Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre

Season

2023

6.1

From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.

Episode List

The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance

S1 • E1

The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance

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.

The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel/Ice Cream Truck

S1 • E2

The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel/Ice Cream Truck

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.

S1 • E3

The Hanging Balloons

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

The Room with Four Walls/Where the Sandman Lives

S1 • E4

The Room with Four Walls/Where the Sandman Lives

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.

S1 • E5

Intruder/The Long Hair in the Attic

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.

S1 • E6

Mold/Library Vision

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.