Takashi Shimizu
Also Known As: 清水崇
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1972
Age: 52 years old
Gender: Male
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The Night Before Upheaval
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-29
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Tokyo Gore Police
Overview: In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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The J-Horror Virus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-27
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Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Overview: An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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Meatball Machine: Reject of Death
Overview: Shortfilm sequel to the movie Meatball Machine. There is no real action but we'll see a bunch of aliens kill both each other and humans.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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They Are/Were Watching
Overview: A young woman is haunted by a ghost in THEY ARE/WERE WATCHING.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-08
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Gekijō-ban: Harapeko Yamagami-kun
Overview: Yamagami-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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-03
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi!
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-23
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Overview: A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-15
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Ura Horror
Overview: A found footage anthology horror film by Kôji Shiraishi.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-21
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Why Horror?
Overview: Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video
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Genres: Horror Documentary Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-11
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Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood
Overview: Hideo 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-21
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Onimanji
Overview: Ninja 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.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-08
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63 Minutes Later
Overview: A 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”.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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The Tutor I Loved, My Pure White Body Was Tainted
Overview: Kazuo, 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...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Helldriver
Overview: Still 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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