The film won the Best director and Special Jury awards at 8th Action and Adventure Film Festival in Valenciennes in 1997. It should be noted. Interesting thing is that he seems to be planning to do a sequel set in the Andes near future. Yakusho would definitely reprise his best role so far, and possibly, Mickey the Animaru, the one you love to hate, might come back from hell. After all, he was not pronounced dead at the end, was he?