Kamogawa Horumo

2009 Japanese film

April 18, 2009 (2009-04-18)

Running time

113 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Battle League Horumo (鴨川ホルモー, Kamogawa Horumō) is a Japanese fantasy-action-comedy film directed by Katsuhide Motoki.

Story

A group of Kyoto University students known as the “Kyoto University Azure Dragons”, participate in a game called "Horumo". It is an ancient game in which players control shikigami called “oni” and pit them against the oni of rival teams, reminiscent of Pokémon. Akira Abe is a freshman student who falls in love with a classmate named Kyoko, and blindly joins the club and plays the game to be closer to her. Ironically, Kyoko is interested in another club member, while Akira gains the attention of Fumi. The mysterious game started over 1,200 years ago in the Heian Period. Soon the 2,000 oni wage wars battles in the city of Kyoto.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Takayuki Yamada ... Akira Abe
Chiaki Kuriyama ... Fumi Kusunoki
Gaku Hamada ... Koichi Takamura
Sei Ashina ... Kyoko Sawara
Takuya Ishida ... Mitsuru Ashiya
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa ... Makoto Sugawara
Tamiyasu Cho ... Akahito Kakimoto
Renji Ishibashi ... Berobero Bartender
Papaya Suzuki ... Gensai Suzuki
Takayo Mimura ... Tomiko Ryuzoji
Megumi Sato ... Mika Tachibana
Masato Wada ... Hitoshi Kiyomori
Keita Saito ... Miyoshi Younger Brother
Shota Saito ... Miyoshi Older Brother

References

^ http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/kamogawa-horumo-battle-league-in-kyoto-promises-massive-spirit-battles ^{[dead link]}
^ "Subtitled tease for Katsuhide Motoki's 'Kamogawa Horumo' - Nippon Cinema". www.nipponcinema.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-10.