Green Legend Ran Rating: Release Date: 31 March, 1998 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.98 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: John Payne Paul Terry (II) Ian Michael Smith David Gray Complete Cast (8 total)

Green Legend Ran Reviews

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Green Legend Ran
Overall, Green Legend Ran was a good movie. Originally released as a 3 episode OAV series, it was compiled into a shorter length movie that edited out some nude scenes. This DVD contains the full, uncut OAV episodes. The story focuses around a boy who is going through adolesence. Also, it expands something that is somewhat common in anime: the use of oragnized religion as a means to brainwash and control the populace. Religious viewers might be offended, but that is part of the purpose of the film.

A good action movie, with some drama surrounding it.
This is a 3-episode movie, all of which contained in the DVD version. The DVD version is NOT in letterbox format, and I believe that there is NO letterbox format. It has Japanese and English dialogue, and English (regular, and hearing-impaired) subtitles. This DVD does not have any menus, it's a bare-bone DVD title.

The story revolves around a teen boy overcoming (some rather) large odds via smart-thinking and some agile actions to be together with the girl of his choice. It's cliche. The story surrounding it is something else though. Fans of Japan Anime would not feel strange of the story, newcomers beware.

The backdrop of this adventure is a dried-up earth, with huge pillar-like thing that acts as gods embedded on earth's crust. The story unfolds a bit too quickly for my taste, and the graphics are a bit old to current standards. Most of the movie is serious, with very little humor sprinkled inbetween.

A good movie to have on your collection, although I would prefer Miyazaki's works compared to this one. It has some quirky side story in it, which might be enough to make up the dryness of this movie for some people. Overall, it's an average movie.

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