Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death [VHS]
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Actor: Kevan Ohtsji, Mako, Masaya Kato, Tch?ky Karyo, Y?ko ShimadaEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1995-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Orion
Studio: Orion
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Movie Review: Japanese Artist Becomes Assassin For Chinese Mafia
Summary: 5 Stars
A beautiful 29 year old virgin witnesses an assassination committed by the Chinese Mafia and then becomes a target for their most deadly hitman...
Crying Freeman: The Complete Collection is a 3 disc set that contains the 6 episodes of the Crying Freeman anime. If you've read the manga you know what this is about: mafia, assassinations, espionage, sex, and global intrigue. It's all there except now you get to see it in color.
Like other reviewers have noted, the series starts off very strong and then the plots begin to disintegrate. However after you reach a certain point it doesn't matter anymore. At that point it becomes Freeman traveling the globe, finding one vicious, sick enemy after another that he must destroy. His enemies are so depraved it's a pleasure to see what brutal technique Freeman will use to slaughter them.
The animation is what you would expect from an 80s anime, although the art stays close to Ryoichi Ikegami's realistic style. I've always been fascinated by his original work on the Freeman series. Ikegami has a phenomenal talent for action scenes, vehicles, and cityscapes.
This series is a great opportunity to check out an action cartoon that restricts nothing in terms of violence, sex, or language. The violence is intensely brutal... murders, rapes, nothing is too graphic for the Crying Freeman series. This is one of the coolest DVD sets you can own. These are the kind of DVDs you can watch with your friends and completely blow them away.
Amazon currently has the set on the marketplace for [...], but you can order each DVD individually for much cheaper. There are 3 volumes all available on amazon.
Summary of Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death [VHS]
The bloody story of an assassin who silently weeps for his victims, Crying Freeman began as a 1986 manga by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami. In addition to this six-part OVA, the story has been filmed twice in live action. The leaders of the Chinese Mafia known as the 108 Dragons brainwash ceramicist Yoh Hinamura and transform him into the ultimate assassin. Virginal artist Emu Hino witnesses a killing by Yoh, but when he comes to murder her, she seduces him and wins his heart. Defying the syndicate, he refuses to give her up. Emu and Yoh subsequently become the bosses of the 108 Dragons. They run the organization--whose illegal activities are tactfully glossed over--on the principles of honor and absolute loyalty extolled in live-action Yakuza movies.Like true love, the course of mob business seldom runs smoothly, and the body count for the entire series runs into the thousands. Hit men and women are dispatched with knives, throwing knives, swords, karate chops, pistols, machine guns, grenades, missiles, and electricity. As the plot grows more baroque, the animation grows more limited. After a certain point, the images of knives penetrating skulls, full-body tattoos, bare breasts, and awkwardly animated sexual encounters become monotonous, but Crying Freeman is definitely not for the squeamish or prudish. (Rated 17 and older, but more appropriate for 18 and older: graphic violence, violence against women, rape, torture, ethnic stereotypes, extensive nudity, explicit sexual situations) --Charles Solomon
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