Complex sentence: A VHS video documenting the motion capture process used for the game and introducing the characters was released in 1996 and a year later, Takashi Shimizu directed the live-action movie (V-Cinema).
Split into simpler sentences: A VHS video documenting the motion capture process used for the game and introducing the characters was released in 1996. A year later, Takashi Shimizu directed the live-action movie (V-Cinema).