# Character (2021)

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**Original title**: *キャラクター*
**Runtime**: 125 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Mystery, Crime
**Directed by**: Akira Nagai
**Written by**: Takashi Nagasaki, Akira Nagai, Anna Kawahara
**Starring**: Masaki Suda, Fukase, Mitsuki Takahata, Shido Nakamura, Shun Oguri, Akiyoshi Nakao

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Snow falling, sketchbook open. A would-be manga artist lacks the killer instinct, until stumbling upon a murder scene. He copies the crime in panels.

Success arrives, and so does the suspect.

Nagai’s thriller echoes Kurosawa’s *High and Low*.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, paranoid, raw, slow-burn

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