Inuyasha Movies 1-4

Four theatrical releases of the series has appeared so far:

Christmas 2001 - InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (時代を越える想い Toki o Koeru Omoi)
Christmas 2002 - InuYasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (鏡の中の夢幻城 Kagami no Naka no Mugenjō)
Christmas 2003 - InuYasha: The Sword of World Conquest (天下覇道の剣 Tenka Hadō no Ken)
Christmas 2004 - InuYasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island (紅蓮の蓬莱島, InuYasha: Guren no Hōraijima), released on December 23, 2004 in Japan



Inuyasha Movie 1: Toki o Koeru Omoi
(2001)

CAST LIST:

Yamaguchi Kappei as the loveable Puppyboy Inuyasha
Yukino Satsuki as Higurashi Kagome
Tsujitani Kouji as Miroku
Kuwashima Houko as Sango
Watanabe Kumiko as Shippou

Ogata Kenichi as Myouga
Kyouda Hisako as Kaede
Narita Ken as Sesshoumaru
Hidaka Noriko as Kikyou
Tomokazu Seki as Menomaru
Shiina Hekiru as Ruri
Kawakami Tomoko as Hari



Inuyasha Movie 2: Kagami no naka no Mugenjou
(2002)

CAST LIST:

Yamaguchi Kappei as my twitchy-eared Inuyasha *tweak tweak*
Yukino Satsuki as Higurashi Kagome
Harada Meiko as Kaguya Hime

Tsujitani Kouji as Miroku
Kuwashima Houko as Sango
Hidaka Noriko as Kikyou
Watanabe Kumiko as Shippou
Oogami Izumi as Kagura
Yukana as Kanna
Toshiyuki Morikawa as the Theater Basement... Naraku
Noto Mamiko as Rin
Ogata Kenichi as Myouga
Ueda Yuji as Houjou Akitoki/Houjou-kun




Inuyasha Movie 3: Tenka Hadou no Ken
(2003)

CAST LIST:

Yamaguchi Kappei as my beloved Puppyboy Inuyasha *slobberdrool*
Yukino Satsuki as Higurashi Kagome
Narita Ken as Sesshoumaru

Tsujitani Kouji as Miroku
Yanami Jouji as Toutousai
Kuwashima Houko as Sango
Kimotsuki Kaneta as Saya
Watanabe Kumiko as Shippou
Outsuka Akio as Inu-Papa
Nagashima Yuuichi (the hyper nut! WOOHOO!) as Jaken
Matsumoto Yasunori as Setsuna Takemaru
Noto Mamiko as Rin
Inoue Kikuko as Izayoi
Ogata Kenichi as Myouga
Tachiki Fumihiko as Souunga


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Hundreds of years before the story of Inuyasha we know of Inuyasha began...

Mortally wounded from a battle with Ryukossei, the Lord of the Dogs (Inu no Taisho) and his son, Sesshoumaru, meet for what will be their last time. With his heart set on protecting Izayoi, the woman he loves (something Sesshoumaru appears not to agree with), Inu no Taisho goes to the castle of Setsuna Takemaru. There, he finds Izayoi murdered, after it had been discovered she'd given birth to his half-youkai boy. Takemaru orders the castle to be burned to the ground in order to kill the mononoke (animal spirit). After using the power of Tenseiga to keep Izayoi's soul in This World, Inu no Taisho then sets his sights on confronting Takemaru himself. Holding back Takemaru buys enough time for Izayoi to escape with his son, but neither man makes it from the burning castle.

Izayoi and the newborn make it to safety, and the child is given a name by the request of his father.

Inuyasha.

In present-day Tokyo, Grandpa Higurashi introduces the family to an ominous 700-year-old sword. Written on its scabbard are the words "Murakumo no Tsurugi" (cloud-mass sword). The sword is then revealed to actually named "Souunga," (also meaning "cloud mass sword"). It was sealed long ago, but now it appears that the seal has been broken...

Inuyasha and Kagome, on their way home from school, encounter the now-sentient sword, and its guardian youkai, named Saya. When Inuyasha tries to hold the sword himself, the powerful jyaki surrounding it takes control of his body and begins to transform him into his full-youkai form. Before Kagome or anyone can intervene, Inuyasha runs back to the well, along with the sword...

He returns to the Sengoku Jidai, battling with the sword for control of his own body. A nearby village, however, becomes the first site of attack; under the control of Souunga, Inuyasha begins to tear through the village using the sword's youki attack, "Gokuryuuha." Throughout this, however, Sango, Shippou, and Miroku realize that Inuyasha is still trying to restrain himself from attacking. Following the attack, Inuyasha retreats into the mountains. Kagome and the others regroup and go to find Inuyasha. When they discover him, he's still under control of Souunga, and locked in battle with Sesshoumaru. Desparate to free him from the sword's powers, Kagome uses the osuwari beads to try to call his spirit into submission. It succeeds in releasing him from the sword, but also results in destroying the necklace from around his neck...

Soon after, Souunga's powers seeks out Takemaru humself; using the body of an ogre, the sword finds his soul at the boundary between This World and the Next World. Using Sesshoumaru's arm (which had been lost when Inuyasha had dismembered it in battle) to weild Souunga, he becomes a powerful creature and returns from death. There, he plans to seek out Izayoi's half-youkai child, Inuyasha and those related to the Lord of the Dogs. Using the sword's powers, Takemaru begins to assemble an army of undead...

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, now aware of this new threat, go to confront Takemaru at his fortress. All of their companions natrually follow them, as well: Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Jaken, Rin, along with Toutousai and Saya. Things for the brothers don't seem to be working at all against the undead army, however. Takemaru takes Rin and Kagome captive, seeking to destroy them for being like Izayoi and being involved with youkai...

Kagome and the others try to convince Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru that the only possible way for Takemaru and Souunga to be defeated is for them to combine the powers of Tessaiga and Tenseiga. When Souunga itself becomes the enemy, it's a matter of the brothers being able to swallow their pride long enough to work together just this once...



Inuyasha Movie 4: Guren no Houraijima
(2004)

CAST LIST:

Yamaguchi Kappei as my beloved fuzzy-eared Inuyasha *slobberdrool*
Yukino Satsuki as Higurashi Kagome


Watanabe Kumiko as Shippou
Tsujitani Kouji as Miroku
Kuwashima Houko as Sango
Hidaka Noriko as Kikyou
Narita Ken as Sesshoumaru
Nagashima Yuuichi as Jaken
Noto Mamiko as Rin
Orikasa Fumiko as Asagi
Motoi Emi as Ai
Kobayashi Yuu as Dai
Kiuchi Reiko as Roku
Shimizu Kaori as Shion
Masuda Yuki as Moegi
Kanna Nobutoshi as Ryuura
Tobita Nobuo as Kyoura
Kusao Takeshi as Jyuura
Saizen Tadahisa as Goura



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The mysterious island of Houraijima has reappeared after 50 years, and with its reappearance has brings the attack of four gods, the Shitoushin, who have their eyes set on the powers that protect and sustain the island.

Six survivng hanyou children of Houraijima send the youngest, a little girl called Ai, to the outside world. Arriving on the shore of the outside world, she finds Inuyasha, and asks him to help her and the others. In the past, he and Kikyou had visited Houraijima, where they fought with the Shitoushin. In doing that, Inuyasha received the "Guren," a clawlike, crimson wound (of four slashes) on his back.

Along with Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippou, and Kirara, he agrees to help Ai and the hanyou children because of his connection to the island. Sesshoumaru had also fought one of the Shitoushin and received the same wound.

Now that Houraijima has reappeared, the wounds reappear on the backs of the six hanyou children of Houraijima, Inuyasha, and Sesshoumaru, and call for the defeat of the Shitoshin in order to break the "curse" (I'm putting that in quotes because I didnt' quite catch if it was an actual curse or just some kind of obligatoin to defeat the Shitoshin...) and make the Guren wounds disappear. It seems like the Shitoushin seek the power of the hanyou children to regenerate their own powers. Now, the oldest child, a girl named Asagi, is called to be the next sacrifice for them.

The hanyou childen explain that the power protecting the island is called the 'meidou no kama,' which holds the spirit of the miko Kanade. This miko had died fighting the four Shitoushin in the past, but not before sealing the powers of the Shitoushin into four spheres. Kanade gives Inuyasha and Asagi the sealed box containing the gods' powers...

The Shitoushin create a replica of Kikyou using her blood that they had collected when she first visited the island 50 years ago. Using this recreateion of Kikyou, the Shitoushin attack Inuyasha and use her miko powers in order to steal the sealed box containing their powers and try to break the seal of their strength...

Now it's up to Inuyasha and his friends, the six hanyou children, Sesshoumaru, and Kikyou, to find a way to defeat the poweful Shitoushin and lift the Guren wounds...


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