Real Onigokko 1

Rooftop, midday. A dropped phone. High school student Tatsuya wakes to a world altered: armed soldiers patrol the streets, hunting anyone named Sato. He joins a band of rebels, all strangers, all bearing the same cursed name. Shibata’s dystopian thriller offers a streamlined riff on paranoia.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/the-chasing-world-2008/.

Issei Shibata directed Real Onigokko 1 in 2008. See Issei Shibata's full filmography, where to start with Issei Shibata, or where to go after you've seen everything by Issei Shibata.

Real Onigokko 1 was released in 2008 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 98 minutes.