Completed - JAPANESE - Crime, Thriller - 125 minutes
A good-natured but unsuccessful manga artist comes face-to-face with a murderer. Creating a character based on the perpetrator, the artist’s new comic series becomes a big hit. But when stories and real-life crimes start to resemble one another, the police become suspicious.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Akira NAGAI Cast : Masaki SUDA, Fukase ., Shun OGURI
Keigo Yamashiro (Suda) dreams of becoming a successful manga artist. Despite his artistic skills he is unable to draw realistic villainous characters due to his overly good-natured personality. At the request of his boss, he sets out to sketch a house but on arrival finds the bodies of a family with a man standing in front of them. Keigo lies to the police stating that he did not see the murderer’s face but then creates a character based on the perpetrator for a new comic series. As the manga becomes big hit, a series of incidents occur in which a family of four is targeted one after another leading Detective Shunsuke Kiyota (Oguri) to become suspicious of the resemblance between stories and cases. Then the man appears in front of Keigo once again…
Country(ies) : JAPAN
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Hochi Film Award 2021 (Best Newcomer)