![]() ![]() However, Utsubo works with contract killer Suzuki to set people up for extortion purposes. Meanwhile, Utsubo is a representative for an NPO. CEO Takoda and Misaki are unaware of Akira’s background as an assassin. Akira still works part-time at design company Octopus with CEO Takoda and employee Misaki. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner Yoko as ordinary siblings. Plot: Akira Sato is the legendary killer known as The Fable. The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill (2021) Overall, The Fable is hard to describe but it’s so wonderfully insane with some imaginative action scenes that it almost makes it worth subscribing to Netflix… maybe. The action is a little John Wick at times which is no bad thing but this goes a little crazier and that final showdown where Fable doesn’t actually kill anyone is one of the best action scenes I’ve seen for some time. How do you even review movies like this? You’ll know what I mean if you watch them as they are so… unique. Yuya Yagira is particularly unhinged and memorable as Kojima who wants to become a pimp now that he is out of prison but his boss Ebihara is against it. The characters are all larger than life so it feels very fantastical and captures the spirit of the Manga. Admittedly the pacing can be a little slow at times in the first half and it is a little long but the final 40 minutes more than makes up for it. They make for a great team and watching the two of them take down the bad guys for the action-packed finale is the highlight of the entire film. While lying low he is living with his sister who spends most of the movie being drunk, loud and annoying but it’s all an act to hide the fact she’s every bit as deadly as Fable. There is also the running joke that Fable’s senses are so finely tuned that any time he eats any cooked food he finds it too hot and screams. No one finds them funny other than Fable who breaks out in hysterical laughter suddenly after every ad has played on the television. This is such a strange film with some really out there Japanese humour but that’s what makes The Fable such an appealing movie especially the commercials featuring “Jackal” which are just bizarre. Jun’ichi Okada is perfect as Fable/Akira as his face never cracks and the majority of the laughs comes from him trying to fit into every day situations which is something he has never done before. His boss tells him to lie low for a year so he begins to live in Osaka as an ordinary person with the name of Akira Sato. The Fable was released in 2019 and stars Jun’ichi Okada as Akira Sato AKA Fable he was trained as a killer since he was a young boy and is now an elite contract killer with the nickname of Fable. Plot: An elite gun-for-hire is forced to lay low and not kill anyone for a year, but underworld figures start to threaten his newly calm and quiet life. They are currently on Netflix so today I thought we would take a look at them and dive into the world of Fable. ![]() ![]() The Fable movies are based on the manga series “The Fable” by Katsuhisa Minami and are two of the most bonkers action movies I’ve seen for some time. I can’t believe these movies flew under my radar for this long so a big shout out to my friend Saverio for making me aware of their existence. ![]()
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