Zeram

Starring:YÃ»ko Moriyama, Kunihiro Ida, Yukijiro Hotaru, Sachi Kashino, Naobi KÃ´nara, Satoko Kunenai, Miyanago Nakata, Makotoyumi Awakuni, Tadano Katsura, Mizuho Yoshida, Steve Kramer, Steve Bulen, Juliana Donald, Jeff Winkless, Yukitomo Tochino, Edie Mirman, Robert Axelrod
Director: Keita Amemiya
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Japanese-made Zeram perfectly captures the spirit of the old Japanese monster movies: men in monster suits, dubbed voices instead of subtitles, and a mix of bumbling comedy and cartoonish violence. The title character is a vicious space-outlaw, a bulky monster controlled by a little baby face on his forehead. Newly arrived on Earth, Zeram has been followed by an attractive female bounty hunter, Iria, and her assistant, Bob (a computer). When she sets a dimensional trap so she can fight the monster without raising the awareness of the earthlings (secrecy increases the amount of the bounty), two power company employees accidentally stumble into the trap, too. If the outcome is predictable, the journey is fun. When Iria's fighting the guy in the rubber suit, the scenes are as clumsy and energetic as you could hope, and when the earthlings are fighting it, well, it's like Abbott and Costello in a Japanese monster movie. Either way, it's entertaining. --Andy Spletzer
Description
What's "Zeram?" Zeram is a renegade space alien who is lured to Earth for capture by beings from the planet Mays. What do you need to catch Zeram? The standard issue warp machine, space bazooka, electric shield, and a computer named "Bob." A breakthrough in futuristic space adventure, "Zeram" is a fresh and intensely visual sci-fi about a single night's battle between a female bounty hunter and a renegade space alien. Fueled by action, drama, comedy, and incredible special effects, "Zeram" is a movie that rockets you into the next dimension! Live-action Japanese sci-fi, remade as "Iria: Zeiram The Animation."

Zeram
Average customer rating:

Ignore those other reviews

Pleased with video purchase

Live Action Anime

A Manga/Anime-lover's dream piece

this movie was awsome

Zeram
Starring: Yûko Moriyama , Kunihiro Ida , Yukijiro Hotaru , Masakazu Handa , and Mizuho Yoshida
Director: Keita Amemiya
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305211205
Release Date: 1998-12-29

Amazon.com

Japanese-made Zeram perfectly captures the spirit of the old Japanese monster movies: men in monster suits, dubbed voices instead of subtitles, and a mix of bumbling comedy and cartoonish violence. The title character is a vicious space-outlaw, a bulky monster controlled by a little baby face on his forehead. Newly arrived on Earth, Zeram has been followed by an attractive female bounty hunter, Iria, and her assistant, Bob (a computer). When she sets a dimensional trap so she can fight the monster without raising the awareness of the earthlings (secrecy increases the amount of the bounty), two power company employees accidentally stumble into the trap, too. If the outcome is predictable, the journey is fun. When Iria's fighting the guy in the rubber suit, the scenes are as clumsy and energetic as you could hope, and when the earthlings are fighting it, well, it's like Abbott and Costello in a Japanese monster movie. Either way, it's entertaining. --Andy Spletzer

Description

What's "Zeram?" Zeram is a renegade space alien who is lured to Earth for capture by beings from the planet Mays. What do you need to catch Zeram? The standard issue warp machine, space bazooka, electric shield, and a computer named "Bob." A breakthrough in futuristic space adventure, "Zeram" is a fresh and intensely visual sci-fi about a single night's battle between a female bounty hunter and a renegade space alien. Fueled by action, drama, comedy, and incredible special effects, "Zeram" is a movie that rockets you into the next dimension! Live-action Japanese sci-fi, remade as "Iria: Zeiram The Animation."

Customer Reviews:

Ignore those other reviews.......2006-11-12

Those reviews are about the Fox Lorber release which is dubbed. This is not that DVD. This is the Tokyoshock release with it's original language and subtitles.

Pleased with video purchase.......2006-01-09

I was happy with my purchase of a hard to find movie such as "Zeram". The video was as advertised, well packed and shipped on time.

Live Action Anime.......2005-09-26

It’s been a while since I have had this much fun watching a low-budget Japanese movie. We’re not really talking cheesy production values fun or lame acting fun. I am talking about straight up legitimate movie viewing fun! Think of it as a live action anime and that will get you closer to the experience that is Zeram.

The plot is pretty simple, but it is executed in a solid manner. There are really only a handful of characters in Zeram so there was a nice amount of subtle development involved. The two electricians, though tend to be a little like Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello at times, have a charming dynamic going between them which helps ground the whole story. Yuko Moriyama also does a good job being the beautiful yet bad to the bone bounty hunter Iria without taking if over the top.

Special effects aren’t bad considering the budget. A few people in silly rubber suits come in, but Zeram itself looks really nice. The rest of the effects are obviously of the lower quality caliber, but they use them so very well. The cinematography in some scenes emulates what you would see in an action packed anime, which again works very well. Props are cool, but I noticed Iria’s base of operations is loaded with props that are actually various electronic drums machines from Roland, Korg and Yamaha. Only a drum machine fan would get that though.

Zeram is simply a fun movie. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. In spite of the apparently low budget it comes off as a top-notch, though eclectic, movie. If you are an anime fan I recommend the experience. If you like the cyberpunk sci-fi I recommend it also, just don’t expect another Bladerunner. This is, after all, light fare.

A Manga/Anime-lover's dream piece.......2004-11-16

Zeram is pure fun, a low-budget thriller staring a cute girl bounty-hunter, two goofy power company workers and a damned-near unkillable, biomechanical monstrosity set in an empty section of a city transported to another dimension.

How does all this work? Very well if you're a science-fiction or manga lover; not as well if you're not.

It isn't brilliant filmmaking and there are no surprises in it--hero/heroine-versus-monster; guess who's going to win--but the manga-style costumes, armor, devices and equipment are fun to see realized in a live-action feature as they are in this movie. Zeram's category might be 'foreign low-budget,' but it is made in a spirit of genuine homage to its source material and here that means loving attention to visual and conceptual details.

Like all good action-adventure stories, the point is not the destination but the ride and the bumps in it and Zeram provides jaw-dropping action, jaw-dropping surprises and lovingly crafted touches by the bucketful. I genuinely enjoyed it. I hope you will.

this movie was awsome.......2002-11-02

This movie was awsome I espeally liked the part when the five headed woman eats the pile of 50 year old pizza boxes

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