Chiaki J. Konaka

Digimon: Digital Monsters

While at summer camp, seven kids come across seven Digivices and are transported to a strange digital world. In this new world they make friends with creatures that call themselves Digimon who were born to defend their world from various evil forces.

Release Date1999-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count884

Eureka Seven

Renton Thurston desires to leave his home behind and join the mercenary group known as Gekkostate, hoping to find some adventure. When a robot crashes through Renton's garage the meeting sparks the beginning of Renton's involvement with Gekkostate as he takes off alongside the young girl Eureka as the co-pilot of the Nirvash.

Release Date2005-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count65

Texhnolyze

Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the prosthetics business; the Union, a fanatical populist group interfering with Organo's affairs; and Racan, a marauding group of Texhnolyzed youths.

Release Date2003-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count68

Ghost Hound

In an isolated region of Kyushu lies the town of Suiten. Though seeming small and modest, Suiten is not a picturesque place for a vacation, unless it is from the “Unseen World”. Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, three boys with traumatic pasts, learn to let their souls cross between the two parallel worlds. However, the Unseen World is no mere copy of the real Apparent World. The Unseen World is the home of ghosts, but changes are now allowing the souls of the dead to pass over into the Apparent World, with unpredictable effects. Follow the journey of Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, as they cross between the two worlds, trying to unravel a great mystery.

Release Date2007-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count21

Ogamiya Kaidan

In a corner of Tohoku, Gouchi Shinhito runs a worship shop that solves the troubles of clients with prayers. Among her consultations is an inexplicable mysterious phenomenon that she cannot handle, and since she herself was 14 years old, she has been tormented by the existence of a mysterious girl... The story that her township saw and heard, the story of her township itself will be revealed!

Release Date2018-08-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count24

Astro Boy

Astro is a robotic boy created by Dr. Tenma to replace his late son. When Tenma destroys his laboratory and shuts down Astro, the Ministry of Science revives him and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th-grade student who occasionally helps keep renegade robots from causing harm.

Release Date2003-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count17

Undead Murder Farce

In this world, creatures like vampires and werewolves still walk about, but Aya Rindo can’t say the same for herself. This beautiful disembodied head, carried by her maid Shizuku Hasei, is a detective in search of her stolen body. One evening, they meet half-human Oni Slayer Tsugaru Shunichi, who offers a lending hand. Now, the trio is traveling through Europe, solving mysteries along the way.

Release Date2023-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count4

Vote Count51

Digimon Tamers

Takato, Ruki, and Lee are children who have, by fate, received real Digimon, unlike the imaginary ones in the card game they play. Each of the children, or Digimon Tamers, have their different views on how Digimon should be treated. But when other Digimon begin to appear around Japan, they must put aside their differences to fend off the digital intruders.

Release Date2001-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count51

Vote Count360

Serial Experiments Lain

Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Release Date1998-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count587

Hellsing

Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. Alucard, an incredibly powerful vampire, has been controlled by Hellsing for years. Although he dislikes being a servant to the Hellsing family, he certainly enjoys his job as Hellsing’s vampire exterminator. Seras is a fledgling vampire and a former police woman. Although reluctant to embrace her new self, she is still a valuable member of the organization. Integra Hellsing, the current leader, is usually fully capable of fulfilling her duty, but lately, vampire activity has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the cause is more alarming than anything she could have imagined...

Release Date2001-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Vote Count556

Catnapped!

The story involves a boy and his younger sister whose dog Papadoll is missing. They find out that he has been abducted by anthropomorphic cats to be brought to a world called Banapal Witt, which is built on top of a giant sleeping cat. There the sun turns poor Papadoll into a bizarre giant monster. He becomes the weapon and beloved pet of a spoiled Princess who turns everything she touches into balloons. She plans to use Papadoll and a giant inflatable mouse to control the sleeping cat and thus Banapal Witt itself.

Release Date1998-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8

Marebito

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

Release Date2004-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count143

Parasite Dolls

Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.

Release Date2003-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count36

RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio

Ayato and Haruka are middle-school sweethearts whose lives take a dire turn when the mysterious Mu invade Tokyo in the year 2012. Protecting humanity from the Mu may be Ayato's destiny, but what he really wants is to regain the relationship he once had with Haruka... a love that will have to transcend space, time, and reality itself.

Release Date2003-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Scan Doll

After running out of hobbies, a wealthy recluse takes to peeping on his neighbors with high-tech hidden cameras. When he crosses paths with the mysterious girl who regularly visits the salaryman next door, the young voyeur’s disaffected curiosity turns into an obsession.

Release Date1996-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Ultraman Gaia: Once Again Gaia

After the battle against Zogu was over, both Gamu and Fujimiya began to live normal lives until another threat arrives on Earth - a surviving monster soldier of Zogu's army named Gakuzom.

Release Date2001-03-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Ultraman Gaia

Ultraman Gaia is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show and is the 13th show in the Ultra Series. Created by Chiaki J. Konaka and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Mainichi Broadcasting System, Ultraman Gaia was aired on JNN TV stations from September 5, 1998 until August 28, 1999, with a total of 51 episodes.

Release Date1998-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Vote Count12

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.

Release Date1992-07-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count28

RahXephon

Ayato Kamina, a 17-year-old high school student, lives in Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been raised to believe that the rest of civilization has been destroyed; but everything changes when a mysterious alien civilization invades his home.

Release Date2002-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count31

Sleeping Bride

Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.

Release Date2000-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Kino's Journey: Country of Illness -For You-

The movie adapts a story from volume 5 of the Kino's Journey light novel series: Kino travels to a country divided into two parts: the very clean and peaceful city, closed off from the surrounding wastelands. Kino meets a little girl in the city suffering from a disease which is constantly being researched. The girl, however, does not know just how the research is being done.

Release Date2007-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Scary True Stories

True ghost stories described and/or narrated by the survivor involved and commences with the name and location of the one submitting the story. Each of the three collections begins with a series of creepy real-life photographs in which strange appendages or faces appear while a rather ominous narrator suggests you are now entering the highway to HELL. Three stories in the first TV-movie: The Lonely Girl Spiritual Flight Mystery of the Red Earring

Release Date1991-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl

Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive, she is mad to feel very unwelcome by the mysterious locals who keep referring to her as "Snake Girl."

Release Date2005-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground

A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.

Release Date1995-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

A one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes to Innsmouth to investigate people with deformation.

Release Date1992-08-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Devil Lady

The beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages to defeat the monster. She, just like this werewolf, is part of the next step in human evolution: humans who can mutate into beast-like monsters and then mercilessly terrorise civilisation. Unlike the other devil beasts, however, she can retain her humanity, which is her undoing because Lan Asuka is a high-ranking employee of the government and of the “Anti-Beast Special Squad”, which wants to abuse her powers and train her to mercilessly hunt down her own species. Caught between these extremes and her weak self, the question arises: what fate will Jun meet? Will she ever be able to decide it for herself?

Release Date1998-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count122

Princess Tutu

Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious schoolmate Mytho, and transforms into Princess Tutu to restore his shattered heart. Mytho's girlfriend Rue transforms into Princess Kraehe to frustrate Tutu's efforts, and Mytho's protective friend Fakir discourages Mytho's burgeoning emotions. When it becomes apparent that Duck, Rue, Mytho, and Fakir are meant to play out the characters in a story by a long-dead writer named Drosselmeyer, they resist their assigned fates and fight to keep the story from becoming a tragedy.

Release Date2002-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count30

Hey Oilers the Legend of Skyline

The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Keiichi Tsuchiya of the "Megalopolis Expressway Trial" series.

Release Date1991-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Kuma-chan

Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.

Release Date1993-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Zombie Snake

A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.

Release Date2000-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Mononoke

The Medicine Seller is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called mononoke to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it.

Release Date2007-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count66

Ultraman Max

Ultraman Max was an Ultraman TV series which started airing on 7 July 2005, and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.. The show tried to return to the true formula of new monsters every week and being a fast paced show like previous series with the exception of Ultraman Nexus. The show is full of homages to past series by having three of the original cast members from the first Ultraman series being featured in an episode, updated versions of classic monsters like Red King, Eleking and Pigmon among others. One unusual episode revolves around the filming of the 1964 program Ultra Q which was the predecessor to the first Ultraman show in 1966. Two actors from that show appear as themselves.

Release Date2005-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count8

Psychic Vision: Jaganrei

Kyoko Sawai, a TV reporter, is making a report about an idol singer named Emi Kato. Emi and her staff are preparing the promotion of her next tune "Love Craft". And as spiritual accidents happen around her, Kyoko finds out that the woman who composed the tune died seven years before.

Release Date1988-01-21

DepartmentSound

JobSound

Vote Count7

The Big O

Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.

Release Date1999-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count30

Taro! Momotaro in Trouble

A young boy gets caught up in the machinations of a new religious order, that seeks to revive demonic beings.

Release Date1991-05-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

MegaTokyo 2040: Tokyo’s workforce is riddled with robots that tend to go on destructive killing sprees. Four young women gear up in cybernetic suits to battle an evil corporation’s bionic pawns while its grip on the city threatens to strangle humanity. In order to shut down an android uprising, these heavy metal heroines flirt with a critical meltdown in an adrenaline-fueled death match between woman and machine!

Release Date1998-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count18

Vote Count34

Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless

A fake documentary disguised as an undercover report on a secret circle that teaches how to freely secrete the brain drug endorphins. At the end of the film, the director (Yoshihiro Kato), who has become a cripple as a result of his undercover work, reconstructs the images in his brain that he sees, and fantastic abstract experimental film-like images appear. It also contained elements of the video drugs that were popular at the time.

Release Date1991-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Driving High!

Kaoru is a former racing driver who retired two years ago. She is invited by her brother Saburo to return to Team Alesis, which he owns, as a B driver. However, the mechanics don't think it's a good idea for Kaoru, a woman, to be driving, and their relationship becomes awkward.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Birdy the Mighty

Tsutomu, an average middle school kid busy studying for the final exams to enter high school runs into a man running from someone and gets caught up in the chase. In all the confusion he gets accidentally killed. Luckily Birdy (an interplanetary agent) knows a way to save him, unfortunately that means joining bodies to become one. So now he is stuck with this officer and along for the ride capturing criminals and saving lives.

Release Date1996-07-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count14

Rampo - Bewitching Women

A short drama that depicts the world of Edogawa Rampo's popular novels filled with the bizarre and fantastic in an omnibus format. This omnibus drama includes "The Kiss," "The Human Chair," "The Girl in the Locked Room," and "The Cliff," all based on Rampo's original stories, as well as the program's original "Contemporary Arc".

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Horror News

Yuko, a high school girl, receives a newspaper called Horror News, in which mysterious events of the future are written.

Release Date1996-07-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

ウルトラマンガイア特別編 永遠の地球

Release Date2000-08-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

NINE-ONE - The Legend of Kunoichi Youju

It's the fate of a Kunoichi to bear a child. What are the "monsters" that attack the revived Kunoichi warriors of the modern age?

Release Date1995-06-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Cursed Beauties: Ghost Stories of Evil Spirits

An original omnibus horror film from the duo of Norio Tsuruta and Chiaki Konaka, depicting the terror of evil spirits that haunt four beautiful women. The film contains five episodes, including "Makeup for the Dead," in which a woman who did the makeup for a dead woman is cursed.

Release Date1996-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

GR -GIANT ROBO-

A 40th-anniversary reimagining of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga classic through the cerebral eyes of Chiaki J. Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain). It's the 21st century, and mankind is threatened by a terrorist organization who wield GRs - ancient titans from a bygone age. The United Nations races against the clock to unearth the remaining GRs first. Teenage scuba diver Daisaku Kusama finds himself drawn into the conflict when he discovers the mighty GR-1 and forms a psychic bond with it. Now Daisaku must combat the other GRs threatening Earth and uncover their dubious past.

Release Date2007-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count13

Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 3: Big Operation in Big Edo

Release Date1990-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

My Dread is School!, School is Dreadful! Kanako Inuki Shout Collection

Bukida is disliked by all the students in his class because of his unpleasant face. However, he loves a girl named Matsuko and so he stalks her. Though Matsuko rejects him, Bukida fancies she likes him at heart. One day, Bukida is killed in a traffic accident. Matsuko feels relieved. But Bukida appeared to her as the living dead. Bukida says, "I love you forever, even though I am dead!".

Release Date1999-08-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Shadow Star Narutaru

A girl named Shiina Tamai bonds with a starfish-shaped "dragonchild" whom she calls Hoshimaru.

Release Date2003-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count13

Vote Count13

Magic User's Club!

The Magic User’s Club is a group of five well-meaning misfits who do more than card tricks – they can use actual magic. And with that magic, they managed to defeat a giant ship from outer space! But their close encounter left an enormous cherry blossom tree right in the middle of the city. It’s so big that it blocks out the sun! Takeo Takakura, the club's noble (but perverted) president, calls a special Sunday meeting to take care of the tree. It seems simple enough, but when magic is involved, nothing ever goes according to plan…

Release Date1999-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

Phantasmagoria: A Collection of Images Sealed in Darkness

This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

Release Date2006-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Shivering Mu Experience

An omnibus film of four stories based on horror experiences submitted by readers of the occult magazine "Mu Monthly".

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vamp

A troubled teenager who is about to kill herself has a life changing encounter with a female vampire.

Release Date2019-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Scary True Stories: Realm of Spectres

Four more paranormal narratives: Be Gone, Crone!: My Friend at the Stairwell; Paralysis; The Black Hair at the Abandoned Building.

Release Date1992-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Parasite Dolls

MegaTokyo 2034: Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test.

Release Date2003-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

Vote Count15

Scary True Stories: Night Two

Three more paranormal narratives, from the folks who presented "Scary True Stories": The Gymnasium in Summer House of Restless Spirits The Hospital at Midnight.

Release Date1992-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special

Release Date2013-10-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Armitage: Dual Matrix

Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.

Release Date2002-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count57

Eko Eko Azarak: The Series

Kuroi Misa, a girl with Satanic powers, mysteriously appears in various high schools. Carrying a dagger and a heavy leather bag, she uses her powers to eliminate the evil forces that thrive on deadly sins of the human race. Her ultimate aim is to cleanse the earth and rebuild her broken family.

Release Date1997-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

School Ghost Story F

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Release Date1997-07-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

B-kyu Horror WARASHI!

Anko a teenage girl and her yokai friend Warashi solve mysterious cases involving monsters.

Release Date1991-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

IMADOKI: First Love Story

A young man, Yusaku, who bets his youth on taking pantographs, accidentally takes a pantograph of an idol, Yuka, and sets off for his dream overseas location as a photographer.

Release Date1991-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Armitage III: Poly Matrix

Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.

Release Date1996-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count68

Armitage III

In the year 2046, a cop and his female android partner called Armitage, part of the latest android line known as "class III" models that look, act and feel human, investigate illegal manufacture of class III androids on colonized Mars.

Release Date1995-02-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count4

Vote Count40

Super-Horror Experience 3: Zombie Voices

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the third of the series focuses on a mysterious voice luring one of the girls into another dimension.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Alice in Cyberland

When criminal Cybernackists appear in the Cyberland, the vast 21st century computer networks, Alice, Miss Catnick, Leina, and Julie are drawn in by the mysterious Lucia to become a fighting force of young girl soldiers in the Cyberland to combat the criminal element.

Release Date1996-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

School Ghost Story R

The first tv movie in the School Ghost Story series.

Release Date1996-07-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Super-Horror Experience 4: Psychic Video

J-Pop Girl Group stars in a series of low budget horror films, the fourth of the series focuses on a mysterious video tape."

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

An Invitation to the Mysterious City: The Women in Black

A fantastic horror film in the form of a three-episode omnibus, featuring women who have strange experiences.

Release Date1992-07-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the first of the series focuses on the entanglement that happens between the girls and a creepy photographer.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

School Ghost Story G

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.

Release Date1998-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Super-Horror Experience 2: Vampire Spirit

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the second of the series focuses on a quiet town where a mysterious incident happens. What is the bloody history of this place and the legend of fresh blood sucking that drips from its history.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Idol Birth Story: The Legend of Niki-Niki

Newly formed sexy idol group Niki and Niki's slightly risqué and sexy comedy.

Release Date1992-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Nerawareta gakuen

When Jomon-era ruins are unearthed near a high school, the students begin to acquire strange psychic abilities

Release Date1997-08-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy is a 2004 production, and the 19th installment in the Ultra Series that was broadcast in Japan in 2004. It is a sequel to Ultra Q, the first of the Ultra Series. It retains the same swirling effect for the titlecard, but with the words "Dark Fantasy" added underneath, the title also remains black and white.

Release Date2004-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Malice@Doll

Robot prostitute Malice@Doll roams a deserted city unsuccessfully looking for johns after the human race is obliterated. With no people left, the android serving class has a meaningless existence. But after a horrific tentacled beast rapes Malice@Doll, she inexplicably turns human. With a renewed purpose in life, she tries to share the gift of humanity with others of her kind, but with every gift comes a curse...

Release Date2001-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make

Five people visit an abandoned building where five girls disappeared ten years ago when they tried to summon ghosts. These five people who visit the building has met on a website for people with supernatural powers. With their abilities realize these people that they should leave the building as quickly as possible, the problem is that all doors are suddenly gone.

Release Date2005-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Rayca

Rayca is a girl of the 31st Century where individuals exist only as computer data. She comes to the 21st century to learn about our sub-culture.

Release Date2001-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

WHITE GIRL STORY

Release Date1990-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Alice 6

Six girls get lost in the forest and are taken through a series of mysterious worlds.

Release Date1995-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Malice@Doll

Robot prostitute Malice@Doll roams a deserted city unsuccessfully looking for johns after the human race is obliterated. With no people left, the android serving class has a meaningless existence. But after a horrific tentacled beast rapes Malice@Doll, she inexplicably turns human. With a renewed purpose in life, she tries to share the gift of humanity with others of her kind, but with every gift comes a curse... Malice@Doll was originally released as a 3 episode OVA series from April 27, 2001 to June 22, 2001 but would later be re-released as a singular 80min long film on some DVD releases.

Release Date2001-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count14

Door III

Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.

Release Date1996-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Scary True Stories: Second Night

Scary True Stories was a compendium of ghost stories released across three videotapes in 1991–1992. Each under one hour in length and shot for a minimal budget, they contained all the hallmarks of what we now call J-horror. Second Night in particular would have a major influence. The appearance of a ghostly woman in a red dress has been copied numerous times, notably by Kurosawa Kiyoshi in Pulse and Retribution.

Release Date1992-01-01

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Mirrorman Reflex

After dying in battle, Japanese soldier Akira Kageyama (Karato) is resurrected as a ‘mirror demon’ a supernatural agent capable of growing to enormous size. He uses his new abilities to defend the Manifest Realm from evil spirits.

Release Date2006-01-01

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Despera

Ain, a 14-year-old girl with no scientific background, builds mysterious devices in 1922 Tokyo, just before the Great Kantō earthquake, in this alternate-history sci-fi story.

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Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou

This is a modern love story that depicts love between men and women in a slightly risqué, frightening, and funny way. The story is told in an omnibus format in three episodes, with the cooperation of leading women's comic artist Miruku Morizono, and is full of sexy shots of Kaori Oguri and other beautiful women from the past. Don't miss this masterpiece of V-cinema, featuring a dazzling performance by Tomorowo Taguchi!

Release Date1991-01-01

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The Defender

Computer engineer Takashi notices that a microchip is protruding from his head. He contacts a notorious hacker for help. Meanwhile, Takashi's world is turning upside down. He's robbed at knifepoint & then chased through the crowded Tokyo streets by a giant. Or maybe not. Perhaps the microchip is only making him think these things are happening. Soon he realizes there's a connection between all the bizarre traumas and a girl named Masami. Seemingly, all his troubles started when she visited his repair shop and asked him to fix her CD-ROM unit. Eventually Takashi finds himself psychically linked to the girl. As it turns out, they are secret government-made humanoids, programmed to live undetected within society an then - when the need should arise - they are activated as professional fighters; The action of the movie itself plays like the Defender arcade game.

Release Date1997-02-01

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The World You Don't Know II

A horror anthology featuring : I'm Afraid to Give Birth by Kazunori Hagiwara, Forbidden Board by Yoshiki Sato and Ikiryotan by Kazuya Konaka.

Release Date1991-12-05

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The Haunted High

Another film by the Konaka brothers. There is a tunnel under the school, and Alice, Juri, and Reika get lost in a wonderland. The Men In Black played by Morishita Nittan (wearing rabbit ears) was a sight to behold. The story is about UFOs, but it's an offbeat comedy (what's a "school ghost story"?). The naming of the character, along with the genius gamer Mihime Goto from "Yokai Teke Teke", was carried over to "Alice 6", and was also repeated in the Glams game "Alice in Cyberland". - Alice 6 Chiaki J. Konaka's Web

Release Date1994-03-18

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The World You Don't Know I

A horror anthology featuring : The Reaper's Pass by Kazuya Konaka, Spell Dream by Harunobu Ohara & The Wall by Akiyoshi Imazeki.

Release Date1991-07-05

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The J-Horror Virus

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

Release Date2023-08-27