Additional information for K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 20, 2008. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces has a total running time of 137 minutes.
PG
Singapore
G
Japan
IIA
Hong Kong
16
Germany
12
UK
All
South Korea
137min
K-20 - Die Legende der schwarzen Maske
Germany
K-20: L'Homme aux 20 visages
France
K-20: Legend of the Mask
International
K-20: Legend of the Mysterious Person Twenty Faces
International
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
USA
K-20: The Legend of the Black Mask
UK
November 08, 2008
USA
December 20, 2008
Japan
January 23, 2009
USA
February 19, 2009
Singapore
February 27, 2009
Taiwan
March 19, 2009
Hong Kong
April 09, 2009
Malaysia
July 24, 2009
Vietnam
October 20, 2009
France
November 04, 2009
Germany
March 01, 2010
UK
April 20, 2010
USA
May 21, 2010
USA
January 10, 2011
UK
October 06, 2011
South Korea
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Holy Steampunk, Sherlock Holmes! Screen idol Takeshi Kaneshiro is back and this time hes showing his respect for Lupin, Raffles and all the great thieves and masked penny dreadful heroes of the turn-of-the-century in this massive steampunk blow-out directed by Shimako Sato, one of the few female directors in the big budget end of the Japanese film industry.Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at the last minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name.Starting with a falling chandelier from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and continuing with the Tunguska Explosion, Tesla coils, gyrocopters and all manner of pulp touchstones, this flick is constantly zooming, panning, gliding and skidding to a stop, suffused with old fashioned showmanship and skill. For sheer entertainment value its like all the Saturday morning matinees you never saw wrapped up in one film and given a big budget gloss. But more than the skill and style, the actors are a delight. The young princess, Hashiba (Takako Matsu) describes herself as just a modest girl from a good family, but really shes a two-fisted adventurer in waiting, hemmed in by good breeding but secretly yearning to sock a baddie in the jaw and fly a helicopter into the sunset. Takeshi Kaneshiro is charm itself, and its a pleasure to spend two hours in his company. By the time the last zeppelin has cleared the screen youll want to know where you can buy a ticket and stand in line to wait for the sequel. [D-Man2010]
Shimako Sato
Director(s)
So Kitamura
Shimako Sato
Writer(s)
Shuji Abe
executive producer (as Shûji Abe)
Chikahiro Ando
producer
Fannie Dai Hong
line producer: Shanghai
Seiji Okuda
executive producer
Producer(s)
Naoki Sato
Composer(s)
Heikichi Endo
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Yoko Hashiba
Takako Matsu
Kogoro Akechi
Tôru Nakamura
Ryôhei Abe
Yoshio Kobayashi
Kanata Hongô
Shinsuke
Yuki Imai
Mysterious Gentleman
Takeshi Kaga
Jun Kaname
Hana Kino
Fumiyo Kohinata
Genji
Jun Kunimura
Kazuyoshi Kushida
Inspector Namikoshi
Tôru Masuoka
Yutaka Matsushige
Ayumu Saitô
Kyûsaku Shimada
Kikuko
Reiko Takashima
Hideji Ôtaki
Scientist (uncredited)
Edward L. Papazian
Set in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim.
Director(s)
Shimako Sato
Writer(s)
executive producer (as Shûji Abe)
Chikahiro Ando
producer
Fannie Dai Hong
line producer: Shanghai
Seiji Okuda
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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