Human Trust

Human Trust is a 2013 Japanese suspense film directed by Junji Sakamoto, starring Kōichi Satō, Mirai Moriyama, Alisa Mizuki, Shingo Katori, Yoo Ji-tae, Vincent Gallo, and Tatsuya Nakadai. It was filmed in Japan, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.

Plot

In 2014, Yuichi Mafune, a confidence man, is hired by "M" to steal 10 trillion yen from the M Fund and use it for humanitarian assistance to the Third World. Harold Marcus, an investment banker, sends Osamu Endo, an assassin, to stop them.

Cast

Kōichi Satō as Yuichi Mafune
Mirai Moriyama as Seki Yukit
Alisa Mizuki as Miyuki Takato
Shingo Katori as Nobuto "M" Sasakura
Tatsuya Nakadai as Nobuhiko Sasakura
Vincent Gallo as Harold Marcus
Yoo Ji-tae as Osamu Endo
Etsushi Toyokawa as Harry Endo
Ittoku Kishibe as Kazuyoshi Honjo
Joe Odagiri as Eiji Kugenuma
Susumu Terajima as Tadashi Sakata
Renji Ishibashi as Detective Kitamura

Reception

Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review, saying: "Technically the film is competent if unremarkable and the cast does what it can with the material, which forces them all to swing wildly between melodramatic thriller mode and standard action hero antics". Meanwhile, Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave it 2 out of 5 stars, saying: "Even stranger is the climax, which features a lengthy speech that makes Charlie Chaplin's famous peroration in The Great Dictator seem like a model of compression and restraint. Chaplin at least had the excuse of railing against Nazism. Sakamoto and Fukui are simply guilty of equating real-world politics with high school speech contests."