Onmyoji (2001)

Director:

Yôjirô Takita

Writer:

Baku Yumemakura (writer)

Release Date:

6 October 2001 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Drama | Horror

Plot Keywords:

Demon | Severed Head | Butterfly | Spell | Supernatural

Awards:

6 wins & 8 nominations

Cast

Mansai Nomura	...	Abe no Seimei
Hideaki Ito	...	Minamoto no Hiromasa
Eriko Imai	...	Mitsumushi
Yui Natsukawa	...	Fujiwara no Sukehime
Mai Hosho	...	Uri no onna
Ken'ichi Yajima	...	Fujiwara no Morosuke
Kenjirô Ishimaru	...	Onmyo-gashira
Kenichi Ishii	...	Fujiwara no Kaneie
Houka Kinoshita	...	Kanmu-Ten'nou
Sachiko Kokubu	...	Fujiwara no Tadako
Kenji Yamaki	...	Tachibana no Ukon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Richard Cansino	...	Fujiwara no Morosuke (voice: English version) (as Edward Zilla)
Akira Emoto	...	Fujiwara no Motokata
Masato Hagiwara	...	Sawara-Shin'nou
Manami Honjou
Brandon Jones	...	Minahoto no Hirosoma (voice: English version)
Ittoku Kishibe	...	The Mikado
Kyôko Koizumi	...	Aone
Steve Kramer	...	Doson (voice: English version)
Mona Marshall	...	Suke Hime (voice: English version)
Sean Mitchell	...	Nagamasa (voice: English version)
Susumu Nihashi	...	Nagamasa
Tony Oliver	...	Prince Sawara (voice: English version) (as Rafael Antonio)
Bob Papenbrook	...	Tachibana no Ukon (voice: English version) (as Bob Pappenbrook)
Simon Prescott	...	Mikada (voice: English version) (as Simon Issacson)
Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Douson
Ellyn Stern	...	Toko (voice: English version)
Terrence Stone	...	Abe no Seimei (voice: English version) (as Terry Roberts)
Kenji Takechi
Kari Wahlgren	...	Aone (voice: English version) (as Kay Jensen)
Tom Wyner	...	Fukiwara no Motokata (voice: English version) (as Abe Lasser)

Also Known As:

Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master (USA)
The Yin Yang Master (International: English title)
Ying Yang Masters

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

112 min | Switzerland:116 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:12 | Japan:G | Germany:12 | Philippines:PG-13 | USA:R

Company:

Dentsu

Trivia:

From the Making-Of Documentary on the Special Edition DVD: - Total number of cuts: 1026 - Concept planning: 5 years - Number of days filming: 93 days - Number of days in post-production: 128 days - Location crew: 86 people - SFX crew: 31 people - CG integration staff: 37 people - Total number of crew: 154 people - Those who camped out for the first show: 400 people (at Nihon Gekijo Theater) - Number of theaters: 225 theaters - Number of viewers: 2.2 million people (as of Summer 2001) - Gross at box office: Approx. 3 billion yen (roughly $30 million USD)

Movie Connections:

Followed by Onmyoji 2 (2003)

Entertaining and for me additional knowledge of my homeland.

I was born in Tokyo, Japan and although my mother is Japanese, during my younger years she wanted my brothers and myself to be "American" so we were not taught much about our Japanese culture. Now that I am much older I want to learn as much as possible about every facet of that side of my family. Watching Onmyoji, even though it is fantasy gives me some insight as to why some things are done the way they are. I watch my mother going through different rituals and understand a little better why. The movie was very good and even my very American daughter enjoyed it and asked questions about what was going on. She was glad she watched the movie with me.