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CriticCrunch has 5 Masaki Hiramatsu titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral.
Tomoe Enjou is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Shiki Ryougi. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days later, there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen... and when the victims are found, they're alive and unharmed.
Dir. Takayuki Hirao · With Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Jouji Nakata
July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".
Dir. Mitsuru Obunai · With Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Mamiko Noto
June 1998: After spending two years in a coma caused by a traffic accident, Shiki Ryougi awakens with amnesia. She is visited by Touko Aozaki, a wizard and proprietor of a studio called Garan no Dou. Shiki has lost not only the memory of her accident, but also any real sense that she's even alive. Strangely, enigmatic beings begin to attack her...
Dir. Teiichi Takiguchi · With Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Jouji Nakata
The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.
Dir. Ei Aoki · With Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Rie Tanaka
August 1995: Mikiya first meets Shiki in a white kimono during a snowing day. Later on, at the high school freshmen ceremony, Mikiya sees Shiki in the crowd and chases after her, introducing himself to her. But Shiki hides a big secret: A wave of bizarre murders occur around many loose ends, and no suspects. there are still many questions: Who to believe? Who is the murderer? What is the secret of Shiki? and especially: Who is SHIKI?
Dir. Takuya Nonaka · With Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Jouji Nakata