(Review Jmovie- Live Action) Inuyashiki

Since April, I have been waiting for the Inuyashiki live action show. But unfortunately, when CGV finally released a broadcast schedule in Indonesia, the broadcast time was so short that I didn't have time to watch it in theaters. 😖 The broadcast time was not right because it coincided with the broadcasting of Mission Impossible 2018: Fallout. With great disappointment, I finally had to wait for this film to appear on one of the websites of illegal film uploaders 😆

Ichiro Inuyashiki (Noritaka Kinashi) is an old ordinary worker. His household life is less harmonious because salary as an ordinary employee is less able to cover the cost of living in Japan. His wife helped the family's economy by working, his daughter threatened to fail at school because her grades were merely sufficient, and his son had experienced bullying at school. The performance in the office is not good, so he often got a warning from his boss. Not to mention the condition of his old and sickly body. At its peak, Inuyashiki got the fact that he had stage 4A cancer!

The condition of the house that was less harmonious and his personal problems that never ended made Inuyashiki walk out with a dog that he found abandoned on the road. When he arrived at a field, he was suddenly attacked by a blinding light which made him unconscious. As soon as he woke up on the next day, Inuyashiki found himself lying in the field. He began to feel something strange. He no longer needed his glasses. He can see normally. When he had breakfast, he could not bear the miso soup made by his wife. And when he was alone in the room, his head was split, and he found a machine in it!😓

Did the Inuyashiki transform into a robot?

Unfortunately that’s the way he was. He became a robot without realizing it. One thing that made him happy was that he no longer had cancer disease! He said that he could heal with his strength. And there were many advantages that he could get when he became a robot. Unfortunately, he hadn't realized it yet.

Someone else was aware of it. Someone was with him when he went to the field.

He was a handsome young man named Hiro Shishigami. He went to the same place as the Inuyashiki\’s daughter. At school, he had a friend, Naoyuki Ando, ​​who constantly got bullying from his classmates. Both Hiro and Inuyashiki were exposed to mysterious flashes of light, and both had the power of robots, Hiro used his power to help Ando escape from his friends’ bullying. And he also used it to satisfy himself; satisfying by judging the people around him who made him and his mother suffer.

In one place, a savior emerged from patients with deadly diseases. They are completely healed in the hands of the Inuyashiki. While on another place, brutal killings were carried out in homes, in public places, without guns or bullets.

The two robots transform into angels that save lives and angels that take lives!

Anyway, as a reference, I also read the manga version written by Hiromu Oku, the mangaka who also wrote the Gantz manga. One thing I like about this mangaka is its detailed images, characters that are so alive (and cute: D) and very beautiful background illustrations. And when he describes a scene, if the scene is horrible, then shudder the reader. If he describes something that is touching, the reader is touched. One thing I don’t really like from this mangaka is the lack of detailed background of one’s character. He seemed to be in a hurry with conflict and conflict resolution.

In the anime version, Inuyashiki is quite loyal to the manga version. Although I don't all the episodes, but at least some clips on Youtube make me feel I don't need to watch the anime version. While the live action version, of course I MUST watch since the villain character is played by my favorite actor, Takeru Satoh! This is the first time I have watched his antagonist character besides the one in Nanimono. And the funny thing is, once again Takeru played the character of a schoolboy after Bakuman and Ajin when he is over 26 years old! Although it it doesn’t really suit him, but I still adore him😍😍😍

There are several differences between the manga and live action versions. In the manga version, I feel the ending is too fast and too ridiculous to make both of them become heroes of mankind. Considering what Hiro did was so savage, he couldn't end that way. I prefer the ending of the live action even though well, it's unclear too hahaha ... the inability of the robot to drink salt doesn't literally kill both of them. They only felt paralyzed for a moment with the entry of salt into their robotic body. But after a while, they could get their strength back in not time.

As the Inuyashiki, NoritakeKinashi played it very well. I saw how he was polished to resemble the characters in the manga. Unfortunately the cultivation of emotions in the manga was less clearly illustrated when he could not shed tears when he was very sad, making him feel no longer human. But overall, I like it. Likewise with TakeruSatoh as Hiro. He once said that he wanted the role of a villain who was very evil. And his wish came true. His cute face appeared expressionless when he killed people in Shinjuku. But as a fan, I can't hate him 😅

 

Last but not least, this is a not bad movie, with simple and quite predictable story, that is the hero will win the fight, with mediocre effect. It is worth watching, though.👍👍👍

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