By Stephen Pytak 

     This film is basically a bunch of cool action scenes 
strung together.
     There's not much plot. There's not much common 
sense either. And it's a low budget film that's shot 
almost entirely in the woods. It really sucks on the 
eyes. On top of that, it runs 1 hour and 59 minutes 
long. So be warned.
     The protagonist is "Prisoner KSG-301 (Sakaguchi)." 
When we meet him, he's on the run, escaping from 
prison with a cell mate. They run through the woods 
and run into a group of card-carrying Yakuza.
     If there's a plot to this film, it unravels here. But it's 
a little hard to understand on first watch.
     Turns out the gangsters were part of the escape 
plan.  But it all goes bad when Prisoner KSG-301 
learns the goons have taken a girl hostage. Why? Who 
knows. Just go with it.
     Everybody plays tough. There's a gun fight. The 
cell mate dies. Then comes back to life. Then dies 
again. And Prisoner KSG-301 and the girl head for 
the hills with the Yakuza on their tail.
     The hills they're running into, however, are nothing 
but trouble. This territory is something called The 
Forest of the Resurrection. The dead come back to life 
here, just as they do in George Romero's Pittsburgh.
     There's a cool scene where Prisoner KSG-301 
finds a dead gangster hanging in a tree. He steals the 
guy's cool long rider jacket, slacks, boots, sword and 
guns. 
     All the film is after that is kung-fu fighting, blood, 
zombies, guns and more kung-fu fighting. 
     Sakaguchi makes it bearable. The guy's got 
presence and I think he's got a future in this business. 
He plays a cool hero. Too bad the script doesn't give 
him more to work with.
     My biggest problem with the film is the lighting. 
The film is kind of hard on the eyes because it takes 
place in the woods. You know how it is watching 
sunlight through the trees. It kind of gets to you after 
a while. 
     There was a buzz about this film at the Chiller 
Theatre Convention in E. Rutherford, N.J. in Oct. 
2002. And bootleg copies sold there right and left. 
Media Blasters and Tokyo Shock intend to release 
the film on DVD sometime in 2003.