DVD: Death Trance

Death Trance. When a coffin is stolen, a young monk begins a journey to return the coffin back to its rightful place. While the coffin thief is only using it to find a worthy enough foe. Death Trance is based on the Japanese animated manga series which as gain a lot of fame in Japan. Now a live action version comes to the big screen in a ruff, dark action packed martial arts film. Action director Yuji Shimomura brings this story to life, as much like the action in Versus he fills Death Trance in a roller coaster ride of action excitement non-stop.

The story-line of Death Trance follows closely to Book One of the Manga Series. With the Goddess of Destruction, causing pure havoc on the world and now one can stop her. Death Trance shows it all from the very beginning.

There are a wide range of unusual characters. Which is a great thing. The characters are more goth like for example there's two women who are sort of the same person if you put them together with the opposite sides of there body covered and faces pure white. Another character that reminded me as some thing in Final Fantasy Seven in one of the battles there is a sort of S&M type of guy with this large wide sword. Which was pretty awesome. With the coffin was a very young child which I thought was funny she loved to see the main character Grave (Tak Sakaguchi) getting into fights with groups of enemy's.

The action in the film was amazing it was non-stop. If you've ever seen Versus, then you'll know that the action scenes in this is good. The fight scenes become very exciting also due to the music in the film. Now after seeing this I believe everyone should have Metal/Rock music incoperated in martial arts fight scenes. The music I thought matched theme of the fight which made it great. The time line of the story is unknown, but I thought it was cool when you see the first couple of fights with swords and other types of weapons, then all of a sudden they bring in guns into the fight. Which I say, Awesome! They made many weapons that had a gun connected to the hand of the sword and another combination I won't mention.

The story-line, action, characters, and setting of the film where really well done in Yuji Shimomra's directorial debut he done a great job. Many more film will surely go his way. If you liked Versus, or like martial arts films then I recommend thins one all the way.

DVD

The Dvd aspect of Death Trance is good it comes with doubly Digital 2.0 or 5.1 sound in either Japanese or English, and ofcourse English subtitles, and 1.75:1 Adamorphic Widescreen.

The Special Features on the Dvd has a 'Making Of' feature, a interview with Tak Sakeguuhi, and the original trailers as well as of other trailers of films presented by Media Blaster. The making of feature is around ten minutes which is ok but I know there could have been more add to it, and I like the interview with Tak Sakeguchi. Overall this Dvd is a buy.