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Audio Format: DD 2.0
Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1
Languages:Japanese
Subtitles: English, Chinese, Malay
Region Code: ALL
Year Made: 2008
Running Time: 132
Release Date: 07/22/2008
The new thriller "Midnight Eagle," however, will be released simultaneously in Japan by Shochiku and the United States by Universal Pictures, one of the film's investors. This may give the impression that it is the real Hollywood deal, but in story and style, it is closer to "Aegis" than "The Bourne Ultimatum." One difference is that, unlike Sanada, a trained martial artist with many action-pic credits, "Midnight Eagle" star Takao Osawa is best known for his emoting in romantic dramas. Accordingly, his photographer hero spends much of his screen time making soulful looks and heartfelt talk, and relatively little of it battling bad guys. In Hollywood, that's called heresy.
Costars Hiroshi Tamaki, as a hot-blooded young photographer, and Eisaku Yoshida, as a big-hearted Self Defense Force commander, take up some of the action slack, but director Izuru Narushima ("Fly, Daddy, Fly") stages the bang-bang scenes more like a war game than the real, bloody thing. A game whose end moves may be logical to local audiences, steeped in the Japanese tradition of the glorious loser, may well puzzle or annoy outlanders accustomed to the Hollywood convention of the action hero as a hard-bodied superman.
The story begins with the crash of a U.S. stealth bomber in Japan's Northern Alps in the dead of winter. A former war photographer, Yuji Nishizaki (Osawa), happens to snap the bomber's fiery descent while shooting nature photos, but doesn't immediately understand what he's seen. Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, his sister-in-law Keiko (Yuko Takeuchi) is caring for his kindergarten-aged son Yu (Hiroki Sahara), while pursuing a frantic career as a journo for a weekly magazine. She also resents Nishizaki for not being around when his wife — Keiko's sister — died two years earlier.
Then Keiko is ordered to investigate an incident at a U.S. Army base, in which two agents from an unnamed "northern" country were wounded after being discovered inside the gates. Meanwhile, the prime minister (Tatsuya Fuji) gets word that more agents from the "North" are heading toward the downed plane, which is carrying a nuclear warhead, and orders the Self Defense Force to head them off. The Americans also send out troops, setting the stage for a three-way international collision.
DVD release of the Japanese action suspense film "Midnight Eagle" starring Takao Osawa, Yuko Takeuchi, and Hiroshi Tamaki, and based off of the hit mystery novel by Tetsuo Takashima. Film made with the complete cooperation of the Japanese Land and Air Self Defence Forces for enhanced realism.
The American military bomber "Midnight Eagle" disappears in the skies of the frozen alps. The same night, former wartime camerman Nishizaki happens to film a tumbling red light on a walk through the mountains. The news of the missing Midnight Eagle, and it's payload capable of laying waste to huge swaths of Japan, rocks the government, and the situation only grows more dire when they realize that the loss of the machine was part of a secret plot. While the Japanese Self Defense Force searches the alps for the machine at the command of the prime minister, Nishizaki and his reporter friend Ochiai set out on their own journey to find the Midnight Eagle, not knowing the touble that awaits.
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