Space Travelers (2000)
"Supêsutoraberâzu" (original title)

Director:

Katsuyuki Motohiro

Writers:

Magy (based on a story by), Yoshikazu Okada

Stars:

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eri Fukatsu, Masanobu Andô

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Takeshi Kaneshiro	...	Nishiyama ("Hayabusa Jetter")
Eri Fukatsu	...	Midori ("Irene Bear")
Masanobu Andô	...	Makoto Fujimoto ("Black Cat")
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi	...	Takamura ("Dragon Attack")
Sawa Suzuki	...	Kimiko Fukaura ("Gold Papillon")
Masahiro Kômoto	...	Takahiro Shimizu ("Karl Hendrix")
Teruo Takeno	...	Shintaro Kurasawa ("Electric Sunny")
Kô Takasugi	...	SAT Taicho
Shigemitsu Ogi	...	SIT Taicho
Isao Nonaka	...	Det. Arai
Yôzaburô Itô	...	Det. Nishikawa
Seiko Takada	...	Band manager
Toshio Kakei	...	Koichi Fukaura ("Hoi")
Jovijova	...	J-Six Babys
Chikara Ishikura	...	J-Six Babys

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

bomb | bank robber | stockholm syndrome | paradise | satire | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

8 April 2000 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Space Travelers

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fuji Television Network, Robot, Toei Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Shimizu: I've... always had a big inferiority complex. My teachers, they all gave me negative scores for social activities. I never even managed to date a girl. At yesterday's lonely hearts dinner, I was too shy to do anything. But... I think... now I think I can do it. I think I've changed. So let me go and get the pizza. Besides, I'm not Shimizu any more. I'm... BIG BAD CARL HENDRIX!

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the movie, the URL http://www.space-travelers.com appears on the screen along with the password PARADISE.

User Reviews

A fast-paced, often touching piece of work, with extremely well-drawn characters.

SPACE TRAVELERS is a comic thriller about three men (Takeshi

Kaneshiro, Masanobu Ando and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), orphans all,

who decide to rob a bank just before closing time to finance their

escape to a tropical paradise. Plans, as they often do, go south

and the trio ends up trapped in the locked-down bank with an

eclectic and eccentric collection of staff and customers, each of

whom corresponds to characters in an anime show adored by one

of the robbers (Ando, the psycho kid in BATTLE ROYALE). In short

order, the hostages realize their captors are actually misguided

losers and decide to help them out, adopting character names

from the anime and making the growing throngs of cops outside

think the gang is much bigger than it really is and, in the process,

discovering untapped potential and new senses of purpose in

their mundane lives. A fast-paced, often touching piece of work,

with extremely well-drawn characters.