The Chasing World (2008)

Profile

• Movie: The Chasing World / Real Onigokko
• Romaji: Riaru Onigokko
• Japanese: リアル鬼ごっこ
• Director: Issei Shibata
• Writer: Yusuke Yamada, Issei Shibata
• Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa
• Cinematographer: Shin Hayasaka
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Issei Oda
• Release Date: February 2, 2008
• Runtime: 98min.
• Genre: Action / Fantasy / Suspense-Thriller / Death Game
• Studio: Geneon Entertainment
• Distributor: Phantom Film
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

An odd murder case that only targets persons with the family name “Sato” occurs in Japan. Meanwhile, high school student Tsubasa Sato winds up in a parallel world during a fight with a gangster. Everything seems almost the same, but his friends & classmates are somehow different from who they used to be.

Tsubasa Sato can not comprehend what is happening around him, but when he sees a girl getting killed in front of him by a persuer, he finds out that he is now in a world where the Lord of the land plays a fatal game of “tag”. The real chasing game (“Onigokko”) that targets people named “Sato”.