Rating: NR
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 08/30/2008(Japan)
Release Date: 12/15/2009
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Viz Video
A burned-out rocker discovers his doom-struck adolescent fantasies are coming true in this futuristic
thriller from Japan. Ever since his career as a musician crashed and burned,
Kenji (
Toshiaki Karasawa) has been making a living working at a quick-stop store and living with his family. One day, police officers stop by and ask
Kenji about a family of regular customers who've gone missing, though
Kenji has hardly noticed their absence. When
Kenji visits the home of the missing family, he notices a strange piece of graffiti on the wall, and is startled when he remembers it was the symbol of a club of teenage misfits he belonged to years ago.
Kenji and his friends in the club created an amateur comic book that imagined an apocalyptic future in which strange illnesses and bands of armed insurgents threatened to destroy the world. As a wave of unexplained murders sweeps through the city, overseas the events of
Kenji's old comic are beginning to come true; a fanatical cult known as Friend found the book and under the leadership of
Sadakiyo they've made it their business to turn it into a reality, and now
Kenji and his old friends have to infiltrate the cult and stop them before it's too late.
20-seiki shonen (aka
20th Century Boys) was adapted from a best selling
manga by
Naoki Urasawa and became a major box office hit in Japan.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
