
Masafumi Yamada
Directing
Known For

An omnibus-style romance drama following three love stories that take place in the hot spring towns of Ikaho, Minamiizu, and Ito.
Koi wa Yukemuri no Naka de

when rumors about students who played at hitori Kakurenbo (sort of hide and seek alone with a ghost) propagate in high school, Shiori can no longer join his older brother Motoya. On his way to the apartment he is supposed to live, she found an empty room. But an internet forum unearthed on the computer of her brother leads her to believe that the disappearance of the latter may well be linked to this sordid game of hide and seek. Despite attempts by her boyfriend Noboru and his best to reassure her friend Yuko, Shiori is beginning to be convinced that something he wants her too and tries to track down. It will then turn to Shiraishi, a former classmate of her brother, trying to understand what is happening and return Motoya.
Creepy Hide and Seek

University students Ryoko and Akane get lost on a mountain road on their way home from a hike. They finally reach a bus stop, but there is no sign of a bus coming. Furthermore, Ryoko has an injured leg, and Akane's boyfriend is at a drinking party and cannot come to pick her up. The two decided to hitchhike out of the goodness of their hearts. It seemed reckless deep in the mountains, but as luck would have it, a camper pulled up. From the driver's seat...
Hitch Hike

Ryo (Yamada Masasi), the lead singer of an amateur rock band at night, owns a Ramen noodle shop. He cannot fly on airplanes because he has a fear of them. Ironically, he finds himself attracted to a stewardess who comes to eat very often at his shop. One day, an opportunity comes knocking on their doors - they are to perform in Seoul. The performance day approaches, but their dream of performing in Seoul is about to be shattered because of Ryo, who cannot fly on an airplane. As a last resort, Ryo decides to take a taxi in Tokyo and fly to Seoul, leaving behind the charming stewardess who makes his heart flutter.
Tokyo Taxi

A young, temperamental Tokyo beautician struggles to navigate her relationships with lovers, friends, and family.
Desert of Namibia

A Japanese horror television drama based on the book of the same name written by Itoi Shigesato. He originally began serializing his collection of ghost stories on his website Hobonikkan Itoishinbun in 2004. Each of the ghost stories are based on real-life events experienced by real-life people. It was published as a book in August 2018, and later adapted into a television drama in August 2020. The Hobonikkan Itoishinbun website continues to add ghost stories to the Hobonichi no Kaidan. collection to this day.
Hobonichi no Kaidan

Facing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to close after a series of gruesome murders. What fate awaits Naomi and her friends at the cursed school...?
Corpse Party

High school girl and four other people were forced to play a X-game to take responsibility for what they did in the past.
X Game 2

To bring back her dead friends, high school student Naomi (Rina Ikoma) goes back to the elementary school where a tragedy took place. She becomes involved in a new incident.
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
Noboru (Taku Manabe) finds himself in a very difficult situation. The factory he’s been working at has gone bankrupt. He heads to the factory’s office to demand his last paycheque, but it turns out some gangster thugs are there demanding money as well. Now with the yakuza on his tail Noboru has to run for his life. He ends up hiding out in a rundown rooming house in a mysterious area of Kyoto not listed on the city maps. It’s while Noboru is living in this rooming house and working as a security guard on a construction site that he encounters a cast of unusual characters: a fellow security guard who is obsessed by fossils, an aging widow on the edge of sanity, and a beautiful alcoholic woman named Miyuki (Natsumi Seto) who is convinced that she I growing a wing on her back. Will Noboru be able to stay hidden or will his newfound infatuation with Miyuki prove more dangerous than the thugs who are hunting him?
Tenshi tsukinuke rokuchoume

During rehearsals for the troupe, one after another, cast members die inexplicable sudden deaths in accordance with the titles of six scripts, including "Stab" and "Thrust," created by the leader and famous director, Imamura... Mayumi, too, struggles with the fear of sudden death and practices desperately not to be outdone by her rival Ai... And when the curtain opens on the stage, hell awaits them!
Happening Seizonsya 0

This DVD contains the first "horror period drama" recorded at Nikko Edo village, in pursuit of authentic terror. Episode 1: A Broken Promise Episode 2: Ubume Episode 3: Tales of the Peony Lantern
Nihon de Ichiban Kowai Hanashi Edo Kaidan

POV horror inspired by the "Sealed Video" series. Shimauchi visits the "jack of all trades" Manabe to investigate his lover, Mayuko, who has been acting strange lately. When she starts secretly filming her surroundings with a freelance photographer, Tsuchida, something impossible is reflected...
Seriously, Seriously, Dangerous

This is the second of six omnibus horror films in which directors active in horror films depict horrors that make you want to scream "stop" from various angles, from ghosts to monsters and even special abilities !
Stop It 2. - Horror TV Series -

Ten years ago Keisuke went to Tokyo to become a musician. He receives a call from his far off hometown informing him of the funeral for his older brother who went missing while fishing at sea. Having lied he achieved success in Tokyo, Keisuke is hesitant but nevertheless returns home. Gathered at his parent's house are his father who lives alone; his brother's ex-wife; Hiroshi, a classmate who was the last to see his brother; and Hiroshi's younger sister Nagi who bears a limp.
Leaving Home

A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She's a nurse, he's a patient. Problem: a large metal object on his back. While the woman tries desperately to escape, the man experiences an inner struggle on the borderline of dream and reality. What has happened before?
Tsuburo no Gara

When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online of hide and seek, she begins to wonder if it could be related to her disappearance somehow. Ryoko then discovers that the game is more sinister than it appeared at first. It is linked to demonology and the supernatural. Will she be able to get past her fears and superstitions to discover what secrets the game of hide and seek might hold?
Hide and Go Kill 2

Sayo moves from Tokyo with her mother to her grandmother’s house in the country. On her first day of school as a transfer student, she witnesses her new friend Maho getting bullied by her classmates. However, she fails to save her due to fear of being the odd one out. When she returns home, she becomes worried that Maho was trapped in the school bathroom. Soon, she discovers that Maho has died…
Hanako's Spirit in the Washroom

Ghost stories are discussed in a roundtable discussion between the 8 members, the movie shooting was done at a temple. The cast appearing in this work is mainly the 8 members of AKB48. Among these 8 members, Oguri Yui, Kuranoo Narumi, Komiyama Haruka and Muto Tomu will be in the drama, Sakaguchi Nagisa and Suzuki Yuka will have a discussion with Oshima Teru, a popular website who collects information's about locations where unnatural death happened. Gyoten Yurina will have an experience at a psychic spot, and Omori Maho will tell "ghost stories" by using a variety of approaches.
Tales of the Undeparted

Nine strangers find themselves locked in a secret room, and become the unwilling participants in a sadistic game.