

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
2006, Japanese. Directed by Tetsu Maeda.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 13 May 2006
- Original title
- 陽気なギャングが地球を回す
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kentaro Ushio, Tetsu Maeda, Takashi Hasegawa
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth runs 92 minutes (1h 32m).
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 13 May 2006. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth?
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Who directed A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth?
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006) was directed by Tetsu Maeda and stars Takao Osawa, Kyoka Suzuki, Koichi Sato.