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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade(Movie, 1999)

Original title: "人狼 JIN-ROH" (Japanese/JA)
R
| 1h 42min | Genres: Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller
Jin-Roh: The Wolf BrigadeRating: 3.7/5 (with 193193 votes)
Jin-Roh (人狼, Jinrō, lit. "Werewolf"), also known as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade in its American release, is a 1999 Japanese action political thriller anime film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura (in his directorial debut) and written by Mamoru Oshii. Based on the first chapter of volume 1 of Oshii's manga Kerberos Panzer Cop, it is the third film (first chronologically) in the Kerberos Saga after 1987's The Red Spectacles and 1991's StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, and is the only fully-animated film in the saga. Jin-Roh is set in an authoritarian postwar Japan in the saga's alternate history where Nazi Germany won World War II, occupied Japan (a member of the Allies in this timeline), and eventually denazified back into the Weimar Republic. Germany attempts to globalize and modernize Japan with a new government, but it increases poverty and class stratification that leads to civil unrest and the rise of "the Sect", an anti-government left-wing terrorist group. With regular police unable to handle spiking terrorist activity, the Japanese government forms the Capital Police paramilitary law enforcement age... ()
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About Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Plays in: Tokyo
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 18 languages: Arabic (AR), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 05/25/2001 (World premiere: 11/17/1999)
Cast: Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Eri Sendai, Kōsei Hirota, Yoshisada Sakaguchi
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
Screenwriter: Mamoru Oshii
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Jin Roh"
"Jin-Ro"
"Jin-Roh"
"Jin-Roh - Die Wolfsbrigade"
"Jin-Roh, la brigade des loups"
"Jin-Roh: Η Ταξιαρχία των Λύκων"
"人狼: The Wolf Brigade"
"Jin-Rou"
"人狼"
"인랑"
"인랑_일본판"
"Волчья стая"
"Оборотни"
"Jin-Rô"

3 movies in the Collection

1987 The Red Spectacles ("紅い眼鏡")
1991 Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops ("ケルベロス 地獄の番犬")
1999 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:20332, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/31/2024