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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Hiroyuki Okiura (Director) Format: DVD
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
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Genre Anime & Manga
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Contributor Hiroyuki Okiura
Language English, Japanese
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Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. Starring Yoshikatsu Fujiki.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ ESTR70120DVD
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Hiroyuki Okiura
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 29, 2014
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Eastern Star
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ID9Q0TK
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jeff Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Intricate "what if" tale in post-occupation Japan; "Little Red Riding Hood" theme
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2018
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JIN-ROH is one of the two strangest anime' films I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot!
The setting is post-WW 2 Japan, approximately five or six years after the 1945-1955 US military occupation ended, which would make it circa 1961. This film is "alternate history", in that Japan's teething problems as a new democracy are exaggerated; in the story the nation was close to civil war. Additionally, the Japanese government after the Second World War, fearful of a possible American reoccupation of their country, would never have allowed such a highly militarized and heavily armed police force to operate.
The "Special Units" police companies of this fictional story are armed with WW 2 German MG.34 machine guns, metal body armor suits, steel army helmets, pistols, gas masks, and night-vision goggles. The Special Units' physical training is demanding and often brutal. The rival Capital Police believe that their anti-riot police force, along with detectives and regular patrol constables, are sufficient to police the country.
Covered by well-orchestrated riots, the Underground forces in the film are armed with an especially nasty type of Molotov Cocktail fire bomb and military satchel charges. The deadly satchel charges are covertly carried to resistance agitators by "Red Riding Hoods", high school girls who work for the Underground movement. The Underground fighters are also armed with a variety of pistols, rifles, rifle-grenades and WW 2 German "machine pistols", i.e., submachine guns.
The premise is that the Capital Police want the Special Units disbanded because peace and prosperity are returning to the nation, and its leaders have plotted a false and treasonous incident to disgrace a particular constable from the intimidating heavy police force. The Red Riding Hood sub-theme is a plot twist. Beautifully drawn and well-colored anime' production. As with many of these stories, I found the plot to be over-complicated and a bit confusing. Still, I highly recommend it.
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Alexander Schnackenberg
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2020
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I've seen clips of this floating around for some time, without understanding what it was actually about. Visually, it looked very appealing, but I was not prepared for how great the plot ended up being.

The story seemed to meander, and it seemed to lean heavily on some tropes common in US media that have been prominent since the Vietnam War. I thought I knew more or less where it was going, but of course I was wrong. The resolution instead ends up in line with some of the work of a post-WW2 Japanese author, to say more would be to spoil the experience. All I'll say to anyone who finds themselves wondering is to instead soak in the experience, and appreciate the aesthetics.

I used to love movies with "big", heavy themes that beat you over the head with their cleverness. Anime classics like "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell" (directed by Mamoru Oshii, who did the writing on this), are a bit more over-the-top in terms of their narrative. To be clear, I love those movies, but over the years I've come to appreciate more "grounded" narratives like Jin-Roh, which I believe are superior in terms of fitting more nicely within the literary canon. Rather than being a "statement", the story is part of a "dialogue" about central issues like duty, individuality, humanity and modernity, and rather than "teaching a lesson", the story told offers a beautiful perspective.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Wolf Awaits
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2019
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Don't be misled by the cover - Jin-Roh is not an action crowd pleaser about space marine special operatives. There are only two 'action' scenes in the whole film, and they're played less for thrills than for inevitability bordering on dread. Like the whole of the film, the action is slow, deliberate, and about execution.

Jin-Roh is a very methodical movie. It's paced more like a cold war drama than anything else, and there were times where it feels, perhaps, like it's dragging it's feet. It isn't - it's setting you up. What seems like an obvious metaphor is a trap for the audience, what seems like a simple trope is anything but. The whole is more than the sum of it's parts, and the whole film is so beautiful that one often wonders why it was animated to begin with; the realism and painstaking effort put into every frame is heartbreaking and beautiful and so close to life that one can forget that it's players are ink on paper.

I remember not finishing Jin-Roh when I watched it nearly a decade ago, and I need to ask that you not make my mistake. Jin-Roh comes together, and the ending is so perfect, so flawlessly held together, so *relentless* that I didn't realize I'd stopped breathing until it was all said and done. Have patience with The Wolf Brigade, it will reward it.
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Alejandro Evaristo Perez
4.0 out of 5 stars The Anime Pagan Version of Little Red Riding Hood
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020
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If the movie revolves around fighting "The System" and "Culture Socializing" in order to exercise "Free Will", then the ending does not make sense if you repeat the story. I guess it fits with Pagan narratives of "Repeating" and "Only dead can redeem you". It could have take a more Christian approach, where the "Wolf" realizes he is actually a "Shepperd". He could change his ways and take the girl with him. Shooting the girl was very pagan, tragic, and queue to repeat the death of 2 "Little Red Riding Hoods" girls. It gets 4 Stars mainly for sticking to a consistent plot (no a "One Piece" pirate dumb logic), great art, interesting characters, the artist was able to capture the majority of emotions and movements to mimic reality (Not that cartoony "Looney Tune" BS), and modernizing "Little Red Riding Hood" in a unique Anime Death Sentence kinda-way. If you wanted 5 Stars, you should have our anti-hero break the pattern, save the girl, have a sex scene (why not? He shots her, but not sex her? Where are our natural priorities and human principles?), and shot the rebels too for creating uni-bomber "Little Red Riding Hoods" and requesting to murder a girl, which they themselves turned into a murderer. Again. The end could have been more creative to generate a 5-star Review.
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matt
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2016
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well made with a good story
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Rob
5.0 out of 5 stars JIN-ROH
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2009
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What it says on the back of the box.
Ten years after world war 2 Japan is in decline. Emergency measures to boost the economy have created disturbing social problems and in Tokyo an elite police force known as the capital police organization has been created. Its primary foes are a terrorist group called the Sect. Kazuki is a mournful capital police officer whose life is ruined by a moment of compassion whilst persuing a teenage member of the Sect armed with a molotov cocktail. Raising his gun to shoot her, Kazuki hesitates and makes eye contact. In that breif moment she detonates the device, dying in the explosion. Made a scapegoat by the capital police, Kazuki forms a dangerous bond with the girl's identical sister.

Total Feature Running Time: 98mins approx
Feature aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Special features: Interviews, Production Art Gallery, Theatical Trailer, Trailers

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I have wanted to watch this film for quite some time after seeing small clips on the old manga videos and it was worth the wait.
The animation is brilliant with attention to deatil with the vehicles that were around and would have been available then. The story line is also very good making it a thriller/action/political movie with an obvious twist (especially if you like watching hong kong cop flicks)at the end as the main character shows his true colours.
I have read other reviews about this film and it is definatly not set in a world where japan and germany won the second world war, the only reasoning behind that thinking can only be from the german type uniforms the wolf brigaed use as well as the weapons (all german). There is a manga live version as well but i have not seen it and so will be unable to compare them but it might be worth holding out to see if the americans decide to make a live action version.

This is a film well worth being added to Manga collection.
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saboom
2.0 out of 5 stars déception
Reviewed in France on July 15, 2011
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Le DVD est arrivé sans encombre à son destinataire mais ô mauvaise sur prise le produit ne disposait que de deux langues: anglais et japonais !! Inutile de vous dire qu'en tant que français ma deception fùt grande .... Merci la prochaine de fois de préciser si la versionfrançaise est disponible.
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Al Dixon
5.0 out of 5 stars Mature drama in an alternate universe
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2010
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Japanese animation at its mature best, meticulously detailed 'Ghost in the Shell' standard. A twist that is not immediately apparent is that the story takes place in a world where Nazi Germany won the war, dropped the atomic bomb, and was the occupying force in Japan. Don't blink or you'll miss the clues.
This is probably the best mature drama in Japanese animé that I have seen so far - the storyline is complex, intelligent and thought-provoking. The storyline is based on a relationship between a man in his late 20s and a girl in her late teens (I think) but the basis for the whole thing is 'Little Red Riding Hood', which adds a whole new slant to the situation.
One thing I must mention is the music soundtrack. This, to me, sounds like a Japanese version of Elgar, and fits the sombre visuals of the film to a tee - superb!
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Lörs lärä
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2015
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Jin-roh may be slow paced, and thus not maybe for everyone. I still like itvery much, the slow pacing is actually one of the reasons i love it. Not everymovie has to be fast acton. The things roll on their own weight till the great end.Jin-roh is one of my favourite anime movies!
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