That Shawn of the dead: self defense looks interesting... Could you let me know how it is 
Well I just sat through it, and it was a real
meh!-experience.
"Zombie self defense force" was nothing like "Shaun of the dead", really. It was not scary, it was not good, and it wasn't even funny, this side of a single good joke in the whole thing.
They had obviously no budget beyond lunch for the crew, and sadly they don't act it quite badly enough to be fun.
I've been spoon-fed with really bad flicks like this in the eighties, so I could sit through it, and not "want my money back", yet I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
"Izo" on the other hand rocked!
Took me a few minutes to get into the film, but once I understood what it was about, I felt this movie had been made with me personally in mind. Great thing, truthing all the way, great inescapable nihilistic anger-fest. Add to that the fact that it guest-stars every other Japanese movie star out there.
"Ashura" I liked way more than I thought I would. The ending was stretched and broke with the mood of the whole movie, but I really liked the leading male actor's performance. The guy came from theater/musical stage background and had never been in a movie before. He completely ignored the camera, and played to an imaginary audience instead, and the director got that to actually work in this film. Remarkable.
EDIT:
Oh, and as of the PCE games I bought:
CD Battle was a real let-down. I didn't expect it to be much of a game in the first place, as I knew its background as barcode battler rip-off. But the randomly generated characters don't make any sense. You get characters with so few HPs, they almost die all by themselves, without the enemy side having to do much. Sometimes you get characters generated that have awesome spells, but they are randomly generated to
not have enough MPs to actually cast these... How dumb is that?!
Plus, I went through like maybe 20 audio CDs, and I only got a "hidden" character out of one of them.
Avoid this "game".
