
The Red Spectacles
is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyodo.
Plot
It is the end of the 20th century. The Metropolitan Police have begun to lose control of Tokyo; crime is rampant and people are no longer safe. Their solution: the establishment of the Anti Vicious Crime Heavily Armored Mobile Special Investigations Unit. Created by men and women of high intellect and physical strength who had a particularly strong, even fanatical sense of justice, they were nicknamed "Kerberos", and armed with special body armor called "reinforcement gear" and heavy weaponry.
More details
author | Mamoru Oshii |
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director | Mamoru Oshii |
editor | Seiji Morita |
genre | political saga science fiction thriller |
keywords | 20th century attack body armor elite end hatred kill list of kerberos saga characters#metropolitan security police organization metropolitan police out of control their way tokyo turn wound |
musicBy | Kenji Kawai |
producer | Daisuke Hayashi Shigeharu Shiba |
publisher | Omnibus Promotion |
theme | independent japanese political thriller science fiction thriller |