Editing Returner (section)

== Production ==
On January 12, 2002, ''[[Screen Daily]]'' reported that production on ''Returner'' had begun and would [[Wrap (filmmaking)|wrap]] in April of the same year.<ref name="ScreenDaily">{{Cite web |last=Schilling |first=Mark |date=January 12, 2002 |title=Pony Canyon launches sci-fi extravaganza ''Returner'' |url=https://www.screendaily.com/pony-canyon-launches-sci-fi-extravaganza-returner/407972.article |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=Screen Daily |publisher=[[Screen International]] |language=en}}</ref> According to a publicist, the film pursued "to be a combination of ''[[Mission: Impossible (film series)|Mission: Impossible]], [[The Matrix]]'' and ''[[Léon: The Professional|Leon]]''".<ref name="ScreenDaily" /> It had 300 [[Computer-generated imagery|computer-generated]] cuts and alleged "[[state-of-the-art]]" [[wire fu]].<ref name="ScreenDaily" /> [[Robot Communications]] produced it on an estimated {{JPY|450 million}} ({{USD|4 million|long=no}}) budget, and funded it with [[Toho]], [[Fuji Television Network]], [[Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures|Amuse Pictures]], [[Shirogumi]], and [[Imagica]].<ref name="TK" /><!-- For further research http://www.rm2c.ise.ritsumei.ac.jp/tamura/sfx/sfxv_content125.html
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