is the second movie of the InuYasha

InuYasha

, also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008...

 movie series. It was released in Japan on December 21, 2002 (between episodes 95 & 96), and in the United States on December 28, 2004. In this film, the character designs are virtually identical to the Rumiko Takahashi versions, from the original manga (rather than using the Yoshihito Hishinuma designs, from the TV anime).

Plot

The film opens with the series protagonists succeeding in killing Naraku. The group subsequently splits, leaving InuYasha, Kagome, and Shippo searching for the remainder of the Shikon Jewel shards without Miroku or Sango.

Kagura and Kanna, the two surviving incarnations of Naraku, are restless now that Naraku is dead. They find a mirror in a shrine and awaken Kaguya, Princess of the Heavens. In exchange for freeing her, Kaguya promises to grant Kagura her eternal freedom. Kagura and Kanna set out to recover five items that will free Kaguya from her mirror, leading them to cross paths once again with InuYasha and friends. Kaguya, desiring to stop time, kidnaps Kagome, who is able to put up a barrier against her spells. The remainder of the group reunite in Kaguya's realm of mirrors in order to retrieve Kagome. Kaguya, intending to enslave InuYasha, attempts to transform him in to a full-fledged demon. The spell is broken by Kagome, who kisses InuYasha for the first time in order to stop the transformation.

Naraku reappears, revealing that he had purposely faked his death to absorb Kaguya. Naraku, unable to fight on equal terms, then escapes with Kohaku, Kagura, and Kanna. Kagome then combines her power with that of Miroku as she launches a piece of his staff in the form of an arrow and destroys Kaguya's mirror. InuYasha then destroys Kaguya's physical form. Kaguya appears in a gas-like form and tries to take control of Kagome's body but ends up being sucked into Miroku's wind tunnel. Everyone escapes back to the normal world through Kaguya's mirror as her palace collapses.

Cast

• InuYasha - Kappei Yamaguchi
  Kappei Yamaguchi
  , better known by his stage name of , is a Japanese voice actor and actor from Fukuoka, affiliated with Gokū and 21st Century Fox.He is best known for the roles of Ranma Saotome , Jackson Neil , Tombo , Yattaro , InuYasha , Ryuichi Sakuma , L , Usopp...
  
  /Richard Ian Cox
  Richard Ian Cox
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• Kagome Higurashi - Satsuki Yukino
  Satsuki Yukino
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  /Moneca Stori
  Moneca Stori
  Moneca Stori is a former Canadian voice actress known mostly for her role as the original voice of Kagome Higurashi in the English version of InuYasha. She is also credited as Monica Gemmer...
  
  
• Miroku - Koji Tsujitani
  Koji Tsujitani
  is a Japanese voice actor credited for voicing many anime and video game characters. Tsujitani is formerly affiliated with Sigma Seven.-Notable voice work:*3x3 eyes *Blood+ *Bola Kampung *Bondage Queen Kate...
  
  /Kirby Morrow
  Kirby Morrow
  Kirby Morrow is a Canadian actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.- Filmography :2011 Mortal Kombat: Legacy King Jerrod– Kitana & Mileena: Part 1 … King Jerrod...
  
  
• Sango - Hōko Kuwashima/Kelly Sheridan
  Kelly Sheridan
  Kelly Sheridan is a Canadian voice actress based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Biography:Sheridan has voiced various roles in anime and other animated cartoons, such as Barbie in the computer generated Barbie film series since 2001...
  
  
• Shippo - Kumiko Watanabe
  Kumiko Watanabe
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  /Jillian Michaels
  Jillian Michaels (actress)
  Jillian Michaels is a Canadian voice actress who has done English dubs of Japanese anime like InuYasha, Hamtaro, and Silent Möbius...
  
  
• Kagura - Izumi Ōgami
  Izumi Ogami
  is a Japanese announcer and voice actress. She voices Kagura in the original Japanese version of InuYasha. Kagura is Ōgami's debut role. She previously was the female chairperson in Boys Be......
  
  /Janyse Jaud
  Janyse Jaud
  Janyse Aldis Jaud is a Canadian actress, dancer and singer/songwriter. She is of Icelandic-French descent....
  
  
• Myōga - Kenichi Ogata/Paul Dobson
• Naraku - Toshiyuki Morikawa
  Toshiyuki Morikawa
  is a prolific Japanese male voice actor from Yokohama, Kanagawa, was affiliated with Arts Vision. Lately, however, he has become the head of that a voice actor company he founded in Apr 2011. His name is also sometimes mistranslated as Tomoyuki...
  
  /Paul Dobson
• Sota Higurashi - Akiko Nakagawa
  Akiko Nakagawa
  is a Japanese voice actress who was born on in Sapporo. She is married to InuYasha music composer Kaoru Wada.-Notable voice roles:*Sota Higurashi in InuYasha*Anne in Little Snow Fairy Sugar*Miss Goldenweek in One Piece*Miyuki Nanase in Kindaichi Case Files...
  
  /Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress and singer and the daughter of Bill Henderson of Chilliwack fame. She has voiced various characters from anime series...
  
  
• Kagome and Sota's Grandfather - Katsumi Suzuki
  Katsumi Suzuki
  is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Kagome's grandfather in InuYasha after Ginzo Matsuo's death. He currently works at Arts Vision.-Television animation:*Kagome's grandfather in InuYasha*Ben Robbins in Kaleido Star...
  
  /French Tickner
• Kagome and Sota's Mother - Asako Dodo
  Asako Dodo
  is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa, Japan.-Notable voice roles:* Digimon Adventure 02 * Hand Maid May * InuYasha * Kekkaishi * Mermaid Saga...
  
  /Cathy Weseluck
  Cathy Weseluck
  Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian voice actress who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known with providing the voice for characters in various anime series such as Mirai Yashima , Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine Bloom , Near , Shampoo , Kagome's mother , Misa...
  
  
• Kaede - Hisako Kyoda
  Hisako Kyoda
  is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo who, among other roles, voiced Slappy Squirrel in the Japanese dub of Animaniacs. She is most known for the roles of Genkai , Omusubiman , and Yukari Godai...
  
  /Pam Hyatt
  Pam Hyatt
  Pam Hyatt is a voice actress who played Noble Heart Horse in 1986's The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. More recently, she has starred in the English version of InuYasha as Kaede, guest-starred in USA Network's The Dead Zone and voices Campe and Atropos in Class of the Titans.Hyatt is the...
  
  
• Kanna - Yukana/Janyse Jaud
  Janyse Jaud
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• Kikyo - Noriko Hidaka
  Noriko Hidaka
  , real name , maiden name is a seiyū, or voice actor. Hidaka is most known for the roles of Mikage Matsunaga , Minami Asakura , Akane Tendo , Satsuki Kusakabe , Near , Seta Sōjirō , Jean , Kikyo , and Noriko Takaya .Hidaka...
  
  /Willow Johnson
  Willow Johnson
  Willow Johnson is a Canadian voice actress working for the Ocean Productions based in Vancouver. She has performed the roles of several characters for many anime series...
  
  
• Hachi - Toshihiko Nakajima
  Toshihiko Nakajima
  is a Japanese voice actor who was affiliated with Ken Production but is now associated with Gekidan 21 Seiki Fox.-Notable voice roles:*Carlos in Cowboy Bebop*Lemint in Fushigiboshi no Futagohime*Kojiro Murdoch in Gundam Seed*Hachiemon in Inuyasha...
  
  /Terry Klassen
  Terry Klassen
  Terry Klassen is a Canadian voice actor and voice director in Vancouver, British Columbia. He co-created Yvon of the Yukon. He is the voice director for shows including Martha Speaks, "Johnny Test", "George of the Jungle", "Ed, Edd n Eddy", several "Barbie" movies, "Transformers", "CardCaptors",...
  
  
• Kohaku - Akiko Yajima
  Akiko Yajima
  , born May 4, 1967, is a Japanese voice actress from Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.-Anime:*Battle Athletes Victory *Berserk *The Big O *Blood+...
  
  /Danny McKinnon
  Danny McKinnon
  Daniel "Danny" McKinnon is a Canadian voice actor and former child voice actor, best known as Kohaku from the anime series InuYasha...
  
  
• Kaguya - Mieko Harada/Nicole Oliver
  Nicole Oliver
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• Mushin - Yuzuru Fujimoto/Alec Willows
• Hojo - Yuji Ueda
  Yuji Ueda
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  /Matt Smith
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• Ayumi - Nami Okamoto/Cathy Weseluck
  Cathy Weseluck
  Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian voice actress who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known with providing the voice for characters in various anime series such as Mirai Yashima , Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine Bloom , Near , Shampoo , Kagome's mother , Misa...
  
  
• Eri - Yuki Masuda
  Yuki Masuda
  is a Japanese voice actress.-Notable voice roles:*Yanagi Sakoshita in Flame of Recca*Veena and her twin sister Helen, two of the Pu'Awak princesses in Cyborg 009*Misae in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040*Belvedere Coco in Vandread...
  
  /Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson
  Saffron Henderson is a Canadian voice actress and singer and the daughter of Bill Henderson of Chilliwack fame. She has voiced various characters from anime series...
  
  
• Yuka - Kaori Shimizu
  Kaori Shimizu
  Kaori Shimizu is the name of:*Kaori Shimizu , Japanese voice actress*Kaori Shimizu , '80s Japanese idol known for the video game Psycho Soldier...
  
  /Jillian Michaels
  Jillian Michaels (actress)
  Jillian Michaels is a Canadian voice actress who has done English dubs of Japanese anime like InuYasha, Hamtaro, and Silent Möbius...
  
  

Credits

Directior

Toshiya Shinohara

Script

Katsuyuki Sumisawa

Music

Kaoru Wada

Original Concept

Rumiko Takahashi

Art Director

Tsutomu Ishigaki

Director of Photography

Hirofumi Yagi

Producers

Masuo Ueda, Michihiko Suwa, Mikihiro Iwata

Theme Song

Lyrics by: Kaori Mochida

Kaori Mochida

is the female lead singer of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing.- Biography :Kaori Mochida was a child actress, appearing in children's magazines and TV spots. Using the stage name of she sang with a girl band called , a group similar to Morning Musume. They changed their name to...

Composed by: Kunio Tako

Arranged by: Yasuo Otani, Masafumi Nakao, and Ichiro Ito

Performed by: Every Little Thing

Insertion Song

Lyrics by: Kaori Mochida

Composed by: Kunio Tako

Arranged by: Akira Murata

Performed by: Every Little Thing

External links

• Inuyasha the Movies VIZ Media
  VIZ Media
  VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...
  
  's official website for all InuYasha movies