Product Details

• Directors: Richard Compton, James A. Contner, Allen Coulter, Tucker Gates, Ralph Hemecker
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, German
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: September 30, 1997
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304563906
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,785 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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This two-parter (third season, episodes 9 and 10) picks up threads from the season opening three-part story. Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) track an "alien autopsy" tape to its source only to find the sender murdered and the killer a high-ranking Japanese government official protected by diplomatic immunity. As Mulder follows clues recovered from the killer to a decades old series of experiments he believes involves alien DNA and human subjects, Scully meets a group of women who possess the same computer-chip implants and memories of abduction that she has and discovers a secret camp, ostensibly a leper colony but also the site of genetic experiments. Their two lines of inquiry meet on a government train car seen in the very tape that Muldar saw at the beginning of "Nisei." Deep Throat's cagey successor, known only as X (Steven Williams), takes the most active role he's ever undertaken in the series while FBI scientist Pendrell (Brenden Beiser) helps Scully investigate her implanted chip and freelance pals Lone Gunmen help out in their own unique way. Director Rob Bowman brings an understated creepiness to the adventure with his desolate settings and dripping-with-dread atmosphere. --Sean Axmaker

Product Description

Nisei
Original Broadcast Date : 11/24/95
Written by Chris Carter, Howard Gordon, Frank Spotnik
Directed by David Nutter

Mulder and Scully unravel another thread in the government's conspiracy to hide the truth about extraterrestrial life when Mulder uncovers a video of a "real" alien autopsy. (Part 1 of 2)

Special Agent Fox Mulder - David Duchovny
Special Agent Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson
Kazeo Takeo - Yas Sakurai
Frohike - Tom Braidwood
Byers - Bruce Harwood
Langly - Dean Haglund
Lottie Holloway - Corrine Koslo
Penny Northern - Gillian Barber
The Harbourmaster - Roger Allford
The Coast Guard Officer - Paul Mclean
Diane - Lori Triolo
Senator Matheson - Raymond J. Barry
Agent Comox - Brendan Beiser
Dr. Ishimaru - Robert Ito
The Japanese Escort - Warren Takeuchi
The Train Station Clerk - Carrie Cain Sparks
X - Steven Williams
The Limo Driver - Bob Wilde

731
Original Broadcast Date : 12/01/95
Written by Frank Spotnitz
Directed by Rob Bowman

Mulder and Scully's search for the truth about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial life gets dangerous when Mulder boards a speeding train, Scully is forced to trust a mysterious government figure to help him out. (Part 2 of 2)

Special Agent Fox Mulder - David Duchovny
Special Agent Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson
Asst. Director Walter S. Skinner - Mitch Pileggi
Dr. Zama - Robert Ito
X - Steven Williams
The Red-Haired Man - Stephen Mchattie Pendrell Colin - Brenden Beiser

Cunningham - Escalante
The Conductor - Mike Puttonen
The Elder - Don S. Williams
Mother - Victoria Maxwell
The Soldier - Sean Campbell

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have now become an X-Files fan!, May 31, 2002

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D. COLLIER "Top Guhzillion Reviewer" (Brownwood, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The X-Files: Nisei/731 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've seen the X-Files show a couple of times before but was only mildly impressed. I had seen the feature film and wasn't impressed at all. But just last night I watched these two particular episodes, and now I understand why people become X-Files fans. It was very suspenseful, and I still can't make heads or tails out of some of the stuff I saw. But I know I liked it!

The way the climax unfolds in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a single train car which may or may not contain a bomb; and may or may not contain an alien; and may or may not contain a human experiment gone dangerously awry; and may very well contain an agent from the National Security Agency who threatens Mulder's mission (and his life) -- great writing of this caliber is usually only seen in Hitchcock films or the M. Night Shyamalan (sic) films.

If you are (like I was 24 hours ago) not an X-Files fan, just check this one out. If you like on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense, you won't be disappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the goberments have secrets., October 18, 2000

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Roman Felipe Gonzalez Mora (Mexico City, Mexico.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The X-Files: Nisei/731 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I already was a believer in the UFO phenomena, and the X-files show this in a new way, the alien conspiration, everithing was expose in this serie. In this episodes Mulder traces the video of the Alien authopsy, but this investigation takes show him more a simple fake, they expose the world conspiration to obtain new medical and technological advances obtained from the Aliens. In this two episodes, the two contries ( USA and Japan ), figth to keep the results of the alien investigations for your own beneficts, and show how this experiments was used in normal persons to see the results ( like the microchip planted on Scully and the camp with all the infected people ). This is definitelly one of the most interested chapters in the X-Files saga, and show many things who made more than one person think about the UFO and Alien phenomena and if the goberments really tell all the true to the people.

We are alone ?

2.0 out of 5 stars So much mass and unsubtle killing spoil the subtle mystery of the show, November 26, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The X-Files: Nisei/731 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The two-part episode on this tape is one that goes so far beyond what is reasonable that I was no longer able to suspend my disbelief. It opens with a scene where a team of Japanese doctors is performing an autopsy on an unusual humanoid creature in a railroad car. Suddenly, a team of American soldiers burst in and proceeds to machine-gun everyone in the room. The owner of a video business manages to capture a raw feed from a satellite dish on the railroad car and offers it for sale. Mulder purchases a copy and shows it to Scully.
When they attempt to track down the owner of the video business at his home, they find him executed on the bed and a Japanese man is still in the house. After a fierce fight, Mulder manages to capture the man and turn him over to the police. It turns out that he is a Japanese diplomat and after some wrangling, the man is released. Shortly after that, a mysterious American man kills the Japanese diplomat.
This killing of everyone who knows anything continues throughout both episodes, becoming even worse in the second. At one point, a group of "people" that appear somewhat alien in nature are taken to the edge of a ditch and then machine-gunned by American soldiers. This is a scene straight out of any film depicting what the Germans did during World War II and no reasonable person could think that the U. S. government could ever pull off such an action. It is an open field on a U. S. government facility and they do it in broad daylight and don't even fill in the trench after the killing is over. It is very hard to hide such mass murder.
I yield to few people in believing that the U. S. government is capable of subterfuge, deception and foul deeds. However, the wanton and mass killings in these episodes totally destroy the structure of tension and mystery and that the government is evil. Additional arguments against are that the killings are not subtle and many are of Japanese people that would raise some kind of international protest.