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HIRUKO THE GOBLIN

ヒルコ　妖怪ハンター

By Shinya TSUKAMOTO

NIKKATSU CORPORATION - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 1990

- Year of production
- 1990
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Shinya TSUKAMOTO
- Cast
- Kenji SAWADA, Masaki KUDO, Megumi UENO, Naoto TAKENAKA
- Synopsis
- An archeologist named Hieda, who has virtually been ousted from the archeology academy for his radical ideas, receives a letter from Yabe, a junior high school teacher, who writes that he has discovered an ancient burial mound built by a people who believed in evil spirits. Imagining that working on exploring the mound might reinstate him in the academy, Hieda leaves immediately to visit Yabe, only to find him missing together with a co-ed student called Reiko.
  During summer vacation Yabe’s student Masao and his pals scour the empty school buildings in search of Yabe and Tsukishima. Strangely they discover Tsukishima, alone, singing in an otherwise deserted classroom. All the school buildings are shrouded in an eerie atmosphere, and unidentified objects are curiously moving about. Something lunges at Masao, but he is saved by Hieda, who also has been searching the school.
  While Masao and Hieda investigate, a series of bizarre and lethal incidents befall them; they find headless corpses sprawling in a sea of gore followed by other frightening events. Then a strange spiderlike goblin with Tsukishima’s head assaults them.
  After narrowly escaping the monster’s attack, Hieda and Masao find Yabe’s notebook, where the spell to open the ancient burial mound is written. Research shows that the goblin that assaulted them is called Hiruko, one of many legendary vicious creatures that are clearly more than just myths as they had actually seen them. Apparently Hiruko was trying to release its fellow goblins, which had been sealed in the mound for eons. Hieda finds an old map which shows that the mound is located beneath the school and its entrance is in the tool shed. Having found the way, Hieda and Masao negotiate a dank subterranean labyrinth to the core of the mound. They chant the spell and the door grinds open to reveal a vast cave. In it they behold hundreds – if not thousands – of Hiruko goblins. Emitting grotesque sounds the goblins focus on the two human invaders. Some of them have replaced their own heads with that of a human being; those who have died or been declared missing. One of those heads is Yabe…

HIRUKO THE GOBLIN

ヒルコ 妖怪ハンター

ヒルコ　妖怪ハンター