Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Junji Sakamoto
Director
Renji Ishibashi
Susumu Ichikawa / Gozen Reiji
Michiyo Yasuda
Yayoi Ichikawa
Ittoku Kishibe
Kazuyuki Ishida
Kaori Momoi
Hikaru Tamayodo
Koichi Sato
Michio Kodama
Etsushi Toyokawa
Takeshi Shu
Yosuke Eguchi
Shuhei Moriyama
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Tomoya Imanishi
Kensuke Shinzaki
Popeye
Mao Inoue
Utama Fukuhara
Akira Emoto
Takashi Renjo
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It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!