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August In The Water (1995) Epic Fantasy by Sogo Oshii

8704DVD

director: Sogo Ishii
starring Rena Komine · Shinsuke Aoki · Reiko Matsuo · Masaaki Takarai

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after a cosmic accident and comes to understand her place in the universe. Izumi is diving champion at her high school. She has an incident in mid-air (seemingly caused by a double meteorite strike in the forest near the school) and Izumi becomes comatose. Her coma continues as the city falls under the grip of a drought and an unknown disease that afflicts the citizens randomly. When she wakes from the coma, Izumi speaks of aliens, nature and communication. She is a different person. Even her personality has changed. Somehow she is then connected to a strange murder in the forest.

Sogo Ishii's film is an imaginative pseudo-scientific fantasy that punctuates his most prolific period, a collection of masterworks from the '90s including ANGEL DUST, LABRINTH OF DREAMS, GO JOE: SPIRIT WAR and ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 vt. Many critics say this is his best film, but it is not an easy-to-follow linear adventure. Envision if David Lynch had directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

A Japanese film with English subtitles, fully uncut 117 min, widelscreen,
encoded for ALL REGION, playable on any American DVD machine.
Extras include selected original promotional trailer.

Violence/SemiNudity/Drugs
Intended for Mature Audiences

$19.95
Sale Price: $17.50