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A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture. Jump to winter time, and a man is investigating a mysterious monster that was found deep in a rural coal mine seven years earlier. Since that time, a mysterious plague has spread through the nearby small town, inflicting the residents with a strange mental illness. A young Shugendo, missing for some time, suddenly resurfaces, transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it. Directed by indie auteur Toshiaki Toyoda ("Blue Spring").

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Sales Points

• Best Film Nominee - Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival 2021
• Originally The Day of Destruction was made to coincide with the grand opening of the Tokyo Olympics Summer Games, but as we all know, COVID-19 got in the way of that.
• Just finished a successful run on Mubi
• Beautifully shot, art house cinema
• A film shot during and based on the pandemic, a haunting thriller
• From Toshiaki Toyoda, amazing auteur director
• Limited Edition!
• Played at the Japan Cuts Film Festival

Press Quotes

4.5 out of 5 stars, 'One of the first visceral films that's emerged from the COVID-19 era, it's a frenetic mixture of sound, vision and fury that is impossible to be apathetic about.'

     —thereelbits.com

'. It's raw, primordial and unfiltered emotion, an audiovisual experience that gripped me from the very first frame and didn't let go until long after the final credit had faded from the screen. My kind of cinema.'

     —onderhond.com