Brand new factory sealed dvd with slipsleeve dust cover is Out Of Print and no longer being manufactured. Original Asian languages with English or Spanish subtitles.

A cross-cultural, multi-lingual, genre-mixing assortment that renders a loopy, confusing premise as a serious drama, SILK proves that there are surprises yet in the world of Asian horror. This is the the only horror film I've ever seen where cops use guns on ghosts, and that's but one of its many crazy ideas.

'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon's' Chang Chen star's as Tung, a Taiwanese detective with superhuman powers of vision and attention. One day he finds top level diplomats have pulled strings to get him reassigned to something called "The Anit-Gravity Unit," which isn't a police agency at all, but a pan-Asian think tank run by the enigmatic and morbid Dr. Hashimoto.

Hashimoto's assembled a crack team of social misfits and weirdos whose unorthodox experiments have resulted in deaths, radioactive fallout, and embarrassing headlines. The centerpiece of their research is the Menger Sponge, a fractal cube of human protein that can absorb almost limitless amounts of energy. Ideally, the Menger Sponge should be able to absorb enough energy to allow objects coated with the stuff to seemingly defy physics--but that remains a far off goal. So far, the Menger Sponge has yielded a differant application...

Hashimoto and his team have misted their eyes with the sponges and found that they can now see ghosts--and they've managed to capture one inside a room coated with minature sponges. The ghost, a young boy sadly cycling through his last days over and over, has killed some of Hashimoto's staff, but their resulting ghosts fade quickly. Something is special about this boy that allows his spirit to endure. That's where Tung comes in:

to find out who this boy was, how he died, and why his phantom lingers on this earth. Exactly why Hashimoto has redirected his lab's attention this way, though, is a mystery that Tung may not unravel in time. The titular silk is a gentle thread (whose meaning and purpose you'll have to find out when you see the film yourself) so delicate you need the heightened resolution of DVD to even see it--this is a film that could never have been made in the VHS days.