Negotiator (2003 film)

Negotiator (交渉人, Kōshōnin) is a 2003 Japanese crime TV film directed by Takashi Miike.

Negotiator
Japanese poster
Based on	Kōshōnin by Takahisa Igarashi
Screenplay by	Kota Yamada
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
Production
Running time	107 minutes
Production companies	Excellent Film Wowow
Original release
Network	Wowow
Release	August 17, 2003 (2003-08-17)

Plot

Three man wearing motorcycle helmets rob a convenience store then abandon their vehicle outside a hospital. A group of people are taken hostage in the hospital and Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations. Ishida suggests allowing the three criminals to escape with three doctors as their hostages in order to let the other hostages go free. After this is done, Lt. Ado tries to understand the motive for the crime. He discovers that something else is behind the crime and that the hospital was not selected by chance.

Cast

• Hiroshi Mikami as Inspector Ishida
• Mayu Tsuruta as Capt. Maiko Tohno
• Shirō Sano as Lt. Ando
• Kenichi Endō as Convenience store clerk
• Masatō Ibu as Ishida's boss
• Renji Ishibashi as Counselor Kanemoto
• Kumi Nakamura as Mrs. Ishida
• Shigemitsu Ogi
• Oji Osuga
• Kenji Takechi as SAT
• Yōji Tanaka

Reception

Mubi Notebook's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky praised the film, writing, "It shouldn't be overlooked that Negotiator happens to be a very broadly entertaining film, and sometimes a conventionally accomplished one, just as it was intended to be." Todd Brown of Screen Anarchy wrote, "It has an admirable level of complexity for a commercial thriller but lacks some of the bang and dazzle that people often demand from this sort of film."

External links

• Negotiator at IMDb