Sanpo suru shinryakusha

2017 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 82% · 51 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 3190 3.2K

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Plot summary

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.

Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Photo
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Top cast

Masami Nagasawa Photo
Masami Nagasawa as Narumi Kase
Ryûhei Matsuda Photo
Ryûhei Matsuda as Shinji Kase
Takashi Sasano Photo
Takashi Sasano as Shinagawa
Yuri Tsunematsu Photo
Yuri Tsunematsu as Akira Tachibana
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1.08 GB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 9 min
Seeds 1
2.08 GB
1920*800
Japanese 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 9 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Taylor L 6 / 10

Before We Vanish is a strange genre clash

Before We Vanish is a strange genre clash that isn't to all tastes. The overarcing plot is simple enough - three aliens take over human bodies as scouts for an imminent invasion - but from there the film gets tricky. The scouts learn about humanity by stealing concepts from individual people (as in, to learn about property rights, they'll yoink the whole concept of property rights out of your mind). The film also diverges into two distinct pathways; one is an alien that has taken over an unfaithful man and who explores the idea of a relationship with his wife with unexpected sincerity, the other is a more conventional invasion narrative where the other two aliens (more violent and sociopathic) recruit a beat reporter to undergo an oddly laid-back quest to get a signal out to the invading army, all while facing down Japan's version of the Men in Black. You with me so far? Well, you've got plenty of time to figure things out, because writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation) has no qualms about taking his time to get to a destination. He's also very free-form with tone, treating violence as a kind of comic relief at points but also trending towards more profound, apocalyptic sci-fi and dealing heavily with the concept of human identity (as seen through the lens of an extraterrestrial intelligence). It's a bit interesting and offbeat, particularly the thought of long-simmering marital tensions being solved by alien possession, but the ending is a bit of a sticking point for me, with aliens calling off the invasion because they apparently learned about love; kind of hokey, the sort of thing you'd expect in an under-10 Disney sci-fi rather than a genre-bender like this. Very lackluster effects aren't a big selling point either. Anyway it's got unique pieces and I can see genre fans and cult film buffs fawning over this one. (3/5)
Reviewed by Diana S 6 / 10

It's far too long and thinks itself a

It's far too long and thinks itself a little too clever. It's an interesting sci-fi angle, and the ending was powerful enough. If the film has been edited more tightly and we'd gotten there more quickly, it would have resonated more strongly for me.
Reviewed by Josh G 8 / 10

A wonderful film combine great acting, many genres

A wonderful film combine great acting, many genres and a killer visual and color use. The cast delivers in this odd art film and makes you believe aliens are real, and the complicated relationships and politics of humanity matter and apply to all those who think. It begs the question what is the value of a human, Incredible film making. The space between defines us.
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