Grasshopper

Grasshopper (2015)

グラスホッパー

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.

Date of release
2015-11-07
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama
Director
Tomoyuki Takimoto

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: 3 Assassins

Grasshopper (グラスホッパー) is a 2015 Japanese revenge thriller film directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto and starring Toma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano and Hey! Say! JUMP member Ryosuke Yamada. It was released in Japan on November 7, 2015. It is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Kōtarō Isaka, the first novel in his Hitman series. An American adaptation of the second novel, Bullet Train, was released in 2022.

Production

Principal photography began on 7 July 2014.

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