Movie Trailer Sweet Rain / Shinigami no Seido. Takeshi Kaneshiro. 死神の精度
Click to viewSweet Rain / Shinigami no Seido. 死神の精度 (2008)
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi..
Isaka Kotaro, one of Japan's most avidly supported writers, especially among the younger generation, burst on to the mystery scene like a meteorite with the publication of his debut novel - Audubon no inori (Audubon's Prayer).
Sweet Rain, nominated for the Naoki Prize, is a series of short stories that showed off the author's keen sense of humor. Employing non-obvious parody is another characteristic of this author.
Each story in Shinigami borrows from such genres as romance and ninkyo, or chivalry novels (in which one helps the weak and fights against the powerful), indicating a wide range in the author's talent. Another great Isaka's job is a surprising political thriller - Mao.
Plot: The movie is told in three seemingly different stories but everything is connected ultimately at the end. Takeshi Kaneshiro is perfect as the Shinigami who always meets with rainy days when he gets to work and his ultimate love is music, which he labels as man’s greatest invention. Compared to other Shinigamis, he is perhaps a kind-hearted one which explains why he has a black dog as companion who check his every decision.
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Kotaro Isaka The Accuracy of Death. Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to execute or pass over. Getting his work quickly out of the way, he goes to the listening booth of a CD shop and indulges in his favorite pastime, listening to humanitys greatest invention: music.
He is...a Grim Reaper. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki (Manami Konishi), 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. Its time for the Reaper to go to work.
Even though the movie revolves around death, it doesn’t fail in encouraging people to use every minute of their life to it’s fullest, without any regrets.
Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Junko Fuji, and Takuya Ishida
Directed By Masaya Kakehi
Written By Kotaro Isaka, Masaya Kakei, Hirotoshi Kobayashi
Produced By Takahide Shibanushi
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