Z airando (2015)

Z airando: Directed by Hiroshi Shinagawa. With Shô Aikawa, Han’nya, Masamune Hori, Kunihiro Kawashima. A member of the yakuza exits prison determined to make good with the one friend he has and he’s immediately challenged by an unnatural disaster on a nearby island. The friend’s daughter was visiting when a deadly virus broke loose, and now the island’s inhabitants have turned into flesh-eating zombies. Time to put those brutal yakuza skills to good use.

“Alright, well for some obscure reason then the 2015 Japanese movie u0026quot;Deadman Infernou0026quot; (aka u0026quot;Z airandou0026quot;) had managed to elude me all together right up until 2021 when I happened to stumble upon it by sheer luck. It was particularly odd as I am a huge fan of everything zombie. But as I found it in 2021 I sat down to watch it on the notion that it was a Japanese movie that I hadnu0026#39;t already seen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd when it dawned on me that it was a zombie movie I had sat down to watch, I must admit that my interest in the movie quickly doubled.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt turned out that writer and director Hiroshi Shinagawa had managed to muster together something of a rather unique concoction. And it was a bland of genres that definitely proved to be interesting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe storyline in u0026quot;Deadman Infernou0026quot;, though the title of the movie doesnu0026#39;t actually make much sense with the inferno part, was actually good. It was a pretty easy to follow plot and storyline, but at the same time, then writer and director Hiroshi Shinagawa had managed to put a lot of different plots and storylines into the mash, and pulled it off nicely, because the movie felt complete and wholehearted.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe special effects in u0026quot;Deadman Infernou0026quot; were rather good. I must admit that I enjoyed the special effects here, and it was good that it wasnu0026#39;t just lousy make-up slapped on the performers, as some zombie movies tend to be. The visuals were satisfying in u0026quot;Deadman Infernou0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd they had managed to put together an interesting cast of the movie. I wasnu0026#39;t familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list, but they all did good jobs with their different characters. And that counted for a lot, and helped the movie along quite nicely.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Deadman Infernou0026quot; turned out to be a nice surprise of a movie, and I was genuinely entertained by the story, the characters and the movie as a whole. This reflects in my rating of director Hiroshi Shinagawau0026#39;s 2015 movie, which lands on a seven out of ten stars.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you enjoy Asian movies and zombie movies, then this is definitely a movie worth checking out.”