# Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

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**Original title**: *魔界都市＜新宿＞*
**Runtime**: 80 min
**Genres**: Action, Fantasy, Animation, Horror
**Directed by**: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
**Written by**: Kaori Okamura
**Starring**: Hideyuki Hori, Hiromi Tsuru, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyoko Tongu, Yusaku Yara, Banjo Ginga

> *Prepare To Face Your Demons*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, surreal

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