Battle League Horumo (Japanese: 鴨川ホルモー, Hepburn: Kamogawa Horumō) is a Japanese fantasy-action-comedy film directed by Katsuhide Motoki.
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Story
A group of Kyoto University students known as the “Kyoto University Azure Dragons”, participate in a game called "Horumo". It is an ancient game in which players control shikigami called “oni” and pit them against the oni of rival teams, reminiscent of Pokémon. Akira Abe is a freshman student who falls in love with a classmate named Kyoko, and blindly joins the club and plays the game to be closer to her. Ironically, Kyoko is interested in another club member, while Akira gains the attention of Fumi. The mysterious game started over 1,200 years ago in the Heian Period. Soon the 2,000 oni wage wars battles in the city of Kyoto.
Cast
Takayuki Yamada as Akira Abe
Chiaki Kuriyama as Fumi Kusunoki
Gaku Hamada as Koichi Takamura
Sei Ashina as Kyoko Sawara
Takuya Ishida as Mitsuru Ashiya
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Makoto Sugawara
Tamiyasu Cho as Akahito Kakimoto
Renji Ishibashi as Berobero Bartender
Papaya Suzuki as Gensai Suzuki
Takayo Mimura as Tomiko Ryuzoji
Megumi Sato as Mika Tachibana
Masato Wada as Hitoshi Kiyomori
Keita Saito as Miyoshi Younger Brother
Shota Saito as Miyoshi Older Brother