Got a chance to catch this obscure Japanese horror flick in an actual theater yesterday and I would say this goes into the goofy but awesome monster movie category. It's sort of an Asian version of a 50's Roger Corman film where our main character is the victim of some women who are jealous of her beauty so they try to kill her and then she becomes a hairy blood-drinking monster and it's revenge city. Strangely the vampire here looks more like a bigfoot than your typical suave bloodsucker but that's one of the things that make this unique. There's also an old witchy woman with a punk rock haircut, a humpback and a gaggle of rubber bats thrown in for some added spook-show thrills. I'm not sure where you can see this in a theater outside of some weird retro art-house type of place(apparently there's a DVD available somewhere since that's what they projected) but if you ever get the chance check it out for a wacky monster flick where the monster is the hero.
An overview of Shintoho studios, which also brought us the even more goofy SUPER GIANT series:
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