Junji Ito Maniac (2023)

Itou Junji: Maniac / 伊藤潤二『マニアック』

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Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre” is a collection of short horror stories based on Junji Itou’s manga.

Episode 1: “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings”
The Hikizuri siblings’ parents passed away some time ago. This is especially upsetting for eight-year-old Misako. Therefore, her big brother Kazuya decides to hold a séance. This way, his little sister can talk to her dead parents one last time …

Episode 2: “The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel” / “Ice Cream Bus”
A few years ago, Goro’s mother disappeared in a mysterious tunnel and has not been found since. Now his friends decide to investigate this tunnel because there is supposed to be something extraordinary in the middle of it! But what they will find is something they would never have dreamed of …

An Ice Cream Man comes every Saturday to sell ice cream to the children and then take them for a spin around town. Sonohara’s boy, Tomoki, also desperately wants some ice cream! Although Sonohara allows him to get some, he remains suspicious … What really happens in the ice cream truck?

Episode 3: “Hanging Balloon”
One day, the popular idol Terumi Fujino hanged herself … or so they say. But when more and more people start seeing their own oversized floating heads, they realise something is wrong. Soon, all of Japan is full of heads and dead bodies dangling from the ropes …

Episode 4: “Four x Four Walls” / “The Sandman’s Lair”
Kouichi is constantly annoyed by the noise of his annoying little brother Souichi, but complaining to his parents doesn’t help. Only when he threatens to move out do they come up with a solution: they want to soundproof his room! But the nag isn’t beaten that easily …

Yuji hasn’t slept for days. The reason: he keeps dreaming of some kind of alter ego trying to enter his world. He can’t keep this up much longer, so he asks his friend Mari to keep him awake.

Episode 5: “Intruder” / “Long Hair in the Attic”
Toru Oshikiri lives alone in his house, but he keeps hearing footsteps. Together with three classmates, he decides to get to the bottom of it.

Chiemi’s boyfriend of many years has just broken up with her. He was the reason she had let her hair grow long. When she wakes up the next morning with a dead rat in her hair, it only gives her all the more reason to finally cut it off. But before that happens …

Episode 6: “Mold” / “Library Vision”
During their stay abroad, Akasaka is supposed to rent out his new house to his old teacher, Rogi. Rogi’s house burned down, leaving him and his family with no place to live. Even though he doesn’t really want to, he lets himself be persuaded by his brother, Seiji. But when he returns after a year’s absence, his house looks anything but good …

Goro Shirasaki is practically obsessed with his library. When, one day, a book suddenly goes missing, the drama takes its course …

Episode 7: “Tomb Town”
Tsuyoshi and his sister Kaoru are on their way to Kaoru’s friend, Izumi, when they suddenly hit a young girl. They want to help her quickly and take her to the hospital when they realise the girl is already dead. When they finally arrive at Izumi’s house after strange incidents in a town full of graves, they learn that her sister has not returned home. Could Izumi’s sister be the girl who was run over? And what’s with all the gravestones everywhere – even on the street?

Episode 8: “Layers of Terror” / “The Thing that Drifted Ashore”
Reimi was once a successful child actress and, therefore, the golden child. An accident eventually changes not only her life but the life of her entire family: at the hospital, they learn that Reimi is made up of layers of her younger self – and one layer is added every year. Her older sister, Narumi, shares a similar fate, which she attributes to a curse from her father. As her mother fervently wishes for Reimi’s success to return, one night, she comes up with the idea of removing Reimi’s layers until her two-year-old self is back …

One day, a strange 30-ton creature is suddenly washed ashore from the sea. Inside it, scientists find something extraordinary.

Episode 9: “Tomie: Photo”
Tsukiko sells photos of her classmates for a good price until, one day, Tomie, a member of the student council, gets wind of it and tells on her. Unfortunately for her, however, her crush Yamazaki asks her to take photos of Tomie for him just then. The photos of Tomie eventually reveal something terrible …

Episode 10: “Unendurable Labyrinth” / “The Bully”
Sayoko and Noriko are on a hike when they suddenly lose their bearings and get lost. In good faith, Noriko believes they will find their way down the mountain, but instead of finding their way back, they find a sealed-off sanctuary where strange things are going on …

Kuriko was forced to play with Naoya in her childhood. At first, she was okay with it, but as he became more and more clingy, her patience wore thin …

Episode 11: “Alley” / “Headless Statue”
Ishida moves into a small flat that is almost perfect. If only there weren’t those creepy voices coming from the alley next door at night …

Professor Okabe is a high school teacher and artist who wants to exhibit headless statues in his latest exhibition. He nevertheless swears to his student and fan Shimada that he will eventually make a statue with a head. Before that can happen, however, Okabe is killed … and the perpetrator has cut off his head.

Episode 12: “Whispering Woman” / “Soichi’s Beloved Pet”
Mayumi is a hysterical girl who can’t decide anything for herself. She doesn’t know what to do: How should she sit down? What will happen if she does? Should she actually breathe? So her father arranges care for her. A mysterious, whispering woman now takes care of her …

The Tsuji household takes in a cat. Two children are delighted to finally have a cute little play and cuddle companion, though Souichi, the youngest brother, doesn’t know how to handle little animals …

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