[Torg] Re: Death Trance

[Mike Keegan]

I imported this a while back. I'm a Ryuhei Kitamura fan and this was
directed by Yuji Shimomura, who choreographed the action in Kitamura's early
films. Death Trance was kinda cool, I wasn't really thinking Torg but you
make some neat connections, now I'll have to watch it again! If you liked
this you should check out some of Kitamura's films. It's a love/hate thing
with his movies since nothing has really come close to his low budget but
insanely inventive and fun "Versus".

Watched a 2005 Japanese martial arts movie called "Death Trance."  It has
> some Torg elements to it.  The setting appears to be a feudal Japan-like
> era, until someone pulls a gun and someone comes along on a motorcycle.  So
> this could be a Nippon-Tharkold mixed zone, without the magic and tech; or
> even an Orrosh-Nippon zone.  Different warriors are trying to bring a coffin
> (that looks right out of "Hellraiser"), obviously an Orrorsh device, to a
> gate which releases a Goddess of Destruction upon doing so.  The Goddess of
> Destruction chops up a number of angels, and turns a beautiful landscape
> into a blasted environment.
>
> The gate is more of a permanent dimthread, and the coffin is a prison as
> opposed to a Darkness Device.  But when the Goddess comes out, the
> devastation is not unlike what I picture a cosm to be after a High Lord has
> sucked them dry.  Those who try to steal the coffin through-out the movie
> end up becoming the various heroes, but only one really "awakes" to his
> Storm Knight potential.  Can argue the warrior with the gun is a transplant
> from another cosm forcing a contrdiction (as he also produces a bazooka at
> one point).
>
> The plot is weak, and mildly confusing, but the action and the scenery make
> up for it.  It's available on NetFlix as an instant view.
>
> Has anyone seen this, and have other thoughts on it?
>
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