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Kinji FukasakuVirus (復活の日, Fukkatsu no hi) (1980)

NOTE: THIS FILM IS SEPARATED INTO 7 FILES.

Virus (復活の日, Fukkatsu no hi) is an 1980 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is in public domain, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_%281980_film%29. Most of the film is in English but for the Japanese scenes, subtitles are present on subtitle 'Track1' (VLC), not burned in, note: you have to turn subtitles on, they are not defaulted. All files were ripped directly and not reformatted, '.vob' extensions merely changed to '.mpg', otherwise files are as they appear on disc. Files not included from the DVD are copyrighted menus and distributor intro logos. DVD ripped from is BCI Cat.No. 47207-9-1, region 1.

Another version is uploaded on archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/cco_virus, it is pan and scanned, whereas this version is widescreen, and slightly windowboxed. It also appears to be a different edit.

For additional information on public domain films, where to download them, where to watch them and legal status of a particular work, visit http://www.publicdomainmotionpictures.com


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English, Japanese
Keywords: virus; kinji fukasaku; japanese; japanese film; japanese movie; sonny chiba

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: empus - - May 10, 2008
Subject: the best viral movie
i'm really glad that some of the video files are not re-encoded. but i'm still wondering why keep the "slightly windowboxed" when they're releasing it into dvd?

anyway, thank you for the upload :D

Reviewer: wilbrifar - - January 17, 2008
Subject: thanks, campfire
Thanks for posting the .ifo file on your site. Works perfectly and now I can burn an actual dvd complete with subs.

Reviewer: flapfrog - - January 5, 2008
Subject: poop
why so many links for a movie....should have uploaded it as 1 file

Reviewer: Campfire - - January 4, 2008
Subject: Creating DVD
This is an excellent copy of a fascinating movie, but several reviewers have commented on having difficulty creating a DVD from the MPG files. I have reconstituted the necessary IFO files which are needed to do this. With them, you can make a DVD complete with 16:9 formatting, chapter stops and subtitles. I have posted the ZIP file containing these and instructions on building a DVD at the following URL: http://www.hunkvideoonline.com/virus/ for free downloading by anyone wishing to save this entertaining film. I'm glad to be able to help the "cause".

Reviewer: bearpuf - - December 24, 2007
Subject: Held My Attention
Despite the points that the film is in somewhat distorted widescreen, and that there were no English subtitles for the limited amount of Japanese dialogue, and that my Japanese is quite limited to 'hay' and 'sayonara' I foound this 'end of the world as we know it' movie intriguing. I never expected to be seeing Glen Ford, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Conners, Henry Silva, George Kennedy, and Bo Swenson; but it all added to the mood. Pretty good script, reasonable, but sometime stilted acting and smooth flow add to it.
Incredible ending, but Japan must have been taking lessons from early Hollywood in the '80's as it stepped into international film making.
Reassembling the movie from its 7 mpg4 pieces is a minor inconvenience and it all reconstituted itself into a workable DVD using Nero 7.

Reviewer: killer_09 - - December 18, 2007
Subject: RE: wilbrifar/greg k
hey wilbrifar, it doesnt appear that i'm able to upload additional files, ftp closes after 24/48 hours after uploading. as far as subtitles go, i was able to access these from the ripped .vob files (after deleting .ifo's and renaming .vob to .mpg) via the program VLC (free for download). therefore i'm more inclined to believe that your media player has limitations which have more to do with how subtitles are normally read via DVDs rather than video files being played from a hard drive. in other words i suggest you go with a more flexible video player. as far as burning to DVD goes, i'm afraid .ifo's are a no go, but i wish i had known they were necessary to burn to a DVD when i was uploading.

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hi greg, thanks for your review, i'm glad you filled me in on info of the version. the files were indeed renamed from .vob to .mpg because it is basically the same format, just a different extension: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.vob after the original mpeg files were uploaded archive.org automatically generated additional lower resolution video files.

as far as subtitles go, i was able to get these to work by selecting them in VLC player, i suggest you download these free, open source video player, it is used by many video enthusiasts for its ability to play a wide range of formats (though you will not be able to create a playlist as far as i know).

hope this answers a few questions, glad you liked.

Reviewer: Greg K - - December 14, 2007
Subject: The Original 156:00 Japanese Version!
Finally I'll get to see this underrated classic..."appears to be a different edit" is quite correct, because this version is the original full-length Japanese release of the film. It looks perfect, appears to have the original stereo soundtrack, and the video files for download (at least the MPEG2 versions I downloaded) are in anamorphic widescreen.

I'd question the accuracy of the download files, however...the uploader states these are the VOB files ripped directly from DVD without conversion, and that the file extensions should simply be changed back to VOB (which are pretty much DVD-related files and somewhat useless without the other required DVD files used with them such as the IFO files, etc.), but changing the extensions didn't quite work for me. The only program which would play them as VOB was WinDVD, and I don't believe there are any English subtitles for the Japanese scenes, because WinDVD wouldn't allow me to select any such subtitles...they simply weren't there. Depending on what program was used to extract the VOB files, if the subtitles were not selected (aka subtitle streams), they wouldn't have been included with the VOB files.

There are also several different formats available for downloading...if there was "no reformatting" done, does this mean the system here automatically converts when uploading? If so, that could also explain why no subtitles were present. What DID work was keeping the MPEG files extensions just as they are when downloading here, and loading them into a DVD-making program. They played just fine like that, and if one does that when downloading, you should also set whatever program you use for a 16x9 widescreen setting to keep the correct anamorphic image when burning to disc.

Either way, stick with this, the original uncut full-length version and avoid the panned-and-scanned 108 minute length other version that can be downloaded here on the site. This one is much, much better.