Koji Shiraishi

Koji Shiraishi (白石晃士 Shiraishi Kōji) was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating from Kyushu Sangyo University with a degree in film making, he went on to work as an assistant director on such films as Gakuryū Ishii's August in the Water and Shinobu Yaguchi's WATER BOYS. He cites Gakuryū Ishii as his favorite Japanese director, and Ishii's 1980 Crazy Thunder Road as his favorite film. Other directors he admires include John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Abbas Kiarostami, and Sam Raimi, and films he enjoy include the original Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), The Thing (1982), and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Works

Welcome to the Occult Forest

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi (played by Kôji Shiraishi) and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

Release Date2022-07-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Kuroishi Koji

Episode Count6

Vote Count5

Vauxhall Rideshow - Escape from Dead School

A group of young women are being trapped inside an empty school while being stalked by a deranged killer.

Release Date2016-01-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tashiro

A Record of Sweet Murder

A murderer in the middle of a killing spree enlists a reporter to interview him as he prepares to finish sacrificing his victims to his god.

Release Date2014-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tashiro

Vote Count28

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost

Three journalists specializing in the supernatural will follow in the footsteps of a ghost, woken by 4 friends exploring an abandoned school.

Release Date2012-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count22

Really! Cursed Video: The Movie 2

The second work of a psychic documentary that approaches the mystery of a person who died suddenly after watching the video "Unhappiness occurs when you see it."

Release Date2003-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Really! Cursed Video: The Movie

A movie version of the original video psychic documentary series that explores the relationship between the allegedly disaster-causing footage and the death of a man who saw it. On the morning of July 22, 2002, a body was discovered in an alley behind a busy Tokyo street. Although the police were able to identify the corpse as Hara, a man in his thirties, they were unable to discover any cause of death and foul play has been ruled out.

Release Date2003-10-27

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Charactersd

Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please

Horror film director Koji Shiraishi receives a video of a young couple, Keisuke and Yuki, filmed in a dimly lit abandoned building that is rumored to be haunted. As they proceeded deeper into the ruins, Yuki suddenly disappeared without a trace. Keisuke panics and Yuki is finally found, a black shadow with a terrifying atmosphere swirls behind her. With Yuki now holding an old VHS tape in her hand. This VHS tape contains a horrifying and hair-raising video that took place in an abandoned village.

Release Date2023-10-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count2

Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please Vol.1

Volume 1 of "Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please" with brand new footage added, not present in the theatrical version! Horror film director Koji Shiraishi receives a video of a young couple, Keisuke and Yuki, filmed in a dimly lit abandoned building that is rumored to be haunted. As they proceeded deeper into the ruins, Yuki suddenly disappeared without a trace. Keisuke panics and Yuki is finally found, a black shadow with a terrifying atmosphere swirls behind her. With Yuki now holding an old VHS tape in her hand. This VHS tape contains a horrifying and hair-raising video that took place in an abandoned village.

Release Date2024-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Koji Shiraishi

Vote Count1

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet

A video recently posted by two teens shows something popping out of a closed toilet at an abandoned school.

Release Date2013-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count16

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman

1st Entry in a mockumentary series from Koji Shiraishi. Depicts a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman".

Release Date2012-07-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count34

Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Dark Mystery: Snake Woman

Kudo receives a video shot by a job-hopper named Sakurai. The video shows a beautiful woman who visits the side of a river in the countryside. Sakurai has fallen in love with her and visits her home, but it's there he witnesses a terrifying scene.

Release Date2015-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count8

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 03: Legend of a Human-Eating Kappa

A new posted video was delivered to Ichikawa. A couple fishing in a pond captured a strange creature that emerged from the surface of the water.

Release Date2013-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count19

Cursed Violent People

Following a film shoot gone wrong, director Koji Shiraishi finds himself forced to employ two violent criminals in his future productions.

Release Date2010-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Most Terrifying Movie in History

In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or dies.

Release Date2014-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count12

Suicide Net

The interview team, who went to talk to the mother of Mr. K, a high school girl who died in suicide, learns that she frequently wrote on suicide sites before Mr. K died. According to his mother who read the email left on the computer after Mr. K's death, Mr. K started to think about suicide by watching some kind of video on the Internet. According to the testimony of his friends, it seems that Mr. K's actions and remarks began to die at some point. What exactly is that video? We were able to contact the suicide applicants on the bulletin board of the suicide site and talk to those who have seen the video. It was the beginning of horror and fear...

Release Date2003-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count2

Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please Vol.2

Volume 2 of "Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please" with brand new footage added, not present in the theatrical version! After Koji Shiraishi watches a horrifying VHS tape, a mysterious woman calling herself 'Karame' calls him. Telling Shiraishi to "investigate Keisuke immediately". In addition, Karame sends Shiraishi a video clip showing Keisuke and Yuki entering Keisuke's room without permission and being filmed in secret. This incident prompts Shiraishi to start his own investigation.

Release Date2024-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Koji Shiraishi

Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi!

The submitted footage, taken in a cursed ruin, shows a creepy altar, a "red woman" covered in blood, and the crying of a baby that is nowhere to be seen. The "Too Scary!" team of rough producer Kudo, director Ichikawa, and cameraman Tashiro have reunited. They will now transcend time and space to solve the mystery!

Release Date2023-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count15

Violence Men

A faux-documentary that closely follows two maniacally violent people who rebel against the old traditions of their film studies club.

Release Date1997-07-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Final Chapter

Eighteen months have gone by and Kudo and Ichikawa are still lost in a parallel universe. When they vanished, a giant appeared in the sky above Shinjuku.

Release Date2015-04-11

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count11

Villain

A criminal gossip magazine receives a video tape from Japan's most notorious criminal rapist, the "Hyper Villain" Shouhei Eno. On the tape, Eno reveals himself and proclaims he has raped 107 girls in 10 years. He also offers the magazine a chance to interview him and film his upcoming 108th rape.

Release Date2011-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Koji Shiraishi

Vote Count3

Paranormal Phenomenon

A video sent from a man living in Shinjuku Ward recorded psychic phenomenon that was taken at a hotel. In another event, a woman went missing after her and husband went mountain climbing.

Release Date2010-08-27

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Fear Adventure: Kokkuri-san

Based on the previous 'Final Chapter', world history has now been modified and reconstructed. Although Kudo was able to release himself from the curse caused by demon soldiers, he now has no money. Despite losing the memory of the previous world, Kudo, Ichikawa and Tashiro continue to work together in producing a horror documentary.

Release Date2015-06-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count10

She's Above the Clouds

A fantasy of love, friendship, death, and the afterlife, humorously depicted in an apartment room.

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Ultra Violent People - Deluxe

Extended version of Koji Shiraishi's Ultra Violent People from 2011 that adds Kudo from the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi" series!

Release Date2014-02-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.

Release Date2014-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count14

Man in the Shop

A ghost of a violent man appears in a store, and confronts a psychic.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Who?

The first [Geki Yaba] short horror story by Koji Shiraishi.

Release Date2022-08-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Koji Shiraishi's Textbook of Fake Documentary - Filming

Koji Shiraishi documents the filming and production of his short film "Koji Shiraishi's Declaration of World Domination". Included in the "Textbook of Fake Documentary" DVD

Release Date2016-07-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Koji Shiraishi's Declaration of World Domination

A short film that was made in one day on an iPhone.

Release Date2016-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Vote Count1

Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie

A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

Release Date2022-08-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Kôji Kuroishi

Vote Count3

Namade Kowasugi! 2.5

Spin-off film in Kōji Shiraishi's "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series. Broadcast on NicoNico.

Release Date2022-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Visitor

Short film edited into "Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie".

Release Date2022-08-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Kôji Kuroishi

白石晃士監督が呪術のように実践してきた恐怖の方程式

Release Date2025-06-10

Charactersd 自己

Vote Count1

Director's POV Koji Shiraishi on NOROl: The Curse

Release Date2024-10-28

Charactersd 自己

Kudo's Secret

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after "Kowa Too!" FILE-01.

Release Date2014-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tashiro

Vote Count2

Namade Kowasugi!

Spin-off film in Kōji Shiraishi's "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi" series. Made in 2014 and broadcast on NicoNico in 2015.

Release Date2015-06-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count1

Message From Beyond

A short film following Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Final Chapter.

Release Date2015-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Masatsugu Tashiro

Vote Count1

Ultra Violent People

Nasu, who works for a magazine working on DVD supplemental's, begins interviewing a man who calls himself a "Violent Man". However, the man's words and actions quickly become insane, and eventually he tries to get Nasu and the cameraman to film him committing murder.

Release Date2011-09-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Shirome

In his latest film, Shirome, Stardust Promotion's relatively new pop idol unit Momoiro Clover star as a group of girls who enter an old abandoned school hoping to have their wishes granted by a spirit called Shirome. The girls initially had no clue they were being filmed for a movie at all. Instead, they were told that they were being filmed for an upcoming television show exploring haunted locations. The result is a faux documentary style in the same vein as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity".

Release Date2010-08-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count15

Occult

Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.

Release Date2009-03-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count73

Man With a Movie Camera: The Found Footage Legacy of 'Man Bites Dog'

Documentary by filmmaker Sarah Appleton.

Release Date2025-04-11

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Charactersd Self

Why So Serious?

A brand new interview with Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman director Koji Shiraishi.

Release Date2024-10-28

Charactersd Self

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

Release Date2004-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-03.

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count1

Uwasa no Shinsô! Kuchisake-onna

A horror variety that looks back on the mouth split woman who pioneered the urban legendary boom. At the end of the 1970s, a tearing mouth woman suddenly fears people. Tell the truth of the rumor by giving specific examples such as who she is, its identity and appearance, how to repel.

Release Date2007-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Exorcist 2: Human Exorcism

A wife's husband dies in a car accident, but the wife has doubts about his death because she knows their son cursed her husband right before the strange death.

Release Date2002-05-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kaze wa Fukudarou

Machida, an aspiring filmmaker, heads to the room of a stranger where he thinks his girlfriend Yukiko might be in there, while rolling his brand new video camera. The two end up breaking up, but Machida thinks that he may have been the main cause of the breakup. Newly equipped with a new video camera, he sets out to make a film to reevaluate their relationship. As he continues to film, the lines between fiction and reality become hard to understand.

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Onmyoji Real Record! Hyakuki Annihilation

Onmyoji confronts the deadliest curse that has never been seen before!

Ms. T's friend, Ms. K, who committed suicide, was a young girl who always hinted at suicidal thoughts, and it is said that those around her did not pursue the cause of her suicide. She, however, still believed that T-san was possessed by a man who looked like a shinigami and died.

Release Date2003-12-26

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

未来世紀SHIBUYA

This is a streaming video set in Shibuya in 2036. Through the young video streamers living at the bottom of the digital society, we will reveal the problems that will occur in Japan in the future.

Release Date2021-11-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Ada: Senritsu-hen

One night at a strange cram school, a class and a small film crew shooting a commercial are attacked by two teenage girls.

Release Date2013-07-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video: Ver. X: 4

Release Date2004-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video: Ver. X: 3

Release Date2004-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Anna Ishibashi: The Missing Actress

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-02.

Release Date2012-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Shibuya, the year is 2036. In contrast to the front face of the city with its huge skyscrapers, the backside of Shibuya is a home ground for WeTubers. Mitsuru (played by Daichi Kaneko) and Kakeru (played by Kotaro Daigo), who grew up together as orphans, live a life at the bottom of the ladder with no family, education, or money, but they dream of a great turnaround in their lives by becoming popular WeTubers. One day, they encounter a mannequin uncle (played by Shôhei Uno). When he releases a video of his encounter with the suspicious mannequin uncle, the number of views on their channel increase dramatically. Viewers begin asking him for advice, and they decide to help solve their problems. However, they soon find their selves caught up in a puzzling case.

Release Date2021-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Yuri Takami's ○○ Story

Short film made as a promo for Grave Encounters (2011).

Release Date2012-02-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The three Aoi sisters live in a luxurious Japanese house. One night, Kotoko, the eldest, wakes up when she feels a presence stirring in the darkness. Her right eye gets pierced by a nail flying from the darkness. However, when the sisters check, both the nail and the eye wound have disappeared. Only leaving a bloodshed. The three sisters, who witness terrifying supernatural phenomenon, contact Jin Teshigahara, a worshiper, and his assistant Ryoan Suzuki for an exorcism. Teshigahara tells them that a curse placed on their ancestors is about to destroy the Aoi sisters. However, the exorcism ceremony was just the beginning of the Aoi sisters' 26 years of hellish revenge.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Please

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02.

Release Date2015-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Midsummer Witch

Short film based off of King Brothers' music video "The Machine".

Release Date2023-02-18

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

How to Protect Yourself Against Curses

Two psychics explain ways to protect yourself from curses. Promotional featurette for Koji Shiraishi's 2005 film "Noroi: The Curse", included in the "J-Horror Rising" Boxset by Arrow Video.

Release Date2024-10-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Window

The second [Geki Yaba] short horror story by Koji Shiraishi.

Release Date2022-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Dark Tales of Japan - Special Edition: 10 Most Terrifying Things in History that Really Happened

A show called "10 Most Terrifying Things in History that Really Happened" is struck with fear during a live broadcast on an infamous cursed house when bizarre phenomena occur, and the spirit of a young girl gets captured on film. The hosts decide to go towards the cursed house and purify the spirits on live TV.

Release Date2005-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Takada Wataru Teki: Zero

Documentary about Wataru Takada who suddenly passed away in 2005.

Release Date2008-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Crazy Road of Love

A bus is driving along a straight road in the quiet countryside. At a stop, a creepy cross-dresser with a shovel gets on board. He immediately smashes the head of one of the passengers and tells the driver to not stop for anything. The murderous transvestite tries to force one of the passengers, Chu-ya, who has met him before, to marry him. The bus quickly becomes a hellish scene as the passengers start to get involved. What will happen on this crazy road of love?

Release Date2018-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Super Man Eater

Upcoming short film directed by Koji Shiraishi.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Koji Shiraishi's Textbook of Fake Documentary - Editing

Koji Shiraishi documents the editing and production of his short film "Koji Shiraishi's Declaration of World Domination". Included in the "Textbook of Fake Documentary" DVD.

Release Date2016-07-01

Seishun Gunjyoiro no Natsu

Release Date2015-09-05

Vote Count1

Urgent report! Pursuing the Truth about Kagutaba!!

Investigative documentary about the legend of the Kagutaba demon. TV Special which aired on Japanese TV, tied to Koji Shiraishi's 2005 film "Noroi: The Curse", included in the "J-Horror Rising" Boxset by Arrow Video.

Release Date2024-10-29

NEET of the Living Dead

Release Date2015-06-13

Coming Future

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2009, in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in the heart of Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsuaki Matsue and more... By far the most interesting sequence is with Kenji Onishi (“A Burning Star”). Wielding a super-8 camera, Onishi documents his own interview, taking random shots of street-life and buildings. He leavens his monologue with statements bordering between cliché and outré. “A movie that aims to make a message is boring.”

Release Date2010-01-01