# Hiruko the Goblin (1991)

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**Original title**: *ヒルコ／妖怪ハンター*
**Runtime**: 89 min
**Genres**: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
**Directed by**: Shinya Tsukamoto
**Written by**: Shinya Tsukamoto, Daijirô Morohoshi, Koji Tsutsumi
**Starring**: Kenji Sawada, Naoto Takenaka, Megumi Ueno, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota, Kimiko Yo

> *Slam the door shut!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: dread, surreal, unhinged

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