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Demon City

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Framed for his family's murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked "demons" who have taken over his city. From TMDB

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  • Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.comBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    A legendary hit man revives from the depths of Hell and unleashes his inner demon in the Japanese genre movie DEMON CITY, now streaming exclusively on Netflix beginning today.

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  • Shana L. Darabie @shanadarabie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    “Director” number three waxed ecstatic about the Black communities love of anime and how he couldn’t have made the film without AI. It was Ghost in the Shell meets Demon City Shinjuku with more boobs and lesbians. Oddly, no Black characters or much dialogue for that matter. Groundbreaking

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  • Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Gonna do animated movie week this week including (probably): Fantastic Planet Demon City Shinjuku The Last Unicorn The Dark Crystal (because puppets count as animation) Will happily consider any other animations matching these vibes.

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    Tonight's film Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

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  • Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.comBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    The Demon City live-action Netflix film based on Masamichi Kawabe's revenge manga Oni-Goroshi has revealed a new English-subtitled trailer, and also revealed that Tomoyasu Hotei is composing the music.

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  • Joe Chambers @sephchambers.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2025

    Junesploitation day 12 of 30! Category = Cartoons My pick = Demon City Shinjuku From the director of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, and Wicked City See my review here= boxd.it/9YS10L My Junesploitation list is here= boxd.it/GhmTA #junesploitation #filmsky

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  • MikeOutWest @mikeoutwestuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    #W DEMON CITY on #Netflix. Nothing supernatural about this one: a hitman avenging his family's murder at the hands of a mask-wearing syndicate. Director Seiji Tanaka does a decent impression of Timo Tjahjanto w many bloody fights & the epilogue is a class moment. #ActionSky #martialarts #Filmsky

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  • Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    Last repost: Demon City Shinjuku is on YouTube--in its entirety--and with a dub that's gonna make you feel like you're watching it on a bootleg VHS that you bought for $5 out of a milk crate at the con where you learned about "furries"

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  • Zoe Burgess @letzoespoilyou.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    New episode of The Monster in My Bed podcast! Today we look at Demon City Shinjiku, which was far less horney then I remember but I still love this movie and one particular character that my teen goth heart was so into back when I 1st saw it! www.buzzsprout.com/2313260/epis...

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  • Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.comBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Protagonist Shūhei Sakata silently takes out his enemies in this fight scene clip from the live-action Demon City film, coming to Netflix on February 27.

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  • The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    #NowWatching Demon City (D: Seiji Tanaka,2025) "Have you ever watched a “John Wick” movie and thought to yourself, “I wonder if this would be even better if it were a little more lurid, a hell of a lot dumber, and its soundtrack had roughly 9,000 times as much flash-microwaved cheese rock?”

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  • psycho-drama.com @psycho-drama.comBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    [NR] "Onigoroshi" aka "Demon City" LA movie starring Ikuta Toma reveals new trailer ahead of its February 27th release. It'll be available worldwide on Netflix! #生田斗真 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulqa...

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  • DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    10 more movies • Dead Leaves • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie • Raijin Z • Ninja Scroll • Redline • The Animatrix • Demon City Shinjuku • Armitage III • Kimera • X/1999

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  • DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    post a movie that you love or used to love, beginning with the letter "d." #moviesky #filmsky 🎥 Also not up for searching posters Dune (1&2) Dark City Dracula Demon City Shinjuku Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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  • Dave@Not-Convention Recovery @sasuraiger.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    I thought about how we're a generation away from this stuff, and if you got into anime more recently or you're 20, seek his movies out in particular. Literally perfect action movies. Timeless material. Be warned for sex stuff in many of them, but not this movie, nor Demon City Shinjuku!

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  • Jefferson Taylor @jeffersontaylor.comBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    Okay...Had to wrap up grocery shopping, and looking over Discotek's library for in-print titles. Continue focusing on the movie & OAV "evergreens" that are adjacent to much of your general product line: Demon City Shinjuku, Cyber City OEDO 808, Violence Jack, Angel Cop...

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  • ManWithPez @manwithpez.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    Don't watch this and Demon City Shinjuku too close together, or you'll never remember which detail came from which film! #FrightClub

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  • Dennis デニス @dizzydennis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    I saw Demon City… uh… it’s nice to see Ikuta Toma in a movie again…

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  • cctakato 🏳️‍⚧️ @cctakato.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    What movie did you see way too young? I was probably not old enough to be watching half the stuff on Sci-Fi Channel when I was in middle school in the mid 90s and definitely not old enough for Demon City Shinjuku.

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  • The Annotated Fan @poormonger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    A big Game 4 in the NBA Finals and i’m feeling like a Friday Night foreign action movie. Pacers win - Ballerina (2023) * not the John Wick Spin-off Thunder win - Demon City

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  • Spooky McSkellington @gooberzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    Watched Demon City (2025) on Netflix. The action sequences were very entertaining, the dramatic flourishes perhaps a little less so, but any movie that involves faceless goons sincerely attempting to kill the protagonist with a forklift gets several bonus stars in my book.

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  • WTK @wtk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    Demon City live-action film (based on the manga: "Oni Goroshi") is streaming on Netflix www.netflix.com/title/81566553

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  • Jason M @filmnohito.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    The first of three Japanese film trailer posts covers Ghost in the Shell 4K Remaster, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 20th Anniversary 4K Remaster, The Gesuidouz, BUCK-TICK The Movie: BUCK-TICK Phenomenon – New World II, Magic Candies, Demon City genkinahito.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/g...

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  • Adam Makey @darkestadam.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    I've noticed how much skills are just being lost. Like, the movie adaptation of the crime manga Demon City could have gone much harder if people could still light and shoot scenes in an interesting way. Alas craft is straight up being lost.

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  • Zoozoo 🐇🤖 @zoozooch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    Remember Demon City Shinjuku? ⚔️ Ah yes. The anime where our hero uses his wooden stick to beat up demons! I really enjoyed this movie for it's aesthetic. The main villain Rebi ra and his floating pentagram was also pretty really neet. It's a worth a watch if you enjoy some old school sci fi. 😁

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  • drawnrobots @drawnrobots.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2025

    15. DEMON CITY SHINJUKU (1988) I get to see a scary film AND an OVA. it's a win-win situation(?)

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  • kereD @iamkered.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Demon City (2025) ⭐⭐⭐ Cast: Toma Ikuta, Ami Touma, Onoe Matsuya Director: Seiji Tanaka Writer: Seiji Tanaka #FilmSky 📽️

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  • Harris Dang aka Critic Name @filmmomatic.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    #255. DEMON CITY #256. A MINECRAFT MOVIE #257. A COMPANY MAN #258. RANSOMED

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  • DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    Specific Anime Movies I love Anything by Satoshi Kon Hayao Miyazaki Yoshiaki Kawajiri Katsuhiro Ôtomo Mamoru Oshii The Girl Who Leaped Through Time Redline Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Demon City Shinjuku Tekkonkinkreet Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie

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  • Panda 🐼 @asiandramapanda.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    #DemonCity #Japanese #JMovie This Japanese revenge movie was a pretty good watch of you like blood and violence (which I do). The action choreography was a lot of fun and some of the visuals were very cool. 7.5/10 Nothing new, but still entertaining. mydramalist.com/782676-demon...

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  • But Why Tho? @butwhytho.netBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    If you want a straight-to-the-point bloody action film, #DemonCity is right up your alley. But the live-action adaption of Hiroaki Samura’s #OniGoroshi severely lacks substance. Read our review:

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  • James Hadfield @jameshadfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    With DEMON CITY, Seiji Tanaka becomes the latest promising Japanese filmmaker to get tapped to make an awful streamer movie that hardly anyone watches. Is this Japan's equivalent to the indie-to-MCU pipeline? www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...

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  • Alex @ It’s A Stampede! @itsastampede.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    This week’s edition of Movie Reviews 2025 includes reviews for: 📺 Demon City 📺 Turn Me On 🎥 The Last Showgirl 📀 Cronos 📀 Masters of the Universe 📺 Luther: Never Too Much 📺 The French Connection #Movies #Films #MovieReviews2025

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  • Adam Makey @darkestadam.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    Having watched the movie I wonder if Oni Goroshi the manga Demon City is based is any good.

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  • Renard Ars Purson @renardfoxdemon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    I've always wanted to see Shinjuku, and the nearby Park, both of which were prominent in that brilliant late 80s anime film Demon City Shinjuku. I'd be walking the streets in my black suit and tie.

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  • Takeru Cage - drafting novel and drawing things rn @ktakerucage1029.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    Anime/Toonami Rewind Afterlife Spooky 👻 Block Watch Progress: Demon City Shinjuku (Rewatch): Completed. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (Rewatch): Completed. #VampireHunterD #Halloween #Toonami

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  • Animal? Cannibal? @forbiddenroom.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    I forgot how ridiculous the dub of Demon City Shinjuku is.. its such a flashy movie with basically no payoff lol

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  • Khalid AlMahmood @khalidalmahmood.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    Demon City (Oni Goroshi) (2025) A Japanese action film that is based on graphic novel, though it goes crazy with the action it lacks substance. It is decent at best with the action replying mostly on blood splatter and kills and mostly at the start and end.

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  • ☆͏Weir͏d͏y͏J͏i͏m͏☆͏🎃🌈⃤ @beardyjim.comBluesky · May 21, 2025

    My ★★ review of Demon City on Letterboxd boxd.it/9L2VoN Couldn't be arsed to make it a long review though! #filmsky

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  • yuna @kittentell.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    I'm watching as many stuff as I can during the break 😂 done with karma (kdrama) - it's excellent, give it a try! and Demon City (j-movie) is okay - brutal and gory but it's a revenge movie so it checks out. Really cool fight sequences though 🔥

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  • Rages of Sanity @ragesofsanity.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    Demon City is a fantastic film that deserves some love. It's got Kill Bill vibes 🔥

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  • Quiet Chaos♒️ @qc1974.blacksky.appBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    I watched Kraven the Hunter, Gladiator II, and a Japanese film on Netflix call Demon City. I feel like I went 0 for 3 Monday and Tuesday.

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  • Ultimautomaton @ultimautomaton.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    Just watched Demon City (2025): Story is pretty clear cut (no pun intended), but like many of the things that I watch in Japanese Media, the action sequences were TOP NOTCH. Character acting from the men in masks where magnificent, and the cinematography was disturbing. Pretty good film to binge

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  • CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    I watched the Japanese movie Demon City. Written and directed by Seiji Tanaka and starring Toma Ikuta. It's basically Japanese John Wick. A movie you've seen a million times before. It's a little better than most of the similar revenge movies(better than Silent Night for example). #filmsky

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  • Sanjeev @msanjeev.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    Kitty enjoying this over-the-top, gory, violent Japanese movie called Demon City.

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  • Kane @demikane.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    This has nothing to do with Demon City Shinjuku. It's an entirely new action movie that went up on Netflix yesterday.

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  • Katy @septjoy.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    Movie of the night: Demon City (2025). Yay for an English dub. It's been a weird week. Something is wrong and I don't know what. Just so weak and exhausted. Joint and muscle pain too. Comp tomorrow and I'm hoping the extra rest will be enough. Blood test results next week.

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  • Alexander Wiggan @alexwiggan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    This week’s edition of Movie Reviews 2025 includes reviews for: 📺 Demon City 📺 Turn Me On 🎥 The Last Showgirl 📀 Cronos 📀 Masters of the Universe 📺 Luther: Never Too Much 📺 The French Connection #Movies #Films #MovieReviews2025

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  • Jeff Shepard @sirshepard.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    Back in the day Sci-fi would show an Anime movie every Saturday morning. Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Fatal Fury, Demon City along with Iria. Those are my favorite and when I name dropped them people are like man ya are old.

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  • phenosalad.bsky.social @phenosalad.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    Sci-fi channel was that cool ass older brother I never had. Introduced me to Demon City Shinjuku then the other late 80’s/early 90’s anime movies you’d see on a blockbuster video shelf or Suncoast Movie store.

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  • TrevorAMueller 🔜 Not at NYCC this year @trevoramueller.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2023

    And that's just the Webtoon series! That doesn't count the 3 GNs I finished - BRAMBLEBUSH, DEMON CITY, LOS OJOS v1 (at 150-200 pages each), the new GN I started, and the film scripts I consulted on! Whew, it's been a busy year! #writer #Writing #WritingCommunity

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  • poppinkhorror.bsky.social @poppinkhorror.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    Horror Movie of the Day Spotlight on: Demon City Shinjuku

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  • Neo Arkadia @neoarkadia.ygorganization.comBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    Demon City Shinjuku "What if. Star Wars: A New Hope. Set in Shinjuku. That was corrupted by the evil wizard?" This is that movie.

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  • PhantoMantis @phantomantis.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    John: Wong Kar-wai style love story about broken misfits. Paul: Richard Linklater style slice of life hangout movie. George: Michael Mann style thriller with moody atmosphere and taut action. Ringo: Shot for shot remake of Demon City Shinjuku.

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  • FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD VOODOO PRIEST🔮🧿📿🪬 @tajaithealchemist.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2026

    You’re welcome! Also, try out Demon City Shinjuku. It’s an anime movie but still has the same themes

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  • SoZalkanu @sozalkanu.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    Demon City (2025) A really gory action movie, nothing really special but if you wanna see one dude mow down a hoard of other dudes, this is a movie for you. Also really shows how some people will create 'enemies' for themselves to appear more just then they actually are.

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  • The Jomsborg Viking @thejomsborgviking.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Core memories from when Sci Fi channel played Anime at 2am on Saturdays. Iria, Armitage the 3rd, Akira, Venus Wars, Demon City Shinjuku, galaxy express 999, world dominion tank police, robot carnival, green legend ran... Tenchi Muyo movie I think...

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  • tetsuknife.bsky.social @tetsuknife.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Ahh, Demon City Shinjuku. Has amazing color usage, and is altogether an excellent horror/action film, a mixed genre that is sorely lacking… …and downright despises women to an egregious degree even by anime standards, but the guy who wrote this blatantly hates women, so…

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  • Andy @andymckmck.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    I tried 1988’s Demon City Shinjuku as a “scary” Halloween movie on a lark but I cannot get over the heavy under-nose ink work that makes it look like everyone switched from this to be a cast extra in Cats seeking their way to the heavy side layer

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  • Daniel O'Connell @docholiday316.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Watched the Discotek blu ray. A really fun Yoshiaki Kawajiri film that serves as a great gateway to his work. My ★★★★ review of Demon City Shinjuku on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/bkXACV

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Toma Ikuta
Shuhei Sakata
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Homare Takemoto
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Ami Touma
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Taro Suruga
Akira Fujita
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