K-20 Kaijin Nijumenso den

K-20: Legend of the Mask

K-20 怪人二十面相・伝

Release Date: December, 20th, 2008

Running Time: 137 min

Genre: Action/Adventure , Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: 35mm

Screen Size: Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

Sound Processing: Dolby Surround

[ Directed by ]

SATO Shimako

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

KANESHIRO Takeshi ── ENDO Heikichi
MATSU Takako ── HASHIBA Yoko
NAKAMURA Toru ── AKECHI Kogoro

[ Staff ]

ROBOT ── Planning, Production
ABE Shuji ── Executive Producer
OKUDA Seiji ── Executive Producer
KITAMURA Soh ── Original Story
SATO Shimako ── Screenplay
SATO Naoki ── Music
SHIBASAKI Kozo ── Cinematography
MIZUNO Kenichi ── Lighting
MIYOSHI Akiyo ── Lighting
TSURUMAKI Hitoshi ── Recording
JOJO Anri ── Production Design
TATSUTA Tetsuji ── Props
SHIBUYA Kiyoko ── VFX Director
MIYAJIMA Ryuji ── Editor
YAMAZAKI Takashi ── Screenplay and VFX Supervisor
SHIROGUMI ── VFX produbtion

[ Production Company ]

“K-20” Film Partners, NTV, ROBOT, VAP, TOHO, DENTSU, SHOGAKUKAN, YTV, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, SHIROGUMI, IMAGICA

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

TOHO

[ Production Studio ]

ROBOT

[ Story ]

An epic action film, adapted and directed by Sato Shimako of Tale of a Vampire, an Anglo-Japanese collaboration in 1992 which won the Avoriaz Award at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. Starring Kaneshiro Takeshi, a leading Asian actor of international caliber, who played Zhuge Liang in Red Cliff diptych, which was a blockbuster hit around the world.
Set in a fictional Japanese city of "Teito" in 1949. Having escaped the damage of the WW II, the wealth of the city is dominated by a small privileged group. During such time a master criminal causes a stir as he mysteriously steals works of art and antiques but only from the wealthy, and people call him K-20 (the Phantom Thief with Twenty Faces). One day, Endo Heikichi (Kaneshiro Takeshi), a circus acrobat, receives a request from a mystery man to take photos of the betrothal ceremony which takes place between Yoko (Matsu Takako), daughter of the Hashiba conglomerates and a master detective Akechi Kogoro (Nakamura Toru). The request, however, turns out to be a trap set by K-20. People believe that Heikichi is K-20 and now he is wanted by the police. Heikichi decides to capture K-20 by himself to prove his innocence.