It’s been a while since I’ve gotten excited about a Japanese movie that didn’t involve things like bodily fluids, ass-obsessed zombies, and creatures emerging from otherwise ordinary vaginas. Director Tomoyuki Takimoto’s “Brain Man,” while demented in its own way, looks pretty darn swift judging from the trailers embedded below. The film is based on the novel “No Otoko” by author Urio Shudo, who won the 46th Edogawa Rampo Award for the effort. Since I’m lazy and pressed for time, chances are I’ll skip the novel and simply watch the movie. Writers are encouraged to shake their fists and curse my name. Before doing so, read this synopsis: In a small town in Japan, a series of seemingly random explosion cases occur. Ichiro Suzuki knowns as “Brain Man” is fingered as an accomplice. Midorikawa works on the explosion case. The mysterious man known as “Brain Man” has outstanding memory,...
- 1/14/2013
- by Todd Rigney
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