We are in Japan "post-no-war", that is in 1949 but that there was no World War II: the Empire has never made the choices that brought the wicked country to the ruin of the Rising Sun (attack on Pearl Harbor, entrance into the war with the Axis powers etc.) , and the country lives in an antebellum-style futurism unreal, strange flying machines, a Blade Runner-iron, steel and steam, a bizarre technological progress but did not touch the company, lost as if it were frozen in eternal seeming Middle Ages from which, for better or for worse, Japan came only after the end of the war, after the nuclear destruction and the American occupation means a company sectorally divided into an opulent aristocracy dominating a poor class poor. We are in the imaginary capital Teito. During the presentation of an extraordinary invention by the legendary Dr. Tesla, a mysterious individual takes possession of the machine and cause a massacre: the notorious criminal Mescher called "Twenty Faces". The detective Kogoro Akechi, accompanied by his assistant disturbing child, continues the investigation to catch the villain. Down in the gutter while the fearless acrobat Heikichi Endo, after finishing his performance in a show veien approached by a strange man who pays him to complete a dangerous job, which must be completed at the reception for the Annunciation Kogoro detective with the wedding of his noble girlfriend, Yoko Hashiba: Things are bad and the unfortunate Heikichi is hopelessly mistaken for the criminal "Twenty Faces" and hunted. The boy will have to face an entire city so that it pursues, the wily detective Kogoro, a dangerous criminal, and save the world ... Well not to be spoler, but in short films super-heroes in the end they are all so ...
I was extremely interested in this movie: I love movies of Japanese super-heroes, but those who do not take themselves seriously, as the beautiful Zebra-man Miike, for one thing: here we are a marvel-Japanese film, and especially compared to what you do not want to be an innovative film but a film that follows a trend already established and that more senior figures, could be down to his total. I must say that I had changed his mind, even if partially. Adapted from the work of 北 村 想 ( Kitamura I know), the film is crisp and agile, as the ability director of its writer, 佐藤 嗣 麻子 ( Sato Shimako ). To attract the masses, especially of girls and women, there is the Japan-Taiwanese star 金城武 (Takeshi Kaneshiro ), great acting talent. The female lead is played by 松 たか子 (Takako Matsu ) for me the same as the star of the recent thriller hospital Nakamura, Yuko Takeuchi.
The film amuses and intrigues, the plot is compelling and there are plot twists, action scenes are exciting, but the special effects of Japanese cinema, I may say so, are not yet up to the standard American and New Zealand. There is always the sword of Damocles of the comparison with Filmon targati Marvel, but I do not think you can just ask for more for this genre, from Japanese cinema.
K-20 怪人 二十 面相 伝 (K-20 Ni-Ju Kaijin Mensa Den - The legend of the mysterious man from twenty-sided) Japan, 2008 - directed by 佐藤 嗣 麻子 ( Sato Shimako )
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