Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.
Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.
Does history disappear or do we? Based on the novel Timeslips by Ryo Hanmura and the original Sonny Chiba flick of the same name Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 brings the story right up to date. Well sort of! What would happen if a modern-day self-defence force unit slipped back in time and faced a large army under one of history's most famous generals? 460 years in the past modern day soldiers with the latest in weaponry unite with a medieval army to take
Takeshi Kitano is a true legend of Asian cinema both in front of and behind the camera. His ability to captivate audiences with his powerful on-screen performances in films such as Battle Royale and Zatoichi are unrivaled and as such he is hugely admired all over the world. Shunpei (Takeshi Kitano) is a violent man working at the fish factory in Osaka. When he is off he drinks and is continuously consumed by hate. When the factory closes he becomes a loan shark. With no limit to his obsession for money Shunpei's family are soon drawn into his ego-bound quest for riches. Based upon one of the biggest bestsellers in Korea - the Yamamoto-Syugoro prize winning novel ""Chi no Hone"" by Yang Sogiru (Sogil Yan) - the film tells the story the story about Yang Sogiru's father Shunpei who was amongst the first generation Koreans to live in Japan.
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