Hashire Melos! (movie)
Alternative title:
El Heroe Legendario (Spanish)
Run Melos!
走れメロス! (Japanese)
Themes:
historical
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
We are in Sicilia at the times of Magna Grecia. Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Siracusa, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends. After a while king's guardians arrest Melos, while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Siracusa's king, obsessed by the idea of anybody willing to kill him, sentence him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's ceremony, so he asks the king three more days to go to Messina for the celebration and then turning back to Siracusa where he will accept the death penalty. The king does not trust him, but, trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he'd escaped. The sculptor friend accept to be Melos' substitute in this case...
User Ratings:
50 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
107 minutes
Vintage:
1992-07-25
Premiere date:
1992-07-25 (Movie)
Ending Theme:
"そのままの君が好き" by Kazumasa Oda
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