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Pyrokinesis
The Japanese poster for
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png Cross Fire (2000)
Flagicon United States.png Pyrokinesis (DVD 2003)
See alternate titles
Directed by Shusuke Kaneko
Producer Toru Shibata, Toshiaki Harada, et al.
Written by Kota Yamada, Masahiro Yokotani, Shusuke Kaneko (screenplay);
Miyuki Miyabe (original stories)
Music by Kow Otani
Production company Toho Pictures
Distributor TohoJP; Tokyo Shock (DVD)US
Running time 115 minutes
(1 hour, 25 minutes)
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Pyrokinesis (クロスファイア,   Kurosufaia, lit. "Crossfire" or "Cross Fire"[a]) is a Japanese science fiction crime drama directed by Shusuke Kaneko and written by Kaneko, Kota Yamada, and Masahiro Yokotani based on Miyuki Miyabe's 1995 and 1998 novels Hatobue Grass and Crossfire. Produced by Toho Pictures, it features visual effects by Toshihiro Ogawa and stars Akiko Yada, Hideaki Ito, Hisashi Yoshizawa, and Masami Nagasawa. The film was released to Japanese theaters on June 10, 2000. Tokyo Shock later released it on DVD in America in 2003.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Akiko Yada   as   Junko Aoki, pyrokinetic serial killer
  • Hideaki Ito   as   Kazuki Tada, Aoki's coworker worker and love interest
  • Kaori Momoi   as   Detective Chikako Ishizu of the Teramachi Police Department
  • Ryuji Harada   as   Detective Yasuaki Makihara of the Teramachi Police Department
  • Masami Nagasawa   as   Kaori Kurata, psychic orphan girl
  • Yu Yoshizawa   as   Koichi Kido, member of the Guardians crime ring
  • Hidenori Tokuyama   as   Masaki Kogure, leader of serial killing gang
  • Toshiyuki Nagashima   as   Yoshihiro Hasegawa, chief of the Metropolian Police Department's crime division
  • Renji Ishibashi   as   Eiji Nosaka, chief of the Teramachi Police Department
  • Hirotaro Honda   as   Taizo Kogure, famous social commentator and Kogure's father
  • Maya Hamaoka   as   Yukie Tada, Tada's little sister
  • Saori Nakane   as   young Junko Aoki in flashback
  • Mariko Tsutsui   as   Miyuki Aoki, Aoki's mother in flashback
  • Yukijiro Hotaru   as   Toshimitsu Asaba, journalist for Kobunsha
  • Kensuke Miyaji   as   Ichiro Takada, member of Kogure's gang
  • Hideki Morimoto   as   Jiro Takada, member of Kogure's gang
  • Motohide Okawa   as   Hitoshi Kano, member of Kogure's gang
  • TOMO   as   Uesugi, member of Kogure's gang
  • Rumi Kusakabe   as   Natsuko Mita, Asaba's assistant
  • Kaoru Mizuki   as   Kanzaki, caretaker at Kurata's orphanage
  • Shosuke Tanihara   as   Yutaro Fujiki, Nosaka's subordinate
  • Hiromi Suzuki   as   Makihara's mother
  • Kansai Eto, Masahiko Sakata   as   police detectives
  • Miyuki Komatsu   as   policewoman
  • Daikichi Sugawara   as   orphanage worker
  • Ayako Fujitani, Hiromi Goto   as   restaurant waiters
  • Nanako Kaneko, Mie Sakai, Yuko Soda, Mizuki Kanno   as   Aoki's coworkers
  • Minoru Maebara   as   homeless man in park
  • Shinobu Nakayama   as   Saeki, editorial assistant
  • Kenji Mizuhashi   as   young staff member
  • Hiroyuki Miyasako   as   salesman
  • Hajime Yamazaki, Masahiro Komoto   as   men burning incense
  • Koichi Ueda   as   riot police commander
  • Shiro Namiki   as   police chief
  • Norman England   as   restaurant patron (uncredited)

Gallery

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Alternate titles

  • Crossfire (literal Japanese title)
    • Cross Fire (rendering used in marketing)

Video releases

Videos

Japanese trailer
Tokyo Shock DVD trailer
30-second Japanese trailer
30-second Japanese trailer

Notes

  1. ↑ The novel after which Pyrokinesis is named in Japan was translated into English by Kodansha as Crossfire. However, promotional materials for the movie render its title in English as Cross Fire.

References

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King Kong films
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Other Toho films
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Ramayana (1940s) • Invisible Man (1954) • Half Human (1955) • Rodan (1956) • The Mysterians (1957) • The H-Man (1958) • Varan (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • Battle in Outer Space (1959) • The Secret of the Telegian (1960) • The Human Vapor (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Last War (1961) • Gorath (1962) • Matango (1963) • Atragon (1963) • Dogora (1964) • Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) • The War of the Gargantuas (1966) • The Killing Bottle (1967) • Latitude Zero (1969) • Konto 55: The Great Outer Space Adventure (1969) • Space Amoeba (1970) • Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) • Submersion of Japan (1973) • ESPY (1974) • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) • The War in Space (1977) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)
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Miscellaneous
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • The Giant Behemoth (1959) • Gorgo (1961) • Bulgasari (1962) • Gogola (1966) • Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) • Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) • A*P*E (1976) • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) • Pulgasari (1985) • Reptilian (1999) • Cloverfield (2008) • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) • Colossal (2016) • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) • Rampage (2018) • Notzilla (2019) • untitled Cloverfield sequel (TBA)
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Pyrokinesis (2000) credits

The following is a transcript of the opening and end credits of Pyrokinesis, in both English and Japanese.

Opening credits

Toho Company, Limited


A Toho and TBS co-production


Produced by Toho Pictures, Inc.


Executive producers

Toru Shibata
Toshiaki Harada

Producers

Kazuhiko Seta
Hideyuki Honma
Kazuya Hamana
Setsuro Tagami


Screenplay by

Kota Yamada
Masahiro Yokotani
Shusuke Kaneko


Music by

Kow Otani

Theme song "The One Thing"

by Every Little Thing
(avex trax)


Original story by

Miyuki Miyabe


Directed by

Shusuke Kaneko


"PYROKINESIS"


Akiko Yada


Hideaki Ito


Ryuji Harada


Masami Nagasawa
(5th Toho Cinderella)


Yu Yoshizawa

Hidenori Tokuyama


Toshiyuki Nagashima


Kaori Momoi

東宝株式会社


東宝・TBS提携作品


製作　東宝映画


製作

柴田　徹
原田俊明

プロデューサー

瀬田一彦
本間英行
濱名一哉
田上節朗


脚本

山田耕大
横谷昌宏
金子修介


音楽

大谷　幸

主題歌「The One Thing」

Every Little Thing
(avex trax)


原作

宮部みゆき


監督

金子修介


クロスファイア


矢田亜希子


伊藤英明


原田龍二


長澤まさみ
（第5回東宝シンデレラ）


吉沢　悠

徳山秀典


永島敏行


桃井かおり

End credits

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