminiscent of Escher and Giger. The Zeiram cyborg in particular has as many tricks as a Swiss army knife. The truth is that the film is well crafted, even though its unconscionable silliness frequently obscures Amemiya’s better moments. Zeiram 2 is purely a confection, it’s hard not to like as long as you are careful not to hold it seriously.
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