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'''Dead End Eun''' is a [[2003]] [[film]] directed by [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[cult film]] [[film director|director]] [[Sogo Ishii]]. |
'''Dead End Eun''' is a [[2003]] [[film]] directed by [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[cult film]] [[film director|director]] [[Sogo Ishii]], notable for Ishii's trademark flashy visual style. |
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The film has little plot to speak of, but is instead divided into three short episodes, each of which opens with a man desperately running away before being trapped in a dead end, where something out-of-the-ordinary occurs. These scenes include a musical number, a [[Mexican stand-off]] and a police pursuit. |
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The first episode begins with an extended scene showing a man desperately running through an urban landscape, before coming to a dead end in a dark backstreet ally. When he hears approaching footstpes, he attacks his presumed persuer with a metal bar. He is shocked to find that he has instead killed a young woman. |
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However, the woman comes back to life, and sings and dances with the man in the style of a [[musical film]], telling him how they were fated to meet and how tragic that their love has to be so short. She again dies, and while the man grieves over her dead body, the man who was persuing him appears and shoots him. The man and womans' bodies lie next to each other on the tarmac. |
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Revision as of 03:29, 1 November 2006
| Dead End Run | |
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| Directed by | Sogo Ishii |
| Written by | Sogo Ishii |
| Starring | Tadanobu Asano, Yusuke Iseya, Masatoshi Nagase |
Release date | 2003 |
Running time | 58 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Dead End Eun is a 2003 film directed by Japanese cult film director Sogo Ishii, notable for Ishii's trademark flashy visual style.
The film has little plot to speak of, but is instead divided into three short episodes, each of which opens with a man desperately running away before being trapped in a dead end, where something out-of-the-ordinary occurs. These scenes include a musical number, a Mexican stand-off and a police pursuit.
Plot
The first episode begins with an extended scene showing a man desperately running through an urban landscape, before coming to a dead end in a dark backstreet ally. When he hears approaching footstpes, he attacks his presumed persuer with a metal bar. He is shocked to find that he has instead killed a young woman.
However, the woman comes back to life, and sings and dances with the man in the style of a musical film, telling him how they were fated to meet and how tragic that their love has to be so short. She again dies, and while the man grieves over her dead body, the man who was persuing him appears and shoots him. The man and womans' bodies lie next to each other on the tarmac.
External links
- Dead End Run at IMDb
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