- Movie: Prophecy (English title)
- Romaji: Yokokuhan
- Japanese: 予告犯
- Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
- Assistant Director: Megumi Sawada
- 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
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Toma Ikuta | Erika Toda | Ryohei Suzuki | Gaku Hamada | YosiYosi Arakawa |
Geitsu / Hiroaki Okuda | Erika Yoshino | Kansai / Tomohiko Kasai | Nobita / Koichi Kimura | Metabo / Shinichi Terahara |
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Masataka Kubota | Nana Komatsu | Fumiyo Kohinata |
Yuichi Aoyama | Kaede | 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
- Yuuki Okita – Yasuda