Library Wars (2013)
Original title: 図書館戦争
Library Wars is a 2013 Japanese-language romance movie directed by Shinsuke Sato, with a running time of 2h 8m. It stars Junichi Okada, Nana Eikura and Chiaki Kuriyama.
Set in the year 2019 in Japan. In order to crack down on free expression, a new law is passed, which allows for the government to create an armed force to find and destroy objectionable printed material. Meanwhile, to oppose this oppressive crackdown, the Library Force is created. The Library force, including instructor Atsushi Dojo and Iku Kasahara, work to protect the libraries. A fierce battle then ensues between these two groups.
Cast
- Junichi Okada as Atsushi Dōjō
- Nana Eikura as Iku Kasahara
- Chiaki Kuriyama as Asako Shibasaki
- Kei Tanaka as Mikihisa Komaki
- Sota Fukushi as Hikaru Tezuka
- Kazuma Suzuki as Kenji Takeyama
- Koji Ishizaka as Iwao Nishina
- Jun Hashimoto as Ryusuke Kenta
- Naomi Nishida as Maki Orikuchi
- Ryōta Wada
- Ozuno Nakamura
- Nobuhiro Fukushima