Kamen byôtô (2020)

Kamen byôtô: Directed by Hisashi Kimura. With Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mei Nagano, Rio Uchida, Noriko Eguchi. Shugo Hayami is a doctor at a nursing hospital, which was once a psychiatric hospital. One evening, when Shugo is on night duty, a man in pierrot mask breaks into the hospital and he is not alone. He is with Hitomi Kawasaki, a university student who has been shot by the masked man. The masked man tells Shugo to treat Hitomi. He also takes hostage the 64 people in the hospital. Soon, Shugo and Hitomi try to escape from the hospital and they encounter mysterious cases one at a time.

“Coincidentally this is the second Japanese movie i saw back to back aft revisiting Battle Royale.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI loved the twist, the movie has decent amount of tension, good suspense but it is a bit long.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA man in a mask after robbing a store, breaks into a hospital and he brings with him a young woman Hitomi Kawasaki, who has been shot by him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe masked man tells Shugo Hayami to treat Hitomi Kawasaki.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eShugo Hayami, a new doctor who recently lost his wife n an unborn child in an accident gets close to Kawasaki after knowing that Kawasaki too lost a loved one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile the masked man takes everyone at the hospital as hostages, Hayami and Kawasaki try to escape from the hospital but they encounter mysterious cases one at a time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film has a good twist and that too with a good reason.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePacing is an issue and if u pay very close attention, something can be smelled.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnother flaw is that, a fella after shooting people, keeps the gun at the side of a dead person to put the blame on him but the problem is, the shooter never wipes off the fingerprints and the dead person on whom the blame is supposed to be put on, is wearing gloves and the shooter never attempts to remove the gloves and put the gun in the dead manu0026#39;s palm but rather keep it aside.”