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Tokyo: The Last War (1989)

Tokyo: The Last War poster
Original title
帝都大戦
Directed by
Takashige Ichise
Genre
fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 47m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Tokyo, a sorcerer unleashes a supernatural war against the city. A group of defenders must stop him from destroying the capital with dark magic.

epicdarkmythicapocalyptichistoricalsupernaturalatmosphericbrooding

What happens

Tokyo: The Last War (Japanese: 帝都大戦, Hepburn: Teito Taisen; lit. "The Great War in the Capital") is a 1989 Japanese epic tokusatsu historical dark fantasy/science fiction film directed by Takashige Ichise and distributed by Toho Studios. It is an adaptation of the eleventh book (Great War in the Capital) of the Teito Monogatari novel by Hiroshi Aramata. It is the second cinematic adaptation of the Teito Monogatari series and is a sequel to Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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