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Despite nearing death, Yukiko’s love gives Nakamura enough strength to perform one last trick which successfully destroys Kato’s physical body. Meanwhile, Kouou realizes that Japan is doomed to lose the war. Thus he changes targets, sparing the Allied leaders, and launching a psychic attack against
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prompted a sequel to immediately be put into production. The budget was considerably smaller than its predecessor, and the plot adapted only a single book in the series (as opposed to the first film, which had adapted the plot of four books). The only returning actor from the previous film was
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to suffer for its crimes and sets off to stop Kouou’s plan from succeeding so that the war will continue and Tokyo will be destroyed. To challenge Kato, Kouou has hired a young man, Yuko Nakamura (
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The film makes many deviations from the original plot of the novel. In the original book "Great War in the Capital", the target of the spiritual assassination is not Adolf Hitler, but rather
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over major Japanese cities. Desperate to end the war quickly, the government concocts a plan to eliminate major key leaders of each country. With the support of the Japanese government, the
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using magic. Unfortunately, the spirits of those civilians who were horribly killed during the fire bombings culminate together and reincarnate
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lodges. At the end of the book, Kato kills Tomasso and the project goes to completion. Roosevelt is cursed, suffers from
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on August 8, 2015 in a Special Edition bundle featuring new cover art by SPFX artist
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in his bunker. Yukiko prays to Masakado to seal away Kato’s soul forever.
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to be used against Japan. Also the mystic hired to curse Roosevelt is
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The sequel begins in 1945, during a period extensive of American
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This article is about the 1989 film. For the 1961 film, see
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effects. The film also marked the directorial debut of
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The film and its sequel were both released in Japan on
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Index

Teito Taisen
The Last War (1961 film)

Kaizo Hayashi
Teito Monogatari
Hiroshi Aramata
Satoshi Kanno
Masaya Kato
Kaho Minami
Kyūsaku Shimada
Naoko Nozawa
Tetsuro Tamba
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Tadao Nakamura
Shohei Ando
Keiichi Itagaki
Koji Ueno
Exe
Imagica
Toho Studios
Japanese
Japanese
Hepburn
epic
tokusatsu
historical
dark fantasy
science fiction film
Toho Studios
Teito Monogatari

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