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jmovie: Returner
Sep. 5th, 2007 10:55 pmI 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.
