# Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

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**Original title**: *帝都物語*
**Runtime**: 135 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
**Directed by**: Akio Jissoji
**Written by**: Kaizo Hayashi
**Starring**: Shintarō Katsu, Kyusaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Junichi Ishida, Tamasaburō Bandō V, Haruka Sugata

> *Evil has a face and it has waited an eternity for a chance to live again.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy Tokyo streets at dusk a lone streetlamp flickers 
Ancient evil resurrected in concrete canyons 
A product of 80s Japanese fantasy horror.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, surreal

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