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Electric Dragon 80.000 V
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
Release : | 2001 |
Rating : | 6.8 |
Studio : | Suncent CinemaWorks, Taki Corporation, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Tadanobu Asano Masatoshi Nagase Yoshiki Arizono |
Genre : | Fantasy Action Science Fiction Music |
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
There were more lines of dialog in the trailer for this movie than in the movie itself. OK. One might also point out that almost 1/10 of this movie was some idiot trying to play an obviously broken guitar. Another 1/5 was the same guy playing a working guitar without form or skill. It is my opinion that that is why "Thunderbolt Buddha" decided to kill him. No one that bad at guitar should be allowed to live. The acting in Electric Dragon is terrible, like Robert Bresson but without a point. The fight scene at the end is crappy, boring, and anticlimactic. There aren't many "scenes" but the different random shots of folks walking around and "rocking" are interspersed with random shots of voltmeter and . . . towers. There were a few decent scenes, stylistically, like the scene in which our arch villain fixes a TV antenna for a little old lady. The effects are OK too. But come on. Honestly. This movie is only really good for a laugh with friends.Also after watching that movie I am definitely going to name my first child Dragon Eye Morisson.
Now here is a movie which really goes the extra mile for that high octane speed of a supersonic journey into Japan's fantastical cinematic lunacy, by ways of a stylish approach to the urban allegory of "electric" lives, and of "electric" and violent childhoods that spawn truly ugly and senseless beasts into the streets of modern society. Is our civilization just waiting to die on the hands of our "electric" youth? It seems as if, the faster you go the more will you want to best, no matter how powerful or mighty obstacles are. Far from being a cinematic masterpiece, it effectively does deliver the goods in a frenzied surrealism, with a rock'n'roll attitude and some cyberpunk elements thrown in for good measure, as this is a low-budget production shot on black and white, drawn on top of Sogo Ichii's Japanese underground film-making of the early 80's, from the time when he made Burst City (1982). Definitely not Blade Runner but rather a runner-up to Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo The Iron Man, Electric Dragon 80.000V (2001) is made to satisfy those hungry for dynamic cinematography, weird characters with even weirder agendas, racing through a lethargic metropolis in a lightning speed overpowering crescendo of Electricity! Do not expect classical dramatization, social light comedy or a dense intellectual mystery. This is an over-the-top loony piece of adrenaline fueled j-fantasy, driven by a rock solid soundtrack, added by churning guitar soundscapes of abrasive rawness.So, buy it, throw it inside your player and, BANG! Rock'n'Roll, baby!Worth the wait, definitely!
I saw this movie on a double-feature DVD together with Tetsuo Ironman. Where Tetsuo is an original piece of independent cinema and really shocking, Electric Dragon 80.000 V wants to look interesting but fails.Tetsuo lasted as a groundbreaking experience. After half of the movie I found Electric Dragon downright boring. Electric Dragon has some nice ideas but the fighting scene is uninspired and the "Dragon-Man" choking the guitar is silly after a while.I had high expectations but in my opinion this isn't a movie to recommend.3 out of 10
it rarely happens that I want to walk out of a movie theatre in the middle of a film, but this time it was very close. I was hoping for a second movie after this 55 minute one, that's why I stayed. this movie is a movie experience gone totally nuts. extremely loud (my ears still hurt) and extremely bad guitar music to fast cut scenes of a man faking to play guitar in the wildest possible moves (he discharges the electric energy in him into the the guitar, electric network, etc.). I am a Manga fan, but this movie (btw it is not an animation movie) has nothing to do with good manga films (Mononoke Hime etc.). Is there anything good I could say about this movie? Nope....