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A formidable highlight for this year’s festival circuit, Kan Eguchi’s action comedy, The Fable, delivers a steady balance of the silly with purposeful action, story development, and palpable drama to boot. Clocking in at two hours and some change, it’s a sizeable enough template with actor Junichi Okada to absorb himself into a role layered enough to keep interesting during the film’s quieter moments. Some action fans might take umbrage some at this given much of the oddball comedy sampled in the trailers thusfar; I do posit that a good, fair viewing would defintiely change some opinions for what the film delivers during its runtime. Concordantly, you get a performance from Okada that further stipulates his gravitas as an actor – particularly one who happens to be skilled in martial arts himself, and it definitely shows. Eguchi’s The Fable takes its cues from Katsuhisa Minami’s 2014 manga of the same […]

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