The premise
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Horror Vault's take
In feudal Japan, a tyrannical warlord tightens his iron grip on a defenseless village, leaving its people with nowhere to turn but ancient legend. A towering stone deity — long dormant on the mountain — may be the only force capable of answering their desperate prayers. Daimajin blends samurai period drama with kaiju spectacle in a way that feels genuinely earned, building tension through human suffering before unleashing something far beyond mortal scale. It's a mythic tale of justice where the ground itself seems to tremble with righteous fury.
Content: Violence, Scenes Of Persecution And Cruelty
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Cast
Miwa Takada
Kozasa Hanabusa
Yoshihiko Aoyama
Tadafumi Hanabusa
Jun Fujimaki
Kogenta
Ryūtarō Gomi
Samanosuke
Ryūzō Shimada
Tadakiyo Hanabusa
Tatsuo Endō
Gunjuro
Saburo Date
Ippei Cyjûma
Shizuhiro Izoguchi
Take-bô - The Boy
Hideki Ninomiya
Tadafumi as a boy
Chikara Hashimoto
Otome Tsukimiya
Shinobu - The Shrine Maiden
Keiko Kayama
Haruno
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