GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

phanthinga For some viewer whom expect to see a raw and gritty with ultra violent like Yoshiaki Kawajiri early work Wicked City will be pretty disappointed because this movie is not like it at all.This is a chessy and over the top anime in a good way with a very simple plot you may see in other anime but the good thing is it not taken it self too seriously.It has good character development,typical 80s animation good in it own right.The only minus thing for me is the last part the ending is pretty rough and i wish they made the anime a bit more longer to satisfied the audience with an epic battle.At an anime it while dated but if you grew up watching this movie it may give you a nostalgic felling

Donald F Yoshiaki Kawajiri has some fun, if questionable, popcorn flicks under his name. Demon City Shinjuku (where did the name Hell City Shinjuku, US come from?) is not one of them. DCS is everything bad about the violent anime of the era, and nothing good. Worst of all, it has little to laugh at, or guilty-pleasure action.The hero is the stock, young, masculine, Japanese every-man. The villain is evil with no character behind him. The love interest is simply there, and lacks any real reason for affection. Their pasts are empty, their presents are uninteresting, and their futures lack change. There isn't even wasted effort here. Its just as pandering as the shallow moe anime of today, only for a different audience of a different time.The animation and action scenes are alright, but without any likable context to ground them, I wasn't amused. You can see this kind of stuff in many other crappy forgotten demon anime. The one saving grace is a fight with a seductive demoness on a pool table. It was the stylized, over-the-top bad I like from Kawajiri. But its a lone, short scene. You've also got a final battle that's easily won through deus ex machina, like they couldn't come up or afford an actual fight. That ruins the film even for the most tolerant retro-nerd side of me.There are hundreds of anime out there. And there are dozens that are more exciting, campy, or embarrassing. While I can't say I hate DCS, there isn't a good reason to see it.

dee.reid 1988's "Demon City Shinjuku" is a movie that I had extremely high hopes for, but got let down instead. That is not to say that the movie is really bad, it's just disappointing. The OVA (original video animation) is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, that much-feared Anime' (Japanese animation) film director behind "Wicked City" (1987), "Ninja Scroll" (1993), and "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" (2000). The story is from the Manga (Japanese comic book) series by Hideyuku Kikuchi, who was also behind the original novels for "Wicked City" and "Vampire Hunter D.""Demon City Shinjuku" reunites both Kikuchi and Kawajiri for the first time since "Wicked City."Just to get this out of the way, this is an adult Anime', but it comes nowhere near the lines crossed by "Wicked City" and "Ninja Scroll." You know what I mean: the frequent and explicit sex scenes/nudity and extreme violence. "Demon City Shinjuku" is fairly bloody, but is hardly super-graphic in nature. What would probably earn this movie an "R"-rating if it were live-action or received a theatrical distribution in the United States would be its decidedly coarse language (this review is based on the English-dubbed version) and frank presentation of demons, black magic, and the ghostly netherworld. (It's also interesting to note that some of the characters in the English-dubbed version have British, Mexican and German accents, rather than just standard American English.)The OVA is set in the near future, where Levih Rah, the demonic overlord of Tokyo's Shinjuku district, is trying to bring about a literal Hell on Earth by attempting to open up a gateway that would allow his benefactors in the demonic underworld to roam free in our dimension. The story is set 10 years after Levih Rah defeated the heroic swordsman Genichirou Iyazoi in a duel, which ultimately led to Levih Rah taking over Shinjuku, which eventually became a crime-ridden, demon-roaming necropolis ("city of the dead" in Greek).Now 10 years later, Levih Rah and his demonic forces are once again attempting to bring about the apocalypse, but this time standing in his way is Genechirou's teenage son Kyoya, who also possesses extraordinary sword-fighting skills in addition to the power of Nempo, a form of internal energy that is analogous to the concept of chi in Asian philosophy but is presented here as being something much closer to The Force from the "Star Wars" movies. Kyoya is aided in his travels by the beautiful Sayaka Rama, daughter of the World Federation President; Chibi, a young Shinjuku street hustler; and the enigmatic mystic Mephisto."Demon City Shinjuku" is a vastly uneven and oddly paced feature but is nonetheless entertaining. To me, that's what really counts, despite the obvious failings of Kawajiri's abilities as a director. Where the film redeems itself, I believe, are in its creature designs and story. The creatures in this OVA are pretty cool-looking and terrifying, and it's interesting to note that shape-shifting is very often a recurring theme in Japanese depictions of other-worldly creatures. The story is also very cool and engaging but what draws it back occasionally are flat characters and a disappointing climax that really lets you down considering everything that led up to it.This OVA is not a failure, but it's an interesting feature to watch nonetheless. Even though it was directed by Anime' master Yoshiaki Kawajiri, I would not consider it essential viewing in his catalog of otherwise impressive and stunning Anime' features ("Ninja Scroll" remains my personal favorite of the director). I would recommend only watching if you are a hardcore Kawajiri or Hideyuku Kikuchi fan.7/10

GreyFox37 now this is an anime! its not the best demon busting i've seen, but it gets the job done. the stortyline is very straightforward, with one or two "huhs?" along the way. the action sequences are nice, but what really makes this movie fall from being great is the lousy ending!!!! why couldn't the ending be as good as the kick ass beginning?? if you like demons and ninja skill, see this.