Among those are pugilistic Jin ( Tomohisa Yamashita, kind of a Takuya Kimura-lite), a mysterious hacker Hiruma ( Miike regular Takayuki Yamada) and God Lee (Kane Kosugi), a nearly unkillable veteran of the Middle East wars (wait, what?). Naturally, the crew of BUGS 2 is composed of the requisite thugs, psychopaths and shut-ins needed for any story like this. #Terraformers yoh dead fullEccentric scientist Honda (Shun Oguri, in full J-Pop star mode) proposes they go to Mars to eliminate the so-called cockroaches that were sent there years earlier to create a breathable atmosphere (the less said about the science the better). After a police chase, lower class Shokichi ( Hideaki Ito, Miike’s Over Your Dead Body) and Nanao (Emi Takei) are offered a way out of jail time for an as-yet unmentioned crime. That’s just the first of many sci-fi conventions and imaging that creep up - from the stormtrooper uniforms to the” lost” first missions of Sunshine and Event Horizon and the bug hunts of Starship Troopers. Trixie Mattel and Katya Offer Job Advice in New Book: "All Work Sucks, But They Pay You for It"īeginning in Tokyo of 2597 when populations are out of control and resources are depleted, things start fairly strong despite the familiarity of a ’roided out Blade Runner world. After its bow at the Okinawa Film Festival in late April and general release in Japan, the film should generate moderate interest in Asia from the source material’s existing fan base, but is otherwise likely set for the niche festival circuit where Miike’s name above the title carries weight. Loaded with info dumps and squelching human-alien fights while somehow managing to say next to nothing and be oddly static, TerraFormars wastes a great opportunity for some knuckleheaded fun by failing to hit either its comic or suspense beats. Not to be left out of this space race, prolific and often challenging Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike ( Ichi the Killer, Over Your Dead Body) adapts what is essentially volume one of 20 in Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana’s popular 2011 manga TerraFormars. Following the unfairly pilloried John Carter, the success of The Martian and the announcement Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars for Spike TV, the red planet has become a hip entertainment destination.
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