Crying Freeman - The son of the dragon

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Movie
German title Crying Freeman - The son of the dragon
Original title Crying Freeman
Country of production Canada , France , Japan , USA
original language English , Japanese
Publishing year 1995
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christophe Goose
script Christophe Goose
Thierry Cazals
production Samuel Hadida
Brian Yuzna
Taka Ichise
music Patrick O'Hearn
camera Thomas Burstyn
cut Christopher Roth
David Wu Taiwai
occupation

Crying Freeman is a film by the French director Christophe Gans from 1995 and is based on the manga Crying Freeman by the Japanese Kazuo Koike (text) and Ryōichi Ikegami (drawings). The film was released on May 29, 1997 in German cinemas in the original English language with German subtitles, where it received little attention.

action

The orphaned and depressed painter Emu O'Hara, who is currently visiting San Francisco , witnesses the murder of Yakuza Takeshi "Sunny" Shimazaki and his bodyguards. The murderer Yo introduces himself to her - with a tear down her cheek - so that she cannot forget this moment. She portrays him from memory and travels back to Vancouver .

The Crying Freeman also travels to Vancouver to kill Shimazaki's father, a powerful yakuza boss. Shimazaki tries to cooperate with the police and names Emu as a witness; he explains to the officials what the killer of a Chinese sect called "Sons of the Dragon", the Crying Freeman, can do. When leaving the police building, the Yakuza boss and his followers are shot by the Freeman, while Emu - who is under police protection - watches everything again.

Yo's clients are now demanding that he kill Emu because she is able to identify the Freeman. Yo does not want to meet this requirement because he has fallen in love with Emu. Meanwhile, a succession dispute has broken out over the vacant post of the most powerful yakuza. One tries to kidnap Emu in order to get to the Freeman, but this fails miserably because the Freeman can thwart the attack on Emu's property.

Emu is slightly injured in the firefight, so she needs medical attention. She succeeds in evading the guard by the police and so she escapes to Japan, where she wants to meet with Yo. When the two meet in Japan, the Freeman has become the hunted himself through his disobedience to the "Sons of Dragon", but is supposed to assert himself again against the big Yakuza clan, only to be killed himself.

A bloody battle breaks out on his property, and the Freeman is also injured, but not killed. Thanks to Lady Hanada, both manage to escape.

production

Crying Freeman is the first full-length feature film by director Christophe Gans, who previously only realized smaller projects. It is all the more astonishing that the producer and later friend Samuel Hadida expressed their trust in him. A film was made that contains a mixture of action , light romance and drama and was shot almost exclusively in Vancouver (Canada).

Mark Dacascos and Masaya Kato shot all of the stunts in the film themselves, Dacascos and Christophe Gans developed the last fight scenes in the film together. While making this film, Dacascos met Julie Condra , whom he married three years later.

Trivia

The film was indexed in 2007, but deleted again in February 2018. After a re-examination by the FSK, the uncut version was released from the age of 16.

Reviews

“Going to the cinema is also worthwhile for those who have already seen the film on video. Because only on the big screen does the blaze of color and visual elegance of the stylishly staged killer drama come into its own. The discrepancy between the lush picture splendor and the thin plot is by the way no cause for sadness: The spectacular action sequences reach John Woo level. "

- TV Movie 11/1997

“The staging, impressive film adaptation of a comic book famous in Japan as a fast-paced, extremely stylized action and fighting 'fairy tale'. The film finds an independent counterpart for the mythical world of images of the drawn original, including the numerous atrocities as 'genre-immanent', but not questioning them. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Fantastic Film Festival ( Lund , Sweden)

  • 1996: Audience award for Christophe Gans

Fantasporto (Porto, Portugal)

  • 1996: Nomination for best film in the category: International Fantasy Film Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Crying Freeman - The Son of the Dragon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb
  3. ↑ Crying Freeman - The Dragon's Son is from the Index
  4. ↑ Crying Freeman - The Son of the Dragon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 5, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used