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''The Returner'' is a 2002 Japanese science fiction/action film. It involves a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] named Miyamoto (Creator/TakeshiKaneshiro) who finds himself helping a girl called Milly who [[TimeTravel came back in time from the future]] to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of aliens.
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind to Earth. They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind to Earth. They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
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''The Returner'' is a 2002 Japanese science fiction/action film. film.
It involves a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] named Miyamoto (Creator/TakeshiKaneshiro) who finds himself helping a girl called Milly who [[TimeTravel came back in time from the future]] to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of aliens.
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind toEarth. Earth.
They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
It involves a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] named Miyamoto (Creator/TakeshiKaneshiro) who finds himself helping a girl called Milly who [[TimeTravel came back in time from the future]] to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of aliens.
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind to
They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
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''The Returner'' is a 2002 Japanese science fiction/action film. It involves a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] named Miyamoto (Creator/TakeshiKaneshiro) who finds himself helping a girl called Milly who [[TimeTravel came back in time from the future]] to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of aliens.
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'''The Returner''' is a 2002 Japanese science fiction/action film. It involves a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] named Miyamoto who finds himself helping a girl called Milly who [[TimeTravel came back in time from the future]] to prevent humanity's destruction at the hands of aliens.
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind to Earth. They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
!!Tropes in this Film:
* ActionGirl: Milly
* AlienInvasion: The Daggra have attacked and destroyed almost all of Earth in a conflict decades long.
* AntiHero: Miyamoto is [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type IV]]. [[PayEvilUntoEvil He's ruthless towards his enemies]] and initially he doesn't care much about anything other than his {{Revenge}}.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Milly's bracelet.
* AxeCrazy: Mizoguchi
* BadassBiker: Miyamoto
* BadassInANiceSuit: Mizoguchi, also Miyamoto's "disguise".
* BadassLongcoat: Miyamoto
* BittersweetEnding
* BloodKnight: Mizoguchi drools at the possibility of a war.
* BulletCatch: [[spoiler: subverted [[InertiaIsACruelMistress Mizoguchi catches the bullet and it goes right through his hand and into his head.]]]]
* BulletTime: Milly's bracelet allows her to dodge bullets.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Miyamoto finally confronts Mizoguchi about the latter kidnapping Miyamoto's childhood friend to harvest his organs, Mizoguchi at first apathetically retorts that he doesn't recall that day.
* CardCarryingVillain: Mizoguchi.
* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: PocketProtector]]
** [[spoiler: Milly herself]] also counts, since [[spoiler: her future self saves Miyamoto's life.]]
* ChildSoldiers: Milly grew up in a war zone.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Cool the bad guys just blew up! Lets sit here and watch the pretty fireball from a few feet away!
* CoolOldLady: Shi
* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler: Miyamoto's best friend was kidnapped and killed by Mizoguchi. Also Milly's little brother was killed in front of her during the war.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: When attempting to rescue the alien child. The war with the aliens is supposed to begin at dawn and it seems that they're already too late...]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Mizoguchi]], in a particularly absurd way.
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: when Milly seems to fade out of existence.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: One alien is killed so they decide to wipe out the entire human race.]]
* DistressBall: [[spoiler: Milly picks it up in the middle of rescuing the alien.]]
* TheDragon: Mizoguchi, who starts as a hitman for the Chinese Triad, [[TheStarscream but kills his leader and takes over.]]
** DragonAscendant
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Mizoguchi gets real excited about the power he'll get out of all that alien tech.
* ExplosiveLeash: Milly plants a bomb on Miyamoto to work for her. [[spoiler: subverted, it's not a bomb, it's a magnetic medicinal patch that she made him THINK was a bomb through some sleight of hand.]]
* [[spoiler: FalseEnding]]: [[spoiler: The movie makes you think that Miyamoto was killed after it was all over. He wasn't.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Mizoguchi
* GenkiGirl: Milly
* GlassesPull: Miyamoto, ''Series/CSIMiami''-style.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
* GratuitousEnglish: [[LargeHam "POWER!"]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler: Milly manipulates Miyamoto into working for her by making him think she's attached a bomb to his neck.]]
* TheHandler: Shi, an old lady who provides Miyamoto with information and weapons.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Miyamoto
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler: [[{{Anvilicious}} Anvilliciously]] so-in the original timeline it was humans being greedy assholes that resulted in the death of an alien child that started the war. [[DisproportionateRetribution Still wiping out an entire species for that]] [[AliensAreBastards is kind of a dick move.]]]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: to further establish himself as a [[KickTheDog professional dog kicker]] Mizoguchi gropes the female scientist.
* ImplacableMan: Mizoguchi
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Mizoguchi towards Miyamoto. "Who is that kid?"
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: see the spoiler in RealityEnsues.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Miyamoto. Also Shi.
* LimpAndLivid: Mizoguchi after Miyamoto blew up his villain lair.
* LargeHam: Mizoguchi and Miyamoto
* MasochistsMeal: Mizoguchi shows he's a tough guy at his meeting with the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triads]] by eating his lobster-shell and all.
* {{Mooks}}: Mizoguchi has an army of FacelessMooks in riot gear.
* MoralityPet: Milly becomes this for Miyamoto.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Shi isn't typically a given name in Japan because one of the possible meanings is "death."
* NeverMessWithGranny: Shi, [[spoiler: or she'll leave a bomb on your car.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was actually [[spoiler: killing the stranded alien]] that caused the war.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Mizoguchi shoots Milly in the shoulder as "a warning."
* TheOnlyOne: [[spoiler: Milly finds herself being the only hope for human kind when the soldiers who were actually given the mission to go back in time were blown to bits.]]
* OrganTheft: [[spoiler: Why Mizoguchi is rounding up street children.]]
* ParanoiaGambit: [[spoiler: Milly convinces Miyamoto that she's attached a bomb to his neck.]]
* PocketProtector
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Mizoguchi]]
* RealityEnsues: when [[spoiler: Mizoguchi attempts to perform a BulletCatch - while he's fast enough to catch the bullet [[InertiaIsACruelMistress it still goes right through his hand and into his head.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: as soon as Miyamoto decides he wants to quit being an assassin [[LaserGuidedKarma he's gunned down by a gangster he crippled earlier in the movie.]] Subverted, he's saved by Milly putting a PocketProtector in his coat.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Miyamoto has wanted to kill Mizoguchi ever since he was a child and Mizoguchi kidnapped and killed his best friend for his organs.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Milly goes back in time to stop the war.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Mizoguchi
* [[spoiler: StableTimeLoop]]: [[spoiler: This turns out to be what is going on, though even Milly didn't realize it]].
* StreetUrchin: Miyamoto grew up as one.
* StuffBlowingUp
* SuperReflexes: Mizoguchi is fast enough to catch a bullet... [[spoiler: [[RealityEnsues not that it does him much good.]]]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[RunningGag "Al Dente!"]]
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* {{Troperiffic}}: The film is like ten different films smashed together and it comes out as an interesting and convoluted plot... with explosions.
* UnknownRival: initially Miyamoto to Mizoguchi. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Miyamoto is in the middle of his spectacularly well-planned revenge killing his way through Mizoguchi's men when the plot happens.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Mizoguchi- when Miyamoto escapes from him, he throws a tantrum and orders his men to blow everything up.
* WakeUpFighting: Miyamoto nearly shoots Milly with his PillowPistol when she wakes him.
* WigDressAccent: Miyamoto and Milly's "disguise" is to dress nice and wear CoolShades.
* XMeetsY: ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' meets ''The {{Terminator}}'' meets ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' meets ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' meets ''Manga/DeathNote'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' meets ''Film/IndependenceDay'' meets ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' meets [[{{Troperiffic}} the kitchen sink...]]
* {{Yakuza}}
* YouTasteDelicious: Mizoguchi licks a female scientist... [[SexIsEvil to assert]] [[{{Squick}} his dominance.]]
Miyamoto meets her by accident when he shoots her while trying to kill Mizoguchi, a member of The Triads who killed his best friend years before to sell his organs in the BlackMarket. Luckily, she is saved from the bullet by [[PocketProtector a piece of metal she was carrying in her pocket]]. When she tells her story, he doesn't believe her, until she shows him a future device that allows her to [[BulletTime move fast enough to dodge bullets]]. Then she gets him to help her to find an alien who will summon the rest of its kind to Earth. They find it in a scientific research facility, but when she realizes it doesn't look like the future invaders, she hesitates in killing it, which allows Mizogushi, who found out about the hidden UFO, to steal the alien and the ship. Miyamoto and Milly must then work together to recover the alien before the space war can be triggered.
!!Tropes in this Film:
* ActionGirl: Milly
* AlienInvasion: The Daggra have attacked and destroyed almost all of Earth in a conflict decades long.
* AntiHero: Miyamoto is [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes type IV]]. [[PayEvilUntoEvil He's ruthless towards his enemies]] and initially he doesn't care much about anything other than his {{Revenge}}.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Milly's bracelet.
* AxeCrazy: Mizoguchi
* BadassBiker: Miyamoto
* BadassInANiceSuit: Mizoguchi, also Miyamoto's "disguise".
* BadassLongcoat: Miyamoto
* BittersweetEnding
* BloodKnight: Mizoguchi drools at the possibility of a war.
* BulletCatch: [[spoiler: subverted [[InertiaIsACruelMistress Mizoguchi catches the bullet and it goes right through his hand and into his head.]]]]
* BulletTime: Milly's bracelet allows her to dodge bullets.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Miyamoto finally confronts Mizoguchi about the latter kidnapping Miyamoto's childhood friend to harvest his organs, Mizoguchi at first apathetically retorts that he doesn't recall that day.
* CardCarryingVillain: Mizoguchi.
* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: PocketProtector]]
** [[spoiler: Milly herself]] also counts, since [[spoiler: her future self saves Miyamoto's life.]]
* ChildSoldiers: Milly grew up in a war zone.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Cool the bad guys just blew up! Lets sit here and watch the pretty fireball from a few feet away!
* CoolOldLady: Shi
* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler: Miyamoto's best friend was kidnapped and killed by Mizoguchi. Also Milly's little brother was killed in front of her during the war.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: When attempting to rescue the alien child. The war with the aliens is supposed to begin at dawn and it seems that they're already too late...]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Mizoguchi]], in a particularly absurd way.
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: when Milly seems to fade out of existence.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: One alien is killed so they decide to wipe out the entire human race.]]
* DistressBall: [[spoiler: Milly picks it up in the middle of rescuing the alien.]]
* TheDragon: Mizoguchi, who starts as a hitman for the Chinese Triad, [[TheStarscream but kills his leader and takes over.]]
** DragonAscendant
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Mizoguchi gets real excited about the power he'll get out of all that alien tech.
* ExplosiveLeash: Milly plants a bomb on Miyamoto to work for her. [[spoiler: subverted, it's not a bomb, it's a magnetic medicinal patch that she made him THINK was a bomb through some sleight of hand.]]
* [[spoiler: FalseEnding]]: [[spoiler: The movie makes you think that Miyamoto was killed after it was all over. He wasn't.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Mizoguchi
* GenkiGirl: Milly
* GlassesPull: Miyamoto, ''Series/CSIMiami''-style.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking
* GratuitousEnglish: [[LargeHam "POWER!"]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler: Milly manipulates Miyamoto into working for her by making him think she's attached a bomb to his neck.]]
* TheHandler: Shi, an old lady who provides Miyamoto with information and weapons.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Miyamoto
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler: [[{{Anvilicious}} Anvilliciously]] so-in the original timeline it was humans being greedy assholes that resulted in the death of an alien child that started the war. [[DisproportionateRetribution Still wiping out an entire species for that]] [[AliensAreBastards is kind of a dick move.]]]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: to further establish himself as a [[KickTheDog professional dog kicker]] Mizoguchi gropes the female scientist.
* ImplacableMan: Mizoguchi
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Mizoguchi towards Miyamoto. "Who is that kid?"
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: see the spoiler in RealityEnsues.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Miyamoto. Also Shi.
* LimpAndLivid: Mizoguchi after Miyamoto blew up his villain lair.
* LargeHam: Mizoguchi and Miyamoto
* MasochistsMeal: Mizoguchi shows he's a tough guy at his meeting with the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triads]] by eating his lobster-shell and all.
* {{Mooks}}: Mizoguchi has an army of FacelessMooks in riot gear.
* MoralityPet: Milly becomes this for Miyamoto.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Shi isn't typically a given name in Japan because one of the possible meanings is "death."
* NeverMessWithGranny: Shi, [[spoiler: or she'll leave a bomb on your car.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was actually [[spoiler: killing the stranded alien]] that caused the war.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Mizoguchi shoots Milly in the shoulder as "a warning."
* TheOnlyOne: [[spoiler: Milly finds herself being the only hope for human kind when the soldiers who were actually given the mission to go back in time were blown to bits.]]
* OrganTheft: [[spoiler: Why Mizoguchi is rounding up street children.]]
* ParanoiaGambit: [[spoiler: Milly convinces Miyamoto that she's attached a bomb to his neck.]]
* PocketProtector
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Mizoguchi]]
* RealityEnsues: when [[spoiler: Mizoguchi attempts to perform a BulletCatch - while he's fast enough to catch the bullet [[InertiaIsACruelMistress it still goes right through his hand and into his head.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: as soon as Miyamoto decides he wants to quit being an assassin [[LaserGuidedKarma he's gunned down by a gangster he crippled earlier in the movie.]] Subverted, he's saved by Milly putting a PocketProtector in his coat.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Miyamoto has wanted to kill Mizoguchi ever since he was a child and Mizoguchi kidnapped and killed his best friend for his organs.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Milly goes back in time to stop the war.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Mizoguchi
* [[spoiler: StableTimeLoop]]: [[spoiler: This turns out to be what is going on, though even Milly didn't realize it]].
* StreetUrchin: Miyamoto grew up as one.
* StuffBlowingUp
* SuperReflexes: Mizoguchi is fast enough to catch a bullet... [[spoiler: [[RealityEnsues not that it does him much good.]]]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[RunningGag "Al Dente!"]]
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* {{Troperiffic}}: The film is like ten different films smashed together and it comes out as an interesting and convoluted plot... with explosions.
* UnknownRival: initially Miyamoto to Mizoguchi. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Miyamoto is in the middle of his spectacularly well-planned revenge killing his way through Mizoguchi's men when the plot happens.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Mizoguchi- when Miyamoto escapes from him, he throws a tantrum and orders his men to blow everything up.
* WakeUpFighting: Miyamoto nearly shoots Milly with his PillowPistol when she wakes him.
* WigDressAccent: Miyamoto and Milly's "disguise" is to dress nice and wear CoolShades.
* XMeetsY: ''Film/TheMatrix'' meets ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' meets ''The {{Terminator}}'' meets ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' meets ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' meets ''Manga/DeathNote'' meets ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' meets ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' meets ''Film/IndependenceDay'' meets ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' meets [[{{Troperiffic}} the kitchen sink...]]
* {{Yakuza}}
* YouTasteDelicious: Mizoguchi licks a female scientist... [[SexIsEvil to assert]] [[{{Squick}} his dominance.]]
