The last thing you'll ever see before you die.
Picture a fusion of the oppressive, bleak atmosphere from Nineteen Eighty-Four and the alternate history setting of The Man in the High Castle, and you'll have an good idea of the frightening world that Jin-Roh presents.
- The Kerberos Unit themselves are an intimidating counter-terror unit clad in all black, bullet proof armor, German Stahlhelms, and armed to the teeth with MG42 machineguns. Their hellish gas masks are marked by a pair of bright red eyes that pierce through darkness.
- In the beginning, during the exposition that tells the backstory of the movie, we're shown 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 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 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 decide to shoot, they're 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 The Terminator.
- 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.
