During recent years, an effort in the Japanese movie industry to come up with action movies of quality have become quite intense, with films like “Baby Assassin” and “The Fable” being some of the most notable. Isao Yukisada attempts his hand in probably the entry with the biggest budget in the category, with “Revolver Lily” also implementing the current favorite of ‘girls-with-guns' trope.
Revolver Lily is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story is based on the homonymous novel by Kyo Nagaura, and takes place in 1924. Yuri, an ex-assassin who seems to have carried out 57 assassinations in the past, has now gone underground and runs a small bar in Tokyo. While there, she stumbles upon Shinta, an orphan whose family has been murdered, and his father has employed him to find her, just before he died. The teenage boy seems to hold the key to a large sum of...
Revolver Lily is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story is based on the homonymous novel by Kyo Nagaura, and takes place in 1924. Yuri, an ex-assassin who seems to have carried out 57 assassinations in the past, has now gone underground and runs a small bar in Tokyo. While there, she stumbles upon Shinta, an orphan whose family has been murdered, and his father has employed him to find her, just before he died. The teenage boy seems to hold the key to a large sum of...
- 6/11/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Finishing the job with a bang(er), a creditless version of The Fable 's ending theme sequence featuring "Odd Numbers" by hip-hop group Umeda Cypher is now available to watch below. Related: The Fable Anime Releases Creditless Opening Theme Video Based on the manga by Katsuhisa Minami, The Fable is directed by Ryosuke Takahashi ( Armored Tropper Votoms ) at studio Tezuka Productions, with series composition by Yuya Takashima, character designs by Kyuma Oshita and Saki Hasegawa and music by Shuichiro Fukuhiro. Disney+ is streaming the series worldwide and describes the story: How is the most talented genius assassin ever not supposed to kill anyone? Specially trained since he was a child to be a hitman, the invincible killing genius known as Fable can eradicate any opponent in six seconds or less. But then, one day, the boss of the organization suddenly orders him not to kill anyone for a year, and to live an ordinary life.
- 4/16/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
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