The Goblin of Mt. Kurama ( 2001 )

Overview

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?

Top Cast

Ken Matsudaira

Atsuo Nakamura

Raita Ryu

Shōhei Hino

Mayumi Oka

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Mikijiro Hira

Renji Ishibashi

Ken Tanaka

Sayuri Kokusho

Shozo Uesugi

Toshihide Tonesaku

Shinobu Nakayama

Yūsuke Ōsawa

Jinya Sato

Hirotaro Honda

Ryusuke Sakitsu

Takashi Taniguchi

Kôta Masago

Kenji Shiokawa

Ichizō Ōhashi

Atsuo Moroki

Tetsuya Aoki