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
<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.
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
<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
<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
<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_-_M
ovie
<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
<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
<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."
About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an online video service and community that offers full-length
episodes and movies of the very best in Japanese anime and Asian
entertainment. Crunchyroll's content is provided by Asian media leaders
including TV TOKYO, Shueisha, d-rights, Fuji Creative Corporation, Pony
Canyon, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Toei Animation, Gonzo, Munhwa
Broadcasting Corporation America and many others.
Crunchyroll was founded in June 2006 and has offices in both San Francisco
and Tokyo. Crunchyroll is a pioneer and innovator within the Japanese anime
industry and the only video service in the world to offer hit programs like
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, GINTAMA and many others online to its subscribers within
one hour of their Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll is a member of the
Association of Japanese Animation (AJA) and the Licensing International
Merchandisers' Association (LIMA) and is funded by leading venture capital
firm, Venrock. More information can be found at its website
http://www.crunchyroll.com <http://www.crunchyroll.com/> .
DARK TALES OF JAPAN
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Dark_Tales_of_Japan_-_Movie
<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
<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_-_M
ovie
<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
<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
<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."
About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an online video service and community that offers full-length
episodes and movies of the very best in Japanese anime and Asian
entertainment. Crunchyroll's content is provided by Asian media leaders
including TV TOKYO, Shueisha, d-rights, Fuji Creative Corporation, Pony
Canyon, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Toei Animation, Gonzo, Munhwa
Broadcasting Corporation America and many others.
Crunchyroll was founded in June 2006 and has offices in both San Francisco
and Tokyo. Crunchyroll is a pioneer and innovator within the Japanese anime
industry and the only video service in the world to offer hit programs like
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, GINTAMA and many others online to its subscribers within
one hour of their Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll is a member of the
Association of Japanese Animation (AJA) and the Licensing International
Merchandisers' Association (LIMA) and is funded by leading venture capital
firm, Venrock. More information can be found at its website
http://www.crunchyroll.com <http://www.crunchyroll.com/> .
