‘Bokutachi to Chuzai-san no 700-nichi Senso’ on English-subbed DVD in August
Posted by kevin at 12:19am on Monday, June 16, 2008 EDT
Filed under: Comedy, DVD releases
Japanese distributor Gaga Communications will be releasing Bokutachi to Chuzai-san no 700-nichi Senso (roughly “our 700-day war with the police") on English-subtitled DVD in Japan on August 22, 2008. The movie, which I wrote about briefly here back in December, is a comedy based on a partially-fictional blog novel which was later adapted to manga in 2006.
Set in 1979, the story revolves around a local teenager—antagonistically nicknamed “Mamachari” for the girl’s bike he rides—who is the resident mastermind of pranks in his small, normally quiet town. Mamachari, played by Hayato Ichihara (God’s Puzzle, Check It Out, Yo!), leads a gang of high school pranksters who seem to always be able to find new ways to cause mischief.
One day the town’s Chuzai-san (local police officer) busts their friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter down a steep hill. With Saijo suspended from school for the incident, Mamachari plans some seemingly-harmless retaliation, but it backfires when the Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school for a few days. Later, when Mamachari and Saijo find out the Chuzai-san is married to a woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso), they become even more determined to prank him just out of their own frustration that anyone as insufferable as him could possibly be married to someone so young and beautiful. But they underestimate this particular public servant’s immaturity, and each time they attempt a prank he finds a way to prank them back in humiliating ways. Eventually the prank war escalates until it gets totally out of hand and involves more and more of the town.
The DVD will be region 2, NTSC on 2 discs. Bonus disc includes spin-off prank special feature, trailers, music video for the movie’s theme “Tabidachi”, theatrical unveiling footage, making-of footage, and cast/staff bios. Main movie disc includes English subtitles and audio commentary. Available for preorder now at CDJapan.
Here’s the teaser:
And the full trailer:
Tags: hayato ichihara, kento kaku, kumiko aso, kuranosuke sasaki, mako ishino, masaki kaji, naoto takenaka, renpei tsukamoto, satoshi tomiura, takuya ishida, tomohiro waki, yu koyanagi
Comments
yeah, it’s tough to gage before the dvd comes out. yahoo! japan is where i go for a general public reaction to any movie since that seems to be the consensus site for user participation. they gave it 4.33 stars with lots of comments about how funny it was. they’re usually pretty tough on comedies.. cromartie high got 3.38, swing girls got 3.8, and the taste of tea got 3.82. it’s not much to go on but i’ll probably buy it anyway
Posted by kevin at 3:16am EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008
for example :
http://cinema.intercritique.com/movie.cgi?mid=19950
i’ve seen another such site around. you can go round in circles very quickly trying to listen to other people’s opinions too much, but at least one review in english would be nice…
Posted by logboy at 5:21am EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008
i think tokyo journal did a review.. and this reminds me that i need to subscribe
Posted by kevin at 6:17am EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008
...it doesn’t appear to be online though.
Posted by logboy at 12:18pm EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008
that’s what reminded me i need to subscribe ;) if i get that issue i’ll let you know what it says
Posted by kevin at 2:28pm EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008
Trailer looks interesting enough.
Posted by doctor_fu_manchu at 9:42pm EDT on Thursday, June 19, 2008
i’d like to see this, but i’ve no idea how it went down or how well it turned out… can’t (yet) find any reviews in english - the trail to them is littered with stuff about the source material.
Posted by logboy at 2:43am EDT on Monday, June 16, 2008