Human Trust
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| Japanese | 人類資金 |
| Directed by | Junji Sakamoto |
| Produced by | Yukiko Shii |
| Written by | Junji Sakamoto Harutoshi Fukui |
| Starring |
Kōichi Satō Mirai Moriyama Alisa Mizuki Shingo Katori Yoo Ji-tae Vincent Gallo Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Music by | Goro Yasukawa |
| Cinematography | Norimichi Kasamatsu |
| Edited by | Ryo Hayano |
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Kino Films
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time
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140 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese English Russian Thai |
| Box office | $3,547,836 |
Human Trust (人類資金 Jinrui Shikin?) is a 2013 Japanese suspense film directed by Junji Sakamoto, starring Kōichi Satō, Mirai Moriyama, Alisa Mizuki, Shingo Katori, Yoo Ji-tae, Vincent Gallo, and Tatsuya Nakadai. It was filmed in Japan, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.
In 2014, Yuichi Mafune (Kōichi Satō), a confidence man, is hired by "M" (Shingo Katori) to steal 10 trillion yen from the M Fund and use it for humanitarian assistance to the Third World. Harold Marcus (Vincent Gallo), an investment banker, sends Osamu Endo (Yoo Ji-tae), an assassin, to stop them.
Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review, saying: "Technically the film is competent if unremarkable and the (occasionally wooden) cast does what it can with the material, which forces them all to swing wildly between melodramatic thriller mode and standard action hero antics". Meanwhile, Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave it 2 out of 5 stars, saying: "Even stranger is the climax, which features a lengthy speech that makes Charlie Chaplin's famous peroration in The Great Dictator seem like a model of compression and restraint. Chaplin at least had the excuse of railing against Nazism. Sakamoto and Fukui are simply guilty of equating real-world politics with high school speech contests."
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