"K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces" coming to HK DVD

Hong Kong DVD distributor CN Entertainment will be releasing Shimako Sato’s K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces (K-20: Kaijin Niju Menso Den, 2008) on English-subtitled DVD next week. I wouldn’t expect much in the way of features considering CN releases are usually barebones, but DVD-9 is a very good sign picture quality-wise; they usually squash everything onto a DVD-5. Fans in North America may want to hold off until Viz Pictures comes out with their release of the film in the very near future.

Plot: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

Region 3, NTSC, DVD-9. Japanese DTS and Chinese-dubbed Dolby 5.1 audio tracks with selectable Chinese and English subtitles.

Available at the following retailer(s) on July 8, 2009: