Dragon Head
| Dragon Head | |
Cover of the second Japanese volume of Dragon Head, published by Kodansha on July 6, 1995
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ドラゴンヘッド (Doragon Heddo) |
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| Genre | Psychological horror |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Minetarō Mochizuki |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young Magazine |
| Original run | 1995 – 2000 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | George Iida |
| Produced by | Takashi Hirano |
| Music by | Misia |
| Released | August 2003 |
Dragon Head (Japanese: ドラゴンヘッド Hepburn: Doragon Heddo?) is a post-apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from 1995 and 2000 and collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English by Tokyopop, with Volume 10 released 2008-04-01. In 1997, the manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.
The series was adapted as a live-action film written and directed by Jôji Iida, released in Japan in August 2003. It starred Satoshi Tsumabuki and Sayaka Kanda.
The story begins with Teru Aoki (青木 輝), the main protagonist, on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. Just before entering a tunnel, Teru briefly sees something in the distance, though he doesn't understand what he saw. Soon after entering the tunnel, a powerful earthquake makes the train derail and partially destroys it, and blocks both sides of the tunnel with rubble. Knocked unconscious during the derailment, when he reawakens Teru finds, much to his horror, that all of his teachers and classmates have died in the crash.
Wandering the wrecked wagons of the train, he finds Nobuo Takahashi (高橋 のぶお), a highly unnerved boy who apparently was being bullied at school, and Ako Seto (瀬戸 憧子), who is unconscious and wounded. Teru gives what medical attention he can to Ako, who wakes up after several days. While they find temporary shelter, food and water in the dining wagon of the train, Nobuo, shocked by the fact that the tunnel is completely sealed and they are buried alive, starts giving in to his fear, to the point where he declares that "something" is lurking in the darkness of the tunnel. Before long, he starts wandering the corpses-filled wagons, muttering incoherently to himself, and declares the wrecked train to be his and his only. This forces Teru and Ako to take supplies and build up a makeshift shelter out of the train, where they live for some time.
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