Movie: Prophecy (English title)
Romaji: Yokokuhan
Japanese: 予告犯
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Writer: Tetsuya Tsutsui (manga), Tamio Hayashi
Producer: Yoshitaka Takeda, Takashi Hirano
Cinematographer: Daisuke Soma
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Runtime: 119 min.
Distributor: Toho
Genre: Suspense-Thriller
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes.
Geitsu (Toma Ikuta) is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi."
Inspector Erika (Erika Toda) and detectives at the cyber crime investigation division begin their investigation.
Notes
Based on the manga series "Yokokuhan" by Tetsuya Tsutsui (published from September, 2011 to September, 2013 in monthly seinen manga magazine JUMP Χ).
Related titles:
Prophecy | Yokokuhan (2015)
Yokokuhan: The Pain (WOWOW / 2015)
Cast
Toma Ikuta as Geitsu / Hiroaki Okuda
Erika Toda as Erika Yoshino
Ryohei Suzuki as Kansai / Tomohiko Kasai
Gaku Hamada as Nobita / Koichi Kimura
YosiYosi Arakawa as Metabo / Shinichi Terahara
Masataka Kubota as Yuichi Aoyama
Nana Komatsu as Kaede
Fumiyo Kohinata as Tadashi Shitaragi
Additional Cast Members:
Takayuki Takuma - Daiki Okamoto
Kentaro Sakaguchi - Manabu Ichikawa
Kohei Fukuyama - Hyoro
Shigeru Nakano - Kiyoshi Ishida
Kei Tanaka - Kitamura
Kenichi Takito - Kurihara
Hirotaro Honda - Kato