Baoh: The Visitor
Seen it?1989 | 50 min | Horror, Animation, Science Fiction, Action
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With soft box office and little lasting buzz, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for horror fans, sci-fi fans and action fans.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Fast-moving, at 50 min.
- What might put you off
- No age rating on record, so check it first for young kids.
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old Ikuro, escapes with a psychic young girl named Sumire, Doress will do anything to get the boy and girl back. The only problem for them is that BAOH has the ability to alter its host into a living death machine in order to keep it alive. BAOH "awakens" to its "Armed Defense Phenomenons", giving Ikuro acid-tipped claws, bio-regeneration, and super-strength. But Doress takes the girl, and BAOH, alongside its host, must fight an army of commandos and psionics to get her back.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 43K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Hiroyuki Yokoyama
- Hiroyuki HoriBaoh (voice)
- Noriko HidakaSumire (voice)
- Yusaku YaraWalken (voice)
- Michitaka KobayashiSoldier (voice)
- Tomoko MaruoGirl (voice)
- Shoji SatoMasked Man (voice)
- Ikuya SawakiMasked Man (voice)
- Kozo ShioyaEngineer (voice)
- Shinya ÔtakiMasked Man
- Ichiro NagaiDr. Kasuminome (voice)