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Writer/Director Rian Johnson, whose 2005 debut Brick was a genre-twisting hard-boiled Teens Gone Noir thriller that won several Indie screenplay awards, follows up with a globe-trotting adventure caper — Cons Gone Rom-Com. The cast couldn’t be much cooler, and while the budget looks considerably bigger than Brick’s $475,000, the feeling we get from the trailer edges along the kooky cusp where mainstream meets offbeat. (yes, that’s Oscar-nominated Rinko Kikuchi, the precocious deaf-mute school-girl who made a flash splash in Babel.)