An official website and X (formerly Twitter) account opened today announced that an anime series adaptation of I Left my A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths is set for a continuous two-cour broadcast from January 2025 in Japan. A teaser trailer and visual were released, along with the main cast and staff. Teaser Visual The anime's main cast is as follows: Yuke voiced by Hiromu Mineta (Yatora in Blue Period ) Marina voiced by Hana Inami Silk voiced by Natsumi Kawaida (Himari in The Demon Prince of Momochi House ) Rain voiced by Nene Hieda (Amyu in The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World ) Yuke Marina Silk Rain Related: Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I'm Actually the Strongest Anime Reveals January 2025 Premiere in Teaser Trailer Based on the light novels by Uenami Kosuke and Super Zombie, Katsumi Ono ( Skeleton Knight in Another World ) directs I...
- 9/4/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
“Helldriver” is another preposterous splatter film by the master of the genre, Yoshihiro Nishimura, this time engaging on zombies.
The “story” unfolds as follows: Taku and his sister Rikka are a couple of roaming sadistic murderers who eventually decide to kill her abandoned husband. During the act, his daughter Kika arrives and attacks the couple. Subsequently, a meteorite falls on Rikka, releasing a toxic gas that transforms every resident of northern Japan into a zombie, and her into their queen. Some years later, the country is split in half by a wall that separates the healthy population of the south part from the zombies in the north. The government hires Kika, who is now a skilled zombie killer, to lead a team of outlaws to the north, to kill the zombie queen.
Not to forget, the only way for someone to kill a zombie is to cut...
The “story” unfolds as follows: Taku and his sister Rikka are a couple of roaming sadistic murderers who eventually decide to kill her abandoned husband. During the act, his daughter Kika arrives and attacks the couple. Subsequently, a meteorite falls on Rikka, releasing a toxic gas that transforms every resident of northern Japan into a zombie, and her into their queen. Some years later, the country is split in half by a wall that separates the healthy population of the south part from the zombies in the north. The government hires Kika, who is now a skilled zombie killer, to lead a team of outlaws to the north, to kill the zombie queen.
Not to forget, the only way for someone to kill a zombie is to cut...
- 1/10/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Stars: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Kazuki Namioka, Yûrei Yanagi | Written by Yoshihiro Nishimura, Daichi Nagisa | Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura
For people who are used to “J-sploitation” films they will know what’s coming when I tell you that Helldriver comes from the same people who gave us Tokyo Gore Police. I’ll admit I’m a lover of Tokyo Gore Police, I love it’s all out gore, it’s attempts to shock and the fact it’s all out crazy. Helldriver is very similar in that approach, and it’s got a chick with a chainsaw sword, where can it go wrong?
The story set up for Helldriver is simple. There is the need for revenge as a daughter see’s her father killed by her evil mother and uncle, people are being turned into alien zombie type creatures by a strange ash and the government has no...
Stars: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, Kazuki Namioka, Yûrei Yanagi | Written by Yoshihiro Nishimura, Daichi Nagisa | Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura
For people who are used to “J-sploitation” films they will know what’s coming when I tell you that Helldriver comes from the same people who gave us Tokyo Gore Police. I’ll admit I’m a lover of Tokyo Gore Police, I love it’s all out gore, it’s attempts to shock and the fact it’s all out crazy. Helldriver is very similar in that approach, and it’s got a chick with a chainsaw sword, where can it go wrong?
The story set up for Helldriver is simple. There is the need for revenge as a daughter see’s her father killed by her evil mother and uncle, people are being turned into alien zombie type creatures by a strange ash and the government has no...
- 1/14/2012
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
Released in the United States by WellgoUSA in November, the new Helldriver DVD/Blu-ray is chock full of low-budget zombie goodness. Originally released theatrically by Sushi Typhoon, bastard child of Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation, Helldriver takes a unique and funny look at the zombie apocalypse.
An alien life form has turned the world’s worst mother into the queen bitch of zombies and proceeds to spew a dark ash into the skies over Northern Japan. The country has been split in two with a wall built to protect Southern Japan from being overrun by hungry zombies. With the north reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland the south has become overcrowded by survivors and food and living space is at a premium. The current administration wants to wipe out the zombies and take back the country, so they send a “volunteer” group on a suicide mission to...
Released in the United States by WellgoUSA in November, the new Helldriver DVD/Blu-ray is chock full of low-budget zombie goodness. Originally released theatrically by Sushi Typhoon, bastard child of Japan’s Nikkatsu Corporation, Helldriver takes a unique and funny look at the zombie apocalypse.
An alien life form has turned the world’s worst mother into the queen bitch of zombies and proceeds to spew a dark ash into the skies over Northern Japan. The country has been split in two with a wall built to protect Southern Japan from being overrun by hungry zombies. With the north reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland the south has become overcrowded by survivors and food and living space is at a premium. The current administration wants to wipe out the zombies and take back the country, so they send a “volunteer” group on a suicide mission to...
- 12/28/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
*here be spoilers.
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura.
Writers: Yoshihiro Nishimura and Daichi Nagisa.
Cast: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina and Kazuki Namioka.
Very rarely will Japanese horror cinema, if Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver can be called that, be considered art. In this film's case, maybe it should be called the finest example of nihilism—mostly with zombies as its victims—while plodding through a very thin plot about a girl yearning for revenge.
Just prior to the actual story, the film has a moment where all that happens is a mysterious stranger jumping over a wall and harvesting zombie antlers for some unknown reason. After this curious montage, the actual story takes place in one extended flashback: an innocent Kika (Yumiko Hara) arrives home only to discover her maniacal mother Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and homicidal uncle turning her father's legs into ground meat. They are getting ready to cook him up. Kika tries to escape,...
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura.
Writers: Yoshihiro Nishimura and Daichi Nagisa.
Cast: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina and Kazuki Namioka.
Very rarely will Japanese horror cinema, if Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver can be called that, be considered art. In this film's case, maybe it should be called the finest example of nihilism—mostly with zombies as its victims—while plodding through a very thin plot about a girl yearning for revenge.
Just prior to the actual story, the film has a moment where all that happens is a mysterious stranger jumping over a wall and harvesting zombie antlers for some unknown reason. After this curious montage, the actual story takes place in one extended flashback: an innocent Kika (Yumiko Hara) arrives home only to discover her maniacal mother Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and homicidal uncle turning her father's legs into ground meat. They are getting ready to cook him up. Kika tries to escape,...
- 12/24/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Some more Asian carnage is getting ready to crash onto both Blu-ray and DVD, and believe us when we tell you there's no finer sight to behold than high definition entrails flying through the air. So good!
From the Press Release
From director Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) comes the epic, apocalyptic zombie-fighting road movie Helldriver, featuring non-stop, over-the-top splatter action debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD November 22 from Well Go USA. The latest cult film from the prolific Japanese production company Sushi Typhoon, Helldriver takes place in a Japan where half the population has become not-so-sexy flesh eaters and the economy has gently withered away ... until Kika (Yumiko Hara) arrives. A stunning high school girl armed with an artificial heart-powered chainsaw sword, she leads a motley crew of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina,...
From the Press Release
From director Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) comes the epic, apocalyptic zombie-fighting road movie Helldriver, featuring non-stop, over-the-top splatter action debuting on Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack and DVD November 22 from Well Go USA. The latest cult film from the prolific Japanese production company Sushi Typhoon, Helldriver takes place in a Japan where half the population has become not-so-sexy flesh eaters and the economy has gently withered away ... until Kika (Yumiko Hara) arrives. A stunning high school girl armed with an artificial heart-powered chainsaw sword, she leads a motley crew of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina,...
- 9/27/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Release Date: Nov. 22, 2011
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Yumiko Hara is armed and very, very dangerous in Helldriver.
From Japan’s Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) comes Helldriver, an apocalyptic zombie-filled horror road movie overflowing with crazed, splatterific action.
The over-the-top film kicks off when a meteor crashes into Japan and releases a toxic ash that turns inhabitants in the Northern half of the country into blood-thirsty zombies. Some time later, with the North now walled off from the rest of Japan, pretty high school girl Kika (Yumiko Hara) is charged with leading a group of ragtag soldiers into the infected region to kill the “zombie queen” (Eihi Shiina) … who also happens to be her homicidal mother! The artificial heart-power chainsaw sword that Kika wields is sure to come in handy…
A monstrous cult hit in its native country, Helldriver has been playing horror and science-fiction...
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Yumiko Hara is armed and very, very dangerous in Helldriver.
From Japan’s Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) comes Helldriver, an apocalyptic zombie-filled horror road movie overflowing with crazed, splatterific action.
The over-the-top film kicks off when a meteor crashes into Japan and releases a toxic ash that turns inhabitants in the Northern half of the country into blood-thirsty zombies. Some time later, with the North now walled off from the rest of Japan, pretty high school girl Kika (Yumiko Hara) is charged with leading a group of ragtag soldiers into the infected region to kill the “zombie queen” (Eihi Shiina) … who also happens to be her homicidal mother! The artificial heart-power chainsaw sword that Kika wields is sure to come in handy…
A monstrous cult hit in its native country, Helldriver has been playing horror and science-fiction...
- 9/26/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
In recent years France has been among the front-runners in pushing the boundaries of modern horror. With such offerings as Frontier(s), Inside and High Tension, French filmmakers have been making us seriously squirm. It is with this reminder of the quality of their filmmaking that we at Dread Central bring you an announcement of the film list from the 17th Annual L'Etrange Festival, France's biggest horror film festival.
With over 70 films being screened and more than 17,000 attendees expected to descend on Paris, Le'Etrange Festival
Below we have the Complete listing of the festival's events:
From the Press Release
L’Étrange Festival – a unique event bringing filmgoers a fascinating roster of provocative and eye-opening films – is thrilled to announce the line-up for its 17th edition, September 2 – 11, 2011 in Paris, France.
The 2011 line-up continues the tradition of highlighting emerging talent, paying homage to independent-minded filmmakers and featuring a truly diverse program that includes cutting-edge works,...
With over 70 films being screened and more than 17,000 attendees expected to descend on Paris, Le'Etrange Festival
Below we have the Complete listing of the festival's events:
From the Press Release
L’Étrange Festival – a unique event bringing filmgoers a fascinating roster of provocative and eye-opening films – is thrilled to announce the line-up for its 17th edition, September 2 – 11, 2011 in Paris, France.
The 2011 line-up continues the tradition of highlighting emerging talent, paying homage to independent-minded filmmakers and featuring a truly diverse program that includes cutting-edge works,...
- 8/25/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Well Go USA has announced the Blu-ray/DVD release for Tokyo Gore Police‘s director Yoshihiro Nishimura’s latest in Helldriver (review here). Look for it on November 22nd.
The action horror film plays out a doomsday scenario in which Japan is overrun by blood-thirsty zombies. It is up to Kika (Yumiko Hara), a girl with an artificial heart and a chainsaw sword to hunt down the zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the uprising.
While no cover art has been released, the extras have:
Making-of Featurette
Interviews
Deleted Scenes
Photo Gallery
Trailer
Source: Blu-ray...
The action horror film plays out a doomsday scenario in which Japan is overrun by blood-thirsty zombies. It is up to Kika (Yumiko Hara), a girl with an artificial heart and a chainsaw sword to hunt down the zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the uprising.
While no cover art has been released, the extras have:
Making-of Featurette
Interviews
Deleted Scenes
Photo Gallery
Trailer
Source: Blu-ray...
- 8/17/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
The new Japanese splatter flick, Helldriver, from director Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) is coming to Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on November 22, 2011. The zombie movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic Japan which is overrun by blood-thirsty zombies. It is up to Kika (Yumiko Hara), a girl with an artificial heart and a chainsaw sword to hunt down the zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the uprising. Special features include: Making-of Featurette, Interviews, Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery and Traile...
- 8/17/2011
- by wil
- HorrorYearbook
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