Hiroshi Takahashi Filmography

Occupation:: Consultant/advisor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

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Sodom the Killer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the bride of a powerful 18th Century Lord falls suddenly lifeless during the couple's wedding ceremony, the transgression that the Lord commits against the two innocent girls he believes responsible for the death gives birth to a curse that reaches 300 years into the future. Lord Sodomu Read More

2007
Masters of Killing

Actors: Kusaku Shimada, Mitsuru Karahashi, Yoko Fujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hiroshi Takahashi

2007
Ju-on: The Grudge

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Misa Uehara, Kanji Tsuda, Yui Ichikawa, Misaki Ito, Megumi Okina, Risa Matsuda

Synopsis: Directed by Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge follows volunteer homecare worker Rika Nishida (Megumi Okina), whose altruism leads her to Chiharu (Yui Ichikawa), a catatonic old woman slowly dying in a home filled with years worth of accumulated filth. Rika's suspicion is aroused when, during the course Read More

7/23/04
Ringu 0: Basudei

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka

Synopsis: Following the phenomenal success of Ringu and Ringu 2 -- films about a malevolent spirit named Sadako residing in a videotape that kills all who watch it -- Norio Tsuruta directs and Masato Hara produces this prequel to the two horror blockbusters. As a child, Sadako (Yukie Nakama) became Read More

2001
Crazy Lips

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This violent and shocking tale of horror from Japan concerns Satomi (Hitomi Miwa), who is one of three children being raised by a recent widow. Satomi's brother is accused by police of being a killer who has been chopping off the heads of innocent schoolgirls. Certain her sibling must be innocent Read More

2000
Ringu 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyoko Fukada, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: Hideo Nakata follows up on the phenomenal success of Ringu -- the highest grossing Japanese film up to that point -- with this effort. In the previous film, Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) was a television reporter doing a piece on a videotape that seemed to kill those who watched it. Not long after Read More

1999
Hebi no Michi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sho Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both Spider's Gaze and Serpent's Path are gangster films about the desire for revenge, and Read More

1999
Ringu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Namata

Synopsis: In this psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When Masami (Hitomi Sato) tells her friend Imako this story, she scoffs Read More

1998
47 Ronin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ken Takakura, Ruriko Asaoka, Koji Ishizaka

Synopsis: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the invention of film, Toho studios produced this remake of Chushingura, a paean of feudal devotion and one of the most retold tales in all of Japanese cinema. Legendary filmmaker Kon Ichikawa reworks this old chestnut by trying find a psychological truth in Read More

1994
One Piece Movie #8

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the anime series of the same name, this 90 minute movie retells the show's Alabaster Arc storyline. The menacing criminal syndicate known as the Baroque Works, led by Crocodile, have engineered a civil war on the island of Alabaster. Monkey D. Luffy, Princess Vivi, and the Straw Hat Read More