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Audio Format: DD 2.0, DD 5.1
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region Code: 1
Year Made: 2006
Running Time: 70 + 70
Release Date: 08/12/2008
Gun Crazy Episode I: A Woman From Nowhere (aka: Fukushuu No Kouya)
 The story of "A Woman From Nowhere" is rather simple and pretty much adapted right out of a Eastwood Spaghetti Western: A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place. Even the opening credits and music have that spaghetti feel: Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone would be proud. The really interesting twists are that the stranger is a beautiful (!) woman, Saki (Ryoko Yonekura) on a Harley, and the location is in a town somewhere in Japan.
In this actioner, there's a considerable amount of gunplay, some of it good, some predictable, and other spots somewhat hokey, but it's a whole lot of fun. Ryoko handles her guns with believability and aplomb and gives the thugs their due. It wasn't much of an acting challenge for her as it was a physical challenge, but she handled things very well. She shows her acting skills much more as Otsu in the NHK drama, "Musashi."
Saki is a beautiful gunslinger on the trail of Tojo, the most vicious crime boss in Japan. The police won??t arrest him. The military won??t go near him. In this classic spaghetti western charged with a dose of 21st Century adrenaline, Saki knows you don??t send a man to do a woman??s job.
Special Features:
- Interview w/ Ryoko Yonekura.
Gun Crazy Episode 2: Beyond The Law
 Yuki is an idealistic young lawyer who's finding out that Law and Justice are not always hand in hand. When she confronts a client with their criminal ties and discovers that her firm has been party to the deception, Yuki finds herself looking down the losing end of a barrel. That is until a mysterious hitman named Takita intervenes leaving Yuki to redefine her idea of justice. Seeking Takita's guidance, she forms a dangerous alliance that will lead her into a world of crime and vigilante payback. But when the tables turn the only things Saki has to lose are the ones she loves. Will Yuki turn on her masters? Or is she too far down a road of no return? Either way Justice will be served. Loaded with action and surprises, Gun Crazy: Beyond The Law will leave you wondering "Who are the GOOD guys?"
Director Atsushi Muroga's female-action-hero movie series GUN CRAZY updates the standard spaghetti-western formula by transposing the action to Japan and centering each of the shootout adventures on a different female gunslinger. In the second movie of the series, BEYOND THE LAW, Japanese supermodel Rei Kikukawa stars as Yuki, an idealistic lawyer who finds she can better serve justice by joining forces with an amoral hitman (Toshiya Nagasawa) and bringing down vengeance through the barrel of a gun.
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