“A hyper-kinetic, exuberantly gory cross between Day of the Dead and The Blair Witch Project.” - Variety magazine

Since it’s international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Ryuhei Kitamura’s first film has become an award-winning international cult hit and marks the most exciting debut feature from Asia in years.
Versus is an extremely entertaining collision of genres. Equally inspired by classic samurai films, the stylized gunplay of Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns, wild Hong Kong Kung Fu and swordplay spectacles (with the same kind of stunts and wirework that inspired Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), and of course - the zombie movies of George Romero and the Italian exploitation cinema. It propels science-fiction horror action to the next level and delivers an unforgettable night at the movies.

A group of bloodthirsty Yakuza gangsters are set to meet two prison escapees and take them to safety, but they show up in the (aptly named) Forest of Resurrection with a woman hostage who seems strangely familiar to the former prisoners. While they wait for the gangster’s mysterious Leader to arrive, the prison escape takes an unexpected turn. They have unwittingly stumbled across the 444th portal to the next world. Soon the woods are alive (perhaps undead is a better term) with the re-animated victims of the gangsters, assorted Yakuza scumbags who have transformed into the walking, (running, shooting and biting) dead, and the few remaining humans.
And why does the enigmatic woman hostage seem so familiar?

Heed the words of the director: This type of film shall be known as “Freefall Ultra-Violence Non-Stop Entertainment Action.”
-Bruce Fletcher