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Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster (2009)

Directed by Kiyotaka Taguchi

Science Fiction | Short

Overview

A fishing boat is attacked at sea by a gigantic, hairy monster. After examining the sole survivor (Kanji Tsuda), scientific adviser Dr Murakami (Shiro Sano) suspects the culprit is a “Keukegen spectre”, a shaggy supernatural beast from Japanese folklore. The announcement leads reporter Hideo Akihara (Ken Osawa) to a forest shrine dedicated to the Keukegen Geharha, where he finds several worshipers and learns that an ancient seal containing the monster has been broken.

Length 15 minutes

Actors

Ken Osawa | Mina Fujii | Mitsuko Oka | Shirô Sano | Jiji Bû | Mark Chinnery | Terry Ito | Keisaku Kimura | Wakana Matsumoto | Tomorowo Taguchi | Pierre Taki | Kanji Tsuda | Hiroyuki Watanabe | Kazuhiro Yoshida

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

DKUTV programmed this again and it seemed like something easy to find online now. Sure enough it’s on Archive.org - so I d/l the file and watched again.

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