BioHunter (Special Edition) | 
| Director: Yuzo Sato
Actors: Toshihiko Seki, Kazuhiko Inoue, Yuko Minaguchi, Taro Ishida, John Demita
Studio: Urban Vision
Category: DVD
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 31543
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 58 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D1066D
ISBN: 189060366X
UPC: 638652106605
EAN: 9781890603663
ASIN: B0000541S4
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: January 30, 2001
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Amazon.com
Popular horror director Yoshisaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll) served as head writer on this 1995 feature. Komada and Koshigaya are scientists--and Bio Hunters, agents who battle the Demon Virus that causes humans to mutate into weird monsters. Komada has contracted the virus, but something in his immune system enables him to control his transformations. When Komada rescues Sayaka Murakami, the granddaughter of a famed psychic, from a gang of thugs, he unwittingly pits the Bio Hunters against the powerful politician Seijuro Tabe. The partners discover that Tabe is actually the horrible monster that's been roaming Tokyo, killing young women and eating their livers. He's no longer human, but a corpse possessed by the devil. The final battle pits Komada in his monster form against the tentacles and fanged jaws of the possessed Tabe, although Koshigaya administers the coup de grace. A well-directed, violent entertainment, Bio Hunter suffers from a disjointed story: the link between Tabe's possession and the Demon Virus is never established. The ending suggests that the film may have been intended as a pilot, as Koshigaya declares the Bio Hunters' dedication to the ongoing battle against the Virus. Bio Hunter is not for viewers with weak stomachs. Not rated; suitable only for ages 18 and up for nudity, sex, violence, cannibalism, grotesque imagery, and violence against women. --Charles Solomon
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 Biohunter is very underated February 15, 2001
captainspankypants
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Most anime fans seem to gravitate towards the newer, childish, humor-oriented anime, and forget about the thrillers that made the genre popular in the United States to begin with. Biohunter should be one of those classics. It was made by the same people that made Wicked City and Ninja Scroll, two of the most famous old-school anime movies of all time, and it shows. The basic premise of the movie is that werewolves, vampires, and monsters actually could be real, if there were a genetic disorder that mutated people into these creatures. Two professors are fighting these monsters, and one of them has contracted the "demon virus" himself. The character designs are brilliant, especially for the infected professor. The action scenes are intense, and the animation is top-notch. There is a small amount of gore, but just enough to keep it exciting. It's R-rated stuff, but it won't make you sick like some anime. It's only an hour long, but it's definitely not rushed, and you probably won't even notice how short it is. This is one movie that you shouldn't miss out on!
Bio-Hunter is a thrilling japanimation masterpiece! January 9, 2000
ROBERT DOUGLASS (AKRON, OHIO United States)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Let's get off on the right foot here, I find it very annoying how everyone compares every single anime to Ninja Scroll. There is no better anime than Ninja Scroll, ever! There, we've established that so now lets move forward and view this with an open mind. Imagine present day Tokyo, 4 women dead, bodies eaten, their live ivers ripped out. It isn't your usual weirdo or pervert...it's them. Imagine your a professor of molecular biology and you've discovered a new virus. A virus that turns seemingly normal people into deranged beast like killers with demonic powers..the "demon virus". It sounds far out to your colleagues but one believes you, your friend Kumada, and that's because he's been infected by it. It gets worse..at first it's somewhat of an advantage, he has an extrodinary immune system which means he can fight off the virus and use it at his will and transform into a demonic beast and help you in your battle to save lives and irradicate the virus. But now he's losing control of it, the virus is winning and to make matters worse a powerful political figure who controls the police force and has his private gang of machine gun waving thugs hot on your trail has been infected..and they've got your girl too! If you wanna know what else happens i suggest you buy this movie, watch it and then add it to your top ten anime file right next to Akira and Ninja Scroll.
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TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
What could be worse than contracting a virus that threatens to overtake you and make you consume human flesh, spreading at random for a seemingly an unknown reason? Try having to hunt the beasts that are infected while being infected yourself, keeping the virus in check (to some degree) while using it as a weapon to both detect the beasts and to destroy them as well. That's the reasoning behind the Bio Hunters, Komada and Koshigaya, and the Demon virus that seems to be working its way through the streets of Tokyo; most notably resulting in a series of brutal attacks on young women of the city and the subsequent ingestion of their internal organs. Still, that's before the oddities of love, emotion, politics, and divination enter the already clustered field. Although in the really short department (45 minutes isn't something I normally approve of), Bio Hunter more than makes up for this fact with portions of intrigue - and the occasional person that happens across the mind of Yoshisaki Kawajiri. His stamp is more than apparent here, too, with the horror of the story delivering and the pace of the piece moving pretty quickly, showing the viewer that it is the lack of padding and not content that keeps the length minimal. Combine this with quality animation, a plot that drips blood, nudity, violence, some nice scenery dripping blood and violence, and a story that is worth keeping pace with and you have a "special something" that everyone should at least look into.
 wack. November 15, 2001
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
downright wack.i was thinking of leaving it at that, but i guess i should elaborate. IIRC, it was decently animated (better than i'd imagine your average kitty or anime 18 title to be), but nothing to write home about. if you must delve into the realm of the Late Night Skinemax (naughty tentacle sub-category) category of Anime, i'd suggest you start off with something that has a more noteable studio behind it (and feature-length) like Wicked City (still not a fave of mine, but a better place to start off in *this* category) which has more time to dig into its characters and less of a manga-packed-into-1-hour-drama feel to it. or i guess Ninja Scroll. if you're less of a sex than violence fan (but still into the horror vein), and just getting into anime (and this was suggested by some pimply anime nerd at a video store), i'd suggest starting out with the gothic classic Vampire Hunter D (80s-ish, but it's what got a lot of us into horror anime!), Demon City Shinjuku, Judge (maybe?), Perfect Blue (well, LESS gratuitous-type sex), and perhaps Blood: The Last Vampire
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