King of Thorn

2009

Japanese

6.3

♡ 9

54%

religious fundamentalism

Sci-Fi

super power

Thriller

Kazuyoshi Katayama Director

Misaki Kuno as Alice Roznovski

Kana Hanazawa as Kasumi Ishiki

Sayaka Ohara as Katherine Turner

Ayako Kawasumi as Laura Owen

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.