- Actors: Hiroshi Fujioka, Akio Ohtsuka, Kirk Thornton, Julie Maddalena, Yűko Mizutani
- Directors: Fumihiro Yoshimura, Osamu Dezaki
- Writers: Osamu Dezaki, Bob Buchholz, Eto Mori, Kihachi Okamoto, Kuniaki Yamashita
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Central Park Media
- VHS Release Date: May 12 1998
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 1562195514
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This baroque melodrama is based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka that ran in various magazines from 1973 to 1983. With his facial scar, cape, and mop of black and white hair, Kuro Hazama, a.k.a. Black Jack, resembles a cross between Cruella DeVil and Captain Harlock. He's an unlicensed doctor of staggering abilities and even more staggering fees. Black Jack is called in to develop a cure for a mysterious disease that's ravaging "Super Humans"--people of no discernible ability who suddenly burst onto the scene as stars in sports or the arts. The key to the emergence of the Super Humans and the disease is pharmaceutical heiress and surgeon Jo Carol. Sometimes as allies, sometimes as enemies, Black Jack and Jo Carol uncover the nature of the disease--and the program of human experimentation that produced it. Although Tezuka's many fans will want this adventure, it doesn't represent his best work. The script is needlessly talky, and Black Jack is saved not by his abilities, but by the deus ex machina of a tribe of desert nomads. In an era of revelations about government-sanctioned medical experiments, Tezuka's story takes on a disturbing resonance, but director Osamu Dezaki squanders much of the material's potential impact. Unrated ("parental discretion advised"); suitable for ages 16 and up for violence and often grotesque medical imagery. --Charles Solomon
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Work Gone Awry,
By Marc Ruby™ "The Noh Hare™" (Warren, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Jack: A Surgeon with the Hands of God (DVD)
This full length medical thriller was created completed in 1996, base on a popular manga series created a decade before by Osamu Tezuka. It's plot, not particularly original then, and much hackneyed now, is the story of an experiment gone out of control. Brane Pharmaceutical has discovered a way to stimulate permanent secretion of endorphins. This has fueled the creation of a group of humans with superhuman abilities, who have just as suddenly begun to burn out and die. The culprit it the same virus that stimulates the endorphins in the first place, and it has begun to affect others besides the original patients - an artificially created plague. When one of his own patients is affected, Black Jack, a wildcat surgeon, becomes involved. Jo Carol Brane arranged the kidnapping of his ward, Pinoko, to force his cooperation. Black Jack finds the cause, but this only unmasks the source of the danger. It will take a miracle to find the cure and preventative. By rights, this should have been an exciting story. In the original Japanese, the script is terse and brutal, producing a stylized gothic effect that is enough to overcome a slow moving plot. Unfortunately, the dubbing took extreme liberties with the script and under-acted the parts. The result is a wordy and sometimes tedious performance. After all, the point of the story - the dangers of irresponsible medical research - is obvious enough so that there is no need to belabor it. Even so it is an interesting film. The art and music are excellent, using a lot of tonality that is unusual in anime work. A little better editing and writing would have made this a memorable effort. Instead, it is only a near miss. A mistake that should never have happened.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Waste Your Time and Money on This,
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This review is from: Black Jack: A Surgeon with the Hands of God (DVD)
Where to begin! There's barely a hint of plot, absolutely no character development, no sense of danger or tension and the whole thing is based on a completely ridiculous premise. I guess you could say it's at least drawn well, but some of the stylistic choices are just stupid looking (a plethora of cheesy freeze frames and an overuse of an infrared effect to bash the viewer over the head with "hey look, this guy is a 'super mankind' person!") And, my gawd, it ends with a literal lecture that is screamed at the audience. After about 20 minutes of this tripe you'll be wishing you spent your money on a house call from Dr. Kevorkian.
1.0 out of 5 stars
why hasnt the translation of the manga out yet?,
By "kyo1128" (Madison, Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Jack: A Surgeon with the Hands of God (DVD)
awful, I tell you. Other reviewers I'm sure have never read the manga version of Black Jack. Kuroo Hazama, AKA Black Jack (Translation of Kuroo = Black Jack)is an unlicensed surgeon who is full of humanity but is for reasons unknown (actually it's known) don't want to show it. Movie is bad, it's not even watchable. Probably because Mr. Tezuka was dead when this movie went into production. Write to Tezuka production, tell them they need to spread the legacy Osamu Tezuka who was doctor himself. In Japan, there are almost no doctors that haven't read Black Jack. It also inspired many young readers to become doctors in Japan. DO THEM JUSTICE. Inspire more young readers to become doctors not because of the money but for the reason Black Jack does. To save people."But, I will still treat people. Because that's who I am." "I don't want your pitty. All I want is respect. Not to me but to the patient you killed that his parents sweat blood for me to save." Great lines by Dr. Black Jack
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