Hiruko the goblin

A shuttered schoolyard in autumn, dead leaves scraping brick. Fresh graffiti hides claw marks on the science block’s door. A child’s voice hums off-key in the janitor’s closet. Something wears a stolen face, stacking teenage heads onto pincered torsos. A digger with notebooks and a backpack follows the trail of wet footprints; his shadow flickers when he pauses. Chooses the quiet dread of 90s J-horror rather than melodrama.

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Shinya Tsukamoto directed Hiruko the goblin in 1991. See Shinya Tsukamoto's full filmography, where to start with Shinya Tsukamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Hiruko the goblin was released in 1991 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 89 minutes.