There's a downloadable English-subtitled trailer for Naoki Kubo's Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (Â! Ikkenya puroresu) - a.k.a. "Ah! House Collapses!" - on the page for the movie on the website of international sales agent Eleven Arts Inc.. Distribution rights for Oh! My Zombie Mermaid are being offered for sale by Eleven Arts. Soft on Demand K.K. (Sofuto on Demando K.K.), which produced the movie, released it theatrically in Japan on December 4th of last year.
The screenplay for Oh! My Zombie Mermaid was written by Izô Hashimoto and (Naoki) Kubo, based on a story by the latter. The movie's principal cast was as follows: Shin'ya Hashimoto, Sonim (Sonin), Awata Urara, Jin Katagiri (on the right), Hakase Suidôbashi (first listing), Sujitarô Tamabukuro (second listing), Nicholas Pettas (Nikorasu Petasu), Kôtarô Yanagi, Shun Sugata, Shirô Sano, Makoto Sakamoto, Shôichirô Tanigawa, Jun Kasai, The Predator (Za Puredetâ - a.k.a. Sylvester 'The Predator' Terkay), April Hunter (Eipuriru Hantâ), Kôji Nakamura, Hideto Katsuya, Kôji Tsukamoto, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Junnosuke Watanabe, Kyûichirô Horinouchi, Kazuya Katô, Katsunobu Itô, Takeshi Kongôchi, Ikuma Yamada, and Narushi Ikeda.
As was previously reported here on Twitch, last year Soft on Demand also produced and distributed Noboru Iguchi's 'family drama' Impolite Education (18-kin - abunai kankei: the kinshinsôkan), which starred Emiru Momose, Seiji Nakamitsu, Hiroaki Murakami, Shôko Nakahara, and Kanji Tsuda.
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid trailer (downloadable 4.1 MB MOV file)
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid official website
Japanese Movie Database: Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
The text in the opening flash sequence is an obituary for lead actor Hashimoto Shinya, who it says died of a brain-stem hemorrhage in July. Didn't know he passed away...I remember going to a funky restaurant in Kameido about two and a half years ago to be an extra in this movie, but never got around to seeing it. I believe it was one of the first, if not the first feature films SOD was involved in. It ended up on a few "worst of the year" lists. I'll rent it.
When and where will a dvd be available??
Please i need this, where can i buy it?
It came out on DVD in Japan back on June 24th 2005. Both CDJapan and YesAsia are selling it under the title "As! Ikkenya Pro-wres". Though apparently the DVD does not have English subtitles.
Does anyone know of a url (preferably in English) where it can be purchased?
Thank you.
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