Sanctuary (Dub.VHS)
Title: Sanctuary
Volume: Dub.VHS
Running time: 70
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 1996-10-00
Suggested retail price: $24.95
SKU: VVSE-001
UPC: 782009018032
ISBN-10: 1569311560
ISBN-13: 9781569311561
Description:
Based on the Popular Manga Series!
Two friends. Two destinies.
One Japan.
The story of two young men dedicated to transforming their nation from within–one as a political leader, the other as an organized crime boss–writer Sho Fumimura and award-wining artist Ryoichi Ikegami's erotically charged political thriller [sanctuary] comes at last to vivid life in this stunningly animated tale of organized crime, high-level politics, and big business in contemporary Japan.
Hojo and Asami, who in their youth experienced the horror of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, are dissatisfied with the selfish materialism of Japanese society under the rule of old men, Hojo, a yakuza boss, tries to gain control of Japan's criminal underworld, while Asami, a bold politician with radical new ideas, challenges the archaic structure of Japanese politics. Their struggles illuminate the problems of contemporary Japanese society, everywhere from the heights of the national power-structure to the depths of the Japanese mafia. Somewhere between the top and the bottom, the light and the dark, the two men determine to find their sanctuary, even if they have to create it themselves.
Fumimuta, perhaps better known under his pen name "Buronson," is the writer of FIST OF THE NORTH STAR. Ikegami, the artist of both MAI THE PSYCHIC GIRL and CRYING FREEMAN, is the recipient of the 1995 San Diego Comic-Con's Inkpot AWard, one of the industry's most prestigious honors. Available in English for the first time ever, Viz Video is proud to add this sophisticated, dramatic thriller to its library of bestselling, quality anime videos.
(added on 2026-05-19, modified on 2026-05-19)
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