Trick: The Movie
2002 · 119 min · ★ 6.6 · Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Written by Koji Makita
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Yukie Nakama Naoko Yamada -
Hiroshi Abe Jiro Ueda -
Katsuhisa Namase Kenzo Yabe - K Kazuki Maehara Tatsuya Ishihara
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Yoko Nogiwa Satomi Yamada -
Naoto Takenaka God No. 001 -
Bengal God No. 002 -
Renji Ishibashi God No. 003
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