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Trailer for the upcoming Himitsu The Top Secret

Based on the manga series “Himitsu – Toppu Shiikuretto” by Reiko Shimizu (first published March, 1999 in Japanese shoujo manga “Melody”), the title has been also adapted into an anime series named Top Secret – The Revelation, by Madhouse.

Set in the late 21st century, an MRI scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science’s 9th Forensics Laboratory. The machine is able to scan the memories from even the deceased. As ethical questions arise over the machine’s use, the 9th Forensics Laboratory members, including rookie Ikko Aoki and Chief Tsuyoshi Maki, struggle to solve cases.

Keishi Otomo( Rurouni Kenshin trilogy) will direct  an ensemble cast, including Chiaki Kuriyama, Nao Omori, Tori Matsuzaka, Kippei Shiina and Lily Franky. The film will be released in August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddUF8zpDVE

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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