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Nikkatsu Adds Restored Title ‘Hiruko the Goblin’ to Cannes Market Slate

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Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentNikkatsu has added “Hiruko the Goblin,” a 1991 adventure-horror film by cult director Tsukamoto Shinya, to its sales slate at the Cannes Market, an adjunct to the Cannes Film Festival.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the film’s original release, it has been restored and remastered in a new 2K version.The second feature by Tsukamoto, who had made a sensational debut in 1989 with the bizarre sci-fi shocker “Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” “Hiruko the Goblin” starred pop star and actor Kenji Sawada as an archeologist who investigates a tomb said to haunted by evil spirits.

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