In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality.

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by his spirit as well as his own ambitions.

The unwitting victim of a terrible curse, a young man accidentally injures his wife, a jealous teacher who soon dies from her wound. Running away with one of her students, he fails to heed the dead woman's warning that if he remarries, she'll haunt him to the grave. Now for an unfaithful husband, the real terror is about to begin.

A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time just hanging out, their sole passion in life being elaborate karaoke. Across town, a group of hirty-something divorced women calling themselves the Midoris do much the same thing, until one of the Gakis kills a Midori after he's rejected trying to pick her up. The Midoris retaliate, and the absurdist battle of revenge is on, with weapons escalating from knives to guns and eventually to rocket launchers and beyond.

Six Japanese Masters of Horror have united to adapt the works of Kazuo Umezz, the godfather of horror manga. He is so influential the Japanese horror awards are named "Umezz Awards." Re-imagined by the minds behind cutting-rdge Japanese horror classics The Ring, Ju-On: The Grudge, The Great Yokai War, and many others, his horrific tales have been crafted to rattle your nerves, assault your senses and make you question reality. Let the nightmares begin.

While Mayumi is being beaten by an especially cruel teacher, strapped to a rocking horse clad only in her underwear, a woman appears identifying herself as the "Kekko Kamen." Completely naked except for a red mask covering her face, she stands up to defend the tormented Mayumi and battle the sadists of Manglifon school. Contains all four Kekko Kamen movies.

A beautiful young girl named Mayumi joins a top-notch announcer school with draconian disciplinary standards. While being beaten by especially cruel teacher, strapped to a rocking horse clad only in her underwear a woman appears identifying herself as the "Kekko Kamen", completely naked except for a red mask covering her face, she stands up to defend the tormented Mayumi and battle the sadists of Manglifon school.

At the moment, all is well at St. Kusunoki School, but the sinister MGF is always lurking, waiting for the right moment to strike. For the summer vacation, the girls' swimming club starts a training camp on a remote desert island. However, the MGF has chosen this same desert island for the purpose of furthering their evil agendas!

No one has seen her face, but everyone has seen her body! At the Mangriffon Music Academy, Mayumi is undergoing the usual classroom tortures. It's Kekko Kamen to the rescue, with a hunk of burning love and rock & roll justice to save the day!

In our last story we were introduced to the avenging heroine, "Kekko Kamen," a mysterious defender of the weak who rides into battle on her red scooter, completely naked except for a red mask covering her face. Who can she be? One of the students of the Mangriffon school? Will she be able to save the young girls from the wrath of the MGF? Can she summon her powers to appear from nowhere and fight once again to save the day?

When Miki Takenotori starts talking about ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in the night, most people dismiss her stories as the fantasies of a rather strange teenager. Unfortunately for Miki, the things she's talking about are REAL, and most of them don't like being talked about! Fortunately, she's found another true believer in beautiful archaeologist Reiko Kaguya, and together the two young women do their best to keep aliens, demon mirrors and even giant dragons from destroying Japan.