Hero (2007-Japan)
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- Movie: Hero
- Director: Masayuki Suzuki
- Assistant Director: Kunihiro Nagase
- Writer: Yasushi Fukuda
- Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Toru Ota, Takashi Ishihara
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: September 8, 2007
- Runtime: 130 minutes
- Studio: Fuji TV,
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) is an unconventional prosecutor at the Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. One day Kuryu is asked to take on a case which his colleague, Shibayama (Abe Hiroshi), prosecuted. The case looks simple with a confession by the accused, but the accused changes his plea at the first hearing and now claims his innocence. Kuryu is faced with Gamo Kazuomi, an attorney who prides himself with the highest number of winning acquittals for criminal cases in Japan. While Kuryu is puzzled by the appearance of such a high profile attorney for a relatively minor case without publicity, Gamo steadily drives Kuryu into a corner with his unperturbed and varied tactics. According to Mayuzumi, a prosecutor of the special investigation team at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, the adjudication of the case holds the key to a bribery case of Hanaoka Renzaburo, a major Diet member. Kuryu and Hanaoka had an encounter in the past, but Kuryu concentrates on bringing out the truth of his case and with his legal aide Amamiya (Matsu Takako), theyhead to Pusan in Korea to request Kang Min Woo, an elite prosecutor in Korea, to cooperate with the investigation, however....
Notes
- Based on the popular Fuji TV drama series "Hero" - which garnered over 30% ratings for every episode.
- Related titles:
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Starring
- Takuya Kimura - Ko'hei Kuryu
- Takako Matsu - Maiko Amemiya
Supporting Cast
- Hiroshi Abe - Mitsugu Shibayama
- Haruka Ayase - Ririko Izumiya
- Arata Furuta - Shuji Gouda
- Renji Ishibashi - Masahiro Oyabu
- Masayuki Ito - Yuzo Kawashima
- Takuzo Kadono - Yutaka Ushimaru
- Teruyuki Kagawa - Yasaku Mayuzumi
- Masanobu Katsumura - Tatsuo Egami
- Ittoku Kishibe - Kaoru Kayama
- Kiyoshi Kodama - Toshimitsu Nabeshima
- Fumiyo Kohinata - Takayuki Suitsugu
- Ryoko Kuninaka - Megumi Matsumoto
- Byung-hun Lee - Kang
- Bokuzo Masana - Shuji Ido
- Hidekazu Mashima - Katsuhiko Higashiyama
- Koshiro Matsumoto - Issei Gamo
- Satomi Nagano - Setsuko Kashiwagi
- Kiichi Nakai - Akihiko Takida
- Kazuki Namioka - Keisuke Umebayashi
- Kaoru Okunuki - Ryoko Shibayama
- Nene Otsuka - Misuzu Nakamura
- Sawa Suzuki - Misa Kurokawa
- Tamori - Renzaburo Hanaoka
- Yoji Tanaka - Master
- Shione Yamazaki - Shibayama's mother
- Norito Yashima - Kenji Endo
- So Yamanaka
- Do-bin Park
- Park Seong-Taek - kidnapper
- Hijiri Sakurai
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