Hiruko: Youkai Hunter

(8.142=57/7 voters)
a.k.a. HIRUKO THE GOBLIN

1991, Color, 90mins.

Producer: Tsutsumi Kouji
Director: Tsukamoto Shin'ya
Based on the comic:
'Kairyuu matsuri no yoru', "Youkai Hunter" series by Moroboshi Daijirou
Writer: Tsukamoto Shin'ya
Photo: Kishimoto Masaharu
Music: Umegaki Tatsushi
Other: Oda Takashi ... special makeup
Cast: Sawada Kenji ... Hieda Reijirou
Kudou Masaki ... Yabe Masao
Ueno Megumi ... Tsukishima Reiko
Takenaka Naoto ... Yabe Takashi
Murota Hideo ... Watanabe
Yo Kimiko ... Yabe Akane
Sano Tomorou
Tsukahara Yasuaki
Yamashita Daisuke
Asamoto Chika
Mitsuishi Ken ... an excavator
Chou Banhou ... an excavator
Ootani Ryousuke
Inose Masato
Hayashi Anri(I)
Tsuji Imari
Mitani Yumi
Plot: In the begining of the world, written on KOJIKI, the book of Japanese Myth, that the being who God created firstly is HIRUKO, and God exiled them and recreated human being because HIRUKO were deformed. At present, Yabe Takashi, an amteur archaelogist, dig out the an ancient tomb under the high-school. He understand there is where HIRUKOs had been sealed. Yabe ask his friend Hieta Reijirou for help, but Yabe set frre HIRUKOs by oversight and he is attacked with Reiko, his girl student. HIRUKO looks like a spider, and it cut off the victim's head and combined this head. HIRUKOs massacre high-school students one after another. Hieda Reijirou and Yabe's son Masao try to seal HIRUKOs again.
Keywords: Japanese Myth, the Creation, Monsters, jinmen-so, Massacre
DVD: "Tsukamoto Shin'ya Collector's Box", Kaijuu Theatre & There's Enterprise, BBBJ-3530, 26040 yen (c/w "Denchuu kozou no bouken", "Tetsuo (IRON MAN)", "Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer", "Tokyo Fist", "Bullet Ballet", "Souseiji", "Tsukamoto zukan"\x81j


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