Wicked City

Starring:Woo-ping Yuen, Michelle Reis, Carman Lee, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Roy Cheung, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Tai Kit Mak
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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The premise of Wicked City has been used in a number of other anime features, including Legend of the Overfiend: Earth is linked to a parallel world of demons, whose inhabitants can cross the barrier separating the planets. Dashing Taki Renzaburo, a secret agent assigned to handle invaders from the "Black World," finds himself partnered with Makie, a gorgeous Black World woman. Their assignment: to protect Giuseppe Mayart, a bigwig coming to Tokyo to sign a 500-year peace treaty between the worlds. Mayart, who typifies the sniggering, diminutive lechers who often turn up in anime, hardly seems to warrant all this bother. Protecting him draws Taki and Makie into a series of exceedingly violent encounters with "radicals" from the Black World who oppose the treaty, including their shape-shifting, unkillable leader and a spider-woman with fanged genitalia. Blood and gore fly amid scenes of rape, torture, shootings, slashings, and exploding bodies. Yoshiaki Kawajiri directs skillfully, although the simian Mayart never blends into the realistic world of the film. Wicked City was a landmark work when it was released in 1987, and it retains a cult following. But many subsequent features--notably Mamoru Oshii's darkly brilliant Ghost in the Shell--have eclipsed it. Not rated; suitable for ages 18 and up for nudity, sexual situations, profanity, rape, violence, grotesque imagery, and violence against women. --Charles Solomon

Description

When Desire Turns Deadly, There's No Place to Hide...

For centuries, a secret peace treaty has existed between Earth and the Black World, a parallel dimension populated by shape-changers possessing awesome supernatural powers. But now, that pact is up for renewal and a militant faction from the Black World plans to do everything in their power to stop the treaty from being signed. The fate of the world now rests in the ability of a pair of special agents, one human, the other a shape-changer from the distaff dimension, to make sure things go according to plan.

In WICKED CITY, director, Yoshiaki Kawajiri blends stylish eroticism, graphic horror and pulse-pounding action in such a way that it is easy to forget that it's only a cartoon.

Not Rated: Contains violence, nudity and sexual situations. Parental discretion advised.

Customer Reviews:

The city is wicked... and horny as he11 too........2007-06-12

I first saw Wicked City about 13 years ago if that. I didn't like it then but I forgot the reason why I did. I bought it recently but my dislike isn't as great.

Wicked City has a decent story. The plot is alright, character development isn't too bad but the soundtrack is pretty bad. And not in a good way either. The story is; another world inhabited by demons exist parallel with our world. Due to an ancient pact. There is a peace treaty between the worlds which keeps everyone at peace. Now the treaty is almost over and its time to renew it. To do this a certain man must be protected until the new treaty is done. The main characters which are male and female represent both worlds and are ordered to protect this man. However things go wrong and a new twist is added. They add a secondary main character which is the man who must be protected. He adds some comedy relief and it does pay off. Some of his antics and his dialogue is pretty funny.

The action scenes are alright. And the anime has some interesting villians. The level of exoticness pushes the envelop and for some may go too far. One of the characters is a female spider who spins webs from her front lower region and she's nude on each of her appearances. Also to include there are a few rape scenes and sex scenes. But the rape scenes can truly be disturbing because of the length.

I found this anime somewhat ok all the way until the ending and the final battle. I wont say this anime is highly recommended. Get it only if you have the spare cash, can find it cheap or if your not bothered by certain things. This anime isn't for kids or people who find rape scenes of any type(visible or not) very disturbing.

Not received the item yet!! (the order date is 28 Oct, 06!!!).......2007-01-10

I know that the movie is great, but I missed the theatre release in Hong Kong. Also I cannot find the DVD in HK. Please, send the item ASAP. (I don't mind used one)

Wicked What ?.......2006-09-08

I am a huge fan of Ninja Scroll and Fist and I have been waiting a good minute to see this movie. The Animation is GREAT but there is NOT enough action and way too much POINTLESS nudity, and I totally LOVE nudity. Ninja Scroll's nudity was always followed up by scenes of intense-fast action and much gore. This nudity is just there, there is no follow up. There are a few mediocre action scenes but that's about it. It's still cool to watch but I'm still dissappointed that I bought it. The animation is awesome to watch I just wish it was faster with more action. That's all folks!

Kawajiri is the man!!.......2006-03-19

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is one of the best Japanese animators of all time, and this is his best work. People say this pales in comparison to Ninja Scroll, I don't think so, I think this is better (NS is still awesome though). Don't listen to the one-star reviewers, they're probably some fat gothic vampire chicks who call themselves "otakus," masturbate to InuYasha, listen to nu-metal, and think any anime that wasn't released after 1999 is "stupid" or "retarted."

Now to this anime, its about this secret agent named Taki Renzuboro, whose quite a hit with the ladies and his job is to protect an old ambassador named Giosuppi Mayart (who looks like a cross between Yoda and Ren Hoek), Giosuppi has to sign a treaty to keep the humans and Black World residents from killing each other. Taki has a big-ass gun that can blow his enemies apart (much like an elephant gun). Taki's accomplise is a hot chick from the Black World named Makie, who kills her foes with the fingernails on her left hand that grow very long when she attacks. Taki and Makie have to keep themselves from delving into their imtimate urges for each other while protecting that horny old fart.

The animation is pretty damn good for an anime made in 1987 (when I was born), and the characters look great while looking completely unique from most other anime. This is NOT for kids, there's very little bloodshed (lots of action though), but there's lots of nudity and sex, and the "spider-woman" has fanged genitalia, Jesus thats evil!! The only boring part of this feature was the soundtrack, if they put some Black Sabbath in it, this would have been on par with Akira. The English dubbing was also done well, an A+ anime.

If my dear good friends Pete, Mills, and B. Vitali are reading this, you should watch this, I know you guys will love it.

If you're a fan of anime from the 80's/early 90's and crave lots of action/violence/nudity, you'll love this, and vote "yes." If you're some Adult Swim whorring "otaku" whose obcessed with FLCL and Trigun, click "no."

PS, I think Hayao Miyazaki is overrated beyond belief, Yoshiaki Kawajiri runs circles around him.

What a hell of a movie.......2005-08-25

For centuries, a secret peace treaty has existed between Earth and The Black World, a parellel dimension population by shape-changers possessing awesome supernatural powers. But now, that pact is up for renewal and a militant faction from the Black World plans to do everything in their power to stop the treaty from being signed.

Average customer rating:

One and a half stars - This is wicked boring poo-poo...
NismoSpeed
Wicked City
AN AVERAGE ANIME
The quality of DVD is not good

Wicked City
Starring: Woo-ping Yuen , Michelle Reis , Leon Lai , Carman Lee , and Jacky Cheung
Director: Tai Kit Mak
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Wicked City

ASIN: 6305268142
Release Date: 1999-03-30

Description

Based on the popular Japanese sci-fi comic strip, "Wicked City" is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the Reptoids--ruthless monsters disguised as humans. They work amongst us, they live within us and their destiny is our demise. Packed with non-stop action and special effects, "Wicked City" will glue you to the screen until the astonishing end.

Customer Reviews:

One and a half stars - This is wicked boring poo-poo..........2006-06-22

I have a vague memory of seeing the live Hong-Kong version of Wicked City prior to watching the Anime version, and liking it. No idea why I got the viewing order switched around, but these things happen. I even remember liking this low-budget sci-fi stuntfest AFTER watching the Anime.

Funny how your mind can play tricks on you. With that tiny, vague memory in place, I bought a used DVD copy at a fire-sale that my local video store was having (should'a been a hint, probably). Feeling oddly like I'd just found a long lost bit of treasure, I gleefully tore home, popped the disk in my DVD player, and spent the next hour and a half bored out of my mind, wondering what the h*** I'd been thinking.

There's plenty going on here... More than director Tai Kit Mak can seem to get a handle on. The movie is creative enough within its confined budget, with more special effects, cheesy acting (LOTS of jump cuts to over-emoting actors wearing baggy suits or doe-eyed actresses in skimpy dresses), and hyper-kinetic, high-flying stunts than you can shake a creepy vampire-spider-lady at.

The plot? Something about a hundred year old war between speedy, gun-toting Humans and super-powered Monsters disguised as humans, that's quickly coming to a nasty head. Two Hong Kong cops and the head-honcho monster's daughter are the only thing standing in the way of a full-monster takeover, via an imported Monster drug called 'Happiness'; a highly addictive energy drug that causes a nasty case of spontaneous combustion if you stop taking it.

My advice? Stick with the Anime - although I haven't seen that in a long time either, so maybe it's as bad as this...

NismoSpeed.......2005-08-05

To "A Viewer" that stated that nudity is not nice to put in anime. You cant have a good anime without some form of sex. As far as this film goes, not quite as cool as the actual anime it was based on, but still worth the time.

Wicked City.......2003-05-01

The comic book action is what makes the backbone of this movie that is based on the manga. The plot involves a woman from another dimension and a human policeman from earth who are trying to keep the peace between their races by preventing an assasination and staying alive in the process. There are subplots involving policeman's partner being part human and part preturnatual beastie keeping his evil wild side in check while helping him and the woman out; the love story between the policeman and the woman; and all of the characters questioning where their loyalties lie. I highly recommend this movie to anime and manga fans.

AN AVERAGE ANIME.......2003-04-12

This anime is average.
Its about a guy and a girl from another world who are supposed to guard an old man attending an important meeting between humans and the demon world but in the end they were the ones that have to attend.
The movie has quite some nudity which is not nice to put in an anime.Not the best anime ive seen

The quality of DVD is not good.......2002-05-18

1.It's a cut version. Carman Lee is not killed by Jacky Chen.
2.Picture and sound quality is very poor.
3.The audio tracks is only Cantonese without Mandarin.

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