Human Trust
Japanese name
Kanji	人類資金
Directed by	Junji Sakamoto
Written by	Junji Sakamoto Harutoshi Fukui
Produced by	Yukiko Shii
Starring	Kōichi Satō Mirai Moriyama Alisa Mizuki Shingo Katori Yoo Ji-tae Vincent Gallo Tatsuya Nakadai
Cinematography	Norimichi Kasamatsu
Edited by	Ryo Hayano
Music by	Goro Yasukawa
Production company	Kino Films
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19) (Japan)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese English Russian Thai
Box office	$3,547,836[1]

Human Trust (人類資金, Jinrui Shikin) is a 2013 Japanese suspense film directed by Junji Sakamoto, starring Kōichi Satō, Mirai Moriyama, Alisa Mizuki, Shingo Katori, Yoo Ji-tae, Vincent Gallo, and Tatsuya Nakadai. It was filmed in Japan, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.^[2]

Plot

In 2014, Yuichi Mafune (Kōichi Satō), a confidence man, is hired by "M" (Shingo Katori) to steal 10 trillion yen from the M Fund and use it for humanitarian assistance to the Third World. Harold Marcus (Vincent Gallo), an investment banker, sends Osamu Endo (Yoo Ji-tae), an assassin, to stop them.

Cast

• Kōichi Satō as Yuichi Mafune
• Mirai Moriyama as Seki Yukit
• Alisa Mizuki as Miyuki Takato
• Shingo Katori as Nobuto "M" Sasakura
• Tatsuya Nakadai as Nobuhiko Sasakura
• Vincent Gallo as Harold Marcus
• Yoo Ji-tae as Osamu Endo
• Etsushi Toyokawa as Harry Endo
• Ittoku Kishibe as Kazuyoshi Honjo
• Joe Odagiri as Eiji Kugenuma
• Susumu Terajima as Tadashi Sakata
• Renji Ishibashi as Detective Kitamura

Reception

Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review, saying: "Technically the film is competent if unremarkable and the (occasionally wooden) cast does what it can with the material, which forces them all to swing wildly between melodramatic thriller mode and standard action hero antics".^[3] Meanwhile, Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave it 2 out of 5 stars, saying: "Even stranger is the climax, which features a lengthy speech that makes Charlie Chaplin's famous peroration in The Great Dictator seem like a model of compression and restraint. Chaplin at least had the excuse of railing against Nazism. Sakamoto and Fukui are simply guilty of equating real-world politics with high school speech contests."^[4]