Part of their original slate of releases but now removed, Australian distributor Madman Entertainment previously listed a Blu-ray edition for the Wicked City film with a planned March 3rd, 2021 release. They also listed a limited-edition double feature release of it with Demon City Shinjuku. Both of those releases have now been pulled from Madman’s site but have the potential of being resolicited through the business end in a couple of weeks.
Wicked City:
The film was originally released in 1987 directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiro, who also served as the character designer. The film is based on the novels from Hideyuki Kikuchi that began in 1985.
Plot concept: It’s not unusual for lady-killer Renzaburo Taki to share a night with a woman. When that woman can turn into a demonic spider, however, it’s just a little worrying. The demons are on the move, and as a member of the blackguard, Taki’s Job–his *real* job–is to protect the human world from the demon world. And his work is just beginning! A fragile peace exists between the two worlds, brokered, by a treaty. In order for renewal of that treaty to go smoothly, Taki has to protect Giuseppi Mayart, a two-hundred-year-old man with immense spiritual power, from an extremist faction of demons seeking to bring chaos to the two worlds.
Worst of all Taki’s assigned a partner for the mission: the unnaturally beautiful Makie, a fellow black guard member… and herself a demon! The two will have to go all out to protect tt the old man. as not only are the demons going to extreme lengths to kill him but Mayart seems oddly unconcerned for his own safety. Is there more going than Taki and Makie realized?
Demon City Shinjuku:
Plot Concept: The near future. The glittering skyline of Tokyo now lies broken and crumbling under the weight of an oppressive evil: the tyrannical Rebi Rah. Rah has transformed Shinjuku, the heart of Tokyo, into a city of demons… and that’s just the beginning. There are only three days left until Rah destroys the world.
For years, no one has dared to cross the foul moat which Rah and his evil minions built around the Demon City – until now. Desperate to rescue her father, who was taken captive by Rah and his monstrous minions, the beautiful Sayaka Rama enlists the help of Kyoya, a streetwise Tokyo teenager. The two must bravely venture into the Demon City, where even the army fears to tread.
Even if Sayaka and Kyoya manage to defeat Rah’s army of monsters, will they be able to destroy the dark sorcerer? Or will they face the same fate as all those who came before them?
[Source: Madman]
