Baoh: The Visitor

A short, pulpy blast of gory 80s anime action that races from one violent set piece to the next with little breathing room.

Directed by

Hiroyuki Yokoyama

Genres

Horror, Animation, Science fiction

Starring

Hiroyuki Hori, Noriko Hidaka, Yusaku Yara

Overview

Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old Ikuro, escapes with a psychic young girl named Sumire, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. The only problem for them is that BAOH has the ability to alter its host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving Ikuro acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH, alongside its host, must fight an army of commandos and psionics to get her back.

How it feels

Dark, tense, campy and bleak. Brisk and easy to follow.

About

Survival, violence, conspiracy, isolation

Content

Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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