Aoyagi meets an old friend and ends up framed for the murder of the prime minister.
Anna Kendrick—star of the new HBO Max series, "Love Life"—knew she had to embrace all the cringeworthy honesty of her character's romantic struggles.
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| Nao Ohmori | ... | Higuchi Nobuyuki (as Nao Ômori) | |
| Yûko Takeuchi | ... | Higuchi Haruko | |
| Teruyuki Kagawa | ... | Sasaki Ichitaro | |
| Shihori Kanjiya | ... | Rinka | |
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Masato Sakai | ... | Aoyagi Masaharu |
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Akira Emoto | ... | Hodogaya Yasushi |
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Ken'ichi Takitô | ||
| Gaku Hamada | ... | Kill-O | |
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Hidetaka Yoshioka | ... | Morita Shingo |
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Saki Aibu | ... | Inoue Koume |
| Ryushin Tei | ... | Detective Washizu | |
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Gekidan Hitori | ... | Ono Kazuo |
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Sonim | ... | Tsuruta Ami |
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Kôhei Chino | ||
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Kenta Shimada | ||
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When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer. Among the many puzzles of this twisty, clever film is how Nakamura manages to sneak a genuinely moving tribute to friendship into the madcap procession of perilous events. No matter what befalls Aoyagi, his friends and parents believe in him because of his steadfast, almost irrational pleasantness. Written by Los Angeles Film Festival
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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.