Friday, March 29, 2013

SPEC -heaven-

(SPEC~天~)





The true happiness can be only gained...
after you try really, really hard,
(本当の幸福ってのは…がんばって、すんげぇがんばって、)
 
fail, bump against the wall, sometimes are even betrayed by people,
(それでも失敗して、壁にぶつかって、時に人に裏切られて、)
 
 but still find your truely important friends someday
and fill your life with love and bond...
(でもいつか本当に大事な仲間に出会い、
本当の愛や絆に包まれていくことだよ。)

(Story)
Saya Toma (Erika Toda) is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests.
A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
 
 
 I really liked KEIZOKU quite a long time ago but SPEC, created by the same director Yukihiko Tutsumi, became my favorite TV drama series again and this is the movie version after the TV drama(+ special drama) story. 

 
 
The combination of Toma and Sebumi has been always fun for me to watch like I enjoyed Shibata and Mayama in KEIZOKU. Unfortunately movie version of KEIZOKU was far from good compared with its TV drama series. However, I believe this was much better than KEIZOKU movie and can be recommended especially if liked its TV series.
 
I have to admit some portion of the movie looks a little tawdry due to the poor computor graphics but I also think Toma/Sebumi's character plus attracting story succeeded to cover it after all.
 
The ending of the movie was a bit mysterious but I've found the additional special drama("Zero") and movie("Close") will be shown this year(2013) later so I expect all the mistery will be cleared by those. It can be also a good reason I recommend you watch the existing TV series and this movie first to be ready for it!

 



 

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