Higanjima
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Details
- Title: 彼岸島
- Title (romaji): Higanjima
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Horror
- Episodes: 10
- Broadcast network: TBS
- Broadcast period: 2013-Oct-24 to 2013-Dec-26
- Air time: Friday 0:59-1:29 (MBS)
- Air time: Friday 0:58-1:28 (TBS)
Synopsis
At midnight, a middle-aged man desperately tries to run away from a police officer. He enters an abandoned house with the cop right behind him. The police officer grabs the middle-aged man and bites his neck with his sharp teeth. He then drinks the man's blood. The police officer looks different from other humans.
Miyamoto Akira (Shiraishi Shunya) left his hometown to study at a university in Tokyo. During his summer break, he goes back to his hometown. Akira's older brother Atsushi (Suzuki Ryohei) has been missing for about half a year. He went on a trip with his fiancé when he disappeared and his disappearance has crushed his family.
Back in his hometown, he meets his old friends Yuki, Ken, Bon, Nishiyama and Kato. Before he arrived there, he met a beautiful woman who appeared suddenly in front of him. The woman's name is Rei and she showed Akira her older brother's driving license. Rei also told Akira that her brother is fighting vampires in the village where she lives. Akira found it hard to believe the woman's story.
Later, when Akira and his friends are attacked by vampires, he begins to believe the woman's story. Akira and his friends decide to head out to island Higanjima to save Atsushi. What awaits for them is hellish beyond their imagination.
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Cast
- Shiraishi Shunya as Miyamoto Akira
- Suzuki Ryohei as Miyamoto Atsushi
- Yamashita Rio as Yuki
- Sato Megumi as Rei
- Kurihara Rui as Miyabi
- Nishii Yukito as Bon
- Endo Yuya as Ken
- Katsunobu as Kato
- Abe Shohei as Nishiyama Toru
- Inada Rai as Ken (child) (ep1-7)
- Kuroishi Takahiro (黒石高大) (ep10)
Production Credits
- Original work: Manga Higanjima by Matsumoto Koji
- Screenwriter: Nakamura Masaru
- Director: Yokoi Kenji