A writer forced to become his own action hero? Meta chaos ensues.
Ryou Matsumoto is a screenplay writer that runs into a man and witnesses his murder. Unknown to him, he gets caught up in an illegal antique ring along with a girl he meets named Yuki. In order to survive, he ends up acting out the "action hero" role that he writes in his screenplays.
Direction
Nishimori's kinetic chase sequences punch above runtime.
Writing
Deliciously meta premise: writer literally living his tropes.
Director
Akira Nishimori
Kazuhiko Inoue
Ryou Matsumoto (voice)
Akiko Hiramatsu
Naomi (voice)
Eiko Yamada
Yuki Tamura (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Old Woman (voice)
Hiroshi Masuoka
Superior Officer (voice)
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Shimohara (voice)
Kazumi Tanaka
Hasebu (voice)
Makio Inoue
Henmi (voice)
Nobuo Tanaka
Detective Mochizuki (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Kengorou Karate (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Gouda (voice)
Tetsuo Mizutori
Old Man (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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