MW is a 2009 Japanese live-action film based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka.
Starring:
- Hiroshi Tamaki as Michio Yuki
No relation to a fictional company called '''MW Industries'''.
This film provides examples of:
- Age Lift: Garai's backstory is changed from being a former gang member to a child survivor alongside Michio, making them around the same age.
- Damsel in Distress: Subverted when Aiko is collaborating with Michio all this time; therefore, she wasn't kidnapped in the first place. Double subverted when he kills her after her father got his money.
- Death by Adaptation: Subverted. Michio is presumed killed in the explosion of his jet, but in the end, he turns out to be alive.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Unlike in the manga, Garai attempts to betray Michio over to the police. He even joined with Sawaki in the end.
- Forced to Watch: Yamashita gets into this when Michio ties him up in a tower to make him watch the news of being framed for pilfering 100 million yen into his accounts.
- Karma Houdini: Subverted in the end when the last politician thought he'll get away, but with Michio's return, he won't.
- In the manga, Michio never attacks Garai, but in the movie, he does.
- No One Could Survive That!: In the movie, Michio is "killed" in an explosion of his jet, but is revealed to have survived in the end.
