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Chapter 653 "Code M"

"Have a chance to cooperate" is not a polite phrase.

The meeting with Kiyoshi Sakamoto at the premiere was the first time the two met.

However, Takeshi Kitano learned about this versatile and talented young man through various channels before.

If you can sum up Kiyoshi Sakamoto's words in one sentence: "This is a genius you never know, what he can't do!"

The most important thing is that after he achieved success at a young age, he has been able to maintain a humble attitude, which makes people feel very good.

It is precisely because of this that Takeshi Kitano, who had a good first impression of him, would say "have a chance to cooperate" when they first met.

However, Takeshi Kitano did not expect that Kiyoshi Sakamoto actually came to him to cooperate with him!

Looking at the bulging file bag, Takeshi Kitano felt that this kid came prepared.

"I see..."

Opening the file bag, he took out a stack of thick, neatly bound A4 papers. Takeshi Kitano was attracted by the bold and black characters printed on the first page.

""Code M"?"

"The name is not bad..." Muttering something in his heart, Takeshi turned his fingers and continued to look down.

The outline of the story of "Code M" is as follows:
Japan, which is shrouded in successive heinous crimes and has no official spy agency, is a good place for criminal groups at home and abroad with easy access and loose control.

In order to break the status quo, a unit called "KI7" was formed in the police department.This unit is only known to a few people involved, and their existence in this world has been erased from the files.

Headed by the number one agent known as "M", the members of "KI7" need to deal with not only heinous crimes, but also crimes that cannot be solved openly due to political and social reasons.

However, during a mission, M was ambushed by terrorists and got into trouble. In order to escape, he jumped into the sea near Naruto City in the Seto Inland Sea.

After waking up, M was lying in an unknown room, remembering nothing, only a line of unknown numbers tattooed on the inside of his arm.

It turned out that he was rescued by an old couple of fishermen in Osaka.

In this way, M lived in this fisherman's house.

In a heroic rescue, he met Kaoru Higurashi, a girl from Osaka.

At the same time, "KI7" thought that M was dead, and "KI7" lost its strongest agent, and was devastated by the sudden attack of the terrorist organization "Shadow".

The terrorist organization continued to assassinate several government officials under the protection of "KI7", and also announced that the next target was the cabinet minister.

This caused great shock within the government, and the chief of the police department directly under the superior ordered "KI7" to find the murderer within three days.

At this time, "KI7" suddenly discovered that the tracking signal on M's body appeared again.

In order to find out the source of this signal, "KI7" sent another agent L to Osaka to try to find out M's life and death.

M couldn't believe the fact that he was an agent, so, in order to find out his identity and retrieve his past memories, M followed L back to the headquarters of "KI7", Tokyo.

Back to M in "KI7", although he has an inexplicable sense of familiarity with everything, he still has a question all the time, that is, what does the string of numbers on the inside of his arm represent.

Finally, he returned to his house in Tokyo, and from the arrangement of books on his bookshelf, he knew that the string of numbers on the inside of his arm was the number of pages of the book.

After a while of deciphering, he found a portfolio in a storage box at a subway station in Tokyo.

After reading it, in M's mind, some fragments of memory kept reappearing;

In the file bag, there was a list of terrorists hiding in the dark, and in the list, a person he knew very well appeared.

That is the section chief of "KI7", Zouzo Ryuzaki!
At this time, M, who had recovered part of his memory, realized that the section chief of "KI7" was a member of the terrorist organization "Shadow", and he also knew why the terrorist organization was able to obtain M's whereabouts and ambush him in advance.

I also know that terrorist attacks have been successful recently, and it is all because of the tip-off of Ryuzaki Zangzo that terrorist organizations can succeed so easily.

At this time, M suddenly remembered that before he was ambushed, he had not had time to take this list, went to Ryuzaki Zangzo, and was ambushed when he questioned him.

However, knowing that his identity had been exposed, Ryuzaki Zangzo notified the terrorist organization of M's whereabouts and wanted them to kill M.

However, what Ryuzaki Zangzo did not expect was that M was not dead, but just lost his memory. Looking at M who returned again, Ryuzaki Zangzo once again had the idea of ​​killing M.

The section chief, Ryuzaki Zangzo, sent someone to capture Kaoru Higurashi, intending to use M to kill the cabinet ministers, but with the help of L, M finally rescued Kaoru Higurashi after a series of fights.

At the end, M took the list and led out the section chief Ryuzaki Zangzo, and then the two had a life-and-death duel on the roof, and M also killed the section chief.

In the end, M left the section chief's collaborating materials with L and asked him to report to his superiors.

As for himself, he suspended his death and returned to Osaka with Kaoru Higurashi to live together.

The above is the whole story of "Code M".

Actually, it looks familiar, doesn't it?

The story of "Code M" has many similarities with the story of "The Bourne".

Both are agents with amnesia, and both are looking for memory and self.

However, the difference is that compared to "The Bourne", the hero of "Code M" is not so isolated and helpless.

This also distinguishes the direction of the whole story from "The Bourne".

This is also the result of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's efforts to innovate in the context of Japan.

I just don't know if this story can impress the internationally renowned director in front of me. . .

. . . . . .

As far as he knows, in recent years, Takeshi Kitano, known as the standard bearer of the revival of Japanese films, is in the throes of directing style transformation.

After winning the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival with "Zatoichi" in 2003, he seemed to be a little tired of the "violent aesthetics" and "Kitano Blue". In the next seven years, he launched successively, aiming to analyze his own creation Mentality of the director's works "Two-sided Takeshi Kitano" and "Long Live the Director!" ", "Achilles and the Tortoise".

However, until 2010, he suddenly felt that he still liked to shoot the violent aesthetics of "do not want to perish in silence, but to explode in silence".

Therefore, "Extreme Evil and Injustice", a gangster film full of blood, violence, cunning, and strong Kitano style, appeared in front of the world again.

This is also Takeshi Kitano's return to the original work, and it is also his first film with a screen count of more than 200 yuan.

However, for this internationally renowned director, the box office has never been something he has to consider.

In his eyes, only Cannes, Venice, and Berlin are far away in Europe.

(End of this chapter)