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Release Date:
February 13, 2016
Original Title:
ライチ☆光クラブ
Alternate Titles:
Lychee Light Club
Raichi Hikari kurabu
Raichi☆Hikari Kurabu
Genres:
Horror
Production Companies:
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 114
The year is 2XXX and Keiko Town is an over-industrialized stretch of blackened factories pumping out thick layers of smoke that cast it in a perpetual state of semi-darkness. The citizens of Keiko Town fare no better and walk around their dilapidated town in a stupor of hopeless despair. In an abandoned factory in an obscure corner of town lies the secret base of Hikari Club. The teenage boys of Hikari Club despise the adults of their community and have taken it upon themselves to eradicate what they perceive to be the evil and filth of the grown-up world. To accomplish this, they build a machine with artificial intelligence and dub it “Litchi”. However, with the boys on the cusp of puberty and turning into adults themselves, their own world has begun to collapse around them.
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Comic Book:
Usamaru Furuya
Costume Design:
Kazuhiro Sawataishi
Director:
Eisuke Naito
Director of Photography:
Yoko Itakura
Editor:
Ryuji Miyajima
Lighting Director:
Masanori Midorikawa
Screenplay:
Keisuke Tominaga
Eisuke Naito
Special Effects Key Makeup Artist:
Tomo Hyakutake
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