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Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi (1990)

Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi poster
Original title
リメインズ 美しき勇者たち
Directed by
Sonny Chiba
Genre
horror film, disaster film, thriller film, natural horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 47m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1915 Japan, a man-eating bear terrorizes a rural village. Two childhood friends set out to hunt it down before it kills again.

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What happens

Yellow Fangs (Japanese: リメインズ 美しき勇者たち, Hepburn: Remains: Utsukushiki Yūshatachi; lit. 'Remains: Beautiful Heroes') is a 1990 Japanese disaster film directed by Sonny Chiba. It is the 20th anniversary commemorative work of Japan Action Enterprise and adapts the Sankebetsu brown bear incident in December 1915. The action film stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Mika Muramutsu as childhood friends who hunt down a man-eating bear. Muramatsu won the New Actor Award at the 14th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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