Crunchyroll and Kadokawa Pictures USA Continues Kadokawa Tuesdays with Isola, Shikoku and The Horror Collections From J-Horror Anthology: Underworld, Dark Tales of Japan and Rampo Noir
Members and Fans Can Now Expect New Titles from Kadokawa Pictures USA Every Tuesday at the Number One Online Destination for Anime and Asian Entertainment
San Francisco, CA (April 28, 2009) — Bone chilling anthologies and live action films of horror, mystery and horror from Japan are now available on Crunchyroll for fans and members as “Kadokawa Tuesdays” continues with ISOLA, SHIKOKU and the DARK TALES OF JAPAN, J-HORROR ANTHOLOGY II and RAMPO NOIR collections. More information can be found at: http://www.crunchyroll.com/publisher/kadokawapicturesusa
The DARK TALES OF JAPAN collection consists of THE SPIDERWOMAN, CREVICES, THE SACRIFICE, BLONDE KWAIDAN and PRESENTIMENT.
The J-HORROR ANTHOLOGY: UNDERWORLD collection consists of CHAIN MAIL, LEFT BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN, TATTOO, VIEWFINDER'S MEMORY, GUARDIAN ANGEL and MORTUARY.
The RAMPO NOIR collection consists of MARS CANAL, MIRROR HELL, CATERPILLAR and CRAWLING BUGS.
These “Kadokawa Tuesday” titles are available at 12:00 pm PST today, for FREE, to all fans and members in the U.S., Canada, American Samoa, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam and Virgin Island regions.
Title Synopsis:
DARK TALES OF JAPAN http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Dark_Tales_of_Japan_-_Movie
-THE SPIDERWOMAN “if you look at her, you die.” There is a creature terrorizing the dark streets of Japan after dusk, an eight-legged beast known only through rumored attacks and the name of Kumo Onna “the Spiderwoman.” After a group of teenagers die in a car crash just after they encounter what seems to be a strange creature on the highway, Yamazaki, a local tabloid journalist, begins to follow the building legend of the Spiderwoman, hoping to uncover her identity. As he traces the myth, the trail of clues leads him to Kamiya City, but it seems that none of his sources have ever actually seen the creature first-hand. Just as Yamazaki is losing hope, he meets a trauma-wrecked girl who claims to have been attacked by the monster. Can her tale really undo the mystery of the legend? And just what is the price of delving further into this deathly web?
-CREVICES Have you ever felt like the walls have eyes? Like there is someone, something there, lurking behind you—that shadow on the curtains, the blurred presence in the mirror—that sound you thought you heard just now? Kodera is the guarantor for his high school friend, Shimuzu and is called over to his apartment when Shimuzu skips his rent for three months. Entering the empty room, Kodera finds that every wall and window—every crevice—has been inexplicably covered with red tape. Kodera cannot fathom what would possess Shimuzu to do this—but then he stumbles upon a video that reveals the morbid truth of his last hours and his disappearance. Have you ever felt like the walls have eyes? Like there is someone, something there? -THE SACRIFICE Mayu, an office lady working in Tokyo, was asked out by her coworker Fukuda but she rejected him immediately. The next day, strange things begin to happen around her and her friend tells her the story of a girl who rejected Fukuda before. At that time, it's said that he told her, “I'll put a curse on you!” Mayu returns to her apartment to find a symbol on her door written in blood. Just as things are becoming more horrifying, she receives news that her mother has fallen ill and she returns to her house on the outskirts. There she relives the memory of her grandmother's unexpected death, just as her mother was sick “as if grandma died in mom's place.” The next day, Mayu notices a symbol on the ceiling of her parent's house resembling the one smeared upon her door! Mayu rushes back to the city, convinced that Fukuda is somehow involved with her mother's illness and the strange things occurring around her. What will she find when she sneaks into his house to investigate the truth? -BLONDE KWAIDAN For his job, Ishiguro is sent to Los Angeles where he is instantly amazed by the number of natural blondes! Ishigura is to stay in the house of his Executive Director, Hirota, who is presently away on vacation with his blonde girlfriend. But then strange things start to happen in the house and he wonders if he is truly alone. Ishigura soon finds out that the presence of this blonde isn't quite the American dream he had in mind. -PRESENTIMENT Fukawa is finally on vacation—so why is he still at the office? Alone, he drops to the floor—dodging the sight of the security camera—he crawls to the main cubicle and breaks into the company's computer where he steals the client database. All the while his cell phone goes off repeatedly: first it is his wife and young daughter, currently waiting for him at their hotel. Then a mysterious woman who waits for him too on a train station platform where she threatens to kill herself if he doesn't arrive before the last train! We do not know where he is going, but it would seem he isn't going to get there very fast once he steps into an elevator that first refuses to go to the first floor and then gets stuck. Fukawa is now trapped in a metal box between floors, unable to contact anyone on his dead cell phone while the clock keeps ticking closer to 7:45 and the final train. There are three other people in this elevator so why is he the only one who seems to care about ever getting out? ISOLA http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/ISOLA_-_Movie When Yukari, a psychic able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a troubled girl named Chihiro who is suffering from a multiple personality disorder. Chihiro has 13 different personalities and her 13th personality is a revengeful ghost named, Isola. Can the psychic find a way to stop ISOLA without harming Chihiro?
J-HORROR ANTHOLOGY: UNDERWORLD http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Japanese_Horror_Anthology:_Underworld_-_Movie
-CHAIN MAIL Sayaka's friends get their kicks sending out hoax emails in the name of one of their classmates who committed suicide. Though Sakaya feels guilty about not standing up to the hoax, things start to go terribly awry when her classmates begin dying, one by one, under mysterious circumstances. It won't be long before Sayaka herself receives a terrifying electronic message. -LEFT BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN Yoshimitsu is all out of luck when it comes to the ladies. After several unsuccessful attempts at internet dating, he turns into a human monster who finds pleasure in driving dates to remote mountainous locations and leaving them there. Unbeknownst to him, however, his luck in carrying out the evil schemes is nearing a startling end. -TATTOO Immersed in a self-indulgent lifestyle, Mina has no plans to change. One day, after finding a butterfly-shaped leaflet from a tattoo shop, she decides to drop by and take a look. Though unaware at the time, Mina meets a mysterious tattoo designer who turns out to be anything other than what she expected. -VIEWFINDER'S MEMORY Three childhood friends take a vacation to a seaside cottage. As one of them falls in love instantly, another who happens to be filming the couple discovers an appalling secret via his video camera. -GUARDIAN ANGEL Yumiko, down on her luck, sees no point in life and attempts suicide. However, she is repeatedly foiled in her efforts by unexplainable events that seem to conspire against her mission. -MORTUARY Medical trainee Yohei attends an operation on a boy involved in a car accident, but unfortunately, the boy does not survive surgery. Afterwards, the mother insists that something unspeakably terrible is wrong with the lifeless boy. RAMPO NOIR COLLECTION http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Rampo_Noir_-_Movie -MARS CANAL Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. -MIRROR HELL When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. -CATERPILLAR A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. -CRAWLING BUGS A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
SHIKOKU http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Shikoku_-_Movie Hinako returns to her childhood home in the island of Shikoku after many years. She learns that her childhood friend Sayori has passed away and that Sayori's mother, a local priestess, has slowly gone insane with grief. When strange things begin to happen on the island, Hinako and an old friend Funiya learn that Sayori's mother has spent years conducting a pilgrimage around each of the island's 88 temples in reverse order, which, according to folklore, is supposed to release the spirts of the dead and turn the island into the "land of the dead".
About Kadokawa Pictures USA Kadokawa Pictures USA (KPUSA) is the Los Angeles based arm of entertainment giant KADOKAWA GROUP HOLDINGS, INC (KGH) in Japan. KGH includes KADOKAWA GROUP PUBLISHING and KADOKAWA PICTURES. KADOKAWA GROUP PUBLISHING is one of the oldest and largest publishing groups in Japan and the largest publishers of Japanese Manga. KADOKAWA PICTURES with its library of over 2,000 titles, develops, finances, produces and distributes live action and anime films theatrically and for TV throughout Japan and Asia and boasts a state-of-the art production facility in Tokyo. Films that have garnered worldwide attention from these libraries include: THE RING, DARK WATER, PULSE and SHALL WE DANCE? KGH also includes a major exhibitor in Japan,Kadokawa Cineplex.
KPUSA distributes, licenses, remakes and adapts library films and books for an international audience in the English language, such as; “One Missed Call,””Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.”
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