Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji (Video 1989)

When Overfiend is found and born in a human, he will remake the world to something more of his liking! Ripping the boundaries of the three universes (worlds) apart, it's clear that little ... See full summary »

Director:

Hideki Takayama

Writers:

Shô Aikawa (screenplay), Michael Lawrence,

Stars:

Christopher Courage, Rebel Joy, Bill Timoney

Cast

Cast overview:
Christopher Courage	...	Amano (voice)
Rebel Joy	...	Akemi (voice)
Bill Timoney	...	Nagumo / Niki (voice) (as Danny Bush and Randy Woodcock)
Lucy Morales	...	Megumi (voice)
Rose Palmer	...	Kuroko (voice)
Bick Balse	...	Ozaki (voice)
Jurgen Offen	...	Sui-Kaku-Jyu (voice)

Storyline

When Overfiend is found and born in a human, he will remake the world to something more of his liking! Ripping the boundaries of the three universes (worlds) apart, it's clear that little can stand in his way! While the other worlds are hoping to find the Overfiend to control the creation of this new World we call Earth.

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Plot Keywords:

demon | student | end of the world | legend | prophecy | 

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Taglines:

Animation Beyond Imagination

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Genres:

Animation | Fantasy | Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

11 March 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

Urotsukidôji I: Legend of the Overfiend

Company Credits

Production Co:

Anime 18, Island World, JAVN

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min 146 min (uncut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

The girls tormenting Niki were apparently hiding out in the school's gym equipment room, as in on school grounds. All seven of the girls are horribly and inhumanly mutilated in that very room (one of which was reduced to a skeleton), but the next day school is still open and the students make no reference to the event.

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Quotes

Great Elder: It's the end of the world!

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Connections

Referenced in Genocyber (1994)

User Reviews

Watch the Japanese version

Watch the Japanese version. Avoid the English dubbed version. It has been censored. And the most important clues of the plot happen exactly at those moments that were deemed too graphic for American viewers. As a result, in the English version the story makes much less sense.

Now, about the movie. This is a masterpiece of sick and twisted fantasy, filled with an obscene amount of sex and violence. And usually, the two are combined. It's an epic tale of the fight between good and evil, however, like most anime movies, it's never entirely clear who is good and who is evil. Aside to this, there are several smaller and more personal story lines as well, like the love between two teenagers, a kid and his alcoholic father and a few others.

The quality of animation of anime movies has improved much over the years and this movie is clearly one of the older ones. But it's still unique in its kind. It's one of the great anime classics, together with such movies Akira and Fist of the North Star.