妖獸都市(wicked city)

片 名─妖獸都市(wicked city)
原 作─菊地秀行
監 督─川尻善昭
導 演─川尻善昭
日 期─1987

簡介
原是日本作家菊地秀行所著的小說，是現代魔幻冒險故事，也是他所執筆的「黑暗護衛」系列首部作品。後來由川尻善昭於1987年製作為動畫電影，並曾於香港上映。1992年，香港麥大傑根據動畫版改編，導演了同名的電影，由徐克監製，黎明、張學友、李嘉欣、張耀揚、李若彤、袁和平、仲代達矢、葉山麗子、碧莉莎等主演。
2006年，德國Variety公司也表示要製作妖獸都市真人電影。

劇情
大多數人類不知道在人類世界之外有一魔界，與人類關係緊張。在數百年前，魔界和人類世界簽定和約，但好戰的魔界激進派分子一直企圖破壞和約。故事以人類瀧蓮三郎為主角，白天他是東京一家電子公司的業務員，但他真正的工作則是人類世界的「黑暗護衛」（闇ガード），為維護和平協定，對抗從魔界潛入人類世界的邪魔。

片中他一登場就遇到了吃男人的蜘蛛女妖。瀧蓮三郎奉命與魔界方面派遣的黑暗護衛麻紀繪聯手，保護兩百歲的重要人物喬瑟貝‧邁亞多到東京，更新兩個世界的和約。經過數次鬥智鬥法後，瀧蓮三郎和麻紀繪這才發現，原來自己才是真正的「重要人物」，因為他們兩人相愛結合後所生下的新生代，可以開創真正和平的新時代。

The narrative is set towards the end of the 20th century and explores the idea that the human world secretly coexists with the demon world with a secret police force known as the Black Guard protecting the boundary. The film is a sexual thriller and uses sex both as a weapon (sex with monsters, rape, oral sodomy and torture) and as a form of romantic expression. The film portrays demons as beings that can walk in human form and seduce their prey much like a Siren instilling castration anxiety in the viewer through use of demons with vagina dentata. The film portrays demons as fleshy beastials sporting tentacles in a way that has manifested itself in other works ever since, enforced further by Yoshiaki Kawajiri character designs in Makaitoshi Shinjuku in 1988. USA comic book creator Todd McFarlane has often cited many designs in his famed comic book Spawn have been inspired by Yōjū Toshi.

The theatrical release runs for 82 minutes, but in certain countries a censored version has been released. The western tag line is "When desire turns deadly, there's no place left to hide..."

The existence of the 'Black World' is known to very few people. For centuries, a pact between the two has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed every few hundred years to continue relative harmony. This time around, there is a militant faction called The Radicals that will stop at nothing to prevent the signing of a new treaty.

Two agents of the Black Guards are charged with insuring the success of the treaty. The human policeman Taki Renzaburo is an electronics salesman by day and a black guard agent by night; his partner Makie, who masquerades as a model, is a beautiful woman from the black world and their mission is to protect a man named Giuseppi Mayart, a 200 year-old man whose presence at the peace treaty signing is critical. The radicals wish to kill Mayart to upset the peace between both worlds.

Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri had just completed his work directing the very dark and gritty segment The Running Man from portmanteau anime Meikyu monogatari (1987) and was asked to direct a 35 minute short on Hideyuki Kikuchis novel. Kawajiri completed the short and after Japan Home Video saw a screening of it, they wished him to make it feature length. The producers Kenji Kurata and Makoto Seya expressed their opinion that the director shouldn’t extend it unless he wanted to. Kawajiri was such a fan of the world, he saw it as an opportunity to explore more characterisation and created more animation for the start, the middle and the end. The project was completed in under a year