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In his book Horror and Science Fiction Film IV, Donald C Willis stated that Hiruko the Goblin was a variation of Bug, The Fly, Attack of the Crab Monsters and A Nightmare on Elm Street III, but "puts a fresh weird spin on each variation". [6] Noting that "the film is situated amusingly between the comic, the creepy, the campy and Luis Buñuel." [6]
With Hiruko intending to use the power of a solar eclipse to carry out his plan, a race to defeat him begins, as the moment of the eclipse draws near. Hiruko targets the Land of Fire's Kekkei Genkai, Kakashi Hatake's Sharingan (写輪眼, lit. "Copy Wheel Eye", English manga: "Mirror Wheel Eye"). One night, Hiruko activates a Puppet Curse ...
Meanwhile, other Hiruko schoolgirls are being brainwashed to carry out suicide bomb attacks at various locations to kill humans. Kisaragi kidnaps and drains the blood of the fervently anti-Hiruko prime minister, which grants him a grotesque super-powered body. Yoshie takes on the brainwashed mutant schoolgirls while Rin faces off against Rei.
The story takes place in feudal Japan and follows the adventures of Jubei Kibagami, a mercenary ninja tasked with guarding the fabled relic known as the "Dragon Stone" and protecting its bearer, Shigure the "Light Maiden", from both the Hiruko and Kimon Clans' forces; alongside him on this quest are the government spy, Dakuan, and the mountain thief, Tsubute.
Sensing the real Sasori inside his scorpion puppet Hiruko, Chiyo and Sakura have to dodge his stinging attacks in order to demolish Hiruko and force Sasori to emerge. Chiyo and Sakura expertly dodge Sasori's poison needles. As Chiyo paralyzes Hiruko's scorpion tail, Sakura unleashes her brute strength and breaks the puppet releasing the real ...
To temporarily stop the pain she deletes her damaged arm. Tokiko suddenly appears. Nezu realizes the cave is the lost Hiruko Cave where Hiruko originally washed ashore, the entrance to which was sealed by the army during the First Sino-Japanese War. They witness Mio and Tetsu and decide to save them.
The story tells that Hiruko eventually washed ashore—possibly in Ezo (蝦夷, ancient Hokkaidō) —and was cared for by the Ainu Ebisu Saburo (戎三郎). It is however believed that Ebisu first arose as a god among fishermen and that his origin as Hiruko was a much later conception, ---after the worship of him had spread to merchants and ...
The movie was English dubbed by Anime Works and Animaze and released on VHS on June 9, 1998 and on a single DVD with Ninku: The Movie on January 30, 2001. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Funimation Entertainment later released the film to DVD, along with the Eizou Hakusho OVAs, on December 13, 2011 as Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie & Eizou Hakusho , featuring a new ...