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Demeking

  • April 1998
  • 1hr

    22mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Shinji Imaoka,

    Keiko Satô,

    Kazuto Morita,

    Starring

    Takuji Suzuki,

    Yoko Chosokabe,

    Yumeka Sasaki,

    Takeshi Itō

    ...

    When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.