Just finished watching the Hiroshi Abe movie KIRIN NO TSUBASA (The Wings of the Gryphon), a crime drama that I originally grabbed becasue I mistakenly thought it was a Yui Aragaki Movie. Aragaki is in the movie, but she was more part of an (admittedly stellar) ensemble cast than a starring role, but it didn't even matter because I was captivated thoughout the movie anyway! If there's one thing that's been proven, when times are tough and things seem hopeless, Hiroshi Abe is THE MAN when it comes to cracking the cases and bringing the guilty to justice!
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| Mizobata Junpei and Abe Hiroshi |
Kirin No Tsubasa follows the mystery of a Factory Owner who is found dying on a bridge in front of a huge Gryphon statue. At first no one knows where he came from or who the assailant might be, but soon a suspicious young lad is discovered hiding in some nearby bushes with the murdered man's briefcase in his possession!
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| Miura Takahiro |
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| Aragaki Yui |
The cops give chase, but before they can get any information out of him, he is struck by an oncoming vehicle and later dies from the injuries. Despite the evidence, the suspect's girlfriend (Aragaki) firmly believes him innocent, and as the force begin digging deeper into the people connected to the case, they find more and more secrets and lies, til they've stumbled upon another crime buried beneath the surface!
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| Kuroki Meisa and Abe Hiroshi |
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| Nakai Kiichi |
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| Matsuzaka Tori |
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| Mizobata Junpei, Takitomi Seika |
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| Tanaka Rena |
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| Mizobata Junpei, Matsushige Yutaka |
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| Aragaki Yui |
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| Mizobata and Abe |
Strangely enough, though I really enjoyed Abe's crime drama SHINZANMONO, I had no IDEA that The Wings Of The Kirin was a Movie featuring the characters from it! I simply thought Hiroshi Abe, Junpei Mizubata, etc, wre playing stereotypical crime drama roles that I've seen them play a hundred times before! You would have thought the characters NAMES would have tipped me off, but honestly, I didn't remember what any of them were! LOL
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| Tanaka Rena and Aragaki Yui |
