The first few minutes of “The Sun Stands Still” are like something out of an anxiety dream. A Japanese agent in a foreign land has to dodge assailants while trying to check in with his employers, before they terminate his contract via a bomb implanted in his chest.
Anyone who’s spent the past year working remotely while dealing with overzealous bosses may find this hits a little too close to home.
Eiichiro Hasumi’s big-budget thriller, based on a series of novels by Shuichi Yoshida, follows the exploits of a pair of corporate spies who give literal meaning to the phrase “walking time bomb.” If they go offline for more than 24 hours during a mission, it’s assumed that they’ve been compromised, and they self-destruct.