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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2009)
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
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In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
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Genre:Action, Adventure, Crime
Written By:So Kitamura, Shimako Sato, Takashi Yamazaki
In Theaters:1/23/2009
Box Office:$21,443,265
Runtime:137 minutes
Studio:Nippon Television Network Corporation, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company, Hiroshima Telecasting, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Robot Communications, VAP, TOHO, dentsu, Shogakukan, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Shirogumi, IMAGICA
Cast
Shimako Sato
Director
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Heikichi Endo
Takako Matsu
Yoko Hashiba
Toru Nakamura
Kogoro Akechi
Kanata Hongo
Yoshio Kobayashi
Jun Kunimura
Genji
Yuki Imai
Shinsuke
Fumiyo Kohinata
Ringmaster
Takeshi Kaga
Mysterious Gentleman
Kyusaku Shimada
Designer
Kazuyoshi Kushida
Doctor Yagi
Jun Kaname
Doctor Yagi's assistant
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