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Takashi Shimizu has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Megumi Okina, Misa Uehara, Yoji Tanaka
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endo
When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Yûrei Yanagi, Ryôta Koyama, Takako Fuji

When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Noriko Sakai, Shingo Katsurayama, Yui Ichikawa
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Yuko Daike, Kaku Tomohiro, Makoto Ashikawa

A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Yûka, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Takako Fuji
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryota Bando, Rinka Otani
An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.
Dir. Ryuta Miyake · With Akina Minami, Tsuyoshi Muro, Chinami Iwamoto

A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Amber Tamblyn, Edison Chen, Takako Fuji
A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Go Ayano, Ryo Narita, Yukino Kishii

A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Yuina Kuroshima, Kohki Osamura
The supernatural grudge manifests itself by way of a strange cyst growing in the body of a young woman, slowly draining all life from her in revenge for... what?
Dir. Mari Asato · With Ai Kago, Maria Takagi, Yuri Nakamura
Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Leslie Bibb, Jamie Chung, Jerry Ferrara