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Title (English) Mermaid Forest

Title (Japanese) Ningyo no Mori

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Fantasy Novel

Notes OVA, 56 mins.

Classification -

Synopsis

Review MERMAID FOREST, (Manga Video), 56 mins, cert 18,
｣8.99
MERMAID FOREST, (US Manga Corps), 55 mins,
subtitled, $35, unrated.
Rumiko Takahashi's manga story was based on
Japanese legends, in which eating the flesh of a mermaid
can confer eternal life - at the price of making eternal life
a lonely hell. A gory tale of sudden death, gruesome
medical experiments, and long meditated revenge; this
isn't explicit by our splatter standards but rather, on a
first viewing it works on the imagination to produce a
strong frisson of horror in the way that the best horror
movies do.
Manga Video's low-priced mass-market version uses a
rather freer translation than the American subtitles, and
though the dubbing sounds a litle flat, it's quite accept-
able. Definitely one of Manga Video's better offerings.

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Episodes

Release US:VHS, UK:VHS

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 1991-08-16

Production

Broadcaster

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Mermaid Forest
Title (Japanese)	Ningyo no Mori
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	OVA, 56 mins.
Classification	-
Synopsis
Review	MERMAID FOREST, (Manga Video), 56 mins, cert 18, ｣8.99 MERMAID FOREST, (US Manga Corps), 55 mins, subtitled, $35, unrated. Rumiko Takahashi's manga story was based on Japanese legends, in which eating the flesh of a mermaid can confer eternal life - at the price of making eternal life a lonely hell. A gory tale of sudden death, gruesome medical experiments, and long meditated revenge; this isn't explicit by our splatter standards but rather, on a first viewing it works on the imagination to produce a strong frisson of horror in the way that the best horror movies do. Manga Video's low-priced mass-market version uses a rather freer translation than the American subtitles, and though the dubbing sounds a litle flat, it's quite accept- able. Definitely one of Manga Video's better offerings.
Credits
Episodes
Release	US:VHS, UK:VHS
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	1991-08-16
Production
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.