

Detroit Metal City
2008-08-22 · 104 min · ★ 6.5
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
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- Directors
- Toshio Lee
- Production companies
- TOHO, Horipro, Hakusensha, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), dentsu, d-rights, PARCO, Stardust Pictures, Tokyo FM, Yahoo! Japan, Nippan Group Holdings, TSUTAYA Group
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Kenichi MatsuyamaSôichi Negishi / Johannes Krauser II
Rosa KatoYuri Aikawa
Ryuji AkiyamaTerumichi Nishida / Camus
Yoshihiko HosodaMasayuki Wada / Alexander Jagi
Kazuma SuzukiHidetaka Asato
Issey TakahashiHideki Saji (singer of Tetrapod Melon Tea)
MinamiNia
Yasuko MatsuyukiManager
Yoshiko MiyazakiKeiko Negishi
Ryo KatoToshihiko Negishi
Gene SimmonsJack Il Dark
Koji Ohkura
Yoshinori Okada
Daikichi Sugawara
Seijun Nobukawa
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