Gantz

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	Kazunari Ninomiya	Kei Kurono
	Kanata Hongo	Joichiro Nishi
	Ken'ichi Matsuyama	Masaru Kato
	Natsuna	Kei Kishimoto
	Ainosuke Shibata	Tanaka Seijin
	Yuriko Yoshitaka	Tae Kojima
	Ayumi Ito	Eriko Ayukawa
	Chieko Ichikawa	Kayo Sugimoto
	Donpei Tsuchihira	Muso Tokugawa
	Hidekazu Nagae	Green Onion Father
	Kazuhide Kobayashi	Kiyoshi Hatanaka
	Kazuyuki Asano	Kenichi Kurono
	Kensuke Chisaka	Ayumu Kato
	Matsuri Hashimoto	Ball Man
	Merii	Izumi Shiraishi
	Motoki Ochiai	Takashi Inamori
	Ryuya Wakaba	Koki Takahashi
	Sho Igarashi	Green Onion Kid (Face)
	Shun'ya Shiraishi	Hiroto Sakurai
	Shuya Haruna	Ryota Sugimoto
	Takayuki Yamada	Masamitsu Shigeta
	Tomorowo Taguchi	Yoshikazu Suzuki
	A.J. Constantino	Masaru Kato
	Yusuke Furusawa	Akitoshi Okazaki
	Yûko Genkaku	Risa Sakano

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Director	Shinsuke Sato
Writer	Hiroya Oku, Yûsuke Watanabe
Producer	John Culton, Nobuhiro Lizuka, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Seiji Okuda, Takahiro Satô, Yoshishige Shimatani, Naoki Suganuma, Tadashi Tanaka
Musician	Kenji Kawai
Photography	Taro Kawazu

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My quick rating - 6.9/10. I only know the summary part of the manga, so I will stick to the movie itself. The movie starts with two old friends( ? ) that coincidentally meet on a train platform. In this brief moment, they attempt to rescue a man off of the train tracks and in trying this, they are killed by the oncoming train. Or were they? The two awaken in a room with a few other strangers, all of which claim to have been killed. Accompanying them is a mysterious black orb which gives some very vague instructions on what the "group" needs to do. Basically the task is to kill aliens that are on the earth hiding out. Sounds corny, but it is far from that. The movie is so well filmed including cinematography, editing, locale that pretty much whatever the group was sent to do was going to be a treat. Lucky for us viewers, it was an exciting mission at that. As the movie progresses, we learn that each person is awarded "points" for surviving (since if not, well, they are dead) and what can be done with those points is part of the mystery. The effects are very good, and basic, not overdone at all. This makes it much easier to get into the film and the characters in it. The acting was very good, even if I personally had to be distracted from their performances by reading the subtitles. Either way, I could tell by visual features and expressions that it was well done. Each encounter gets more and more difficult, as one would assume, and leads to a very open ended climax that makes you want to see more. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie from start to finish and recommend it to anyone that likes sci-fi and originality. Please Hollywood, can you keep your hands off and not remake this, let the Japanese do their thing, they have brought us a gem in this as it is. Unfortunately getting your eyes on this live action version isn't real easy so plex users have an advantage for this one. Enjoy.

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