Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Unfortunately the movie A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Tetsu Maeda | Director |
Camera | Hideo Yamamoto | Director of Photography |
Writing | Kentaro Ushio | Screenplay |
Writing | Tetsu Maeda | Screenplay |
Writing | Takashi Hasegawa | Screenplay |
Editing | Mototaka Kusakabe | Editor |
Art | Takashi Sasaki | Production Design |
Writing | Kotaro Isaka | Novel |