Chiaki J. Konaka
Three boys transfer their souls in to a parallel world known as the "Unseen World."
Mononoke is a spin-off of the Bakeneko story arc of Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror. It follows the Medicine Seller as he deals with various spirits or "Mononoke" in feudal Japan. Just like in the Bakeneko story, he combats with a series of tools and his vast knowledge of the supernatural on his side, but can only slay the Mononoke when he uncovers its form (Katachi), the truth behind its appearance (Makoto) and the reason for its unusual behavior (Kotowari). In other words : Truth, Form and Regret.
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".
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.
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."
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.
Six months after the D-Reaper was destroyed, the Tamers are planning to throw Rika a surprise party, but Rika finds out. Suddenly a train-Digimon named Locomon begins to race around the tracks, causing havoc. The Tamers respond to this, as Takato digivolves Guilmon into Growlmon to stop the train Digimon but fails as Takato, Rika and Renamon get on it in an attempt to slow it down. The others, excluding Suzie, use a freight train to catch up with Locomon
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!".
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!
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly looses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Yuko, a high school girl, receives a newspaper called Horror News, in which mysterious events of the future are written.
An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘, tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day. Multinational military forces attack it, but the Bell's defenses easily vaporize all human weaponry. The story takes place one year afterwards. The Bell, which seems to have no living crew, has begun sending out robotic probes to explore and analyze human civilization and all of the aspects of it. For most of the series, the Bell hovers quietly above the ocean, several miles from Tokyo. It had soon become apparent that the Bell's defenses only destroy whatever attacks it first. As such, most people have now adapted to the Bell's presence on Earth and are once again going about with their everyday lives, just making sure to stay out of the way of the Bell's probes when they pass by. A lot of people, however, due to a message sent by the Bell, believe the Bell may eventually attack and conquer Earth, and are working to figure out a way to stop it.
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.
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.
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.
Katsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to uncover the true identity of his unknown neighbors in the same apartment building, i.e. their abnormal daily lives. In the midst of this, a mysterious high school girl named Mika suddenly jumps into Katsumi's eye. In order to find out what's going on with Mika, who regularly comes to the room of a middle-aged man with no luck, Katsumi uses his high-tech skills to peep into the girl's life, but he soon becomes obsessed with the girl's mysterious charms. What is Mika's true face that he finally sees?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
J-Pop Girl Group stars in a series of low budget horror films, the fourth of the series focuses on a mysterious video tape."
An omnibus film of four stories based on horror experiences submitted by readers of the occult magazine "Mu Monthly".
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".
A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
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.
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
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are astronauts doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, they found out that there are other living creatures on the planet! Their biggest threat is Goudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on earth. Returning from a mission on Mars, the Ultraman has to take on Goudis to save the planet and all the human beings on Earth!
Four more paranormal narratives: Be Gone, Crone!: My Friend at the Stairwell; Paralysis; The Black Hair at the Abandoned Building
Newly formed sexy idol group Niki and Niki's slightly risqué and sexy comedy.
The film depicts the escape of a cute female office worker who struggles with a bomb in her hand to save her lover.
A Japanese adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", directed by Konaka Chiaki (Marebito, The Big O) and starring Sano Shiro (Infection, Violent Cop)
Three more paranormal narratives, from the folks who presented "Scary True Stories": The Gymnasium in Summer House of Restless Spirits The Hospital at Midnight
A fantastic horror film in the form of a three-episode omnibus, featuring women who have strange experiences.
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.
A young boy gets caught up in the machinations of a new religious order, that seeks to revive demonic beings.
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!
A horror anthology featuring : I'm Afraid to Give Birth by Kazunori Hagiwara, Forbidden Board by Yoshiki Sato and Ikiryotan by Kazuya Konaka.
A horror anthology featuring : The Reaper's Pass by Kazuya Konaka, Spell Dream by Harunobu Ohara & The Wall by Akiyoshi Imazeki.
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.
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
The story is about Iko Sugawa, who travels back in time to the Edo period and fights with a beautiful girl named Oiko (Iko's ancestor) to stop the ambitions of Hiraga Gennai (a chonmage type alien who is attached to Hiraga Gennai), who plans to rule Edo.
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.
