A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Director:
Tetsu Maeda
Writers:
Tetsu Maeda, Takashi Hasegawa, Kentaro Ushio.
Takao Osawa Naruse |
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Kyoka Suzuki Yukiko |
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Koichi Sato Kyono |
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Shota Matsuda Kuon |
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Koji Ohkura Jimichi |
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Arata Furuta Tanaka |
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Rosa Kato Shoko |
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Houka Kinoshita Hayashi |
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Suzuki Matsuo Kamoda |
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Ken Mitsuishi Asakura |
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Ren Osugi Kunimoto |
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Eisuke Sasai Urushihara |
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Ryo Iwamatsu | |
Tomohiro Miura Shinichi |
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Yasuhi Nakamura | |
Yuichiro Nakayama Akajima |
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Sakichi Sato | |
Kyūsaku Shimada | |
Ellie Toyota |
Writing | Tetsu Maeda | Screenplay |
Directing | Tetsu Maeda | Director |
Camera | Hideo Yamamoto | Director of Photography |
Writing | Takashi Hasegawa | Screenplay |
Art | Takashi Sasaki | Production Design |
Editing | Mototaka Kusakabe | Editor |
Writing | Kotaro Isaka | Novel |
Writing | Kentaro Ushio | Screenplay |