Hero (2007)
September 8, 2007Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Takuya Kimura
Kohei Kuryu
Takako Matsu
Maiko Amamiya
Nene Otsuka
Misuzu Nakamura
Hiroshi Abe
Mitsugu Shibayama
Masanobu Katsumura
Tatsuo Egami
Fumiyo Kohinata
Takayuki Suitsugu
Norito Yashima
Kenji Endo
Takuzô Kadono
Yutaka Ushimaru
Kiichi Nakai
Akihiko Takida
Lee Byung-hun
Kang
Matsumoto Hakuō II
Issei Gamo
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yusaku Mayuzumi
Haruka Ayase
Ririko Izumiya
Takayuki Hattori
Composer
Arata Furuta
Shuji Gouda
Takahiro Tsutai
Cinematographer
Renji Ishibashi
Masahiro Oyabu
Ittoku Kishibe
Kaoru Kayama
Ryoko Kuninaka
Megumi Matsumoto
Yoji Tanaka
Master
Kazuki Namioka
Keisuke Umebayashi
Sawa Suzuki
Misa Kurokawa
Masayuki Itô
Yuzo Kawashima
Kiyoshi Kodama
Toshimitsu Nabeshima
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Release DateSeptember 8, 2007
Original NameHERO
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 10m
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Hero is a 2007 Japanese feature film based on the 2001 Japanese TV series of the same name. The original series spawned a 2-hour TV special in 2006 which followed the main character, Kuryu, five years later. That special sets up the lead-in for the 2007 feature film.
The all-star cast of this film includes the original cast from the TV series; cameos by Ayase Haruka and Nakai Kiichi (from the 2006 special), as well as guests Koshiro Matsumoto, Tamori, and special guest, Korean star Lee Byung-hun.
This film mainly portrays the events that occurs in the courtroom, which was rarely done in the TV series.
The region-2 DVD (Korean subtitles version also available) was released on March 8, 2008 by Pony Canyon.
A sequel feature film, also titled Hero, was released in theatres in July 2015. The film follows Kuryu and the cast of the 2014 TV Series and features the return of Amamiya, who was inexplicably absent from the second TV series.