Arrow Video will release Ryûhei Kitamura’s Versus on Blu-ray on December 8th. Newly restored in 2K from original film elements (approved by Kitamura), the two-disc set includes the original cut and the 2004 extended cut, Ultimate Versus.
Chris Malbon designed the new cover art; the original poster is on the reverse side.
DISC 1: VERSUS
DISC 2: ULTIMATE VERSUS
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet with new writing on the film, a reprinted interview with Kitamura, and Kitamura’s notes on the making of the film.
Pre-order HERE.
Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train, Downrange, No One Lives), the film stars Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, and Kenji Matsuda.
Written by Kitamura with Yudai Yamaguchi (Meatball Machine), it begins when a mysterious face-off in a wooded clearing between two escaped convicts and a carload of sharply dressed yakuza holding a beautiful woman captive ends in hails of bullets and showers of blood. The location for this violent encounter is the mythic Forest of Resurrection, the site of the 444th portal of the 666 hidden gates that link this earthly domain to the netherworld – and it didn’t get this name for nothing. As one of the surviving prisoners escapes with the girl into the darkness of the forest, disgruntled gangsters soon become the least of their worries as an earlier battle between a lone warrior against hordes of zombie samurai is carried over from a millennium ago into the present day…
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