The Red Spectacles

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The Red Spectacles
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Directed by	Mamoru Oshii
Written by	Kazunori Itō Mamoru Oshii
Based on	Characters created by Mamoru Oshii
Produced by	Shigeharu Shiba Daisuke Hayashi
Starring	Shigeru Chiba Machiko Washio Hideyuki Tanaka
Cinematography	Yosuke Mamiya
Edited by	Seiji Morita
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Distributed by	Omnibus Promotion
Release date	February 7, 1987 (1987-02-07)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡, Akai Megane) is a 1987 Japanese surrealist science fiction neo-noir film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyodo. The first film in Oshii's Kerberos Saga, but the second installment overall after its radio drama companion piece While Waiting for the Red Spectacles (which aired a month prior), the film follows Kōichi Todome, a former police detective who, after fleeing Japan following a failed rebellion by his dissolved unit, returns several years later per a promise to his colleagues, only to find Tokyo completely unrecognizable and increasingly strange and surreal.

The Red Spectacles was released on February 7, 1987. It would be followed by several works intended to explain and expand the film's universe, the most notable of them being Kerberos Panzer Cop. The film was followed by two prequels—StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops in 1991, and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade in 1999—that adapted the established stories and settings from Kerberos Panzer Cop.