The Goblin of Mt. Kurama (2001)
The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?
Director:
Kōsei Saitō
Writer:
Megumi Tamura
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Ken Matsudaira as |
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Atsuo Nakamura as |
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Raita Ryu as |
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Shōhei Hino as |
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Mayumi Oka as |
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Tsutomu Yamazaki as |
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Mikijiro Hira as |
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Renji Ishibashi as |
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Ken Tanaka as |
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Sayuri Kokusho as |
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Shozo Uesugi as |
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Toshihide Tonesaku as |
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Shinobu Nakayama as |
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Yūsuke Ōsawa as |
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Jinya Sato as |
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Hirotaro Honda as |
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Ryusuke Sakitsu as |
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Takashi Taniguchi as |
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Kôta Masago as |
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Kenji Shiokawa as |
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Ichizō Ōhashi as |
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Atsuo Moroki as |
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Tetsuya Aoki as |
| Writing | Megumi Tamura | Screenplay |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Music |
| Directing | Kōsei Saitō | Director |
| Writing | Jiro Osaragi | Novel |