Crows Zero

Crows Zero
Directed byTakashi Miike
Screenplay byShōgo Mutō
Based onCrows
by Hiroshi Takahashi
Produced byMataichiro Yamamoto
StarringShun Oguri
Kyosuke Yabe
Takayuki Yamada
Shunsuke Daito
Meisa Kuroki
Tsutomu Takahashi
Goro Kishitani
CinematographyTakumi Furuya
Edited byShuichi Kakesu
Tomoki Nagasaka
Music byNaoki Otsubo
The Street Beats
Release date
  • October 27, 2007 (2007-10-27) (Japan)
Running time
129 min.
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$22,036,607[1]

Crows Zero (クローズZERO, Kurōzu Zero), also known as Crows: Episode 0 is a 2007 Japanese action film directed by Takashi Miike with a screenplay by Shōgo Mutō.[2] It is based on the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi and stars Shun Oguri, Kyōsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki and Takayuki Yamada. The plot serves as a prequel to the manga and focuses on the power struggle between gang of students at Suzuran All-Boys High School.[3]

Crows Zero was released in Japan on 27 October 2007 and became a commercial success. It has spawned two sequels titled Crows Zero 2 and Crows Explode as well as a manga adaptation released 13 November 2008.

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  2. ^ "Kurōzu Zero at Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 2013-11-25.
  3. ^ Tyler Lim. "Crows Zero (Kurozu Zero) (2007)". Archived from the original on 2008-06-14. Retrieved 2008-06-16.