Junji Ito Adaptations
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- DirectorTakumi KimizukaYôichi NishiyamaStarsNatsuko AkiyamaYoriko DôguchiHitomi HigaAdapted from "Used Record"
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsMiho KannoMami NakamuraYoriko DôguchiA traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.Adapted from "Tomie Part 4: Photograph" and "Part 5: Kiss"
- DirectorToshirô InomataStarsRuna NagaiAkira HiraiChie TanakaThe mysterious Tomie, the girl who cannot die, makes her way through three separate eposodic stories of terror.
- DirectorTomijiro MitsuishiStarsSayaka YamaguchiYôsuke KubozukaKen'ichi EndôA young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name "Tomie" begins appearing throughout the notebook.Adapted from "Tomie Part 3: Basement"
- DirectorHiguchinskyStarsEriko HatsuneFhi FanHinako SaekiThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.Adapted from "Uzumaki"
- DirectorKenji NakanishiStarsMasato FuruoyaMasato HagiwaraAtsuko SakuraiA pair of siblings go to visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.Adapted from "Gravetown". Never released on VHS/DVD and as such is considered lost media
- DirectorIssei OdaStarsEriko HatsuneJinpachi NezuMisato TachibanaFilm adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging BalloonsAn anthology film adapting three short stories: "The Devil's Logic", "The Long Hair in the Attic", and "The Hanging Balloons
- DirectorKenji NakanishiStarsNozomi AndôReiko KataokaHôka KinoshitaMomoko Kamei has the mysterious ability to mimic any woman's face while imitating what she wears and the way she speaks. Not knowing such a secret, Takafumi, who was fed up with Momoko's relentless stalking, said, "Go out with me!"Adapted from "The Face Burglar"
- DirectorZenboku SatoStarsHideyo AmamotoEriko HatsuneChoi SianOshikiri is a loner who has bad memories of his childhood and his grandfather, a brilliant scientist. He returns to his grandfathers mansion to try to remember what really happened to him. He finds a portal to a parallel universe, which his grandfather had originally discovered. From this portal comes his doppelganger dressed in a cloak and gas mask, who kills his fellow students with an ancient axe.Adapted from a story in the "Oshikiri" series, "Intruder"
- DirectorHiguchinskyStarsKen AraiKaei AsanoShima AshizawaStrange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?Adapted from "The Long Dream"
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMiki SakaiSatoshi TsumabukiKumiko EndôAn art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.Adapted from "Tomie Part 8: Painter"
- DirectorKazuyuki ShibuyaStarsKumiko AkiyoshiMao AsamiLisa GotôTeenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?Adapted from a story in the "Lovesick Dead" series, "Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads"
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsMaho NonamiKô ShibasakiGrace YipThe search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?Adapted from "Scarecrows"
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsNozomi AndôAoi MiyazakiJun KunimuraTomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family.
- DirectorAkira KobayashiStarsYuriko AnjhoMiyako CojimaMizuki HikaruFrom producer Junji Ito (UZUMAKI, TOMIE) and writer/director Hideyuki Kobayashi comes a new kind of horror. Marino loves her Marronnier doll that was unfortunately made by a demented genius who uses a diabolical machine to turn human beings into wax dolls. Marronnier's assistant, Numai, is even more insane and takes a fancy to Marino. He begins to stalk her, and when that isn't enough, he takes Marino and her friends prisoner, plunging them into a dreamworld of living dolls and satin wedding gowns, hacked body parts and bondage! In his underground lair, Numai's girl-dolls come to life and start killing everyone!Whilst not adapting a specific story, the film uses the heading "Junji Ito Presents" and credits him for the design of the titular Marronnier, he also cameos in the film as a painter. The film loosely adapts elements from "Marionette Mansion" and "The Hell of the Doll Funeral"
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsRio MatsumotoAsami ImajukuKenji MizuhashiWhen a beautiful young girl transfers to a new high school, the students become possessed and soon realize that behind this beauty is an unexplainable evil.Adapted from "Tomie Part 1" and acts as a prequel to the first Tomie film
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsHisako ShirataMinamiAnri BanA young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.Direct adaptation of "Tomie Part 7: Revenge"
- DirectorTomohiro KuboStarsYû AbiruChika ArakawaFukutenA young, depressed man is trying to move on with his life after his girlfriend's bizarre death. One day, a mysterious woman notices him at work and convinces his coworkers to introduce him to her.Adapted from "Tomie: Gathering"
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsMoe AraiMiu NakamuraAika OhtaA photography student's life takes a turn for the worse when her dead sister is welcomed back into the family home.Adapted from "Tomie Part 4: Photograph" and "Part 5: Kiss" and serves as a reboot to the series
- DirectorJunji ItoStarsYûki FurukawaYoshifumi IkedaAya KiguchiA young couple, Tomio and Madoka, decide to get married after graduate school. Madoka convinces Tomio to visit a fortune teller to have their future foretold. Tomio is immediately attracted to the seductive psychic and returns to her late one night. When he comes to his senses and rejects her out of guilt and tries to leave, she puts a terrifying curse on him. Now, Tomio roams the streets trying to, literally, keep his head on straight! This is a chilling, surreal and blood-dripping tale of black magic and the terrifying price of infidelity.Adapted from "Tomio: Red Turtleneck"
- DirectorTakayuki HiraoStarsMirai KataokaTakuma NegishiAmi TaniguchiThe friends Kaori, Erika and Aki are on a vacation to celebrate their upcoming graduation, when suddenly an infestation of mysterious walking fish forces them to reevaluate everything they care about in order to stay alive.Adapted from "Gyo"
- StarsMonica RialAustin TindleBrittany LaudaA collection of animated horror stories based on the works of Japanese artist Junji Ito.Each episode adapts two stories, those being: 1. "Souichi’s Convenient Curse" & "Hell Doll Funeral"
2. "Fashion Model" & "The Long Dream"
3. "Beautiful Boy at the Crossroads" & "Slug Girl"
4. "Shiver" & "Marionette Mansion"
5. "The Ongoing Tale of Oshikiri" & "Cloth Teacher"
6. "Window Next Door" & "Gentle Goodbye"
7. "Used Record" & "Town of No Roads"
8. "Honored Ancestors" & "The Circus Comes to Town"
9. "Painter" & "Blood-bubble Bushes"
10. "Greased" & "Bridge"
11. "Supernatural Transfer Student" & "Scarecrow"
12. "Smashed" & "Rumors"
The final two episodes both adapt the first several chapters of "Tomie" - StarsBill MillsapDorah FineMike McFarlandFrom the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.This is essentially another series of the Junji Ito Collection with each episode adapting either one or two stories, those being:
1. "The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance"
2. "The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel" & "Ice Cream Truck"
3. "The Hanging Balloons"
4. "Four x Four Walls" & "The Sandman’s Lair"
5. "Intruder" & "The Long Hair in the Attic"
6. "Mold" & "Library Vision"
7. "Gravetown"
8. "Layers of Fear" & "The Thing that Drifted Ashore"
9. "Tomie: Photograph"
10. "Unendurable Labyrinth & The Bully"
11. "The Back Alley & Headless Statue"
12. "Whispering Woman" & "Soichi's Beloved Pet" - StarsUki SatakeShin'ichirô MikiMariya IseA town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin.