MW -ムウ- 2009
A live-action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s mature manga masterpiece MW (pronounced “moo,” like a cow), created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Tezuka. When a top secret chemical compound called MW infects an island near Okinawa, the military is sent in to kill all the victims and cover up the incident. A survivor named Michio Yuki (Hiroshi Tamaki) grows up to become a highly-successful banker, but he is slowly being driven mad by the effects of MW. After committing a series of ruthless crimes to get revenge against the people responsible for the cover-up, he decides that the only way to truly get revenge is to unleash MW on the world and exterminate the entire human race. Takayuki Yamada stars as Father Garai, a priest desperately trying to save Michios soul—and possibly his own in the process—but not necessarily doing much to stop the crime spree.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hitoshi Iwamoto
- Writers
- Osamu Tezuka, Tetsuya Oishi, Shinzo Matsuhashi
- Producers
- Shinzo Matsuhashi
- Executive Producers
- Toshihiro Sugita
- Editing
- 朝原正志
- Composer
- Yoshihiro Ike
- Production Design
- Kikuo Ohta
Details
- Release date
- Jul 3, 2009
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Amuse Soft Entertainment, Studio Swan, GAGA Corporation, Shogakukan, D.N. Dream Partners, Nippon Television Network Corporation
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
