Helldriver
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- Movie: Helldriver
- Romaji: Herudoraiba
- Japanese: HELLDRIVER ヘルドライバー
- Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
- Writer: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Daichi Nagisa
- Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Akifumi Sugihara, Hiroyuki Yamada
- Cinematographer: Shu G. Momose
- Release Date: July 23, 2011
- Runtime: 105 min.
- Distributor: Nikkatsu
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two—the southern half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infected wasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living dead should remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. The economy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation of Japan.
Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara), a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half of Japan, refuses to lay down and die.-- Sushi Typhoon
Cast
- Yumiko Hara - Kika
- Eihi Shiina - Rikka
- Yurei Yanagi - Taku
- Kazuki Namioka
- Kentaro Kishi
- Mizuki Kusumi - Nanashi
- Minoru Torihada
- Gadarukanaru Taka
- Takumi Saito
- Tomomi Miyashita
- Cay Izumi - Zombie mom
- Maki Mizui
- Yuya Ishikawa
- Asami - Wall guard
- Yukihide Benny - Man on the wall
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Film Festivals
- 2010 (43rd) Sitges Film Festival - October 7th-17th, 2010 - Official Fantàstic Panorama in compettition *World Premiere
- 2011 (21st) Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival - February 24-28, 2011 - Yubari Choice: Japan Film
- 2011 (27th) Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival - April 13-23, 2011 *European Premiere
- 2011 (11th) Nippon Connection - April 27- May 1, 2011 - Nippon Cinema *German Premiere
- 2011 (2nd) Terracotta Far East Film Festival - May 5-8, 2011 *UK Premiere
- 2011 (12th) Japan Filmfest Hamburg - May 25-29, 2011 - Naginata
- 2011 (15th) Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival - July 14-24, 2011 - Forbidden Zone *Korean Premiere
- 2011 (15th) Fantasia Film Festival - July 14-August 7, 2011 *Montreal Premiere
- 2011 (17th) L'Etrange Festival - September 2-11, 2011
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