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Tokyo Zombie (2005)

Tokyo Zombie poster
Original title
東京ゾンビ
Directed by
Sakichi Satō
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 48 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two friends in Tokyo try to survive a zombie outbreak. They get into increasingly absurd situations involving a wig factory and a giant monster.

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What happens

Tokyo Zombie (Japanese: 東京ゾンビ, Hepburn: Tōkyō Zonbi) is a Japanese heta-uma horror manga written in 1999 by Yusaku Hanakuma. It was subsequently made into a 2005 Japanese film written and directed by Sakichi Sato. The films stars Tadanobu Asano, Show Aikawa, and Erika Okuda. The film was released in North America, UK and later Australia and New Zealand in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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