Tokyo Zombie - Manga Entertainment

When the hot-headed Fujio (Tadanobu Asano) kills his boss for trying to humiliate his bald-headed friend and jujutsu mentor Mitsuo (Show Aikawa), the two decide to dump the body at “Black Fuji”, an ever-growing mountain of dirt where everyone brings their unwanted appliances, trash, and relatives. Unfortunately on this day the mix of everything that had been dumped on Black Fuji over the years caused the dead to rise and become marauding zombies. Mitsuo decides the best thing to do is to travel north, because that’s where Russia is and everyone knows Russia is manly. Fujio agrees, but mixes up directions and ends up driving south for hours, right into the heart of zombie central.

Eventually Mitsuo ends up saving a spunky girl named Yoko (Erika Okuda), who doesn’t exactly appreciate the intervention, and in the ensuing zombie attack he gets bitten on the leg. Before he turns into a zombie Mitsuo bids his friend farewell and jumps off a bridge into a lake; with his final request that Fujio take care of Yoko and get to Russia.

Unfortunately the zombie plague spreads out of control and only a small area of Tokyo remains where the rich use the poor as slaves and force them to fight zombies for their entertainment. Fujio decides to honor his fallen comrade by showing people the greatness of jujutsu, but his matches are so quick and boring everyone turns against him. Then one day he gets pitted against the ultimate zombie combatant: ZOMBALD.

Region 1, NTSC. Japanese audio with English subtitles. Features TBA. For the R2 UK release, see this link.

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Available at the following retailer(s) on April 1, 2009:

• Amazon.com
• HKFlix