A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

Here's a film that's trying to be the Ocean's 11 of Japan, but with more quirk. A quartet of oddballs stumbles into bank robbery, then decides to keep at it as a lark. What starts as a lark gets complicated by old grudges.

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Tetsu Maeda directed A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth in 2006. See Tetsu Maeda's full filmography, where to start with Tetsu Maeda, or where to go after you've seen everything by Tetsu Maeda.

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth was released in 2006 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 92 minutes.