Twilight of the Dark Master

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Plot: Based on the manga by Saki Okuse, Twilight of the Dark Master is a brief--less than 45 minutes--feature that is long on static imagery but rather short on storytelling. Although the open...( read more  )ing narration tells of the Great Mother creating demons and guardians, humans are transformed into demons through drugs and bioengineering onscreen. As he's celebrating his engagement, Eiji, a pharmaceutical researcher, metamorphoses into a monster resembling Ray Harryhausen's Cyclops in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Eiji goes on a rampage until he's captured by the eerie brother-sister team of Chen and Huang Long, who take him to a sex club and feed him prostitutes. Eiji is part of an experiment conducted by Mr. Takamiya, the master demon. Opposing the forces of evil is Guardian and "fire manipulator" Tsunami Shijyo. Tsunami and Takamiya meet in a duel that ends before it really begins. Director Akiyuki Shimbo favors still images with the action occurring on the soundtrack, producing a striking but static feature that resembles a manga shot panel by panel, rather than a conventional animated film. Not rated ("for mature audiences"); suitable for ages 18 and up for nudity, violence, violence against women, suggestions of rape, and incest. --Charles Solomon

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  July 10, 2007

  Like so many anime adaptations of mangas, this film tells you too little and leaves great gaps in the storyline, however cool it looks.

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  January 25, 2007

  An entertaining but really unimpressive horror anime movie. The ending feels really inconclusive, but it's decent nonetheless.

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  June 23, 2006

  I know the title is cool - don't worry, it fooled us all. It's pretty, it's short and it's crap.
  
  I'm not a manga fan and I'm certainly not into anime, but that doesn't begin to explain why this film is so bizzare in how bad it is.

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  June 17, 2006

  The story line in this one is a dime-a-dozen anime demons taking over the world plots. To be fair, I've only seen the english dub and that was garbage. Then again, I'm sure that the subtitled version will be just as bad to sit through.

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  June 6, 2006

  What is it with the Japanese and demons? Demon this, demon that. It's like half their animators are obsessed with goth culture. How are Marilyn Manson sales in Japan?

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• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Akiyuki Shinbo
• Genres: Animation, Art House & International, Anime & Manga, Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Released: January 1, 1997
• DVD Released: June 12, 2001

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