They are to “blend in” as “ordinary” citizens, Boss instructs them (in Japanese with English subtitles). Our nameless mass murderer (“hundred of kills”) has just finished cleaning up “some trouble,” so his boss ( Kôichi Satô) sends him and his Tokyo driver-sidekick ( Fumino Kimura) off to Osaka to lay low. We are not that amused.īut the big set-pieces here are wowzers, good enough to merit a sequel (“The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill”), so let’s dive in. The long, somewhat sluggish comic thriller director Kan Eguchi gets out of this manga adaptation has scattered laughs and lots and lots of killing, much of that played as comedy, too. Call him “The Fable,” because this masked-murderer ( Jun’ichi Okada) might be just that, someone who doesn’t exist. We see graphics (a “Terminator” or Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” movies trick) of the targeted spot he wants to hit, the angle the bullet will travel and the many many variations of each shot he has to wade through in the blink of an eye. He’s unblinking, unflinching, and prone to doing everything around the house from computing to working out in the nude.Īnd as we’ve seen in the opening scene, a geisha restaurant slaughter, he’s a methodical hitman who does the calculus of a kill before he pulls the trigger. But he freaks out like a little boy if his food’s too hot. He’s tougher than tough, with the scars to show for it.
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Unless he’s replaying his favorite TV commercials starring the infantile comic “Jackal.” Those move him to hysterics.
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