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March 11, 2009

#662 The Returner


Japanese Title リターナー/Ritana
English Title: The Returner
Year: 2002
Country: Japan
Language: Mandarin, Japanese, English
Running Time: 116 min
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Genre: Action, SF

I bought this last Monday in Rotterdam in a DVD box ^^
Well i like this movie
Its maybe very fake some scenes!
But you will enjoy watching it!
The cast and the relation betweem the 2 leaders!
The last 20 minutes was so familair that i though i saw it before :S
But i can't remember anything

Never though Anne Suzuki is the pretty girl from Initial D!
She was only 15 in here!
In Initial D she was 17! But more mature!
Total different!!
So big change!

Thirth time see Takashi Kaneshiro in a movie!
And a Japanese one!
OMG he's so handsome & talanted ^^
I want to see Red Cliff now LOL

Suprise i saw a familair face in this movie!
First i wasn;t sure but when i saw his name
Yeah it must be him!
He only have 2 scene's LOL
I'm talking about Shugo Oshinari!
Takuma Aoi from Battle Royale: Requiem
And Tomie Re-Birth!




Summary:
Milly is a female soldier from the year 2084, when the human race is on the verge of extinction at the hands of an alien race. At the human resistance's final stronghold in Tibet, she jumps into a portal that sends her to the year 2002. There, Milly persuades a hitman named Miyamoto to aid her in her mission to prevent the war in her timeline from occurring. Miyamoto also has a personal score to settle with crime lord Mizoguchi, who killed his childhood friend and is also involved in the incident that would bring the aliens to Earth.

Cast:
Takeshi Kaneshiro - Miyamoto
Anne Suzuki - Milly
Kirin Kiki - Xie
Goro Kishitani - Mizoguchi
Yukiko Okamoto - Dr. Yagi
Masaya Takahashi - Liu Lao Ban




Rating: ***1/2
Trailer:


[credits wikipedia, imdb.com]

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