Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji (1989) (V)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Hideki Takayama

Writers:

Shô Aikawa (writer)
Michael Lawrence (writer)

Release Date:

11 March 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery

Plot:

When Overfiend is found and born in a human, he will remake the world to something more of his liking...

Plot Keywords:

Demon | Student | End Of The World | Prophecy | Legend

Cast

Bick Balse	...	Ozaki (voice: English version)
Christopher Courage	...	Amano Jyaku (voice: English version)
Rebel Joy	...	Akemi Ito (voice: English version)
Yasunori Matsumoto	...	(voice)
Lucy Morales	...	Megumi Amano (voice: English version)
Jurgen Offen	...	Suikakujyu (voice: English version)
Rose Palmer	...	Kuroko (voice: English version)
Bill Timoney	...	Tatsua Nagumo / Niki (voice: English version) (also as Randy Woodcock) (also as Danny Bush)
Kôichi Yamadera

Also Known As:

Legend of the Overfiend
The Wandering Kid
Urotsukidôji
Urotsukidôji I: Legend of the Overfiend (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Canada:18+ (Quebec) | USA:NC-17 (theatrical release, cut) | Chile:18 | Australia:Refused Classification (original rating) | Australia:R (censored version) | Austria:(Banned) (original rating) | Germany:18 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | USA:Unrated | Spain:18 | UK:18

Company:

Anime 18

Goofs:

Continuity: The toy Niki grabbed from Akemi's backpack is shown being destroyed in one scene, but a day and several scenes later, the toy is shown again completely undamaged.

Quotes:

Akemi Ito: Nagumo, tell me it was just a bad dream. Tell me Mrs. Ogami wasn't a monster, that she didn't rape me. Oh please!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Death Trance (2005)

YOU CANNOT LOOK AWAY

Possibly the most important Japanese gothic sci-fi tentacle sex horror metamorphosis allegory of our time, Urotsukidouji is poignant love tragedy wrapped in a shroud of horrific telescoping genitals and pink, luminescent semen. This movie is a large part of the reason anime has a negative reputation as porn.

Follow Nagumo as he falls in love, gets killed, comes back to life as a super sex demon and lives happily ever after. His cute, innocent love story with the character Akemi is a grand contrast to his propencity for non-consentual sex with just about everybody he meets. He truly is Everyman. I mean, uh...isn't he?

There is also an incomprehenisble plot about demons and half-humans and the repeated destruction of Osaka, Japan. But you'll have a hard time concentrating on the plot's intricacies, what with all the raping and the killing and the kicking and the hurting.

Part II is also good (maybe better than part I), then the series dissolves into post- apocalyptic gobblediguck. But if you have an insatiable appetite for monster porn, you better watch them all.