# Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994)

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**Original title**: *ヤマトタケル*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
**Directed by**: Takao Okawara
**Written by**: Wataru Mimura
**Starring**: Masahiro Takashima, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Hiroshi Abe, Akira Koieyama, Masashi Ishibashi, Hiroshi Fujioka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You fight to control your powers in a mystical land, but an evil force threatens the earth as an enormous hydra, and the director Takao Okawara brings mythic action to the screen.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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