Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto

Play The Game For God's Sake !!

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto. Let the battle begin!

• Release date
• April 18, 2009
• Runtime
• 113 min
• Genres
• Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction
• Director
• Katsuhide Motoki

Cast

Takayuki Yamada Akira Abe Chiaki Kuriyama Fumi Kusunoki Gaku Hamada Koichi Takamura Sei Ashina Kyoko Sawara Takuya Ishida Mitsuru Ashiya Yoshiyoshi Arakawa Makoto Sugawara Shota Saito Miyoshi (older brother) Keita Saito Miyoshi (younger brother)