{"id":2260,"date":"2012-04-10T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2012-04-11T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:43:19","slug":"crows-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/04\/10\/crows-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Crows Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Takashi Miike’s 2007 high school actioner is released on DVD on 9 April 2012 by MVM. Another typically ultra-stylised and violent offering from the director of Ichi the Killer<\/I> and 13 Assassins<\/I><\/A>, Crows Zero<\/I> charts the battle between two delinquent boys and their factions fighting for supremacy in the lawless Suzuran high school. Based on the bestselling manga by Hiroshi Takahashi (screenwriter of the original Ring<\/I> movies), Crows Zero<\/I> is one of Miike’s most commercially successful movies.<\/p>\n

Comic strip review by Joe Morgan<\/A>.<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

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Takashi Miike’s 2007 high school actioner is typically ultra-stylised and violent.
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