THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021)
Grade: Ba
Format: Film
Genre: Action; Comedy; Crime
Studio: NTV
Source: manga
Netflix Global Top 10: Did not reach Global Top 10
The legendary assassin known as "Fable" continues living undercover in Osaka as the bland, deadpan Akira Sato --- but when an NPO front-man and a contract killer target his workplace in an extortion scheme that endangers a young woman, he must protect everyone and take down the threat without breaking his one rule: kill no one. The tone is a wild mix of bonkers action-comedy and surprisingly dark underworld violence, with uniquely Japanese absurdist humor (a hitman obsessed with a terrible comedian) punctuating jaw-dropping stunt sequences. The core conflict is the impossible constraint of a k
Cast
- Junichi Okada
- Fumino Kimura
- Shinichi Tsutsumi
- Yurina Hirate
- Masanobu Ando