A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2006 · 92 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Tetsu Maeda

Starring

Kyûsaku Shimada, Arata Furuta, Suzuki Matsuo, Ken Mitsuishi, Ren Osugi, Houka Kinoshita

Four strangers—a romantic talker, a human lie detector, a pickpocket, and a woman with a precise sense of timing—meet while stopping a bank robbery. Recognizing their combined talents, they form a bank‑robbing crew, making each heist sleek, like performance art. Their light‑hearted crime run stops when a figure from one member’s past appears, prompting extortion and double‑crosses.