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The Red Spectacles is a japonais film of genre Science fiction directed by Mamoru Oshii with Shigeru Chiba

The Red Spectacles (1987)

The Red Spectacles
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Length 1h56
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OriginJapon
Genres Science fiction,    Comedy,    Action
Rating64% 3.2428053.2428053.2428053.2428053.242805

The Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡, Akai Megane) is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyodo.

This is the first film of the Kerberos saga.

Synopsis

It is the end of the 20th century. The Metropolitan Police have begun to lose control of the city; crime runs rampant and people are no longer safe. The solution: the establishment of the Anti Vicious Crime Heavily Armored Mobile Special Investigations Unit. Created by men and women of high intellect and physical strength who had a particularly strong, even fanatical sense of justice, they were nicknamed "Kerberos", and armed with special "reinforcement gear" body armor and heavy weaponry.

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