Horror of the Wolf

***Horror of the Wolf***  (狼の紋章,   *Ōkami no Monshō*?, lit. *Crest of the Wolf*) is a 1973 Japanese horror film co-produced by Toho Pictures and Toho Eizo and distributed by Toho. It is an adaptation of the manga *Wolf Guy* written by Kazumasa Hirai and illustrated by Hisashi Sakaguchi. It was released to Japanese theaters on September 1, 1973. directed by masashi mastsumoto and stars Koichi Ueda and Kensho Yamashita.

## Plot

Akiko Aoka is an English teacher at Hakutoku Gakuen High School. She first met the boy in Shinjuku at night. The boy was blackmailed by a thug but was unresisting, and was finally stabbed with a knife. Aoka screamed and fainted on the spot. When the police car arrived and the blue deer noticed, there was no boy, only a knife with blood was thrown away. Three days later, the boy transferred to Aoka's school. Aoka, who took the boy Inugami Akira to the medical office, took off his shirt, but found no scars that night. In Aoka's class, there is a bad group led by Haguro, whose father is the top executive of the Tomeikai. Haguro's Inui, Kuroda and his colleagues immediately add a terrible lynch to Inugami, but he remains unresisting. One day, Aoka asked Inugami's mansion. Shining green eyes in a pitch-black room. There was an inugami who turned into a wolf. However, Aoka, who was told that it was a surprised toy wolf mask, met with Inugami to remove the mask, but noticed that his body was burning and left the room in a hurry. A duo of thugs attacked Aoka on the way home. At that time, a beast jumped into the darkness with a fierce roar and saved her. And, in her distant consciousness, she learned that it was an inugami. A few days later, a reportage writer who called Aoka Shinmei visited and persistently questioned Inugami. Meanwhile, a student rally for expulsion of violence was held in the school, led by Noriko Kimura, the chairman of the school. Kuroda and his friends smashed into the rally, and the moment Kuroda tried to attack Noriko, Inugami saved Noriko, and Kuroda stabbed his knife into his belly. The moon was missing and it was about the new moon. Werewolves lose their supernatural powers during the new moon. Haguro, noticing it, took Aoka as a hostage and lure Inugami to the Tomeikai headquarters. Haguro, holding a Japanese sword, stood in front of them when Inugami tried to save Aoka, who was confined in a closed room. Every time the two flashes, the three flashes, and the blue lightning bolt ran, the blood of the dog god rose, and Haguro stabbed the sword from behind the dog god just to stop. At that moment, the blade was torn off from Haguro's hand, and the face of the Inugami who turned around slowly turned into a wolf. Was there. The next moment, with a terrifying roar, the beast slammed into Haguro and stabbed Haguro with a sword that pierced his chest ... Aoka, holding the body of Inugami, who has now returned to human form, in both arms, left the Tomeikai headquarters burning in the night sky.

## Cast

* aro Shigaki   as   Akira Inugami, Wolf Guy
* Yoshi Shinshiki   as   Akira Inugami (child)
* Yoko Ichiji (as Shoko Aki)   as   Akiko Aoshika
* Noriko Kimura   as   Michiko Honda
* Yusaku Matsuda   as   Haguro
* Toshitaka Ito   as   Rikiya Kuroda
* Toshio Kurosawa   as   Shinmei
* Sayoko Kato   as   Ryuko Konuma
* Masanobu Sawai   as   Oga
* Masao Imanishi   as   Principal Onuki
* Koichi Hayashi   as   Professor Moritsuka
* Kotaro Tomita   as   Tadokoro
* Toku Nishio   as   Magawa
* Koji Kawamura   as   Takeo Haguro
* Ranko Mizuki   as   Fumi Tozaki
* Koichi Ueda   as   Gang member
* Akihiko Nishijima   as   Student
* Ryo Horikawa, Mikio Ozawa, Koji Miemachi, Masakazu Wakihira, Mikio Shiozaki, Kiyokazu Nemoto, Fumio Niikura, Junichi Nakajima   as   Others
* Kensho Yamashita   as   Inugami's father (uncredited)
* Takuya Yuki, Kazuo Imai, Shizuko Azuma   as   Teachers (uncredited)

## Staff

* Directed by   Masashi Matsumoto
* Written by   Fumio Ishimori, Jun Fukuda, Masashi Matsumoto
* Based on the *Wolf Guy* manga by   Kazumasa Hirai
* Executive producer   Osamu Tanaka
* Music by   Riichiro Manabe
* Theme songs "Horror of the Wolf" and "The Wolf's Parade" performed by   Jiro Sugita
	+ Lyrics by   Norio Furumata, Fumiko Okada, Masashi Matsumoto
	+ Composed by   Riichiro Manabe
* Cinematography by   Shoji Ueda
* Edited by   Isao Takeda
* Production design by   Kazuo Takenaka
* 1st assistant director   Masahiro Nara

## Titles

* Crest of the Wolf  (狼の紋章,   *Ōkami no Monshō*?, literal Japanese title)

* Wolf's Crest

## DVD

**Toho** DVD (2006)

* **Region:** 2
* **Discs:** 1
* **Audio:** Japanese
* **Special features:** Audio commentary by Masashi Matsumoto.
* **Notes:** Re-released as "limited price edition" on February 7, 2014, then again as part of the *Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection* on August 19, 2015