20th Century Boys: Redemption

20th Century Boys: Redemption


20世紀少年 最終章 ぼくらの旗
20 Seiki Shōnen Saishūshō Bokura No Hata
20th Century Boys Final Chapter: Our Flag
Also known as 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Original Story Naoki Urasawa
Screenplay Takashi Nagasaki
Naoki Urasawa
Screenplay Cooperation Yusuke Watanabe
Music Director Ryomei Shirai
Music Ryomei Shirai
Toru Hasebe
Audio Highs
Naoki Urasawa
Photography Satoru Karasawa
Art Naoki Soma
Lighting Akio Kimura
Sound Mitsuo Tokita
Editor Nobuyuki Ito
Production Companies Nippon TV Network, Shogakukan, Toho, Vap, Yomiuri TV Broadcasting, Dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun, Cine Bazaar, Office Crescendo, D Rights, Sapporo TV, Miyagi TV, Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Chukyo TV, Hiroshima TV, Fukuoka Broadcasting
Release Date August 29, 2009
Runtime 155 minutes
Preceded by 20th Century Boys: The Last Hope (2009)

20世紀少年 最終章 ぼくらの旗
20 Seiki Shōnen Saishūshō Bokura No Hata
20th Century Boys Final Chapter: Our Flag
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Original Story Naoki Urasawa
Screenplay Takashi Nagasaki
Naoki Urasawa
Screenplay Cooperation Yusuke Watanabe
Music Director Ryomei Shirai
Music Ryomei Shirai
Toru Hasebe
Audio Highs
Naoki Urasawa
Photography Satoru Karasawa
Art Naoki Soma
Lighting Akio Kimura
Sound Mitsuo Tokita
Editor Nobuyuki Ito
Also known as 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
Production Companies Nippon TV Network, Shogakukan, Toho, Vap, Yomiuri TV Broadcasting, Dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun, Cine Bazaar, Office Crescendo, D Rights, Sapporo TV, Miyagi TV, Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Chukyo TV, Hiroshima TV, Fukuoka Broadcasting
Release Date August 29, 2009
Runtime 155 minutes
Preceded by 20th Century Boys: The Last Hope (2009)

In 2017, world leader Friend has turned Tokyo into a walled city, an oasis in a world ravaged by a vicious flesh-eating virus. Friend continually issues a prophecy that the world will end in August of 2017, and that only “true believers” will be saved. Otcho, now an old man, fights his way back into Tokyo and attempts to track down Kanna. Kanna is Kenji’s niece; Kenji was the first person to recognize Friend for the villain he was, but has been presumed dead for seventeen years. Otcho reunites with Kanna, and plays a song for her on the radio, written by Kenji. Kanna has learned the song by heart, but the radio plays a different version of the song with new lyrics. They both realize that Kenji must still be alive. Meanwhile, Maruo, another member of the resistance, tracks down Kiriko, Kanna’s mother. Kiriko has been in hiding since Kanna was an infant, working to undermine Friend’s plan to release a super virus on Japan in August. She and Friend are Kanna’s parents, although at the time Friend used a false name, so Kiriko does not know his true identity. She tests a vaccine on herself, which proves successful in protecting her from Friend’s new virus. She has Maruo pack up a supply of the vaccine to take to Tokyo, where the virus will be spread.

A mysterious man arrives at a border checkpoint, where he meets Manjome. Manjome is an elder advisor to Friend, but has been exiled to the checkpoint in recent years because he knows too much. The stranger identifies himself as Kenji, who survived the events of December 2000, although he suffered amnesia in the process. Only recently did he recover his memory, including the true identify of Friend. Manjome pleads with Kenji to kill Friend and save the world; Kenji agrees to save the world, but on his own terms, and heads to Tokyo. Kanna and Otcho are apprehended by Friend’s military police. Otcho breaks free and discovers that Friend has constructed flying saucers and another giant robot for dispersing the virus. What’s more, the robot has a neutron bomb in its core. Kanna is brought up to meet Friend. Friend hints that his own rough childhood brought him to his current state of sociopathy, and hopes that by making the world smaller people will be kinder to each other. He releases Kanna to rejoin her resistance.

Kanna realizes that Friend will spread the virus everywhere except the World Expo grounds, a perfect recreation of the 1970 Expo that occurred during Friend’s childhood. Kanna and her resistance decide to put on a music festival to attract as many people to the expo as possible, where they’ll be safe from the virus, touting the return of Kenji, whose song has become an underground hit. A large crowd assembles while Friend releases the virus. Otcho arms himself to take out the flying saucers. Kenji arrives in Tokyo and pursues the giant robot, boarding it and causing it to stumble onto its side. When Kenji emerges he is confronted by Friend. Friend unmasks himself and is revealed to be Fukube, who was thought dead in the same night as Kenji in December 2000. Kenji, however, declares that he is only pretending to be Fukube, and that he knows his true identity. Kenji apologizes for wronging Friend during their childhood; he stole a toy badge from a snack shop and Friend was mistaken for the thief. Friend panics and tries to reboot the robot, but is shot by Manjome. Manjome himself is crushed by the falling robot. Kenji arrives at the festival, where he reunites with Kanna and all his childhood friends, and plays his song for the crowd.

Top Billed Cast

Toshiaki Karasawa
Kenji Endo
Etsushi Toyokawa
Choji "Otcho" Ochiai
Takako Tokiwa
Yukiji Setoguchi
Teruyuki Kagawa
Tsuyoshi "Yoshitsune" Minamoto
Airi Taira
Kanna Endo
Naohito Fujiki
Shohei Chono
Hidehiko Ishizuka
Michihiro Maruo
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Keitaro "Keroyon" Fukuda
Koichi Yamadera
Yuichi "Konchi" Konno
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Tetsuya "Fukube" Hattori
Arata Furuta
Haru Namio
Yukihiro Takahashi
Billy
Shiro Sano
Yanbo, Mabo
Mirai Moriyama
Kakuda
Haruka Kinami
Kyoko Koizumi
Mayuko Fukuda
Sanae Isono
Eiko Koike
Takasu
ARATA
Masao Tamura / No. 13
Renji Ishibashi
Inshu Manjome
Naoko Ken
Jijibaba
Katsuo Nakamura
Kami-sama
Hitomi Kuroki
Kiriko Endo

Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically

Muneyoshi Abiko
Yamane
Ichiya Anzai
Maruo
Chen Chao-jung
Chinese Mafia Boss
Kenji Endo
Mountain Man
Kaoru Fujiwara
Sadakiyo
Akimasa Haraguchi
Concertgoer
Ryohei Hirota
Katsuo Isono
Tamotsu Ishibashi
Kenji's Classmate
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Tadanobu Katsumata
Nana Katase
Mika Shikishima
Soichiro Kitamura
Tetsuo Shikishima
Kazuhide Kobayashi
Genji Faction Member
Kosei Kuroha
Katsumata
Tamaki Matsumoto
Yukiji
MCU
Concertgoer
Ken Mitsuishi
Yamazaki
Takuya Moriyama
Keroyon
Naomasa Musaka
Father Nitani
Musashi
Master Ogaki
Jun Nishiyama
Kenji
Fumiya Ogura
Yoshitsune
Yuki Otoguro
Mabo (1969)
Takumi Saito
Concertgoer
Samat Sangsangium
Thai Mafia Boss
Ryohei Sato
Shota Ochiai
Ryusei Sawahata
Otcho
Ibuki Shimizu
Konchi
Ippei Souda
Concertgoer
Masanobu Takashima
EDF Member
Naoto Takenaka
Pierre Ichimonji
Miyako Takeuchi
Setsuko Ichihara
Toru Takeuchi
Eroim Essaims Guitarist
Atsushi Tamura
EDF Member
Kenichiro Tanabe
Ujiki
Shuto Tanabe
Kenji (1972)
Ken Tanaka
Jijibaba's Husband (Photo)
Masashi Taniguchi
Kanna's Adjutant
Toru Tezuka
Kaneko
Kanji Tsuda
Dan Moroboshi
Riku Uehara
Fukube
Kiyotaka Yamada
Yanbo (1969)
Taichi Yano
Mon-chan
Kaiyu Yoshida
Ikegami
Terumi Yoshida
Concertgoer
Diamond Yukai
Concertgoer
Top Billed Cast

Kenji Endo
Toshiaki Karasawa

Choji "Otcho" Ochiai
Etsushi Toyokawa

Yukiji Setoguchi
Takako Tokiwa

Tsuyoshi "Yoshitsune" Minamoto
Teruyuki Kagawa

Kanna Endo
Airi Taira

Shohei Chono
Naohito Fujiki

Michihiro Maruo
Hidehiko Ishizuka

Keitaro "Keroyon" Fukuda
Hiroyuki Miyasako

Yuichi "Konchi" Konno
Koichi Yamadera

Tetsuya "Fukube" Hattori
Kuranosuke Sasaki

Haru Namio
Arata Furuta

Billy
Yukihiro Takahashi

Yanbo

Mabo
Shiro Sano

Kakuda
Mirai Moriyama

Kyoko Koizumi
Haruka Kinami

Sanae Isono
Mayuko Fukuda

Takasu
Eiko Koike

Masao Tamura / No. 13
ARATA

Inshu Manjome
Renji Ishibashi

Jijibaba
Naoko Ken

Kami-sama
Katsuo Nakamura

Kiriko Endo
Hitomi Kuroki
Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically

Yamane
Muneyoshi Abiko

Maruo
Ichiya Anzai

Chinese Mafia Boss
Chen Chao-jung

Mountain Man
Kenji Endo

Sadakiyo
Kaoru Fujiwara

Concertgoer
Akimasa Haraguchi

Katsuo Isono
Ryohei Hirota

Kenji's Classmate
Tamotsu Ishibashi

Tadanobu Katsumata
Ryunosuke Kamiki

Mika Shikishima
Nana Katase

Tetsuo Shikishima
Soichiro Kitamura

Genji Faction Member
Kazuhide Kobayashi

Katsumata
Kosei Kuroha

Yukiji
Tamaki Matsumoto

Concertgoer
MCU

Yamazaki
Ken Mitsuishi

Keroyon
Takuya Moriyama

Father Nitani
Naomasa Musaka

Master Ogaki
Musashi

Kenji
Jun Nishiyama

Yoshitsune
Fumiya Ogura

Mabo (1969)
Yuki Otoguro

Concertgoer
Takumi Saito

Thai Mafia Boss
Samat Sangsangium

Shota Ochiai
Ryohei Sato

Otcho
Ryusei Sawahata

Konchi
Ibuki Shimizu

Concertgoer
Ippei Souda

EDF Member
Masanobu Takashima

Pierre Ichimonji
Naoto Takenaka

Setsuko Ichihara
Miyako Takeuchi

Eroim Essaims Guitarist
Toru Takeuchi

EDF Member
Atsushi Tamura

Ujiki
Kenichiro Tanabe

Kenji (1972)
Shuto Tanabe

Jijibaba's Husband (Photo)
Ken Tanaka

Kanna's Adjutant
Masashi Taniguchi

Kaneko
Toru Tezuka

Dan Moroboshi
Kanji Tsuda

Fukube
Riku Uehara

Yanbo (1969)
Kiyotaka Yamada

Mon-chan
Taichi Yano

Ikegami
Kaiyu Yoshida

Concertgoer
Terumi Yoshida

Concertgoer
Diamond Yukai