It’s back and making its Blu-ray debut on Apr. 05!!
Unearthed Films, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed the first street-date Tuesday in April for the Blu-ray debut of Japanese filmmaker Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s 2003 film festival favorites 2LDK.
A newly-minted DVD edition will also be available on Apr. 05 as a purchasing option.
You might call 2LDK (Japanese shorthand for a two bedroom apartment with a kitchen and dining room) a black comedy. Partly true. You might call 2LDK a tale of two women, who have a mutual psychotic break, and turn on each other a horror tale. True as well.
However you choose to classify 2LDK, it is one enjoyable evening detailing a descent into hell. It opened on the festival circuit in early 2003, got good press and then opened theatrically in Japan in October of the same year. A domestic DVD followed in April of 2004 and that was it. Now it is back!!
Nozomi (Eiko Koike — Hell's Garden, Rebirth, Seppun, Crossroads) is an actress up for a big part in Yakuza Wives. In 2LDK she is the country mouse, so to speak, from Sado Island and now in Tokyo and having auditioned for the part finds herself staying at her management agency’s Tokyo apartment awaiting news on the part.
Also staying there is Rana (Maho Nonami — Begging for Love, Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge, Love Strikes!), who has also auditioned for a role in Yakuza Wives … she is the town mouse of the tale, from Tokyo and a little on the wild side.
Thus, begins the evening. The wait. The wait for the phone call telling them if one of them has make the cut. The anticipation of the phone call will keep them there, which is their only motivation, since they discover early on that they don’t particularly like each other.
2LDK is the equivalent of two gladiators being thrown into a cage … and soon enough, disagreements go from the mundane to assaults — verbal at first, and then … well, you get the picture. A twist-ending ties this beauty into a nice package, which is swiftly paced and plays out like a two-person stage play.
Bonus goodies include commentary from Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike, a making of featurette, promotional video and video interview session.
2LDK is presented in Japanese with subtitles.
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