Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre

- Season 1

(2023)

A photographer with an interest in spirits and ghosts pays a visit to the very strange and creepy home where the six Hikizuri siblings live.

Goro returns to the tunnel he saw his mother once walk into. An ice cream truck arrives in the neighbourhood, driven by a bewitching young man.

Huge balloons with people's faces and loops attached to them appear in the sky over Japan.

Koichi can't study because his younger brother Soichi is constantly making noise. Tormented by his dreams, Yuji asks his friend Mari to keep him awake.

The world of dreams is very vast and sometimes more real than the real world. Here the protagonist of this story is escaping from his alter-ego of this world of dreams. His friend will try to help although it looks impossible.

A thick layer of mold invades a man's home after hosting people while he was away. In the library of a man obsessed with books some manuscripts disappear.

After hitting a girl with his car, Tsuyoshi and his sister Kaoru find that the road they're driving on is blocked by countless tombstones.

An archaeologist discovers a tomb made up of several layers of earth. A mysterious sea creature is found stranded on the shoreline.

A menacing transfer student named Tomie isn't happy that a girl named Tsukiko has been taking and selling pictures of popular boys in their school.

Two friends get lost in the mountains and come across a community of ascetic monks. Kuriko ends up bullying a younger boy she's been playing with.

A young man moves into a boarding house next to an enclosed alley. An art teacher known for his headless sculptures is found murdered - with no head.

A mysterious woman calmly takes on the job of helping a hysterical girl unable to make decisions on her own. Soichi's family adopts a pet cat.