Maniac Hero

Here's a film that asks, what if a convenience store clerk started a vigilante group? Nakatsu, recently laid off, teams up with a few oddballs to fight crime in his town. The film manages to be exactly as strange and funny as that sounds.

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Keisuke Toyoshima directed Maniac Hero in 2016. See Keisuke Toyoshima's full filmography, where to start with Keisuke Toyoshima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Keisuke Toyoshima.

Maniac Hero was released in 2016 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.