Versus (2000)

Director
Ryûhei Kitamura

Main cast
Tak Sakaguchi; Hideo Sakaki; Chieko Misaka; Minoru Matsumoto; Kenji Matsuda

Genres
Action, Horror

Description
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.


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