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The movie itself focuses on Kazuki Fuse, who at the beginning of the film is sentenced for disobeying an order to kill a female suicide bomber in front of him. After a trial-by-committee, he’s used as a scapegoat and is forced into punitive retraining. Along the way, he meets a girl who claims to be the older sister of the girl who blew herself up in front of him earlier.

To go any further with the plot on my part would be spoiling an excellent movie. Even with all the references that one could try to take from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, this movie is actually referencing the older tale called ‘Red Cap’, which has Red visiting her mother instead of her grandmother. That tale, after reading it myself (and read word for word in the movie) is dark. The visuals back this up, with lighting only seemingly being in the daytime, and when gunfire erupts in the dark alleyways and sewers of this facist Japan.

Be warned- this is not for the faint of heart.