Director: Ichiro Itano

Summary: Director Ichiro Itano presents a hellish vision of the afterlife in the brutal horror anime series GANTZ. High school student Kei and his childhood friend Kato are helping a hobo who has fallen onto the subway tracks when they are run over and violently decapitated by an oncoming train in a spectacularly grisly fashion. Transported to a strange post-death limbo, the pair find themselves in a barren room overlooking Tokyo with a motley group of strangers including two hotheaded gangsters and a naked girl, whom they immediately try to rape as well as a mysterious black sphere known as Gantz. Kei and Kato soon discover that they and the room's occupants are all dead and have been brought there by Gantz as part of a secret government plot to kill criminal aliens that roam the earth and that if they refuse their deadly missions, they face a fate even worse than death. Moody, stylish, and animated with veritable buckets of crimson blood, GANTZ plays like a twisted hybrid of YU YU HAKUSHO and LA FEMME NIKITA, with graphic violence and nudity deemed too graphic to be aired on Japanese television without major edits and re-cropping.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9
Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Clean Opening And Closing Animations, Original Japanese TV Spots
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2005
Release Date:	March 13, 2006
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	M V D 2108
Keywords:	Animated, Subtitled, General, Dubbed, Animation, Drama, Japanese, Vol, Gantz
Genre:	Drama