Nearly a year since its local release last Spring from Toho, director Hajime Hashimoto‘s latest time crisis sci-fi crime thriller is now making way for a North American release with Signal: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit, on Blu-ray+DVD combo pack and digital download beginning March 15.
Presented by Shout! Factory and Eleven Arts and based in large part on the 2016 tVn drama of the same name, the film stars Kentaro Sakaguchi (Mask Ward), Kazuki Kitamura (The Battle: Roar To Victory) and Michiko Kichise (The Confidence Man JP: The Movie) from a script by Kosuke Nishi and Hirose Hayashi. It also features the title track, “Film Out” by international K-Pop sensation BTS, created in collaboration by BTS member Jungkook and back number lead vocalist, Iyori Shimizu, and produced by back number and UTA for Tiny Voice Production.
When officer Kento Saegusa (Kentaro Sakaguchi) picks up a dusty old police radio that’s about to be scrapped, it brings him into contact with Takeshi Oyama (Kazuki Kitamura). The two detectives, one from the past and one from the present, have worked together to solve countless cold cases. Now they’re back together once more!
Tokyo, 2021. A high-ranking government official is killed when his chauffeur loses control on an expressway. Saegusa suspects it was far from accidental. Meanwhile in 2009, parliamentary officials are dying in a succession of fatal car crashes. While the police write them off as accidents, Oyama is the only one convinced of foul play.
This time, Saegusa and Oyama are forced to go up against corruption in their own home: the police force. Will they finally reunite in the present?
