Takashi Shimizu
Director · b. 1972 · Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Takashi Shimizu (born 27 July 1972 in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director, best known for the Ju-on series of horror films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takashi Shimizu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.0HorrorActionIn a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Movie7.4HorrorThe revenge story of a woman whose partner is murdered by a ghost, and who will soon discover the true identity of the one she must avenge.
Movie5.6HorrorComedyA reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
Movie5.7HorrorScience FictionStill reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
Movie5.9DocumentaryHorrorHorror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
Why Horror?
2014 · 23 votes
Movie3.4HorrorActionA spin-off feature from Tokyo Gore Police centering on three characters from the movie who are each given a short story explaining how they became an “engineer”.
MovieHorrorDocumentaryHow 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.
Movie6.5HorrorScience FictionA found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.
Movie5.6ActionHorrorSet in the Sengoku Period, Torakage is retired ninja. He lives his life peacefully, but turmoil comes as he becomes involved a fight over treasures.
Movie6.5ActionHorrorA young girl with mental illness just wants to die. But the necroborgs have other plans...
Meatball Machine: Reject of Death
2007 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryHideo Nakata was invited from the J-Horror boom to helm The Ring 2, the American-made sequel to a remake of his own film Ring. In this documentary, Nakata details the never-ending difficulties he dealt with in Hollywood.
MovieHorrorDocumentary
Movie2.0Kazuo, a university student aspiring to be an actor, has had a crush on Reiko since high school. Reiko was a university student at the time and Kazuo's private tutor, and while she was active in theater at university, she also dreamed of becoming a professional. Kazuo passed the audition, but he never saw Reiko again. One day, Kazuo received a request from a senior at university to appear in a pink film. What's more, his role was a high school student who falls in forbidden love with his private tutor. And the film Kazuo appears in is the one that Reiko starred in...
Movie5.3DramaHorrorNinja samurai Onimanji, who has been sealed in a cursed urn for 631 years and 59 days, is resurrected in the modern era by the assassin-for-hire company, Kika Company. The odd team of Kika, Shigeru, a bumbling assassin, and Onimanjii perform a series of dark jobs and must still compete with rival company Nutmeg.
MovieComedyYamagami-kun, the god of the mountain, likes to eat "human beings"! Today, he and Isobe, the god of the sea, are planning to eat "human" again. Will he be able to eat a "human" today?