I Am A Hero

I Am A Hero アイアムアヒーロー Ai Amu A Hīrō Theatrical release poster Country Japan Directed by Shinsuke Sato Release Date 2015 Language Japanese Studio Toho Pictures Distributor FUNimation Entertainment (USA) Main Cast Character Actor Hideo Suzuki Yo Oizumi Hiromi Kasumi Arimura Tsugumi "Yabu" Oda Masami Nagasawa Iura Hisashi Yoshizawa Sango Yoshinori Okada Abe Yu Tokui

I Am A Hero is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror-comedy film starring Yo Oizumi as Hideo Suzuki, a struggling, directionless manga artist assistant whose life is suddenly changed by the onset of a zombie apocalypse. Armed with only his sporting shotgun (one of the very few in Japan), he sets out to survive and redeem himself as the world deteriorates around him. This film is an adaptation of the 2009-2017 manga series of the same name by Kengo Hanazawa.

The following weapons were used in the film I Am A Hero:

Submachine Guns

Ingram MAC-11

An airsoft MAC-11 is used by the survivors at the Fuji Royal Outlet Park camp. It is later used by Hideo.

RPB Industries M11A1 - .380 ACP

A survivor takes the airsoft MAC-11 for an upcoming looting run.

After barely managing to restrain a ZQN (the in-universe name for the zombies), Hideo notices a radio and the MAC-11 on the ground.

Hideo checking the MAC-11.

Firing the (airsoft) MAC-11.

Rifles

Colt M4A1

An airsoft Colt M4A1 is also used by the survivors at the Fuji Royal Outlet Park camp.

Colt M4 Carbine with 4 position collapsible stock - 5.56x45mm

The airsoft M4 being fired at a ZQN.

The survivor holds the airsoft M4 as he regroups with the rest of the survivors.

Finding himself surrounded after the looting run goes bad, a survivor desperately fires the airsoft M4 at a group of approaching ZQN.

As the ZQN continue to approach, he realizes that airsoft pellets aren't very effective against zombies.

Oh dear.

Shotguns

Ruger Red Label

A 28 gauge Ruger Red Label is prominently used by Hideo Suzuki (Yo Oizumi) throughout the movie. This is notable difference from the original work, as Hideo is depicted using a Beretta 686E in the manga. Due to privately owned guns being extremely rare in Japan, the gun is seen as an item of extreme interest by other characters throughout the movie. Hideo owns it for sporting purposes, but the apocalypse has given him the opportunity to shoot zombies with it instead.

Red Label O/U - 28 gauge

The disassembled shotgun in a shelf.

The shotguns's chambers are visible as Hideo closes them.

The broken-open shotgun on Hideo's shoulder at the outlet mall rooftops.

Hideo looks at the ZQN around the mall with the broken-open shotgun slung on his shoulder. A good view of the shotgun's teardrop receiver is visible.

A closeup of the shotgun's trigger as Hideo gets ready to fire the shotgun in a standoff with the mall's survivors.

After Sango (Yoshinori Okada) takes the shotgun after the standoff, he taunts Iura (Hisashi Yoshizawa) with the authority of having a firearm.

Sango hypes up the survivors for the looting run as he holds up Hideo's shotgun.

Hideo loading the shotgun at the climax of the movie.

As he finds himself pinned down by the corpse of an obese ZQN and being attacked by another, Hideo reaches for the dropped shotgun.

The shotgun being aimed.

Other

Hideo's art

An over-under shotgun similar to the Red Label that Hideo uses is seen with a character in the art he draws.

Bulletin board

A picture of another over-under shotgun is seen pinned to a bulletin board above Hideo's desk.

Artists' references

Pictures of multiple firearms are seen pinned to a wall at the office Hideo works at.

One of Hideo's fellow assistants gets ready to present some of her new work. Pictures of multiple firearms are seen on the wall.