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Bloody Monday (Japanese Drama Review & Recap)

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Bloody Monday (Japanese Drama Review & Recap)

Genre: Thriller, Espionage, Sci Fi

Cast:

  • Haruma Miura as Fujimaru Tagaki
  • Takeru Satoh as Otaya Kujo
  • Hiroki Narimiya as J
  • Michiko Kichise as Maya Orihara
  • Umika Kawashiwa as Haruka Tagaki
  • `yutaka Matsushige as Ikoma Kano
  • Mina Fujii as Aoi Asada
  • Tetsushi Tanaka as Ryunosuke Tagaki

This Monday offering is called Bloody Monday and rather bloody exciting to watch.

It is based on a manga written by Ryu Ryumon.

It centres around a second year high school boy called Fujimaru, who is ace hacker.  He can hacked into anything including the secret Russian files.  His code name is Falcon.

But for the last two years he has retired from his illegal activities as his father works for ThirdI, some sort of MI5.

Japan had information that something cataclysmic form of terrorism is about to happen.  They have therefore recruited Fujimaru for his IT expertise and find out about this which is Russian in origin.

What the Falcon found was a short video of a church Christmas service, where the congregations started to feel unwell and develop nose bleeds, sores and breathlessness.  Some piteously asked for help.

ThirdI then found out that an airborne virus will be released, which will kill most of the population and will remove Japan from the map.

The cat and mouse chase was pretty thrilling.

It was found later that the leader of the terrorists, in which Ryunosuke Tagaki is one, is J.

J is a math genius, who was a former professor.

He found it easy to recruit new members because of a very tantalising hook that he applies.

To join the group is becoming like God.

Otaya Kujo, Fujimaru’s best friend, explained that becoming God is doing whatever you like.

With the virus killing 90 per cent of the population the chosen 10 per cent remaining can control the resources and do what ever they want.

So this Bloody Monday is actually about population explosion control.

I recommend this highly.  It is intelligent and a lot of action.

 

Plus a big bonus of having Haruma, Takeru and Hiroki in one drama.

 

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