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Makai toshi (Shinjuku)

  • Video
  • 1988
  • 16
  • 1 Std. 22 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,3/10
4080
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Makai toshi (Shinjuku) (1988)
Adult AnimationAnimeBody HorrorHand-Drawn AnimationActionAnimationFantasyHorror

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA young swordsman and the daughter of a political Messiah enter a ravaged Shinjuku, Tokyo, to stop the man who killed the former's father from opening a portal to a world of demons.A young swordsman and the daughter of a political Messiah enter a ravaged Shinjuku, Tokyo, to stop the man who killed the former's father from opening a portal to a world of demons.A young swordsman and the daughter of a political Messiah enter a ravaged Shinjuku, Tokyo, to stop the man who killed the former's father from opening a portal to a world of demons.

  • Regie
    • Yoshiaki Kawajiri
  • Drehbuch
    • Hideyuki Kikuchi
    • Kaori Okamura
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Hideyuki Hori
    • Hiromi Tsuru
    • Kiyoshi Kobayashi
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    6,3/10
    4080
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Yoshiaki Kawajiri
    • Drehbuch
      • Hideyuki Kikuchi
      • Kaori Okamura
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Hideyuki Hori
      • Hiromi Tsuru
      • Kiyoshi Kobayashi
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    Hideyuki Hori
    • Kyoya
    • (Synchronisation)
    Hiromi Tsuru
    Hiromi Tsuru
    • Sayaka
    • (Synchronisation)
    Kiyoshi Kobayashi
    Kiyoshi Kobayashi
    • Rebi Ra
    • (Synchronisation)
    Kyôko Tongû
    • Chibi
    • (Synchronisation)
    Yûsaku Yara
    Yûsaku Yara
    • Mephisto
    • (Synchronisation)
    Ichirô Nagai
    Ichirô Nagai
    • Rai
    • (Synchronisation)
    Osamu Saka
    • Rama
    • (Synchronisation)
    Banjô Ginga
    • Genichiro
    • (Synchronisation)
    Takeshi Aono
    Takeshi Aono
    • Hag
    • (Synchronisation)
    Arisa Andô
    • Waitress
    • (Synchronisation)
    Junko Akimori
    • Girl
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    Kôji Totani
    Kôji Totani
    • Rapist
    • (Synchronisation)
    Asami Mukaidono
    • Yin
    • (Synchronisation)
    Naoki Tatsuta
    Naoki Tatsuta
    • Water Demon
    • (Synchronisation)
    Hirohiko Kakegawa
    • Earth Demon
    • (Synchronisation)
    Kazumi Tanaka
    • Anchor
    • (Synchronisation)
    Gareth Armstrong
    Gareth Armstrong
    • Mephisto
    • (English version)
    • (Synchronisation)
    Teresa Gallagher
    Teresa Gallagher
    • Sayaka
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      • Yoshiaki Kawajiri
    • Drehbuch
      • Hideyuki Kikuchi
      • Kaori Okamura
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    toshio100

    Weird

    Demon City Shinjuku is just so weird, you have to love it. Sure, it's not the best anime out there, but it's not bad at all either. The character designs are appealing, the story solid, the English dub is awful, however, and the animation is good. It's directed by Kawajiri Yoshiaki, director of Ninja Scroll and the X TV series. In all, it's cool. An 8/10.
    8dave13-1

    One of the best horror anime ever.

    Yoshiaki Kawajiri has made his reputation for eye-popping fright visuals and this is his masterpiece of terror. Shinjuku, in Tokyo's business district, has become a portal through which shape-shifting denizens of the demon realm are seeking to invade earth. Humanity is threatened with enslavement by creatures who can appear human but who are terrifyingly inhuman when they reveal their true form. But a plucky girl and jaded street samurai are on hand to foil their plans.

    What follows is a fast moving, action nightmare highlighted by nightmarish visions of seemingly ordinary people and objects morphing into their terrifying demon forms.

    Genuinely scary stuff.
    7dee.reid

    Had high hopes, got let down a little bit by this one

    1988's "Demon City Shinjuku" is a movie that I had extremely high hopes for, but got let down instead. That is not to say that the movie is really bad, it's just disappointing. The OVA (original video animation) is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, that much-feared Anime' (Japanese animation) film director behind "Wicked City" (1987), "Ninja Scroll" (1993), and "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" (2000). The story is from the Manga (Japanese comic book) series by Hideyuku Kikuchi, who was also behind the original novels for "Wicked City" and "Vampire Hunter D."

    "Demon City Shinjuku" reunites both Kikuchi and Kawajiri for the first time since "Wicked City."

    Just to get this out of the way, this is an adult Anime', but it comes nowhere near the lines crossed by "Wicked City" and "Ninja Scroll." You know what I mean: the frequent and explicit sex scenes/nudity and extreme violence. "Demon City Shinjuku" is fairly bloody, but is hardly super-graphic in nature. What would probably earn this movie an "R"-rating if it were live-action or received a theatrical distribution in the United States would be its decidedly coarse language (this review is based on the English-dubbed version) and frank presentation of demons, black magic, and the ghostly netherworld. (It's also interesting to note that some of the characters in the English-dubbed version have British, Mexican and German accents, rather than just standard American English.)

    The OVA is set in the near future, where Levih Rah, the demonic overlord of Tokyo's Shinjuku district, is trying to bring about a literal Hell on Earth by attempting to open up a gateway that would allow his benefactors in the demonic underworld to roam free in our dimension. The story is set 10 years after Levih Rah defeated the heroic swordsman Genichirou Iyazoi in a duel, which ultimately led to Levih Rah taking over Shinjuku, which eventually became a crime-ridden, demon-roaming necropolis ("city of the dead" in Greek).

    Now 10 years later, Levih Rah and his demonic forces are once again attempting to bring about the apocalypse, but this time standing in his way is Genechirou's teenage son Kyoya, who also possesses extraordinary sword-fighting skills in addition to the power of Nempo, a form of internal energy that is analogous to the concept of chi in Asian philosophy but is presented here as being something much closer to The Force from the "Star Wars" movies. Kyoya is aided in his travels by the beautiful Sayaka Rama, daughter of the World Federation President; Chibi, a young Shinjuku street hustler; and the enigmatic mystic Mephisto.

    "Demon City Shinjuku" is a vastly uneven and oddly paced feature but is nonetheless entertaining. To me, that's what really counts, despite the obvious failings of Kawajiri's abilities as a director. Where the film redeems itself, I believe, are in its creature designs and story. The creatures in this OVA are pretty cool-looking and terrifying, and it's interesting to note that shape-shifting is very often a recurring theme in Japanese depictions of other-worldly creatures. The story is also very cool and engaging but what draws it back occasionally are flat characters and a disappointing climax that really lets you down considering everything that led up to it.

    This OVA is not a failure, but it's an interesting feature to watch nonetheless. Even though it was directed by Anime' master Yoshiaki Kawajiri, I would not consider it essential viewing in his catalog of otherwise impressive and stunning Anime' features ("Ninja Scroll" remains my personal favorite of the director). I would recommend only watching if you are a hardcore Kawajiri or Hideyuku Kikuchi fan.

    7/10
    8Aaron1375

    Fast paced anime action at its best.

    This is an anime that used to come on the Scifi channel back when it was known as the Scifi channel and not SyFy. It mainly came on when they had anime week and that is when I saw it and a few others. I recently saw an uncut version of this film and there are a few things that were not on the cut version, but for the most part all the scenes were there, just a lot of sex references. I always enjoyed this one, though it seems as if it should have been part of a series or something to explain some of the stuff that is going on, but a lot of anime films are like that; essentially, setting up a world with little explanation and really jumping right into the action.

    The story has a man dueling with another. One has been blessed with the powers of the underworld and he soon dispatches the other man. Years later, this man makes his move to open the portal to hell fully and it is up to the son of the man killed to try and stop him. The younger man is a master of an art where he fights with only a kendo stick, but with the help of the president's daughter, a dude on mechanical roller skates and the mysterious Mephisto he just may have a shot at defeating the man the underworld chose as their champion!

    I wish I had seen this with subtitles as the dub is not the worst, but there are a couple of characters that were just dubbed poorly. Mainly that small dude on roller skates they for reasons unknown gave a Spanish accent to. The character of Mephisto is cool as you never really ascertain his intentions and it is cool watching evil dispatched with a stick!

    The film was good and enjoyable, it could have been a bit longer to allow more character development, but then sometimes that can slow down the pace and the pace of this one is rather good. Our hero must battle a giant spider demon, a strange hairball thing that almost is like a sloth and get by the villain's magic to get by. Totally enjoyable and wish there were more films like this instead of the over saturation of series that is prevalent in anime today.
    6Milk_Tray_Guy

    Okay for a one-time watch

    Monster City (AKA Demon City: Shinjuku)

    A young Kendo expert, Kyoya, whose father was killed 10 years before as he tried to stop a corrupted sorcerer from opening a portal to Tokyo from a demonic dimension, is called upon to step into his father's shoes when the sorcerer reappears and to try to close that portal. He's aided on his mission by Sayaka, the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese politician. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri just a year after his acclaimed (if controversial) Wicked City, this one has dated far more. The music sounds like it's from a late 80s/early90s video game (think Streets of Rage) and the animation feels rougher than on the earlier film. That said, the art itself is pretty good (the nighttime shots of the ruined/abandoned city in the rain look fantastic). Unlike Wicked City, there's no sexual assault or rape here (although a waitress does get slapped on the ass - which I'm sure will have SOMEONE running for their safespace). The American voice acting is fine. But overall this just feels pretty generic and not that thrilling. Oh, fun fact; the opening sword fight was featured in the 1995 live-action film Johnny Mnemonic. 6/10.

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      The film's opening sword fight was featured in the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic.
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      Mephisto: Men have always fought each other, always creating chaos. That's familiar and safe. They know where they are in those circumstances, but to hazard a step into the unknown and actually love on another is far too risky for them. So if the demons do invade the world, bringing terror and misery with them, don't you think that men might welcome them as bearers of what they desire?

      Kyoya: Are you one of them? Are you, Mephisto?

      Mephisto: I have been called demonic, unjustly. I only ask if this world is worth giving your life for, do you know what you are doing?

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      • 25. Oktober 1988 (Japan)
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      • Japan
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      • Yoshiaki Kawajiri Official site - Archive: Demon City Shinjuku [Japan]
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      • Japanisch
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