Wolf Guy (1975)

Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes. One night, a bizarre and ... See full summary »

Director:

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Writers:

Kazumasa Hirai (manga series "Urufu gai"), Fumio Kônami (screenplay)

Stars:

Shin'ichi Chiba, Kyôsuke Machida, Yuriko Azuma

Cast

Credited cast:
Shin'ichi Chiba	...	Akira Inugami (as Sonny Chiba)
Kyôsuke Machida	...	Kato
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yuriko Azuma
Saburô Date	...	Tsukada
Kôji Fujiyama	...	Seizo
Tooru Hanada	...	Inoue
Takeshige Hatanaka	...	Tsukada Member
Ryuji Hayami	...	Junichi Fukunaka
Jiro Ibuki	...	Nakao
Keiko Itô
Fukunosuke Izumi
Naoko Izumi
Haruki Jô	...	Yoshikawa (as Haruki Jo)
Osamu Kaneda	...	Hit Man
Shunsuke Kariya	...	Ishiguro

Storyline

Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes. One night, a bizarre and bloody death in the Tokyo streets plunges him into a far-reaching conspiracy populated by crooked politicians, naked white women, bit-players like Hideo Murota, a phantom tiger, and -- best of all -- a shadowy organization.

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Plot Keywords:

female removes her clothes | psychotronic film | poliziottesco | japanese poliziottesco | eurospy | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

This Toei-produced film is an unofficial follow-up to the Toho-produced film, Horror of the Wolf (1973), which in turn is based on the "Wolf Guy" novel/manga by writer Kazumasa Hirai. Akira Inugami is played this time by Shin'ichi Chiba.

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Quotes

Akira Inugami: There is a nastier pathogen than syphilis. It's the one they call hatred of humans. I had clearly caught that infection from Miki.

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Connections

Follows Horror of the Wolf (1973)

User Reviews

So stylish at the start

This film is completely demented. It starts with great flourish, violence, gore and excitement with only a hint of just how over the top it will become. There is a semblance of story at the beginning, however, strange and there is a mystery for us to work out and much extreme violence to deal with.

As the film progresses, though, it begins to get a little bit silly and gradually story and suspense give way to increasingly stupid and facile action which would not have been out of place in a comic. So stylish at the start it is a crime that in the end bombs are being tossed about in some disused quarry.

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

5 April 1975 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Wolf Guy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Toei Tokyo

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1