Masami Horiuchi

Necronomicon: Evocative Magic (2022)

Right before World War II, in an imaginary town in Japan called "Innsma," three men, completely driven by greed, scramble for a box containing the Necronomicon. They did not know what a horrifying outcome there would be… This is the first Japanese movie ...

School Lunch (2022)

Depicts the "bonds" that connect through "food" under the theme of school lunch in Ashiya City. Nonomura Nana is a new nutritionist who works at an elementary school in Ashiya. Struggle every day for the smiles of children who eat delicious lunch. The lunc ...

Nobutora - Samurai Tiger (2021)

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there's an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai Tiger). ...

The Voice of Sin (2020)

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterio ...

True Mothers (2020)

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband ...

Grim Reaper Case Book (2020)

Genshiro Kusaka, who runs a detective business in the Edo city, had a contract with Shinigami Juran. A "prostitute serial murder case" occurred at the Great Yukaku in Yoshiwara. How does both Genshiro and the Shinigami gonna solve it? ...

Monster SeaFood Wars (2020)

Yuta, a young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterwards a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the depths and begins to wreak havoc upon an awe-stricken Tokyo. Attempts ...

Vamp (2019)

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

BOLT (2019)

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five other brave power plant workers are sent to fasten a bolt to prevent radiation leaks. Scene two: 2013. The m ...

A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 (2019)

Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment. ...

Nipple Drill Counterattack: ATTACK OF THE NIPPLE DRILL (2018)

Straight to video film directed by Minoru Kawasaki ...

Last Winter, We Parted (2018)

An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire. ...

Drowning Love (2016)

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He ...

Odd Detective 14 (2016)

The dead body of Maki Tsujimoto, a popular stage actress, is discovered in a theater in Oji. After striking her in the back of the head with a bronze statue prop, the criminal laid the body on the floor and pointed a light at it, "directing" the crime scen ...

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route (2016)

The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email sta ...

Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories (2015)

Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the pol ...

Ghost Writer's Homicide Coverage 2 - Writing About a Celebrity's Crime (2015)

Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri (2015)

Until the Day Comes (2014)

Drama depicting the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 from the perspective of a female doctor. Takako Kawashima works as head anesthesiologist at the Sendai Medical Center. She balances her married life with help from her husban ...

Earth Defense Widow (2014)

Dan is a former geisha, now working as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. Her fiance was killed by the space monster Bemurasu which consumes nuclear waste. To save Planet Earth, Dan attacks Bemurasu, but whenever she does, she feels ecstasy. Can sh ...

The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)

When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove ...

Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion (2008)

aka Aquarian Age: The Movie, is based on the popular Japanese CCG (that's collectable card game, for you gaming neophytes), Aquarian Age. The movie represents the transition between the game's first and second Sagas and seems to have been made primarily fo ...

Den Ace: The Final (2007)

A DVD work released by Laurans Film on November 22, 2007. All 7 episodes. The 7th work in the series. One of the final episodes in which the villains of the past appear in large numbers. ...

FM89.3MHz (2007)

Okawa Family's yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is not a yakuza's job to talk on the radio, but no one listens to him. He reluctantly goes to the radio buildi ...

Silver Mask (2006)

Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari. ...

Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers (2006)

In the beginning of the movie, 20 years ago, on the moon, the 4 Ultra brothers, Ultraman, Seven, Jack, and Ace were fighting a deadly foe known as Yapool, a monster that was several times their size. As they fought, Yapool had a clear advantage and used hi ...

Inferno (2005)

Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the truth and ...

Ultraman Nexus EX: Shiori - Lost Memories - (2005)

Shiori, who was called out by her friend Akiko after a long time, was told that she was going to get married. Although Shiori congratulated them with a smile, Akiko's boyfriend Takatsuki was a man who had secretly had feelings for her even before she becam ...

Summer of Ubume (2005)

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detect ...

Rampo Noir (2005)

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo. ...

Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo (2004)

Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samurai swordsman is the creation of Hayashi Fubo and was one of the most popular characters of the era. This r ...

48 Hours of Terror - When the Clock's Hands Turn into a Knife (2004)

When the clock's hand turns into a knife, parent-child bonds are torn! ...

Long Dream (2000)

Strange 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? ...

Uzumaki (2000)

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals. ...

The Dimension Travelers (1998)

A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds. ...

Murder on D Street (1998)

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks. ...

A Watcher in the Attic (1994)

Tokyo 1923, one of the residents of a boarding house discovers a way to spy on the other tenants, leading to dramatic consequences. ...

Dialogue (1992)

A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man's plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss. ...

Skyscraper Hunting (1991)

The ASH (Abnormal Species Humanoid) first appeared in the beginning of the 1980s. They looked like humans, but they weren't. The ASH can be identified by a pulsating appendage on their back; it resembles an embossed root clutching the spine. These humanoid ...

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (1990)

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary. ...

La Valse (1990)

A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura, a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the ...

Blue Lake Girl (1986)

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover's suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn't go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follow ...

Demon's Room (1982)

A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he takes her to the hotel he locks her in a room and rapes her. The kidnapper then calls her husband but he doesn ...

Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song (1977)

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary fri ...

Utamaro's World (1977)

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings. ...

Ore no sora (1977)

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does. ...

Stray Dog (1973)

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing ...

The Petrified Forest (1973)

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship. ...

The Sons (1973)

A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation, repetition, and death. The characters' images and movements are faint, but the mood is sensual. ...