Word: nanahara
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...organized into a terrorist unit called the Wild Seven, a group dedicated to exacting explosive retribution on the society that wants them dead. The government, in turn, recruits yet another class of kids to hunt down the vigilantes on their island stronghold. Leader of the Wild Seven is Shuya Nanahara, played by fiery-eyed 21-year-old Tatsuya Fujiwara. In the first film, Nanahara is a somber schoolboy who survives more due to luck than killer instinct. In the sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort...
...provide something that Hollywood can't." That something, according to Fukasaku, is an alternative to what he sees as the moral certainty of American culture, as reflected both in its movies and its foreign policy. Lead actor Fujiwara, at least, seems to be in the director's camp. "Nanahara may be a terrorist, but I personally think he's the one who's standing on the side of justice," he says of his character. "He's a good role model for young people...
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