Yukijiro Hotaru
10 titles
Filmography
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Deep Sea Monster Raiga
(2009)Global warming brings to life an ancient sea creature known as Raiga, who has set its sights on attacking Japan. Who can stop this dangerous beast?

Nezura 1964
(2020)Based on the unfinished 1964 tokusatsu kaiju film and precursor to Gamera that was plagued by budgetary, scheduling, equipment and technical issues.

The iDol
(2006)After an alien gives a homeless man a strange toy, it is stolen from him and sold to a collector who discovers the idol brings both pleasure and pain.

Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters
(2008)An epic battle unfolds in the Pacific Ocean when the world’s largest battleship crosses paths with a mysterious, dragon-like sea monster.

Zëiram
(1991)Helped by her AI partner, an intergalactic bounty hunter opens up an alternate dimension to battle a ruthless alien monster threatening Earth.

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
(1995)In Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, a team of scientists discover orihalcum amulets and a stone slab covered in Etrurian runes on a floating atoll off the eastern coast of the Philippines. As they investigate, they encounter Gamera, a giant turtle, and Gyaos, bird-like creatures that attack humans.

Cure
(1997)Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, CURE is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
(1996)One year after the events of the previous Gamera film, Earth's ecosystem is under attack by an insect lifeform from outer space bent on colonizing our world. As the city of Sendai is destroyed, Gamera must protect the planet from the monster Legion and gets some help from Japan's Self Defense Forces.

Zëiram 2
(1994)An intergalactic bounty hunter looking for an ancient relic must use all the tools in her box in a deadly game of cat and mouse with an alien android.

Mourning Wife
(2001)In this steamy retelling of film noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice, a married woman's affair with a drifter leads to a fateful murder plot.