Movielogr
The Goblin of Mt. Kurama (2001)
Directed by Kôsei Saitô
Overview
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?
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Ken Matsudaira | Atsuo Nakamura | Raita Ryu | Shôhei Hino | Mayumi Oka | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Mikijiro Hira | Renji Ishibashi | Ken Tanaka | Sayuri Kokushô | Shozo Uesugi | Toshihide Tonesaku | Shinobu Nakayama | Yūsuke Ōsawa | Jinya Sato | Hirotaro Honda | Ryusuke Sakitsu | Takashi Taniguchi | Kôta Masago | Kenji Shiokawa | Ichizō Ōhashi | Atsuo Moroki | Tetsuya Aoki