Kamogawa Horumo
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| name = Kamogawa Horumō
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| director = Katsuhide Motoki
| producer =
| writer = Maruo Kyozuka (screenplay)
Manabu Makime (novel)
| starring = Takayuki Yamada
Chiaki Kuriyama
| music = Yoshikazu Suo
| cinematography = Shoji Ehara
| editing = Isao Kawase
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| distributor = Viz Pictures (USA)
| released = {{Film date|2009|04|18}}
| runtime = 113 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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{{nihongo|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.http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/kamogawa-horumo-battle-league-in-kyoto-promises-massive-spirit-battles {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nipponcinema.com/news/subtitled_tease_for_katsuhide_motokis_kamogawa_horumo |title=Subtitled tease for Katsuhide Motoki's 'Kamogawa Horumo' - Nippon Cinema |website=www.nipponcinema.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210071504/http://www.nipponcinema.com/news/subtitled_tease_for_katsuhide_motokis_kamogawa_horumo/ |archive-date=2008-12-10}}
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
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External links
- {{in lang|ja}} [http://www.horumo.jp/index.html Official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100405060914/http://japanreviewed.com/2010/03/23/battle-league-horumo/ Japan Reviewed - Battle League Horumo]
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Category:2000s Japanese-language films
Category:Films directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Category:2009 science fiction films
Category:Japanese fantasy comedy films
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