# Returner - Il futuro potrebbe essere storia (2002)

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**Original title**: *リターナー*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Takashi Yamazaki
**Written by**: Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata
**Starring**: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Kirin Kiki, Goro Kishitani, Yukiko Okamoto, Mitsu Murata

> *The future could be history.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re a lone gunman drifting through a lawless town when a woman from tomorrow drags you into a temporal war. Then the sky starts falling apart. Yamazaki’s 2002 camera ignites neon bullets and rusted skeletons in a rainy dusk that never ends.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, outsider, raw

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