Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade


JinRoh , Jinr? , lit. ManWolf , also known as JinRoh The Wolf Brigade in its American release, is a 1999 Japanese animated feature film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. The film is the third adaptation of Mamoru Oshiis Kerberos saga manga, KenRoh Densetsu, after the two live action films The Red Spectacles and StrayDog Kerberos Panzer Cops released in 1987 and 1991 in Japanese theaters.

The story is set in a parallel 1950s Japan, in which Germany has conquered Japan. It focuses on Kazuki Fuse, a member of the elite Kerberos Panzer Cops, a metropolitan antiterror unit. Fuse confronts his own humanity when he fails to shoot a young female terrorist. The girl detonates a bomb in front of him, only killing herself. The incident damages the reputation of the unit and Kazuki is punished. He visits the ashes of the dead girl and meets Kei Amemiya, who claims to be the elder sister of the victim. They develop a relationship. Kei is eventually revealed to not be the suicide bombers sister but instead a former bomb courier and a honey trap acting on behalf of the Special Units rival division Public Security.A trap is set up where Kei calls Kazuki one night to say that strange men are following her. It is in fact a Capitol Police joint operation with the Public Security Division intended to discredit the Special Unit, showing a terrorist passing a satchel bomb to a Panzer Cop. Kazuki sneaks in, seizes Kei neutralizing Capitol Police agents and gets out of the place with the Public Security Division agents in hot pursuit. Eventually they throw off their pursuers. ........

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