Takashi Yamanaka

Based on a novel by one of Japan's greatest writers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa

In the fictional Hokkaido shipbuilding town of Kaitan (played by real-life port city Hakodate), local residents find that, in addition to another harsh winter, they must also face the downsizing of the town's key industry due to depressed economic conditions. Episodic structure divides pic into five distinct tales set around New Year's Eve, capped by a deft, criss-crossing finale that adds fitting finishing touches to two earlier installments. (variety.com)

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people -- a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother -- whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (tiff.net)

A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. (asianwiki)

A knife-wielding sexual deviant targets two beautiful sisters.He begins frantic night of abuse and humiliation with the older one after she getting back home.The innocent older sister doesn't know that he had broken... (The Movie Database)

A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas, and nasty aliens. (abandomoviez.net)

Horror, gag, and entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro "!" Hellstone catching out hell "and" Alien of the table "are included. (imdb)

Horror, gag, entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" "Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro" !. "Kaidanui watching me ..." and "My alien" are included. (imdb)

A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of a sacred festival Namahage, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, gets ostracized for shaming the village and its tradition, flees to Tokyo by himself. After two years, he comes back to his hometown to make it up to his ex-wife and their little daughter, but the reality bites. (Gaga Corporation)

The 2011th Spring Special Edition of Fuji TV's "Bizarre Tales". Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, who yet again introduces us to five different tales of the unknown and unnatural. 1. Dokkiri Tube (Prank Tube) - starring Sakaguchi Kenji. 2. Bunshin (One's Other Self)- starring Omori Nao and Higashide Anne. Adapted from a novel by Yuikawa Kei. 3. Tsuusan (Total) - starring Matsudaira Ken. 4. Kankeri (Kick the Can) - starring Nagasaku Hiromi. 5. PETS - starring Tanimura Mitsuki and Kuninaka

A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".

Just because the gates to the spirit world are usually kept shut does not mean that they cannot suddenly open, that the dead cannot reach out for your throat, that its denizens cannot prowl in abandoned office buildings, or haunt high school video projects. The dark realm is with you, and within you, its emotions calling to yours in shades of horror, of fear, of terror.