Tokyo: The Last War
Tokyo The Last War , Teito Taisen? , lit. The Great War in the Capital is a tokusatsu dark fantasyhistorical fiction film directed by Takashige Ichise and distributed by Toho Studios. It is an adaptation of the eleventh book Great War in the Capital of the Teito Monogatari novel by Hiroshi Aramata. It is the second cinematic adaptation of the Teito Monogatari series and is a sequel to Tokyo The Last Megalopolis.
The boxoffice success of Teito Monogatari prompted a sequel to immediately be put into production. The budget was considerably smaller than its predecessor, and the plot adapted only a single book in the series as opposed to the first film, which had adapted the plot of four books. The only returning actor from the previous film was Kyusaku Shimada, reprising his role as the supernatural villain Yasunori Kato. Screaming Mad George special effects unit was commissioned to do gore effects. The film also marked the directorial debut of Takashige Ichise, a Japanese film producer best known in the west for financing such JHorror classics as Ring, Juon The Grudge, and Dark Water as well as their respective Hollywood remakes.The film make many deviations from the original plot of the novel. In the original book Great War in the Capital, the target of the spiritual assassination is not Adolf Hitler, but rather Franklin Roosevelt. In the book, Kato is already alive and well fighting off Japanese oppression in China. When he hears of the project, he returns to Japan to make sure it goes through to completion and systematically kills any political figure that opposes it. The leader of the protesters is Tomasso, an Italian mystic who controls the Japanese freemasonry lodges. At the end of the book, Kato kills Tomasso and the project goes to completion. Roosevelt is cursed, suffers from polio and dies. This clears the way for Harry Truman to step into office, who authorizes the Hydrogen Bomb to be used against Japan. Also the mystic hired to curse Roosevelt is tani Kzui, a famous Buddhist missionary, instead of Kannami Kouou a completely fictional character. ........
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