Thirty years on and the first note of "Get Wild" over the closing sequence still resets your nervous system. This is the rare legacy revival that didn't recast the soul out of it: Ryo is still a mokkori-brained disaster who goes stone cold the second the sights come up, and Kaori's hammer still lands with the exact comic timing you remember. The XYZ scrawled on the Shinjuku station board, Falcon looming in from the side, the Cat's Eye cameo, it all pays off for anyone who was there the first time. Be honest, the conspiracy plot about the corporation and its super weapon is the thinnest thing here, a delivery system rather than a story. But the animation is sharper than the show ever got to be, and Ai Shindo gives Ryo enough to leer at and protect in equal measure. You're here for the two of them, and they show up.

Ryo Saeba is a Shinjuku sweeper, a private eye and sniper with unmatched aim and an outrageous fixation on women. He and his partner Kaori Makimura take on bodyguard jobs and other work for clients. Their newest client is Ai Shindo, a model targeted by mysterious attackers who, without realizing it, holds the key to a conspiracy spanning the city. Shinji Mikuni, head of the IT company that hired Ai for its advertising, turns out to be an old friend of Kaori. As mercenaries gather in Shinjuku and a major arms dealer arrives in Japan with a new weapon, Mikuni's presence starts to pull Ryo and Kaori apart. The film mixes action, comedy and mystery.