meganbmoore | jmovie: Returner (Reply)

I just watched the jmovie Returner. Depending on your reasons for watching, it is either about Takeshi Kaneshiro running around shooting and blowing things up while wearing leather or it's about a girl from the future who travels back in time to save the world from an alien invasion who "convinces" a mercenary with a mad-on for the guy who causes it all to help her.

The plot is essentially this: 82 years in the future(as of 2002) humanity has been all but wiped out by an alien invasion. The remaining humans develop a time machine to travel back in time to stop the aliens when they first arrive (no, this does NOT sound familiar...NOT AT ALL) except things go wrong and all but a young girl named Milly are wiped out, so Milly goes back on her her. Almost immediately after her arrival, she meets a mercenary named Miyamoto, by way of accidentally shooting her in a gunfight. For whatever reason, he thinks his apartment is a better place to take her than the hospital. Being from the future, Milly has a bullet-proof piece of metal in her jacket so she's fine, and which point he tries to kick her out, only to have her tell him she attached a teeny bomb to his neck so he has to help her. He is displeased but rather likes having his head attached. It is also made easier when he learns that the guy responsible for pissing off the aliens and all but wiping out humanity as a result is his enemy, Mizumochi, who likes to abduct street kids and sell their organs.

So, yeah, kind of Japan's version of Terminator with a side of E.T. With a Star Wars-esque fight thrown in and some wirefu. Except no romance, what with the leads being about 28 and 14-ish(roughly on both accounts) at the time.

Things blew up. Things were shot. He kicked butt. She kicked butt. I was entertained. Plus there was this time distortion wrist watch thingie than was fun, even though I feel it was underutilized.

I bring pics, largely of Takeshi Kaneshiro pointing his gun at things, often standing protectively in front of Suzuki Anne.

Not what they expected to see...

Sometimes they point their guns at each other.

Occassionally, they leave off with the gun pointing to engage in some healthy breaking and entering.

In his downtime, Miyamoto squeezes info out of old ladies(ok, so there's no squeezing of info...she shares for cvash)

And watches her sleep.

Isn't she cute?

Even when she tries to look dangerous.

Back to the gunpointing and such:

He is paying more attention to shooting than to driving. Wisely, she is clinging for dear life.

He's about to point his gun, I promise.

Fortunately he knows how to use things besides a gun. Though he used that to cause and explosion, so I'm not sure it counts.

See? (ok, different explosion...)

This will not please Miyamoto.

See?

He also likes to point his gun at explosions...

Ok fine, there was a car chasing them in there. But I'm sure he still would have pointed his gun at it anyway.

Oh yes, and we cannot forget that he feeds her because her tummy grumbles while she's yelling at him(actually a very fun scene...she's lecturing him-he deserves it- and he's looking bored and then her stomacjh growls and he just gets up and starts cooking and tells her to sit down and wait)