Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade or simply Jin-Roh (人狼, Jinrō, lit. "Man-Wolf") is a 1999 animated feature film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. The film is the second adaptation of Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga manga, Ken-Roh Densetsu, the first attempt being StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops released in Japanese theaters in 1991.
The movie opens in Tokyo with scenes of evening public anti-government protests interspersed with an adolescent girl walking alone....
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade or simply Jin-Roh (人狼, Jinrō, lit. "Man-Wolf") is a 1999 animated feature film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura. The film is the second adaptation of Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga manga, Ken-Roh Densetsu, the first attempt being StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops released in Japanese theaters in 1991.
The movie opens in Tokyo with scenes of evening public anti-government protests interspersed with an adolescent girl walking alone. This girl, Nanami Agawa, is revealed as a terrorist courier – nicknamed Little Red Riding Hood by the police – member of a guerrilla group known as "Sect". Her role is to deliver bombs in satchels, she makes her way to a delivery of one of the bombs to another Sect member hidden among regular protesters. The protest slowly turns into a riot, and the guerrilla flings the satchel bomb into the Self-Police lines, with the result that the Self-Police's antiriot squad charges to break up the riot.
Behind the Self-Police line stands a backup force....
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