A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
Direction
Jissoji's obsessive wide-angle compositions and Buddhist absurdism.
Cinematography
Stark shadows and surrealist ruins — pure nightmare architecture.
Practical Effects
Grotesque kaiju suits that feel genuinely ancient and wrong.
Director
Akio Jissoji
Toshio Shiba
Jun Manjome
Keiko Oginome
Yuriko Edogawa
Mio Takaki
Wadatuzin / Mayumi Hoshino
Masami Horiuchi
Tetsushi
Koji Ishizaka
Narrator
Jin Nakayama
Dr. Ichinotani
Susumu Kurobe
Shin Hayata
Minori Terada
Yamane
Akiji Kobayashi
Detective
Yasuhiko Saijō
Miho Nikaido
Hiroshi Tsuburaya
Hajime Tsuburaya
Ryuji Yamamoto
Police Officer
Shiro Sano
Correspondent Morita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Jissoji's feature comeback after years in TV hell, and he poured every grievance against the industry into the cursed production narrative. The 1990 release coincided with Japan's economic bubble bursting, making its themes of imperial decay eerily prescient.
The 'Wadatuzin' creature was originally designed for an unmade 1970s Ultra Q revival, shelved for being 'too disturbing for children' — Jissoji finally unleashed it twenty years later with zero compromises.
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