History YMMV / JinRohTheWolfBrigade

* DirectorDisplacement: The film is often mistaken for being directed by Creator/MamoruOshii, due to being based off his ''Kerberos Saga'' manga and sharing many of his stylistic hallmarks. While Oshii was the writer of the movie, the actual director was [[Anime/ALetterToMomo Hiroyuki Okiura]], who is significantly less known among anime fans than Oshii. Ironically, the preceding Kerberos movies that ''were'' directed by Oshii also suffer from SequelDisplacement.

* NightmareFuel:
** The Kerberos Unit themselves are an intimidating counter-terror unit clad in all black, bullet proof armor, [[PuttingOnTheReich German Stahlhelms]], and armed to the teeth with [=MG42=] machineguns. Their hellish gas masks are marked by a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning bright red eyes]] that pierce through darkness.
** In the beginning, during the exposition that tells the backstory of the movie, we're shown [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white still pictures]] of Kerberos Unit soldiers forcefully detaining suspects while the unseen photographer tries to hide when one of them stares at them menacingly.
** The riot scene in the film's start features police officers getting graphically burnt by Molotov Cocktails and the after-effects of the bomb that devastates their ranks. Of particular note is an officer who's [[EyeScream clutching his bleeding eyes]] in the aftermath.
** The scene with the Kerberos officers launching their raid against Sect members in the sewer feels like it comes straight out of a horror film, as [[NothingIsScarier they're more often heard than seen]], ratcheting up tension. When they do make their grand appearance to the terrorists, throwing a flashbang before filing out of the shadows, they clearly outnumber the Sect group before them. When the Sect members [[TooDumbToLive decide to shoot]], they're [[MookHorrorShow riddled graphically with bullets]] in a one sided firefight.
** The scene where Fuse confronts the girl carrying bombs. Disobeying his orders to surrender, she panics and blows herself up in front of him, nearly costing him his life. It's enough to haunt him through the entire movie, where he has flashbacks and nightmares about the event.
** When Fuse is having a gentle moment with Kei at an amusement park, the scene switches to a flashing picture of wolves tearing up a bloody body, without any sound, for a couple seconds. Fuse is visibly taken aback and the scene transitions into a nightmare in which Fuse tries to save Kei, while her depicted fate keeps switching from a pack of wolves who viciously mutilate her, to Fuse himself gunning her down without any emotion while Kerberos officers look on. It's easily one of the most disturbing moments in an already bleak film due to its gory nature and sudden appearance with no warning.
** Fuse, clad in Protect-Gear, killing off the Public Security agents slowly and methodically as they steadily become more and more panicked as nothing they do manages to stop him or slow him down.
*** Fuse putting on the Protect-Gear beforehand is a surprisingly upsetting moment as well; you watch this sad, broken, conflicted man shed his humanity bit by bit until, by the time he puts on the mask, he might as well be Film/TheTerminator.
** The ending, where Fuse is forced into a gut-wrenching choice between killing his only love, Kei, or abandoning his friends in the Wolf Brigade. After making the difficult decision to shoot her, a Wolf Brigade sniper stands down from his position, making it clear that Fuse had no real choice in the matter.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Fuse is easily the most likable character in the film, being a traumatized antihero. However, that means the most likable character and protagonist is depressed through most of the film, and even he's a member of a horrifying and brutal police force, and [[spoiler: both he and Kei turn out to be part of their own party's schemes.]] The entire rest of the film is utterly hopeless, being a conflict between two totalitarian police forces who are only differentiated by competence, with the other party being terrorists, without a single heroic or idealistic character between them. Of course, [[TrueArtIsAngsty this exact hopelessness is much of the appeal.]]
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Many of the people who love the film love it because of its ''extremely'' bleak outlook, the lack of happiness through its entire runtime, and the fact that it has a total DownerEnding.

*** Fuse putting on the Protect-Gear beforehand is a surprisingly upsetting moment as well; you watch this sad, broken, conflicted man shed his humanity bit by bit until, by the time he puts on the mask, he might as well be ((Film/TheTerminator)).

*** Fuse putting on the Protect-Gear beforehand is a surprisingly upsetting moment as well; you watch this sad, broken, conflicted man shed his humanity bit by bit until, by the time he puts on the mask, he might as well be [[Film/TheTerminator]].

*** Fuse putting on the Protect-Gear beforehand is a surprisingly upsetting moment as well; you watch this sad, broken, conflicted man shed his humanity bit by bit until, by the time he puts on the mask, he might as well be TheTerminator.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Fuse is easily the most likable character in the film, being a traumatized antihero. However, that means the most likable character and protagonist is depressed through most of the film, and even he's a member of a horrifying and brutal police force, and [[spoiler: both he and Kei turn out to be part of their own party's schemes.]] The entire rest of the film is utterly hopeless, being a conflict between two totalitarian police forces who are only differentiated by competence, with the other party being terrorists, without a single heroic or idealistic character between them. Of course, [[TrueArtIsAngsty this exact hopelessness is much of the appeal.]]
* DirectorDisplacement: The film is often mistaken for being directed by Creator/MamoruOshii, due to being based off his ''Kerberos Saga'' manga and sharing many of his stylistic hallmarks. While Oshii was the writer of the movie, the actual director was [[Anime/ALetterToMomo Hiroyuki Okiura]], who is significantly less known among anime fans than Oshii.

* SignatureScene: The gunfight between the Kerberos members and Sect members in the sewer, due to it being a CurbStompBattle and the most disturbing and awesome display of the Kerberos Unit's effectiveness.

** As cool as the Kerberos Corps is, most fans of the anime tend to forget that they're making Fuse as miserable as Public Security is.

* TrueArtIsAngsty
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Compare the history in the world of Jin-Roh to what actually happened in most countries when the Axis were defeated.

** The movie has managed to garner a following in Alt-Right circles because of the cool SS style armor design of the Protect Gear and myriad of Nazi German uniforms and weaponry seen throughout the film, despite the film's strongly anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist message.

!! The film:

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Compare the history in the world of Jin-Roh to what actually happened in most countries when the Axis were defeated.

!! Other works in the Kerberos saga:
* CrazyAwesome: Koichi Todome, the guy who always wears sunglasses.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Compare the history in the world of Jin-Roh to what actually in most countries when the Axis were defeated.

* MisaimedFandom: As cool as the Kerberos Corps is, most fans of the anime tend to forget that they're making Fuse as miserable as Public Security is.

* MisaimedFandom: As cool as the Wolf Brigade is, most fans of the anime tend to forget that they're making Fuse as miserable as the other government forces in the film are.

* TearJerker: Lots.
-->"Mother, what big claws you have! Mother, what big teeth you have!"