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Returner (Japanese: リターナー, Hepburn: Ritānā) is a 2002 Japanese science fiction action film directed, co-written, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. It stars Takeshi Kaneshiro and Anne Suzuki as a hitman and time traveler, respectively, who team up in present-day Japan to prevent an alien race from invading Earth. Goro Kishitani [ja] and Kirin Kiki are featured in ...
Returner: Directed by Takashi Yamazaki. With Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Gorô Kishitani, Kirin Kiki. A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Returner is a sci-fi movie about a young girl who travels back in time to save humanity from an alien invasion.
In its race to avoid an end-of-the-world scenario, Returner throws in just about everything from the sci-fi anime repertoire, and director Takashi Yamazaki blithely and blatantly shifts from juvenile sentiment to violent brutality, resulting in a clash of tones that makes Returner wildly entertaining but decidedly not for children.
Returner was released theatrically in Japan on where it was distributed by Toho. The film premiered at number one in the Japanese box office on its release, beating The Cat Returns, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Resident Evil. It grossed a total of $9,564,276 in Japan. It received a theatrical release in the United States through Destination Films and ...