Overview
In a world overrun by the undead, survival becomes a daily struggle against the horrors of a new reality.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- visceral
- tense
- darkly comic
- zombie movie night
- horror marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the energetic Japanese zombie adaptation for its inventive set pieces, graphic effects, and distinctive protagonist despite its familiar outbreak framework.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Hideo begins as a manga artist who questions his own perceptions, then must use a shotgun to survive the outbreak.
The film is adapted from a manga and follows a comic artist through a stylized zombie epidemic.
The initial victim rises despite a broken neck, establishing the film's disturbing physicality.
Hideo interprets the impossible traffic-accident aftermath as potentially another hallucination.
Films like I Am a Hero, and why
One Cut of the Dead
Japanese zombie horror with escalating survival peril and graphic undead attacks
Train to Busan
stylized zombie apocalypse horror balancing grotesque violence with human survival
World War Z
manga-derived post-apocalyptic action horror centered on ordinary people under extreme pressure
Movie Details
- Director
- Shinsuke Sato
- Release Date
- 2016-04-23
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 (534)
Cast
- Yo Oizumi
- Kasumi Arimura
- Masami Nagasawa
- Hisashi Yoshizawa
- Yoshinori Okada
- Yuu Tokui
- Nana Katase
- Makita Sports
- Muga Tsukaji
- Jin Katagiri
Common questions
- What is I Am a Hero about?
- A timid manga artist must trade his pencil for a shotgun when a bizarre epidemic turns Japan into a battlefield of grotesque undead.
- What is I Am a Hero like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of I Am a Hero as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is I Am a Hero violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in I Am a Hero as graphic.
- What did critics think of I Am a Hero?
- Critics broadly praised the energetic Japanese zombie adaptation for its inventive set pieces, graphic effects, and distinctive protagonist despite its familiar outbreak framework.
- Which films are like I Am a Hero?
- Films with a similar feel include One Cut of the Dead, Train to Busan, and World War Z.
- How long is I Am a Hero?
- I Am a Hero runs 126 minutes.
