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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
Directed by Tetsu Maeda
Overview
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome’s good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Takao Osawa | Kyoka Suzuki | Koichi Sato | Shota Matsuda | Koji Okura | Arata Furuta | Rosa Katô | Houka Kinoshita | Suzuki Matsuo | Ken Mitsuishi | Ren Osugi | Eisuke Sasai | Ryo Iwamatsu | Tomohiro Miura | Yasuhi Nakamura | Yuichiro Nakayama | Sakichi Satô | Kyusaku Shimada | Ellie Toyota