Kamogawa Horumo

Kamogawa Horumō
Directed byKatsuhide Motoki
Written byMaruo Kyozuka (screenplay)
Manabu Makime (novel)
StarringTakayuki Yamada
Chiaki Kuriyama
CinematographyShoji Ehara
Edited byIsao Kawase
Music byYoshikazu Suo
Distributed byViz Pictures (USA)
Release date
  • April 18, 2009 (2009-04-18)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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

References

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