Wonderful character development!

It is a performances centric movie

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

well i won't explain what it is in the movie but it is a must watch for any person who loves intense thriller story...i guarantee you will love it....patience is required in for 70% of movie which will not make much sense but after that when events unfold one by one its....breath taking....out of thousand turns that story can take it takes the one that you will least predict... . . i watched it in subs which are better than dubbed.. . . and also the music is amazing especially the song at end....fits the sad love this movie contains..... i enjoy Japanese anime movies a lot and this sure is in top in its own category. different league..... dialogs will not make sense most of the time until the true story is unfolded in front of you.... for a moment i was afraid that it will end up like one of those complicated movies which u better not try to understand until your head aches and u conclude that movie was nothing but a big pile of s***t but this movie has a rather simple story presented in its unique way... the message is so strong that if i would have been in the field of police and special unit and related bureaucracy...i would have hugely influenced... first five lines are my review its just that to post a review it should be at least 10 lines so i am just extending the stuff here...sorry...but anyway awesome movie for me that is why 9/10 ...one point less cause it was getting a bit slow in between...

osb.: GiS = Ghost in the ShellI found this film to be a highly entertaining police thriller in the same vein as Ghost in the Shell in terms of characterization (of course, the premise was vastly different). It wasn't any timeless work of art and nothing compared to Miyazaki's output during the same period. To say that this was the best anime of the 1990's is ludicrous from my point of view: Ghibli alone made about 4-5 films better than this one in the decade, Ghost in the Shell is also a better film than this one.Overall, I would recommend this film to anime fans and fans of police thrillers but not film buffs in general.

The plot of Jin-Roh is set in a fictitious Tokyo, several years after the second World War. Violent combats between an anti-administration terrorist organization and the capital's para-military police rock the city over and over again. When Fuse, a member of the capital's police force, gets suspended after a young terrorist messenger blows herself up in front of his eyes, he tries to search for more information about her but gets mired in a secret power struggle between the administration and the capital's police force.The plot of "Jin-Roh" is so sophisticated, it can hardly be described without spoiling some very important facts. The movie then comes up with several stunningly surprising twists that one would hardly have anticipated. But despite, respectively, due to the movie's complexity, it is sometimes hard to follow properly the events and incidents. There are so many different organizations interacting and intriguing, which shall not mean, that the story is inconsistent. Rather are all relationships and hierarchies between the organizations (police, administration, ministries) brilliantly thought-out, but the fact that everybody seems to play off against one another, doesn't make it clear who belongs to whom until the end. I had to watch the movie twice, before realizing every aspect of the story. All this may sound like an ordinary political crime plot, but let me tell you, it is something totally unique. The plot's obscurity perfectly fits its grim atmosphere. The idea of a fictitious past is excellently illustrated by the streets and locations, that seem familiar, but at the same time totally strange.The movie's subjects about guilt, atonement and living with burden make it also pretty depressing, but at the same time, a special cinematic experience, due to its unique stylistic features, such as narrating the story of "Little Red Riding Hood and the evil wolf" during several scenes, which accurately fits the events in the movie itself.All in all, one of the greatest and most unique movies, that I have seen, Mamoru Oshii, once again, created a brilliant and intelligent plot, whose complexity sometimes really reminds oneself of Oshii's "Ghost in the shell". The movie's overwhelming picture language and music contribute to its excellence.

In the first ten minutes, the movie was able to hold my interest and it seemed as if it might be good, HOWEVER, it quickly devolved into a sad, warped, Red Riding Hood fairy-tale, with an occasional automatic weapon. Near the beginning of the movie, it seemed that the main character was on hallucinogenic drugs, which would have made the movie watchable had I had some. As the movie progressed, it became increasingly painful to watch and ridiculously overcomplicated. In Jin-Roh, they threw in what were supposed to be flash-backs, foreshadowing, dreams, or conflict of thoughts within the main character. However, they essentially lie to you about the whole situation since the main character doesn't even think those things to begin with, he knows exactly what's going on the whole time. The movie was ridiculous and it felt like it was at least 6 hours of my time wasted. I would give this a zero if I could.