King of Thorn

King of Thorn

109 mins | Science Fiction, Animation, Fantasy | May 1, 2010

A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

King of Thorn

109 mins | Science Fiction, Animation, Fantasy | May 1, 2010

King of Thorn
A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Bandai Visual, Dentsu, Kadokawa Pictures, TV Tokyo, SUNRISE, Enterbrain Inc., Sony PCL
Original title いばらの王 -King of Thorn-
Directors Hirotaka Endo, Shingo Uchida, Kazuyoshi Katayama
Writers Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yuji Iwahara, Kazuyoshi Katayama

Cast

Kana Hanazawa

as Kasumi Ishiki (voice)

Kohsei Hirota

as Alexandro Pecchino (voice)

Misaki Kuno

as Alice (voice)

Tsutomu Isobe

as Ivan Coral Vega (voice)

Sayaka Ohara

as Katherine Turner (voice)

Ayako Kawasumi

as Laura Owen (voice)

Toshiyuki Morikawa

as Marco Owen (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

as Peter Stevens (voice)

Eri Sendai

as Shizuku Ishiki (voice)

Akiko Yajima

as Timothy Laisenbach (voice) / Walter (voice)

Kenji Nomura

as Ron Portman (voice)