Kurosagi (Movie)

Rating: ***
MOVIE!

Genre: Crime, Romance
Cast: Daichi Mao, Horikita Maki, Ichikawa Yui, Takenaka Naoto, Yamashita Tomohisa

"Kurosagi is a film based on the 2006 popular TV series Kurosagi.Kurosagi is about a young man named Kurosaki who had his family destroyed by swindlers (con artists). When Kurosaki grows up, he becomes a swindler named Kurosagi, so that he can avenge his family. Ever since his family was destroyed by swindlers, Kurosagi swindles other con artists and returns the money to the victim. "

Much like the tv series, Kurosagi was good, but not great. Acting was decent, production was decent, but it made me kind of sleepy. I think the reason I get easily distracted watching this is because it is anti-climactic. It's a series of short stories, basically, put into a movie. There's really no strong main plotline in this movie to hold it together. Also, there really isn't any headbutting. All of the swindlers are no match for him. I would really like to see him almost get caught a couple times by the swindlers and end up being smart enough to get away with it. On another point, it says Romance in the genre but there's just about none of it. Horikita Maki is supposed to be playing a main character but she's only in a few short scenes. If you didn't watch the tv series you probably wouldn't even know she was a love interest at all. All in all, it just didn't phase me..

Kurosagi

Rating: ***

Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Episodes: 11
Cast: Horikita Maki, Ichikawa Yui, Kato Koji, Reina, Yamashita Tomohisa

"Kurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up to become a con artist known as Kurosagi. As Kurosagi, he swindles other con artists and returns the money to the original victim. He works with the master swindler Katsuragi Toshio even though Toshio had a hand in the destruction of Kurosaki’s family. Kurosaki's life begins to change when he meets Yoshikawa Tsurara, a young law student who disapproves of his disrespect of the law. Can she persuade Kurosaki to give up swindling and his quest for revenge? "

The plotline was good and most of the script was great. However, however, however... I really don't know.. Something made me get easily distracted. The acting was great. Horikita Maki always is a natural in front of the camera. The opening credits were very unique. The costumes were wonderful. However, it wasn't something that I couldn't look away from. Still, it was a good drama to watch if you're bored.

P.S. WTF is with the bare chest and suspenders in the opening titles??? Is that supposed to be fan service? Idk, it was just random haha.

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