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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume

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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume	comment	City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume (Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon) is a French action comedy and a Live-Action Adaptation of the City Hunter anime and manga directed by and starring Philippe Lacheau. It was released in February 2019. The story is like a classic City Hunter anime episode, and the film is titled Nicky Larson in French after the Protagonist Title of the (more comedic) French dub version of the anime that aired in The '90snote Ryo Saeba is then named "Nicky Larson", Kaori is named "Laura", Saeko is named "HÃ©lÃ¨ne" and UmibÃ´zu is named "Mammouth". As such, the film is heavy with nostalgia for what French fans call the "Club DorothÃ©e era", Lacheau being a part of that generation himself.note The Club DorothÃ©e was a TV show that introduced a whole generation of French children to Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series like Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Saint Seiya, Ranma Â½, Sailor Moon, Choudenshi Bioman, and of course City Hunter — albeit with heavy censorship and many a Dub Name Change, inconsistencies and hilarious voices at the time. A client, Mr. Letellier, hires the City Hunter duo to protect the so-called "Perfume of Cupid". When Ryo doubts the perfume's effect, his client (a man in his 60s) uses it on himself and makes Ryo smell it. The effect is almost instantaneous, Ryo falls in love with his client and gradually loses interest in women. Worse, Umibozu barges in and steals the perfume with the countermeasure in it, but the two chemicals then end up in the hands of an unrelated civilian named Mr. Skippy in the ensuing scuffle. To fulfill his job and return to his normal self, Ryo must then follow Skippy's trail as the latter quickly discovers the potential of the perfume. Hilarity Ensues as well as badassery and drama.Lacheau has talked about his ideas for a sequel project, which could be a crossover with another famous Tsukasa Hojo creation, Cat's Eye. He also had a hand in importing the contemporary anime film City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes in France.For the 1993 film starring Jackie Chan, see City Hunter.Although in its native language the movie uses the names of the bowdlerised French dub of the anime in the late 1980s/early 1990s, this page will use the Japanese names for the sake of clarity.The movie got a Japanese release in November 2019 under the name City Hunter - The Movie: The Most Aromatic Mission in History.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Mr. Skippy and Poncho are major characters who aren't in the original series, obviously created so as to star alongside Lacheau again after their previous successful comedy team-ups.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: In the final fight, Mr. Skippy uses a leaf blower to shoot... live ducklings at mooks. In slo-mo. With a long close-up on the poor flying duckling. It actually somehow manages to work.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: There's lots of action, and relatively low fatalities but not much actual blood. That guy whose head is blown off should have been much messier.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: The Cupid's perfume. If sprayed on someone, anyone who smells it will fall in love with the user not long after; the attraction is near instantaneous and will stick if the antidote is not applied in the following 48 hours. Moreover, one can spot if someone is under the effects of the Cupid's perfume by their reddish eyes. Finally it's revealed that the perfume doesn't work for someone who's already in love with the user, as Kaori happily learns.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Twice from Mr. Mokkori, the mayor, early in the movie. While he is unconscious.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: When Ryo arrives at the gala, the orchestra is playing a remix of the Nicky Larson theme from the French dub of the anime — and the singer is Jean-Paul CÃ©sari, the original interpret of the song. The chorus would cause someinvoked Fridge Logic within the movie's context since it repeats "Nicky Larson" several times, but these parts are always covered by the dialogue.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The infamous trailers undersell the City Hunter license and focus a lot more on the Poncho and Mr. Skippy characters, obviously aiming for the mainstream French audience and more playing on the success of the director/actors's previous comedy films.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: There's an appearance of FrÃ©dÃ©rique HoschedÃ©, better known as "DorothÃ©e", as an airport employee. She was the host of the late 1980s/early 1990s show Club DorothÃ©e, which featured the dubbed City Hunter anime on French TV (as "Nicky Larson") and contributed to the familiarization of French audiences with anime in general (albeit with very bizarre, comical or nonsensical French dubs).
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: As well as a Shout-Out. Ryo has put a painting in his bathroom, one that shows a "Chevalier du Zodiac" (in English, a knight on an inflatable dinghy). It's a visual pun in reference to Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque, the invokedFrench title of Saint Seiya when it was first broadcast in France in the Club DorothÃ©e show, which the movie homages here and there.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1ce83c47	type	Marshmallow Hell
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1ce83c47	comment	Marshmallow Hell: Mr. Skippy's mother-in-law, after falling in love with him thanks to the perfume. She removes her top and stuff his head in her breasts.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: The trio of top-models Skippy has used the perfume on see Skippy with Jessica Fox. Jealous, they throw a lobster at her and take her out.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: There are cameos of Jean-Paul CÃ©sari (the singer of the French dub's opening) as the gala singer, and Vincent Ropion (Ryo's French voice) as a TV journalist.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_20860a0e	comment	Ryo describes Umibozu as a Punch-Clock Villain. In the climax, he's talked Umibozu into a Heelâ€“Face Turn by convincing him that they had both been played by the Big Bad.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_212a8182	type	Attractiveness Discrimination
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_212a8182	comment	Attractiveness Discrimination: Skippy regularly abuses the Cupid's perfume to get better client service and secure his path to his idol Jessica Fox. He uses the perfume to seduce an airport clerk to get a flight to Monaco, gets three top models to push his car to the hotel and is implied to get a room at a full hotel thanks to it.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Ryo cannot help himself in front of beautiful women. Self-admitted.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Ryo lifts Kaori's skirt to reveal a thigh-level holster, and pulls it out and starts blasting. He had infamously done the same thing in the anime (although with Saeko instead), as seen here.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The cameo from Vincent Ropion, the original French voice of Ryo in Nicky Larson, is a journalist named Jean-Michel Lavoix ("the voice").
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2e03fb64	type	Embarrassing Slide
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2e03fb64	comment	Apparently Ryo underwent therapy for his sex addiction, not helped at all by the therapist having an Embarrassing Slide in his Rorschach blot slideshow, showing him trying out archery in a nudist camp. Later, Ryo tracks down Umibozu, after he grabbed the Cupid's Perfume, into a hospital, where he meets the therapist again... only now he's a patient. With an arrow in his ass.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: After Ryo free himself from the kidnappers during The Oner, "FOOTSTEPS" play and he kicks all their asses.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Umibozu, for good reasons. Lacheau told the actor to not react to anything, like The Terminator.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Ryo is sometimes this and sometimes just a Handsome Lech. The "chivalrous" part is mainly when he's getting serious. He also WON'T let women harm/kill others, his reasoning being he doesn't want their hands to get soiled like his hands did.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_322d19f4	comment	Abandoned Warehouse: Ryo is summoned by the Black Hand in an abandoned factory where Kaori is held hostage in exchange for the perfume and which becomes the battlefield of the climax.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: After she's kidnapped by the bad guys, Kaori wears an explosive belt that will explode if she tries to remove it or exit the facility. As they try to exit anyway, Ryo removes the belt by force and pushes Kaori out of the facility anyway, closing the door shut. Kaori is left as a broken sobbing mess as Ryo emotionessly stays behind. Poncho and Mr. Skippy takes her away as the facility explodes.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Hideyuki was killed on Kaori's birthday. It's also Mr Skippy's birthday when he find the perfume and get assaulted by his mother-in-law.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_355bc288	type	Lingerie Scene
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_355bc288	comment	Lingerie Scene: Plenty at the gala with gorgeous models, since it's sponsored by a lingerie brand. Ryo even wanders into their dressing room, but he's too affected by Cupid's perfume at this point to care about the scantily clad women. Kaori too ends up in her underwear after a Stripping Snag from an elevator, and is mistaken for one of the lingerie models by guests, to her acute embarrassment.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Kaori, of course. She gets mistaken for a guy in her casual men's clothes, but is revealed to be gorgeous in a red dress.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: What Kaori lives at the party (first a session of lie detector, then the Moment of Silence described below), makes her realize (or at least, stop denying) her feelings for Ryo.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Ryo fakes his death because he expected the Black Hand to reveal themselves if he were to die, too afraid to face him. He actually does slip up in front of the grave and Ryo reveals himself once he does.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_3e45e111	comment	Poster Patchup: Ryo hangs a painting titled "Le Chevalier du Zodiac" in their bathroom to hide to Kaori the fact that he pierced a hole in the wall to peep on a next-door woman showering.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_44671409	type	You Have 48 Hours
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_44671409	comment	You Have 48 Hours: The time it takes for the Cupid's Perfume effect to become permanent.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4548e6d9	type	Innocent Bystander
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4548e6d9	comment	Innocent Bystander: Both Poncho and Mr. Skippy. Poncho is a victim of the perfume when Ryo attempts to test it on Kaori. Kaori is then given the task to make one man fall in love with her. Said man ends up being Poncho. Mr. Skippy ends up taking the perfume's briefcase, mistaking it for his own, kickstarting the plot of the movie.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: All of the featured characters are made fun of at their expenses. Umibozu falls in one of Ryo's mean traps. Grab a man's penis when trying to take his gun, is knocked out by Kaori when fighting Ryo after she used a syringe with a general anesthetic on him. Then Ryo puts him on in a bed in line for plastic surgery. Next time we see him, he gets all his "bottom" hair removed by laser surgery. He's not happy about this after. Mr. Mokkori, the mayor of the fictional city where the characters lives. He gets punched in the dick multiple times, gets disfigured by needles. Is defenestrated naked and lands on a bus while unconscious. The next time we see him, he gives an interview with a very ugly and disfigured face. Poncho is usually on the receiving end of jokes and punchlines. Ryo and Kaori try to get rid of him at every possible occasion. One of the Black Hand mooks go through more than a few Amusing Injuries, including being dangled by his underwear during the P.O.V. view fight or thrown out of a car (in slo-mo) and slamming into a billboard. And at the end he's the one to get the bomb belt around his waist, which he doesn't notice until it's too late and he already walked outside the factory. Boom.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Poncho confesses his love to Kaori through a bathroom door, only for the door to open and reveal a very disturbed kid threatening to tell his father what just happened. To escape retribution, Poncho throws a food cart at the kid.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: Half into the movie, Ryo is injected with a very effective truth serum. He always answer truthfully to any question without lying. Hilarity Ensues After Ryo kicks the truth serum's syringe at one of the bad guys, he too can't tell a lie to save his life. He accidentally reveals that he's a mole for the cops and that he was having sex with his colleague's sister — at which point they start fighting each other, allowing Ryo to escape and kick their asses.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Ryo first blasts the Black Hand boss's gun after he fires on Kaori and hits Mrs. Skippy, but the latter refuses to surrender and throws them a grenade. Ryo later blasts the Black Hand's gun out of his hand, from hundreds of meters away, through a concrete wall and by shooting several times at the same spot to get through it.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_526cacaa	type	Murphy's Bed
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_526cacaa	comment	Murphy's Bed: When Mr. Skippy's mother-in-law gets all amorous toward him because of the perfume, he finally pushes the grabby woman away and she falls on the fold-down bed, which immediately retracts in the wall, her feet still sticking out.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon to the Black Hand subboss is a heavily tattooed lady.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: While Ryo and Kaori wait for their client, they remember the tragic death of Makimura, Ryo's best friend and Kaori's brother.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Kaori takes insult at Ryo for not even trying to seduce her. Her brother made clear to Ryo that he didn't want him to even try.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5b0a14b1	type	Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5b0a14b1	comment	Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: The movie's crew didn't have the money to film the movie in Japan and it would lead to strange things — a movie full of French-speaking French living in Japan. So the movie was shot in France but the city in which the characters lives is made to look like Tokyo via careful selection of the sets. But the last part of the movie references southern France. So it does happen in France but doesn't look like Paris at all.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5b7e0d2d	type	Go Fetch
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5b7e0d2d	comment	The Black Hand boss has a dog he always plays fetch with. He is then Hoist by His Own Petard when he throws a grenade but the dog gives it back to him all the same.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5d9b8c3a	type	Femme Fatale Spy
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Femme Fatale Spy: The driver who greets Ryo and Kaori at their arrival at the airport, on their way to locate Mr. Skippy. She locks them in the car, leaving them to be crushed in a car compressor.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5eb92325	comment	Declaration of Protection: During the climax, Ryo gives a machine gun to Kaori. Ryo reveals he swore to Makimura that he would protect her.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5ee26f31	type	Adaptation Amalgamation
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_5ee26f31	comment	Adaptation Amalgamation: It seems like Philippe Lacheau watched and read City Hunter completely and took story elements from all over the manga, anime and French dub.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: In part as a nod to the French dub of the anime localizing everything down to the setting of the original version of the anime, and because the budget wouldn't allow it, the movie is entirely set in France and not in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Ryo's antics are really crazy but he's one of the best sweepers, able to take a small army of goons thanks to his guns.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Ryo shoots the biker who first steals the perfume, "City Hunter" is written on the bullet.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Ryo has promised to protect Kaori at all cost and the movie show that he's willing to lay down for her. Kaori is strapped to a bomb belt which will go off if she takes it for too long and gets out of the factory she's in. Cornered by henchmen and out of bullets, Ryo takes out Kaori's belt, puts it on after forcing Kaori to safety, and prepares to meet his doom. It is then revealed that Umibozu saved him and he faked his death to trap the final bad guy.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: It's obvious by the time the credits rolls that Ryo and Kaori love each other. But they never say it out loud.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Umibozu is every bit the behemoth of a man is he in the original material. He shrugs off Ryo's punches, No-Sell a defibrillator and always comes back to hunt down Ryo and get the perfume.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a1b7aee	type	Precision Crash
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a1b7aee	comment	Precision Crash: When Ryo and Kaori are locked in a car that's lifted by electromagnet, with the intention of dropping them into a car crusher, Ryo shoots the guy working the controls before they're over it — but dropping our heroes in a car on solid ground isn't much of an improvement.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Mr. Skippy uses an industrial vacuum cleaner in reverse to shoot live ducklings at the tattooed woman, forcing her back and making her fall to her demise.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The movie turns more serious once Ryo and Kaori find Hideyuki's watch on one of the bad guys, the proof they're dealing with Union Teope and Hideyuki's killer is among them.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Ryo's client, Mr. Letellier, is actually the Black Hand, murderer of Kaori's brother. He stole the perfume from the real owner of the perfume, the real daughter of Professor Letellier. It turns out Miss Letellier is actually Umibozu's client. Hating being manipulated, Ryo plans the downfall of his own treacherous client when he realizes he has been manipulated all along.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: In the clinic, Ryo stumbles upon his psychologist, who has an arrow sticking from his lower back, from what he describes as an unfortunate accident. Which also doubles as a Brick Joke, as the psychologist was accidentally outed earlier in the movie with a photo of him and his friends doing nude archery. During the first confrontation with the villains, Kaori picks a gun and shoots to save Ryo from a big mook, only to hit Ryo in the ass, to his great annoyance.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_72f98935	type	Heroic Build
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_72f98935	comment	Heroic Build: Ryo is very muscled, which goes quite well with his Lantern Jaw of Justice. Funnily, it's revealed that he's sent flex pics to his client Mr. Letellier while he was in love with him.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The movie poster shows Kaori with her trademark "100 Tons" hammer, but she never uses it (except in an Imagine Spot). Instead, she swings a sledgehammer at Ryo who warily tries to avoid it.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Ryo and Kaori again. They play mean pranks to each other, regularly snark together and so on. However, Kaori is clearly in love with Ryo and Pr. Letellier reveals that if Ryo was immune to the perfume with Kaori, itâ€™s because he was already in love with her.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_767dbf00	type	Superhero Movie Villains Die
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_767dbf00	comment	Superhero Movie Villains Die: Manga movie actually, but it's zigzagged when the Man Behind the Man bites it in a particularly graphic manner, but Black Hand himself is eventually brought in alive.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_76dc3807	type	Alone in a Crowd
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_76dc3807	comment	Alone in a Crowd: After Ryo, still in love with Mr. Letellier, hears from the man himself that he has some "company", Ryo is heartbroken and sits alone in the corner of several top-models' dressing room. In fact, he even ignores the women in underwear.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_78c895c8	comment	Mr. Skippy is hit in the shoulder with a bullet that was destined to Kaori. Afterward, he's only seen wincing in pain a bit and still go on unhindered. That doesn't even spare him from suffering more Amusing Injuries.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7c7ee100	comment	Half into the movie, Ryo is injected with a very effective truth serum. He always answer truthfully to any question without lying. Hilarity Ensues
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7cc3f425	type	Moment of Silence
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7cc3f425	comment	Moment of Silence: At the party, Ryo and Kaori dance on a tango to escape suspicion from Union Teope's goons. While the music is still here, every other sound (including Ryo's voice as he tells Kaori about the mooks) fades to nothingness. It symbolizes how Kaori is lost in her thoughts at the moment — especially her Love Epiphany.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Kaori, is she ever. She regularly gets angry at Ryo's antics, but is undeniably in love with him.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The movie opens with Ryo and Umibozu fighting in a plastic surgery clinic during surgery. Then the movie turns back a few hours to explain how they got there.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_844c1f3b	type	Treacherous Quest Giver
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_844c1f3b	comment	Treacherous Quest Giver: Mr. Letellier, Ryo's client is actually the real bag guy and planned to get Ryo killed by accepting the mission.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Poncho for Kaori. She always refuses his advances, to the point he tries to commit suicide when Kaori flat-out tells him that she's not interested.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never learn if the one Mook who accidentally outed himself as The Mole managed to flee, or was killed, or anything. Even the guy who got flung around on the crane came back.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Kaori is very unhappy that poor Poncho has fallen victim to the Cupid's perfume and begins to follow her everywhere.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_8f5247eb	type	Arrow Cam
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_8f5247eb	comment	Arrow Cam: Ryo shoots on the wheel of a motorcycle more than a hundred meters away and the camera then follows the path of the bullet from the barrel to the wheel.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of the movie, the Black Hand is unmasked and is thrown in jail. Then Ryo and Kaori use the last remnant of the perfume encased in a small glass ball and shoot him with it. Everyone around him falls in love with him, including two burly inmates, a prison guard and a dog. The Black Hand can only mutter "Oh crap, OH SHIT!"
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: When Skippy walks toward Jessica Fox with a hand in his jacket, the bodyguards try to stop him. He's so entranced by the star, however, he doesn't even acknowledge that they are beating him up (in slo-mo). They find out afterward that he was just pulling out his cell phone to ask for a selfie.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Kaori tries to shoot a bad guy standing still but misses him. Justified Trope since Ryo has kept her away from firearm training to prevent her from ever killing someone.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_970c790a	comment	Also, one of the henchmen of the Big Bad, under the influence of a Truth Serum, infuriates a co-worker when he reveals that he dates (or rather considers as a one-night stand) the sister of this other henchman.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Skippy becomes one thanks to the Love Potion that is Cupid's perfume.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: Ryo, who else? At best, he's misusing his sniper rifle to look at women in a gym or invites his best friend to a hostess club. At worst, he solicits sex from a bride (during her wedding), a grieving widow (during the funeral), or a nun (during her prayer). Nonetheless, he's an honorable guy who cares for Kaori.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Parodied. It seems like Poncho is going to throw himself in front of Kaori to save her from a bullet, but instead he pushes Mr. Skippy in the way, who takes the bullet in the shoulder.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Ryo describes Umibozu as a Punch-Clock Villain. In the climax, he's talked Umibozu into a Heelâ€“Face Turn by convincing him that they had both been played by the Big Bad. The Black Hand boss has a dog he always plays fetch with. He is then Hoist by His Own Petard when he throws a grenade but the dog gives it back to him all the same. At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Letellier talks about the rumors he heard of Ryo's exploits, including how he supposedly "can shoot six bullets at the exact same spot." In the movie's last climax, Ryo does exactly that to defeat the Big Bad.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: After Kaori unfortunately shoots Ryo in the ass, the mook she was aiming at turns his gun toward her, and we see her wince in fright as a gunshot is heard. Then the henchman slowly falls to the ground, revealing Ryo, behind him, who's just shot him the back.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: The Black Hand killed Kaori's brother; it can't get much more personal than that.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Gender-neutral name in this case. The Big Bad presents himself as "Dominique Letellier", the child of the Cupid's Perfume's inventor, to gain the trust of Ryo and Kaori. The real one is actually a woman.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Ryo's psychologist unwittingly reveals that he's a naturist, showing off by mistake a photo of him butt naked.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Hideyuki dies in Ryo's arms after being killed by a mysterious man from the window of a car.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: The signature 100-ton hammer only appears in here, while the real Kaori is shown grabbing a normal sledgehammer, which is clearly too heavy for her to swing in the same manner.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Ryo uses his sniper rifle's scope to spy on sexy neighboring ladies. The sledgehammer and other tools left in the bathroom? Ryo just bored a peephole in the wall to a hot neighbor.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: The flashback of Ryo witnessing Hideyuki's murder happens at night with heavy rain emphasizing the gloom.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: At the very end of the movie, Kaori uses the perfume to have Ryo fall in love with her. At first glance, it doesn't work on him, his behavior doesn't change and he doesn't get all lovey-dovey at all. It's implied it's because he already loves Kaori, so the perfume doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: The movie takes Ryo's point of view when he's captured by a gang, eventually frees himself and fights the henchmen barehanded. The sequence finishes with Ryo grabbing a gun and stopping a fleeing car.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Mr. Skippy's mother-in-law can't remember her "favorite" son-in-law's name, instead using the name of his wife's ex.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: The flashback of Makimura's death is done in a very '80s Film Noir style, contrasting with the most modern and colorful rest of the movie.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: When Ryo learns he's going to fall in love with a man and stop caring about women, he treats it as such.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: Poncho confesses his love to Kaori through a closed door, behind which was in fact a very disturbed kid who then runs to his father to tell on Poncho.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Kaori and Ryo are already attracted to each other but the Cupid's perfume makes Ryo fall in love with another guy and a random cleaner named Poncho also falls in love with Kaori.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: By the time Ryo finally gets the countermeasure to return to his normal women-loving self, he's so in love with Mr. Letellier due to the perfume's effect that he's unsure if he's going to use it at all. Mr. Skippy takes the decision for him and uses it on him anyway.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Ryo, full stop. He casually shoots small and faraway targets with utmost precision with his Hand Cannon of a magnum. For instance, he hits a moving motorbike at more than 100 meters, opens a fire hydrant's valve from a moving car with casual ease and finally dodges and shoots back a fast-moving gas cylinder launched towards him.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c0e5fc39	type	Celeb Crush
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c0e5fc39	comment	Celeb Crush: Skippy idolizes a celebrity named Jessica Fox, who is played by and is basically Pamela Anderson. He actually manages to have some good times with her thanks to the perfume.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Poncho yells "NO!" in slow motion when the Black Hand boss fires on Kaori.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: When we get treated to a pole dance... courtesy of Skippy, an out-of-shape middle-aged man in his underwear. Skippy getting hit on by his own mother-in-law for some.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Plenty of them, check out the subpage.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c9eb478e	type	Satchel Switcheroo
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_c9eb478e	comment	Satchel Switcheroo: The reason the Cupid's perfume ends up in the hands of Mr. Skippy. When Ryo makes Umibozu's bike crash into Mr. Skippy, who has a similar-looking suitcase as the one with the perfume, Umibozu quickly takes a suitcase without looking inside first and Ryo then gives chase, allowing Skippy to have a whole night to understand the power of the perfume and fly to Monaco to meet his Celeb Crush.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: The second act of the movie is split between the subplot of Mr. Skippy who goes to Monaco to seduce his favorite star and the storyline focusing on Ryo and Kaori following his trail.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Ryo has put various porn and erotic photo magazines in a closet. He initially denies having a "problem with women", until Kaori opens the closet, causing the (poorly stowed) magazines to fall on the ground.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Ryo, During the final scene.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d02585dd	type	Ending Theme
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d02585dd	comment	Ending Theme: "Get Wild", like in the anime's first season.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Ryo, Kaori, Saeko and Hideyuki, originally Asian-Japanese, are depicted by actors of European descent — alongside their localized Western names. Umibozu, also originally Asian-Japanese, is depicted by a North African actor.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Anytime Ryo fights someone, except Umibozu.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Zigzagged trope. The movie is an adaptation of the French version of the City Hunter anime, which already underwent Adaptation Name Change to make the names more familiar to French audience. Thus, in a way it is both faithful to the French dub which the French are familiar with, yet does deviates from the original material. Ryo Saeba is "Nicky Larson", Kaori and Hideyuki Makimura are "Laura" and "Tony Marconi", Umibozu is named "Mammouth" and Saeko Nogami is "HÃ©lÃ¨ne Lamberti".
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: The Black Hand himself, recognizable thanks to the tattoos on his hand mimicking naked bones. Kaori discovers that Mr. Letellier is actually the Black Hand under a false identity when she handshakes him and the make-up is erased. The Dragon to the Black Hand subboss is a heavily tattooed lady.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_de6c230e	type	Idiot Crows
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_de6c230e	comment	Idiot Crows: Such a crow is shown painted on a wall around the scrapyard scene, accurate to its original depiction in the manga. The movie actually manages to fit a flying crow behind Ryo and Kaori just as he uses the wind as a lame excuse for looking at a woman's panties.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Mr. Skippy is quite unhappy in his marriage, between his vulgar harridan of a wife and his disrespectful son. No wonder he jumps on the occasion to have an adulterous tryst with his idol when he gets his hand on the perfume.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: In order to go from the Nice airport to Monaco, they drive along Antibes which is in the opposite direction.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: Skippy is fond of obsolete expressions which he regularly blurts out. Even his wife finds it pathetic.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: As it is also an Homage to the bowdlerized so-bad-it's-good dub of the anime in the late 1980s/early 1990s, which is very well-known in France, the movie uses the French bowdlerized names of the characters: Nicky Larson for Ryo Saeba, Laura Marconi for Kaori Makimura, Tony Marconi for Hideyuki Makimura, Helene Lamberti for Saeko Nogami and Mammouth for Umibozu. This page uses the Japanese names for the sake of clarity.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Poncho, whose cognitive abilities are well below average. He thought that putting his hamster in the microwave would merely heat him, doesn't see that a kid on his shoulder will crash on a sign, gets under the wrong car to get crushed beneath the wheels, etc.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Ryo being Shot in the Ass by Kaori is treated entirely comedically, and only as a minor annoyance. He later says that he was lucky that she only grazed him. Mr. Skippy is hit in the shoulder with a bullet that was destined to Kaori. Afterward, he's only seen wincing in pain a bit and still go on unhindered. That doesn't even spare him from suffering more Amusing Injuries.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e7e3674	type	Strapped to a Bomb
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e7e3674	comment	Strapped to a Bomb: After being kidnapped by the villains and brought to the abandoned factory, Kaori is strapped to a bomb belt that react to her pulse, and thus would explode if they try to remove it or if she leaves the perimeter. (Theoretically, it also means it would go off if she's killed, but that doesn't stop the bad guys from trying to gun her down too during the big shoot-out.) The bomb forces Ryo into a (seeming) Heroic Sacrifice to save Kaori.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The P.O.V. Cam scene, including Ryo's interrogation by the bad guys, then him managing to free himself and fight the henchmen, is at first a fairly long unique shot — for an extremely complex scene involving lots of fighting, special effects (the revolvers being caught by the scrapyard electromagnet) and concluding with a car crash. There is one cut to Kaori, before returning to the P.O.V. Cam again to finish the fight.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: The gala features a special attraction to entertain the guests: a booth containing a lie-detector machine manned by a "fashion police detective". Kaori isn't enthused by the prospect, but is forced to hide inside to not get caught by guards. There's no cables involved, the subjects just put their hand on a glass pane which detect their vitals, and the whole booth glow red when they lie. Questioned about her love life, Kaori's responses hint she's in denial about her feelings for Ryo.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ead64f73	comment	Not-So-Small Role: Famous French actor Didier Bourdon plays a fairly minor character, acting as a client and gag character for Ryo. It's actually revealed that he's the last bad guy Ryo must take out.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Kaori hides a crab inside of Ryo's bubble bath. Ryo actually spots the crab and takes it out of the water but forgets to put the crab away from his crotch anyway. Kaori is delighted to hear his screams of pain. In the scrapyard brawl, we have one mook suspended from a crane by his underpants, while another one is headbutted in the nuts.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_eb5571a6	comment	Stripping Snag: At the gala, the tip of Kaori's dress gets caught in an elevator door as it is going up. She avoid getting stripped at first by stubbornly clinging to her dress, which results in her being lifted from the floor. Then Poncho tries to help her, but the elevator is stuck and he has to go up one floor by the stairs to make it move down. Of course, he mucks it up by going one floor too low, and this time Kaori's dress is ripped off her body, leaving her in underwear and garter belts in the hallway.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: After being an enemy for the majority of the movie, Umibozu then comes to the rescue in the factory by disposing of several henchmen threatening an out-of-bullet Ryo.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_eff7d17	comment	Mysterious Backer: Umibozu's unknown client, who is also seeking after Cupid's perfume. It is revealed that the backer is actually the daughter of the perfume's inventor, who has had the formula stolen. Ironically, the backer would have been a typical pretty client of Ryo's in normal circumstances.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Saeko has a quick scene early in the movie when Ryo asks her to locate the man who accidentally took the briefcase with the perfume. She reappears at the end when they locate the Black Hand and must arrest him.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f08f8f89	comment	Comedic Underwear Exposure: During the scrapyard fight, Ryo activates the electromagnet to disarm the bad guys of their guns... and one of them also lose his belt in the process, letting his pants fall down to his knees.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: A lot. Special mention goes to the women working out that Ryo spies on, the "dancers" at the strip club in which he meets Hideyuki during a flashback, and the models at the lingerie fashion show.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Ryo at the end of the movie, to draw out the real Big Bad.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f9ab4501	comment	R-Rated Opening: There's male nudity within the first ten minutes. Despite this, the film actually got an all-ages rating in its home country.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The duck and duckling family following Mr. Skippy everywhere because of Cupid's perfume.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: One of the reasons Ryo won't try anything with Kaori. Hideyuki was dead set against that. Also, one of the henchmen of the Big Bad, under the influence of a Truth Serum, infuriates a co-worker when he reveals that he dates (or rather considers as a one-night stand) the sister of this other henchman.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: A cruel Bait-and-Switch take on the trope when Kaori finds the man who took her brother's watch on the night of his death - then fails to kill him anyway. And it wasn't even him who did it, it was Black Hand. She gets another shot to expose him instead, at Ryo's fake funeral.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Mr. Skippy is ranting on Jessica Fox's phone, which is diffused live through internet, and watched by thousands of people, including his family. He notably mentions that his son isn't their biological child, that they found him on a parking lot at a time he and his wife were thinking about adopting a dog. The son is indignant... that his mother always refused him to have a dog.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_fe0330fb	comment	In the clinic, Ryo stumbles upon his psychologist, who has an arrow sticking from his lower back, from what he describes as an unfortunate accident. Which also doubles as a Brick Joke, as the psychologist was accidentally outed earlier in the movie with a photo of him and his friends doing nude archery.
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City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The film has an almost perfect, incredible respect to the original manga and anime, dubbed or not. The attention to details, scenes taken right from the manga and the overall personality of the characters is spot on. Philippe Lacheau even had a meeting with the original author Tsukasa Hojo with pages from the manga to illustrate his story and what he wants to adapt in the movie. Tsukasa Hojo noted that he received multiple propositions for a City Hunter movie but refused them all until then (except the Jacky Chan movie) because they were mostly action movies or Die Hard clones and that's not really what the story is about.
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