Initial release: December 15, 2001
Director: Toshiya Shinohara
Running time: 104 minutes
Adapted from: Inuyasha
Sequel: Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
Starring (Cast): The film's voice cast Kappei Yamaguchi, Satsuki Yukino, Kumiko Watanabe, Koji Tsujitani, Houko Kuwashima, Kenichi Ogata, Noriko Hidaka, Ken Narita, Yuichi Nagashima, Mamiko Noto, Hisako Kyoda, Toshihiko Nakajima, Tomokazu Seki, Hekiru Shiina, Tomoko Kawakami, Akiko Nakagawa, Asako Dodo, Katsumi Suzuki.
Storyline: A group of friends must stop a deadly demon bent on world domination.
InuYasha's father defeated a powerful Chinese moth yōkai named "Hyōga" two centuries ago, but a Shikon Jewel fragment has freed his son, "Menōmaru", who seeks revenge for his father's destruction and to free the tremendously infinite power and strength of his father sealed away with him. Menōmaru and his female minions, "Ruri" and "Hari", begin battling with InuYasha. Miroku and Sango have their hands full dealing with the duo, Ruri having copied Miroku's Wind Tunnel and Hari having stolen and possessed Sango's faithful companion, Kirara. Menōmaru curses Kagome so she turns against InuYasha.
When Menōmaru is finally able to access the tremendous demonic power of his predecessors, sealed away by InuYasha's father, he becomes the new Hyōga and exponentially much, stronger and more powerful as each generation gains the power of all of the preceding generations. Hyōga soon begins to change the essence of time and space as he absorbs the souls of countless people in order to fully merge himself with his family's demonic energy that causes the mind-control that he put on Kagome to awaken and an injured Kaede and search for InuYasha. As he's crossing a bridge, InuYasha thinks he sees Kikyo but instead it's Kagome who is wearing Kikyo's clothes. InuYasha greets her on the bridge while Kagome is trying to tell him to run, but unfortunately cannot be heard. Then walks over to InuYasha and puts her head on his shoulder. He embraces her after which Kagome says "InuYasha... get away.", warning him of her attack. He looks in amazement but is then stabbed by magical "claws" that come from Kagome's hands; afterwards, he realizes what Menōmaru has done. He then is chased by the controlled Kagome to the tree that he was sealed to. Regaining control of herself for a moment, Kagome tells InuYasha to run. After hearing that from everyone, InuYasha gets angry saying that he will not run and leave Kagome alone. It is with that Kagome loses control and shoots InuYasha to the tree (similar to what happen between him and Kikyo fifty years earlier) Kagome manages to break free of this control and tearfully cries out in pain to InuYasha and runs over to her, holding her close in his arms. Kikyo then comes along saying how ironic it was for that to happen, as Kagome is merely her look-alike reincarnation. Then she begins to tell Kagome that this happened because Kagome did not belong in this era that she needs to take the Shikon Jewel fragment and go to her own time. Kikyo then forces Kagome down the Bone Eater's Well to remove her once and for all since through Menomaru's manipulation and control of time, she thought that Kagome would be trapped in the distant future.
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