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Orochi: Strikes Again
The Japanese poster for
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png Yamata no Orochi's
Counterattack (1985)
See alternate titles
Directed by Takami Akai
Producer Yasuhiro Kamimura
Written by Aiko Ito, Takami Akai
Music by Nobuyuki Nakamura
Special
effects by 		Shinji Higuchi
Funded by Daicon Film, General Products
Production company Daicon Film[a]
Rating Not Rated
Running time 71 minutes
(1 hour, 11 minutes)
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Orochi: Strikes Again (八岐之大蛇 (ヤマタノオロチ)の逆襲,   Yamata no Orochi no Gyakushū, lit. "Yamata no Orochi's Counterattack") is a 1985 amateur tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Takami Akai from a screenplay by he and Aiko Ito, with special effects by Shinji Higuchi. It was produced by the filmmaking group Daicon Film with part of its budget borrowed from General Products, a specialty store in Osaka which dealt in sci-fi and tokusatsu goods. The film was first released on November 28, 1985, when it was brought to home video by Bandai subsidiary Network under the Emotion label. A limited theatrical run began soon after and extended into the following year, with the earliest screening announced for December 14, 1985, at the Postal Savings Hall in Osaka.

The film was Shinji Higuchi's first assignment as a director (albeit not credited as such)[b] as well as an early project of Hideaki Anno, who plays a reporter character and worked on the miniatures. It would also prove to be Daicon Film's final work, as the group had established the animation studio Gainax in December 1984 and began preparing its debut film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987). Gainax, later famous for anime series like Anno's Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990-91) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-96), released Orochi on DVD in 2001.

Plot

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Takami Akai
  • Written by   Aiko Ito, Takami Akai
  • Executive producer   Yasuhiro Kamimura
  • Music by   Nobuyuki Nakamura
  • Cinematography by   Takami Akai
  • Production design by   Shoji Murahama
  • First assistant director   Koji Kono
  • Director of special effects   Shinji Higuchi
  • Miniatures designed by   Akira Ibusuki, Hideaki Anno

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Production

Orochi: Strikes Again took 18 months to complete according to the November 1985 issue of Manga Puppeteer Transmissions magazine, placing the start of production in roughly May-June 1984. The magazine also claimed that the film was worked on by a staff of 3,000 people, though the film's VHS/Betamax release and theater program give a more conservative estimate of "over 100" (the latter also including cast members). Filming of human scenes took place in Yonago, while the monster scenes were shot in Osaka. Special effects director Shinji Higuchi, then a part-time modeling assistant at Toho, was not involved with the project from the beginning, but was invited by Hideaki Anno upon meeting him at a screening of Daicon Film's The Big Hill of Gonzaless.

Video releases

Emotion VHS/Betamax (1985)

  • Tapes: 1
  • SRP: ¥14,000[1]
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: "Omake! Making of Orochi" behind-the-scenes footage (5 minutes), Reference Book of Orochi: Strikes Again (24 pages)

Daicon Film LaserDisc (1988)

  • Discs: 1
  • SRP: ¥16,000[2]
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: 8-page booklet
  • Notes: Packaged with the Daicon III and IV Opening Animations.

Gainax DVD (2001)

  • Region: 2
  • Discs: 1
  • SRP: ¥6,800
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: None
  • Special features: I Really Did Special Effects... Making of Orochi: Strikes Again documentary (56 minutes), photo gallery, booklet with interview with Takami Akai and Shinji Higuchi
  • Notes: Cover art illustrated by Yuji Kaida. Making-of documentary was previously released as a standalone VHS or Betamax by Emotion, circa 1986.

Alternate titles

  • Yamata no Orochi's Counterattack (literal translation)
  • Orochi Strikes Again (alternate rendering)
  • Orochi (abbreviated title)

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Notes

  1. ↑ Not a company, but a group of amateur filmmakers.
  2. ↑ Higuchi is credited for "special effects" (特殊技術,   tokushu gijutsu), but his work on the film has been recognized retroactively as that of a special effects director (特技監督,   tokugi kantoku), such as on the back cover and booklet of the 2001 DVD release.

References

This is a list of references for Orochi: Strikes Again. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

Bibliography

  • Kanda, Yoshimi; Tamatani, Jun, eds. (30 November 1985). Manga Puppeteer Transmissions. Vol. 4 no. 14. General Products. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Higuchi, Shinji (18 December 2022). Shinji Higuchi Special Effect's Field Notes: Visual Plans and Sketches. PIE International Inc. ISBN 978-4-7562-5305-7.
  • General Products '88 General Catalog. General Products. c. 1988 – via ZIMMERIT.

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