'Japan' Movie Review: What's Good, What's Bad; Find Out From Viewers' Words

After 'Ponniyin Selvan: II', Karthi is back with his latest venture 'Japan', directed by Raju Murugan of 'Cuckoo' and 'Joker' fame.

The movie has Anu Emmanuel playing the female lead. Jithan Ramesh, KS Ravikumar, Sunil, Bava Chelladurai in the supporting roles. The movie has GV Prakash Kumar's music, Philomin Raj's editing and Ravi Varman's cinematography.

It is a heist action comedy film which revolves around notorious master thief who steals Rs 200 crore worth of jewels at a jewellery shop. It leads to an exhilarating cat-and-mouse pursuit between this morally ambiguous protagonist and the virtuous law enforcement.

It is reportedly inspired by an actual infamous thief associated with multiple robberies in Tamil Nadu. Will the thief manage to successfully escape? Answer to this question forms the crux of the story.

The movie has piqued a lot of interest with the teaser and trailer striking the chord with the viewers. With Raju Murugan's earlier movies winning the hearts of the viewers, people have high expectations from this movie.

Will it live up to the viewers' expectations? Find it out from the viewers' words:

Gokul_g: #Japan review: 1st half ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Fantastic establishment of Japan character and the heist followed by a terrific karthi anna dialogue interval block 💥
Comedy scenes worked well 😁so far
Into the second half which is curse to tamil cinema so far let's see

Darkroom: Good first half...
Average second half with too much emotional scenes..
Overall watchable in festival time..

Anand Mopoori: Excellent acting by Karthik excellent directoion and screen play

Movie Tamil: #JapanReview
Rating - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pure fun entertaining movie filled with full of action comedy with well crafted script. Outstanding performance from #Karthi amazing bgm with impressive cinematography and colour grading