cadence921 Masaharu Aoyagi, a delivery service company's employee, is pointed a gun by a police officer after he meets his old friend and hears the friend's mysterious words. He is framed as an assassin of the Prime Minister and he runs away.The plot development of this film is speedy and I couldn't take my eyes off. The setting is wild and I think that this film is like American film.Characters are very attractive and music is also wonderful. I like the theme song of this film, "Golden Slumber".I realized the importance of trust again through this film. We must give up when we are doubted if nobody believes us.I have read the original novel and it is my favorite. It is often said that live-action versions are worse than original works. However, I think that the film is no less wonderful than the novel. Casts are very good at acting and casting perfectly matches my image.

KFL Gotta give this one points for originality. A none-too-bright (at least at the beginning) fellow is set up as the fall guy in a plot to assassinate the Japanese prime minister. He manages to elude capture through chance, and friends who help him, and sheer luck...again, and again, and...againandagainandagain....Normally I don't watch this kind of flic, although I found myself thinking "but I watched Skyfall just last week...." But there is some great humor here, especially if you have some familiarity with Japanese culture (not all of the gags translate well). The "Death to Gropers!!" line in particular is ROFL funny...given all the sunny slogans that typically are written by Japanese kids in calligraphy class.I did find myself cringing the third or fourth time a character sang the Beatles' standard "Golden Slumber", typically out of tune. Have the remote ready, and don't be afraid to hammer that fast-forward button.You might like this if you can ignore the extreme implausibility of eg. your typical James Bond movie, and enjoy intermittent humor, and unexpected twists.

Seino Aoyagi (Masato Sakai) is mistaken for a murderer and on the run from the cops. At first glance one would think it to be a simple suspense film, but that's not the case. Each character has a deeper motive. Carefree, open-hearted, soft-spoken, each character seems to have some sort of reliance and trust in Aoyagi.A married couple with child get into an elevator, standing alongside a suspicious hooded man. The elevator descends, and a long take follows them as they walk through the department store. Suddenly, the child disappears. In this moment the film has us nervously thinking, "Something bad must have happened."With this powerful moment I'd recommend the film. Every scene in the film feels like a pure cinematic experience: when the company owner says to Aoyagi, "i know You aren't the criminal;" when we cut to the scenery outside the car in motion; when the child of the wanted criminal dies. Even normal scenes were certainly shot with meaning. The cooperation of Sendai City during the filming has a positive effect on the movie's quality. Extras who appear in the film for just a few seconds stand with consideration for their own significance, in turn blessed by a splendid film. As soundly escapist entertainment, it's a shame the film hasn't been screened overseas since its debut in 2010. This kind of amusing film is an example for what Japanese cinema is all about.

hans-j-albertsson I generally concur in the first review, except to add that to most Europeans and possibly all Japanese I know, the tiny girl's mother behaves very rationally: She protects her offspring in the greater sense at any cost.It's a beautifully involved and in part almost indecipherable plot. The serial killer is the nice guy. The big-time gangster is the guy finding the way out. The police are the bad guys, and sometimes the good guys. And the love hotel is a car.Im still uncertain as to which characters survived and which didn't, which ones betrayed the hero, and which ones didn'tI want this one on BluRay with any European language subtitles.. Please please make that happen!