Word: kaijin
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...this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius is behind that ever-changing mask. A buoyant pace...
...typewritten letter was neatly addressed to "Moms of the Nation" and signed Kaijin 21 Menso, the Man with 21 Faces. The message, sent to Osaka news agencies, warned that 20 packages of Morinaga candy had been laced with deadly sodium cyanide and placed on supermarket shelves. Within days police had scoured stores from Tokyo to cities in western Japan, and found more than a dozen of the lethal packets of Morinaga Choco-Balls and Angel Pie, apparently before anyone was poisoned...
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