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Gantz

  • 20102010
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 10m
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6.4/10
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Kazunari Ninomiya, Tomorô Taguchi, Takayuki Yamada, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kanata Hongô, Yuriko Yoshitaka, and Natsuna in Gantz (2010)
Kei Kurono and his childhood friend Masaru Kato attempt to save a man who has fallen onto the train tracks but are run down by an oncoming train. However, rather than finding themselves dead, they are transported to a strange apartment in which they find a mysterious black orb known as 'GANTZ'. In this inescapable room, they are provided weaponry and forced into participating in the extermination of 'aliens' in order to survive. While Kurono chooses to fight for survival, Kato refuses to engage in battle and rejects a world controlled by violence. Kurono and Kato along with the others sharing their fate are pushed to their limits in the relentless battles against the aliens. Is this world, which tests your will to survive, a game or reality?
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After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
8K
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  • Director
    • Shinsuke Sato
  • Writers
    • Hiroya Oku(manga)
    • Yûsuke Watanabe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kazunari Ninomiya
    • Kanata Hongô
    • Ken'ichi Matsuyama
  • Director
    • Shinsuke Sato
  • Writers
    • Hiroya Oku(manga)
    • Yûsuke Watanabe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kazunari Ninomiya
    • Kanata Hongô
    • Ken'ichi Matsuyama
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    • 37User reviews
    • 50Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Kazunari Ninomiya
    Kazunari Ninomiya
    • Kei Kurono
    Kanata Hongô
    Kanata Hongô
    • Joichiro Nishi
    Ken'ichi Matsuyama
    Ken'ichi Matsuyama
    • Masaru Kato
    Natsuna
    Natsuna
    • Kei Kishimoto
    Ainosuke Shibata
    • Tanaka Seijin
    Yuriko Yoshitaka
    • Tae Kojima
    Ayumi Ito
    Ayumi Ito
    • Eriko Ayukawa
    Chieko Ichikawa
    • Kayo Sugimoto
    Donpei Tsuchihira
    • Muso Tokugawa
    Hidekazu Nagae
    • Green Onion Father
    Kazuhide Kobayashi
    • Kiyoshi Hatanaka
    Kazuyuki Asano
    Kazuyuki Asano
    • Kenichi Kurono
    Kensuke Chisaka
    • Ayumu Kato
    Matsuri Hashimoto
    • Ball Man
    Merii
    • Izumi Shiraishi
    Motoki Ochiai
    • Takashi Inamori
    Ryûya Wakaba
    Ryûya Wakaba
    • Koki Takahashi
    Sho Igarashi
    • Green Onion Kid (Face)
    • Director
      • Shinsuke Sato
    • Writers
      • Hiroya Oku(manga)
      • Yûsuke Watanabe(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The first song in the credits is in German. The lyrics consist only of the four words "Kämpfe gegen die Aliens!" ("Fight against the aliens!").
    • Connections
      Edited into Another Gantz (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Kitte no Nai Okurimono
      by Seiji Tanaka

    User reviews37

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    Only for lovers of the Manga or Anime
    Japanese movies were often innovative, groundbreaking, trend-setting, also for the western movie industry. This declined during the last 10 - 15 years, that may (towards I tend to believe) or may not caused by the growing occurrence of Anime movies, often Manga-based. Therefore, Asian quality movies are now coming more from other countries.

    'Gantz' has its origins in a popular 'Seinen' Manga (for adults), which were in Japan also successful as Anime series. It starts up with a mystery. A few people are rematerialized in a room after their obvious death. The machinery responsible for their resurrection uses unimaginable technology, but orders them to fight against so-called 'Aliens', and to gain points like in an ordinary video-game. Confronted with their first mission the people react different, some of them are killed, but most of them are completely disturbed.

    Until the first mission the movie is (from a western point of view) intriguing; effects and design ideas are announcing a decent mystery/sf experience, if the audience isn't aware of the Manga/Anime.

    That lasts about 10, maybe 15 minutes, until one realizes, that any further impressing film experience will not happen. If you know the Manga or the Anime series, you know that the movie won't bring any deeper insights than disturbed people, hesitating to pull the trigger even when it goes for their (second) life, and Aliens mostly waiting for being destroyed between cheesy dialogs. Most of the Anime's sexual content and language is absent in the movie; but not the inexplicable behavior of the participants, both human or alien (or director/writer/producer).

    Furthermore, there is no real mystery, as one, who is not familiar with the 'Gantz' Manga, may hope. It's simple simple simple. The machine is for playing the game, it's not something between the realms of death and life, it's no matter of Karma or God or the Devil. It's a machine built for a game, built by someone, and this someone isn't even a computer nerd version of an AVP predator. So, there is no revelation, no development. There isn't even a noticeable story anymore.

    Between the fights the survivors are released to the real world, so they may continue their lost life, until they are transferred to the next mission, where new dead people arrive mostly to be killed because of their freezing despair (women) or dumbness (men). The real-life part of the characters between the missions is mostly lengthened and could have been cut with very little effect.

    If someone would argue, that there are insights shown to the abysms of human behavior or the illness of the society, or something that goes one millimeter deeper than Video Game Shooting, I could not disagree more than to that. I would accept it for 'Gamer', but not 'Gantz'.

    Overall, the movie could have been cut to some 75 min. length, and as a result it would be slightly entertaining for an audience with an IQ greater 70.

    People who expect a decent Japanese movie, will be deeply disappointed. There is a CGI quality to mention, but asides from the flawed plot, there is too much overacting and screaming, to keep the level at least in the B class.
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    • Nov 1, 2011

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    • Release date
      • January 29, 2011 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Gantz: The Movie, Part 1
    • Production companies
      • Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company (CBC)
      • Fukuoka Broadcasting System (FBS)
      • Hiroshima Telecasting (HTV)
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    • Budget
      • $22,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $40,568,961
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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