Demon City Shinjuku

Fire escapes drip neon, Shinjuku summer. A sunset bathes skyscrapers in hellish gold while paper charms flutter like dying moths. Kyoya Izayoi inherits a sky-scraping debt of blood—his father’s corpse still warm on the sidewalk. Ten years of demonic squatters and now the city’s perimeter glows like an abattoir’s sign. Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1988 cyber-noir drenches every pixel in borrowed light.

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Yoshiaki Kawajiri directed Demon City Shinjuku in 1988. See Yoshiaki Kawajiri's full filmography, where to start with Yoshiaki Kawajiri, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

Demon City Shinjuku was released in 1988 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 80 minutes.