K-20: Legend of the Mask

K-20: Legend of the Mask
Official Japanese film poster
Directed byShimako Satō
Screenplay byShimako Satō
Based onKaijin Nijū Mensō Den and Kaijin Nijū Mensō Den: Seidō no Majin
by Sō Kitamura
Produced byShūji Abe
Seiji Okuda
StarringTakeshi Kaneshiro
Takako Matsu
Tōru Nakamura
CinematographyKōzō Shibasaki
Edited byRyūji Miyajima
Music byNaoki Satō
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • December 20, 2008 (2008-12-20)
Running time
137 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeJP¥21,017,206
(US$21,443,265)[2]

K-20: Legend of the Mask (K-20 怪人二十面相・伝, Kē-Tuentī: Kaijin Nijū Mensō Den, literally "Legend of the Twenty-Faced Mysterious Person") is a 2008 Japanese action film written and directed by Shimako Satō and based on a novel by Sō Kitamura and its sequel. The film was released worldwide on December 20, 2008. Takeshi Kaneshiro and Takako Matsu portray a fictional role in the film. Tōru Nakamura and Kanata Hongo also starred in the film, just as Takeshi Kaga, Fumiyo Kohinata, Reiko Takashima, Toru Masuoka and Yuki Imai.

  1. ^ "Kē-Tuentī: Kaijin Nijū Mensō Den". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  2. ^ "K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces". Box Office Mojo.