Goku: Midnight Eye

1989 0h 50m JA

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6.2

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★6.2TMDB · 45

AnimationActionThriller

Synopsis

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Tokyo, 2014: a city balancing on the razor's edge between financial prosperity and seismic destruction. It is a place where the lights are bright, the stakes are high, and where the threat of imminent destruction breeds crime like a disease. But for Gokuu Furinji, ex-cop and super-powered private detective, crime is money...

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Juji Matsuda
Mami Koyama
Yoko Yazaki (voice)
Norio Wakamoto
Genji Hakuryu (voice)
Daisuke Gori
General Gomez (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Dr. Yamazaki (voice)
Juji Matsuda
Goku Furinji (voice)
Iemasa Kayumi
Voice (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Coroner (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Writers: Buichi Terasawa
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 7

CINEMA

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Part of the "Goku: Midnight Eye Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 7

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Juji Matsuda and Mami Koyama and Norio Wakamoto carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0097445 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Yoshiaki Kawajiri directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Goku: Midnight Eye Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Juji Matsuda and Mami Koyama and Norio Wakamoto carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt0097445 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 6 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
8Only 45 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 50 min · 0h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: JA
Certification (US): M
IMDB: Goku: Midnight Eye (1989)

Part of

Goku: Midnight Eye Collection

A private eye named Goku investigates a number of suicides of police officers. When he encounters the woman responsible for those suicides, he is caught by her supernatural powers and the only way to survive was to stab his own eye out. Now replaced with a cybernetic implant that allows him to access nearly every computer on earth and equipped with a powerful rod that can extend to quite a length, he resumes the investigation only to find out it falls deeper into the net of underground rulers.