Versus

Versus (VERSUS -ヴァーサス-, Vāsasu) is a 2000 Japanese action/horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Several Japanese mobsters are dispatched to pick up an escaped convict in a place known as the "Forest of Resurrection," where the dead have recently become reanimated as zombies. The convict they are sent to retrieve turns out to have a strange destiny involving repeated reincarnations of himself and several other people throughout history. In 2004... more

Versus (VERSUS -ヴァーサス-, Vāsasu) is a 2000 Japanese action/horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Several Japanese mobsters are dispatched to pick up an escaped convict in a place known as the "Forest of Resurrection," where the dead have recently become reanimated as zombies. The convict they are sent to retrieve turns out to have a strange destiny involving repeated reincarnations of himself and several other people throughout history. In 2004, Kitamura and most of the original cast and crew went back into the woods and filmed new scenes to further realize Kitamura’s vision of the film. Namely, to bring a fuller version of a film that was limited by budget, time and technology. Yûji Shimomura did not return as the action director. Instead, Tak Sakaguchi, Prisoner KSC2-303, took the mantle of action director and created sequences that fill out the action in the new version of the film. Released in a 3-disc DVD set by Media Blasters, over 75% of the film now feature some sort of... less