Useless to a lot of us, but for you people who have not seen it yet...

[orf]

Electric Dragon 80,000 Volts, probably one of the greatest movies from the past ten years I personally have ever seen (I prefer it even over Tetsuo), is coming to US DVD. Unearthed Films' doing it, so expect it in 2006 or so (they're not too fast), but it IS coming.

From the Unearthed site:

ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 VOLTS!!!!

Yep, you heard it right. Sogo Ishii's extreme cyberpunk film is now under the Unearthed Film’s banner. Starring Tadanobu Asano from Ichi the Killer and Masatoshi Nagase from Gojoe, Mystery Train. This high voltage, rock and roll film storms out of the gate and in your face with outrageous visuals and a pulse pounding soundtrack sure to make your blood pump and your senses reel.

What's the story about? Check this out: A young boy is struck by lightning. It stimulates the reptilian part of his brain so he becomes violent and starts kicking ass. Each time he gets busted they give him shock treatments to calm him down. As each shock treatment commences it unleashes more of his reptilian brain making him more violent. By the time he's grown up he becomes electrified to the max. What's Dragon Eye Morrison to do with the megawatts of power coursing through his body? He gets rid of it by playing high voltage rock and roll, discharging
the electricity through his guitar.

And if that's not enough high voltage for you, a hitman by the name of Electric Buddha comes onto the scene killing gangsters with his high-powered love of electrified technological devices. And get this, he's schizophrenic and has to battle himself several times to gain control over himself. Why does he have to gain mastery of his psychotic episodes? To do battle with Dragon Eye Morrison that's why. An all out electrified rock and roll battle for the supremacy of Tokyo!

Sogo Ishii's visual style in this film is truly out of this world and it should leave your senses on the floor. No kidding, I saw this film and had to release it. The DVD will have a ton of extras, anamorphic widescreen, 5.1 and DTS sound. The soundtrack for the film truly kicks major ass so those with powerful systems should watch it with the volume cranked.

The website also has a fun little flash movie at the begging with a basic rollover that's actually kind of addicting.

[elwood731]

Heh, sounds like an episode of the X-Files.

[orf]

Originally Posted by elwood731

Heh, sounds like an episode of the X-Files.

Oh, but it couldn't be farther away from X-Files. Throw in a bunch of crazy Japanese antics, loud music and overdone sound effects and lots of electricity and you have just a few parts of ED80000V

[SephirothClone]

When I first read the plot summary about three months ago I was turned off by the whole reptile idea. So I didnt bother looking into it. But after watching the trailer from the site it looks pretty fucking cool. (along with Flower of Flesh and Blood!)

[Notoriousaurus]

Is this anime or live action? Sounds like something that can only be pulled off in anime (not that that's a bad thing)

[PorkChopXpress]

Originally Posted by Notoriousaurus

Is this anime or live action? Sounds like something that can only be pulled off in anime (not that that's a bad thing)

Definitely live action. You should check out the trailer on link orf provided in his initial post. I dig the plot and think the movie looks awesome. I'm definitely checking this out when they get around to releasing it.