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 killed by an oncoming train. Instead of death, the pair find themselves in a barren room overlooking Tokyo with a motley group of strangers--including a teacher, politician, two yakuza, and a vulnerable young girl--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 stunningly animated, GANTZ plays like a dark 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. Produced by the team behind CHRONO CRUSADE and PEACEMAKER, this collection presents the series' first two episodes in their original uncut and unedited versions.DVD Features:Note: This release features the entire uncut, unedited series.Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Additional Footage - 1. Clean Opening/Closing Animation Interviews - 1. Ichiro Itano - Director TrailersAdditional Product: Booklet - Liner Notes, Interviews
