Film

The Goblin of Mt. Kurama

2001 · 1h 33m · Action · Drama · Crime

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?

Ken Matsudaira

Atsuo Nakamura

Raita Ryu

Shōhei Hino

Mayumi Oka

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Mikijiro Hira

Renji Ishibashi

Ken Tanaka

Sayuri Kokusho

Shozo Uesugi

Toshihide Tonesaku

Shinobu Nakayama

Yūsuke Ōsawa

Jinya Sato

Hirotaro Honda

• Kōsei SaitōDirector
• Megumi TamuraScreenplay
• Jiro OsaragiNovel

Release date

March 9, 2001

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Action, Drama, Crime