Grasshopper

Another film from the line of rather strange Japanese films. The film is pieced together from various characters who are assigned some sort of character trait and won't act any different. Character development? What for? Even though we have hired killers, they're all peculiar, in fact they don't even look tough – so definitely don't expect any awesome hardcore fight scenes or interesting killing methods. Every assassin here suffers from some kind of psychological disorder, so they end up in the same car together... The most interesting character was Murakami Jun, who didn't last long, but was the most interesting. As for the central character Suzuki, played by Ikuta Toma... he's a boring patron and I didn't find a way in for the entire movie (unless you count the moment towards the end where he watches the video). It's even got some rough humor, but altogether it's hardly perceptible. It's strange, it fails to enthuse properly, but it's true that it does have something going on here and there. It's hard to know who to recommend it to. A simple 3 stars. (29.05.2016)