Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Sogo Ishii

Writer:

Sogo Ishii (writer)

Release Date:

7 March 2002 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he's climbing a tall cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences...

Plot Keywords:

Electricity | Light | Violence | Vigilante | City

Cast

Tadanobu Asano	...	Dragon Eye Morrison
Masakatsu Funaki	...	Narrator (voice)
Masatoshi Nagase	...	Thunderbolt Buddha

Runtime:

Germany:55 min (Berlin Film Festival)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Company:

Suncent CinemaWorks

Quotes:

Narrator: The dragon. A mythological creature? No. It exists -- inside us.

Furious visual Hardcore

This is an aggressive Tour de Force in the vein of the early works of Shinya Tsukamoto, while nor sharing the intense body horror of those films or the extreme stand toward sexuality. Two electrified superheros battle for domination in this short (55 min) b/w feature film by Sogo Ishii. Electric Dragon Eye who was superempowered by an accident is capable of communicating with reptiles and releases his amphetamine stridden electronic energy by playing electric guitar on the streets. He is provoked by another stud the Thunderbold Buddha that is wearing a split mask over his head. Superfast cut Comic action combined with the sound of Ishiis own band Mach.167 culminates in a furious battle on the rooftop of a japanese megalopolis. Its Cyberpunk and definitely related to digital hardcore music or Alec Empire.