Baoh: The Visitor

1989 0h 50m JA

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6.2

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★6.2TMDB · 47

HorrorAnimationScience FictionAction

Synopsis

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Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old Ikuro, escapes with a psychic young girl named Sumire, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. The only problem for them is that BAOH has the ability to alter its host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving Ikuro acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH, alongside its host, must fight an army of commandos and psionics to get her back.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Hiroyuki Hori
Baoh (voice)
Noriko Hidaka
Sumire (voice)
Yusaku Yara
Walken (voice)
Michitaka Kobayashi
Soldier (voice)
Tomoko Maruo
Girl (voice)
Shoji Sato
Masked Man (voice)
Ikuya Sawaki
Masked Man (voice)
Kozo Shioya
Engineer (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Writers: Hisayuki Toriumi, Kenji Terada
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Yoshiyuki Wada shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Hiroyuki Hori and Noriko Hidaka and Yusaku Yara carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0096891 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 47 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Hiroyuki Yokoyama directs. Yoshiyuki Wada cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
237 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Editor Yoshiyuki Wada shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Hiroyuki Hori and Noriko Hidaka and Yusaku Yara carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0096891 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 47 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.