K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

(2008)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 47 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Year: 2008

Runtime: 137 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 佐藤嗣麻子

Cast: 金城武, Такако Мацу, 仲村トオル, Каната Хонго, Дзюн Кунимура, Юки Имай, 小日向文世, 鹿賀丈史, 嶋田久作, 串田和美

Plot

In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.