SPACE TRAVELERS is a comic thriller about three men (Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Masanobu Ando and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), orphans all,
who decide to rob a bank just before closing time to finance their
escape to a tropical paradise. Plans, as they often do, go south
and the trio ends up trapped in the locked-down bank with an
eclectic and eccentric collection of staff and customers, each of
whom corresponds to characters in an anime show adored by one
of the robbers (Ando, the psycho kid in BATTLE ROYALE). In short
order, the hostages realize their captors are actually misguided
losers and decide to help them out, adopting character names
from the anime and making the growing throngs of cops outside
think the gang is much bigger than it really is and, in the process,
discovering untapped potential and new senses of purpose in
their mundane lives. A fast-paced, often touching piece of work,
with extremely well-drawn characters.
Kaneshiro, Masanobu Ando and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi), orphans all,
who decide to rob a bank just before closing time to finance their
escape to a tropical paradise. Plans, as they often do, go south
and the trio ends up trapped in the locked-down bank with an
eclectic and eccentric collection of staff and customers, each of
whom corresponds to characters in an anime show adored by one
of the robbers (Ando, the psycho kid in BATTLE ROYALE). In short
order, the hostages realize their captors are actually misguided
losers and decide to help them out, adopting character names
from the anime and making the growing throngs of cops outside
think the gang is much bigger than it really is and, in the process,
discovering untapped potential and new senses of purpose in
their mundane lives. A fast-paced, often touching piece of work,
with extremely well-drawn characters.