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A brand new restoration of the film which started Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s career in horror!
Before becoming one of Japan’s most well-known horror directors through films like Cure, Pulse and Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started off his career in horror with 1992’s The Guard from Underground, the final film of the ‘Director’s Company’. Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that’s employed him.
Product Features
- New digital remaster from the original negatives
- New audio commentary by Tom Mes
- Interview with producer Takashi Ikoma
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa talk at the premiere of the new master
- Trailer
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- ‘Director’s Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp - limited to 2000 copies
- Third Window
- 97 mins approx
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- 15
- Makiki Kuno
- Yutaka Matsushige
- 16:9
- English
- 1992
- Japanese
- 1
- B
- Third Window
The Guard From Underground (Director’s Company Edition) Blu-ray
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Arrow Video
A brand new restoration of the film which started Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s career in horror!
Before becoming one of Japan’s most well-known horror directors through films like Cure, Pulse and Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started off his career in horror with 1992’s The Guard from Underground, the final film of the ‘Director’s Company’. Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that’s employed him.
Product Features
- New digital remaster from the original negatives
- New audio commentary by Tom Mes
- Interview with producer Takashi Ikoma
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa talk at the premiere of the new master
- Trailer
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- ‘Director’s Company’ edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp - limited to 2000 copies
- Third Window
- 97 mins approx
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- 15
- Makiki Kuno
- Yutaka Matsushige
- 16:9
- English
- 1992
- Japanese
- 1
- B
- Third Window
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Disappointing.
The film starts off slow, get a bit better in the middle but the ending is underwhelming.
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Director’s Company On Blu-Ray
Well-crafted horror film, faithful to the slasher genre with a dreamlike and Japanese formulation. Kurosawa's beginnings already with one of the most striking themes of his filmography, the idea of a "virus" alive (and possibly created by) a social architecture in decay, although in The Guard From Underground there are hints that things might not be as easy. The extras give some insight on the Director’s Company, a production company worth discovering.
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