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Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror (2004)

Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror poster
Original title
日野日出志の怪奇劇場 地獄小僧
Directed by
Mari Asato, Kōji Shiraishi, Yoshihiro Nakamura
Genre
horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
50 min
Rating
3.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a collection of six live action Japanese horror films. Each story comes from a manga by Hideshi Hino. The movies show strange and terrifying events happening to ordinary people.

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What happens

Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror, also known as the Kaiki Gekijou Hexalogy, is a series of six live action Japanese horror films from Pony Canyon. Based on several manga of Hideshi Hino, the series was released theatrically in Japan in year 2004, and later released in North America in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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