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Kibakichi a 2003 Japanese film directed by Tomo'o Haraguchi. The film is about a person with a strange shape-shifting ability to transform himself into a beast at will and can feeds on human flesh. The film is a jidaigeki in which the leaders of Japan are attempting to eliminate yokai, leading to Kibakichi to wanders from town to town as a lone samurai. He wanders from town to town and stumbles upon a town where the Boss Ozino turn humans into insects and uses the bug people as slave laborers. With only a few humans kept as livestock to feed the humanoid insects. Unaware of this secret, Kibakichi throws joins Ozino and his clan, but on discovering this ruse, Kibakichi allows his own monstrous alter ego to come forward and fight the clan leader. A sequel followed the films release in Japan in the same year.
Original Release
02/07/2004
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ryuji Harada | Kibakichi |
Miki Tanaka | Anju |
Mubu Nakayama | Yonosuke Yamaji |
Masaki Katô | Juro Otani |
Koichi Kira | Tokichi |
Hideki Ôsako | Doro-chan |
Tatsuo Higashida | Heisei |
Yukiharu Yamaguchi | Hachigoro |
Chikara Motoyama | Rokusuke |
Sanji Takei | Ichikawa Monnosuke |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ryuji Harada | Kibakichi |
Miki Tanaka | Anju |
Mubu Nakayama | Yonosuke Yamaji |
Masaki Katô | Juro Otani |
Koichi Kira | Tokichi |
Hideki Ôsako | Doro-chan |
Tatsuo Higashida | Heisei |
Yukiharu Yamaguchi | Hachigoro |
Chikara Motoyama | Rokusuke |
Sanji Takei | Ichikawa Monnosuke |
Yûji Hamada | Blind Old Man |
Hiroshi Takahashi | Gohei |
Takeshi Nakano | Hyogo Kurokawa |
Gôichi Natsuyama | Kappa |
Yoshihiro Maruo | Izakaya Owner |
Kyôsuke Miyako | Goka |
Shinji Higuchi | Shinnosuke Higuchi |
Yasushi Hirai | Elder of Inugami Village |
Nozomi Ando | Kikyo |
Masara Ibu |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Junichiro Mizuno | Producer |
Seiichi Ono | Producer |