The Red Spectacles

The Red Spectacles (1987)

紅い眼鏡

What dream are you welcoming?

Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.

Date of release
1987-02-07
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (47)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Science Fiction, Mystery, Crime
Director
Mamoru Oshii
Collection
Kerberos Saga Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Red Spectacles is a 1987 Japanese science fiction neo-noir film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyōdō. The first film in Oshii's Kerberos Saga, but the second installment overall after its radio drama companion piece While Waiting for the Red Spectacles, the film follows Kōichi Todome, a former police tactical unit officer who, after fleeing Japan following a failed rebellion by his dissolved unit, returns several years later per a promise to his colleagues, only to find Tokyo in a surreal and unrecognizable state.

Production

The Red Spectacles is Oshii's first feature-length live-action film. Several of the cast members are voice actors and appeared in Urusei Yatsura, which Oshii worked on as chief director and head writer.

The film features a number of literary references including William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. A variety of philosophical concepts such as free will and determinism are presented through fables including "The Magnet's Story," attributed to Oscar Wilde, and The Fisherman and the Jinni.

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