20th Century Boys 3: Redemption

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009) is the closing chapter of the Japanese sci-fi trilogy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi and adapted from Naoki Urasawa's celebrated manga series.

Friend's identity has been the trilogy's defining mystery — a masked prophet who engineered global catastrophe out of childhood games. This is where the curtain comes down. Toshiaki Karasawa leads the returning ensemble as the threads from 1969 and the millennial apocalypse finally converge. At 156 minutes, the film takes its time, and earns it.

Urasawa's manga ran to 22 volumes and is regarded as one of the genre's high points worldwide. The trilogy — shot back-to-back between 2007 and 2009 — was the most ambitious live-action manga adaptation Japanese cinema attempted in that decade. If you've watched parts one and two, this is the payoff. Stream 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009) online on iFILM.