Tokyo Shock trailer for Kenta Fukasaku's 'Black Rat' (English subbed)
Click to viewMedia Blasters has uploaded an English-subtitled trailer for Kenta Fukasaku’s Black Rat to their YouTube channel, so it’s safe to assume a North American release by their Asian horror-focused sub-label Tokyo Shock isn’t far off.
The film was released last year as part of “Avex Newstar Cinema Collection Vol. 2” along with Tetsuo Shinohara’s Ramune, Noritomo Nagashima’s Otona ni Natta Natsu, and Rin Tadashi’s Custard Pudding. Basically, Avex Management produces and distributes movies for the specific purpose of showcasing their young talent.
In “Black Rat”, six high schoolers receive a cell phone email from a classmate named Asuka telling them to come back to their class in the middle of the night. The only problem is Asuka recently committed suicide. They decide they better do as they’re told, but when the clock strikes midnight, a person wielding a bat and wearing a blood-stained costume mouse head appears and says “Asuka’s revenge”. The “six rats” all flee in different directions, but are tracked down one by one.
Note on the “From the director of Battle Royale” intro. That’s a bizarre stretch. He wrote the screenplay and acted as assistant director for his father, Kinji Fukasaku. Since then he’s directed Battle Royale II, Yo-Yo Girl Cop, X-Cross, and several other genre movies.
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source: NIPPON CINEMA , youtube