Ryuta Miyake

Writing

Ryuta Miyake

Born

1972-03-07 (54)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Child of Kamiari Month poster
6.5

A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual gathering of gods in the sacred land of Izumo.

Child of Kamiari Month

2021

White Lily poster
4.5

Two women, Tokiko, a ceramic artist, and her apprentice, Haruka, are in a relationship. The couple is not an intrinsic lesbian, but they fell for each other by chance.

White Lily

2016

Ju-On: White Ghost poster
6.2

An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.

Ju-On: White Ghost

2009

Ju-On: White Ghost poster
6.2

An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.

Ju-On: White Ghost

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 2

2000

Kakashi poster
5.6

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?

Kakashi

2001

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie poster
5.4

8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun'ichi Hirano).

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

2004

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie poster
5.4

8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun'ichi Hirano).

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

2004

Ghost Theater poster
6.1

Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.

Ghost Theater

2015

The Complex poster
4.8

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.

The Complex

2013

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2022 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2022

2022

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Oharai wa Kikanai-hen poster
NR

The directors include Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of the TBS drama "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Ryuta Miyake of Fuji TV's "Scary True Stories," and Keisuke Toyoshima of "Ghost vs. Alien," gathering the young talents of horror films. The cast features Maki Horikita, Mai Kitajima, and Kei Horie, among others.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Oharai wa Kikanai-hen

2003

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special poster
NR

The one where they perform an exorcism on Minami Takahashi and stuff. Also the first segment here is Tsuruta remaking the earring story from the original trilogy, so that's pretty cool.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special

2010

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 1 poster
5.6

"Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "Ju-on," is finally being fully adapted into a complete visual format for the first time. The directors include Takashi Shimizu of "Ju-on," Hideo Nakata of "Ring 0," actor Shiro Sano, and Akio Yoshida, the veteran of TBS dramas such as "Kamaitachi no Yoru," all of whom are distinguished talents in the horror world. The cast is also spectacular, featuring a diverse array of talents such as Rina Uchiyama, Kaoru Okunuki, Nao Omori, Mako Ishino, Hitomi Miwa, Riko Kurita, Nobuto Okamoto, and Ikkei Watanabe.

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 1

2003

Scary True Stories: Summer Special 2025 poster
7.5

The special features seven total stories: six digitally remastered classic episodes, chosen through a fan “Scariest Election” poll and one brand-new original episode titled “Some Room with a Certain Story”, featuring actress Natsuki Deguchi.

Scary True Stories: Summer Special 2025

2025

Vanished: Age 7 poster
6.7

Mayu the teen girl hasn’t opened her heart to anyone since ten years ago when some terrible case happened. Instead of going to high school, she goes to the church every day and looks for redemption. One day, she disappears in the woods, silently and suddenly. On the other side, Mana lives with her husband and her seven-year-old daughter in happiness. However, an unexpected occurrence happens and tears their happiness apart. Her little girl Sakura plays in the woods and goes missing. Mana loses her mind because of sadness. What is there inside the woods?

Vanished: Age 7

2011

Vanished: Age 7 poster
6.7

Mayu the teen girl hasn’t opened her heart to anyone since ten years ago when some terrible case happened. Instead of going to high school, she goes to the church every day and looks for redemption. One day, she disappears in the woods, silently and suddenly. On the other side, Mana lives with her husband and her seven-year-old daughter in happiness. However, an unexpected occurrence happens and tears their happiness apart. Her little girl Sakura plays in the woods and goes missing. Mana loses her mind because of sadness. What is there inside the woods?

Vanished: Age 7

2011

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hanayome-san-hen poster
NR

The directors include TBS drama stalwart Akio Yoshida, Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Kôsuke Suzuki of "Eko Eko Azarak," and Noboru Iguchi, whose new work "Love Larva" is a hot topic. These young talents of horror films have gathered to bring this project to life. The cast features Maki Sakai, Harumi Inoue, and Arthur Kuroda, among others.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hanayome-san-hen

2004

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 25 Shuunen Tokubetsu-hen

2024

Tales of Terror: Final Night 2 poster
NR

The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro,” includes the final series. It features notable actresses such as Mari Hoshino of “Sayonara Midori Chan” fame. It includes all 10 episodes.

Tales of Terror: Final Night 2

2006

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 1 poster
NR

Just because the gates to the spirit world are usually kept shut does not mean that they cannot suddenly open, that the dead cannot reach out for your throat, that its denizens cannot prowl in abandoned office buildings, or haunt high school video projects. The dark realm is with you, and within you, its emotions calling to yours in shades of horror, of fear, of terror.

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 1

2007

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ni Ya poster
NR

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro is a collection of 10 short horror films, each 5 minutes long (broadcast on BSi in February 2003). This is the second installment.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ni Ya

2003

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Tsukimono poster
5.0

The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring the top idol of Hello! Project, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. A female college student encounters a strangely eerie woman on a bus, and the mystery deepens as this peculiar figure infiltrates the university.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Tsukimono

2010

The Devil's Cop Festival poster
NR

Fifth installment of Deka Matsuri omnibus series. Six films

The Devil's Cop Festival

2004

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories poster
3.0

TV anthology movie

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories

2010

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories poster
3.0

TV anthology movie

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories

2010

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Autumn 2021 Special poster
NR

Stories: Did Daruma fall down?, An Accident Property, seven wonders of a certain school, Evil Sound Invitation

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Autumn 2021 Special

2021

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo poster
4.2

Tsukimono - Ayumi Kirishima is a college student who has just completed her second interview with a prospective employer. Ayumi then takes a bus to get to class and comes across a creepy barefooted woman. When the woman startes shaking and hiccuping, Ayumi asks the woman if she is OK. The woman responds with a cryptic remark that hastens Ayumi's departure off the bus. Later that day, the creepy woman appears in front of a window in Ayumi's classroom. All the students become startled by her appearance... Nozomi - The memory of high school student Megumi Fujisawa's 11th birthday still haunts her to this day. On her 11th birthday, Megumi's younger sister Nozomi was found dead. Her younger sister drowned in a lake surrounded by the woods. Since her death, whenever Megumi's birthday approaches she experiences illusions and refuses to go to school. Those illusions attacks Megumi and becomes more fierce.

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo

2010

The Hanging Balloons poster
10.0

Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.

The Hanging Balloons

2000

The Hanging Balloons poster
10.0

Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.

The Hanging Balloons

2000

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2 poster
6.0

The part two of Tales of Terror from Tokyo, Based on stories collected throughout Japan by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama, and Japanese horror TV show: 'Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro'. It compiled eight stories by seven directors. While some stories may seem too fantastic to believe, many come from the most horrifying of sources...the truth. Step into places not meant for the living witness psychological horrors that rattle the nerves. All brought to spine-tingling life by Japan's up-and-coming masters of horror, including Norio Tsuruta ("Ring O").

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2

2004

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2 poster
6.0

The part two of Tales of Terror from Tokyo, Based on stories collected throughout Japan by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama, and Japanese horror TV show: 'Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro'. It compiled eight stories by seven directors. While some stories may seem too fantastic to believe, many come from the most horrifying of sources...the truth. Step into places not meant for the living witness psychological horrors that rattle the nerves. All brought to spine-tingling life by Japan's up-and-coming masters of horror, including Norio Tsuruta ("Ring O").

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2

2004

Tales of Terror: Gi poster
NR

Aki, who has been studying child psychology to become a kindergarten teacher, takes up a side job as a private tutor and baby sitter as recommended by her professor. Then she meets a 5-year-old boy named Tsuyoshi. In the dimly-lit room, Tsuyoshi is drawing pictures. What he is drawing is a creepy guy called "Gi" who has the skill to "delete anyone that is unwanted." Then, as Tsuyoshi predicts, people die one after another.

Tales of Terror: Gi

2008

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2023 poster
7.0

A cafe manager faces eerie phenomena, a commuter's routine turns nightmarish, and a mother senses an unseen presence watching over her child, revealing the terrifying unknown lurking in everyday life.

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2023

2023

Tales of Terror: Final Night 1 poster
NR

This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes.

Tales of Terror: Final Night 1

2006

Tales of Terror: Men in Black poster
NR

Kyoka, a university student, receives an old brown envelope in which she finds a photograph of her classmate, Sachiko. With this, she also finds a mysterious message saying "Help me". One day, while at a café, Kyoka overhears that "somebody had been spirited away by a man in a black suit". It was at that moment that Kyoka recalled the moment that Sachiko had suddenly disappeared in the mountains right in front of her very own eyes.

Tales of Terror: Men in Black

2007

怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

2009

Tales of Terror: The Painted Face poster
6.5

Here is a school where hangs a portrait of a female whose face has been painted over. If you scratch away a portion of the whitewash, the woman actually appears to haunt and harass you. Her face is said to defy description, so horrifying in fact that one wishes for death upon seeing it. This school forms the backdrop for female teen, Yayoi Himeno, who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying mystery.

Tales of Terror: The Painted Face

2009

Tales of Terror: Buun poster
NR

When a film crew shooting a ghost story movie is moving in a bus, the expected location site becomes unavailable all of a sudden, and they are looking for a new location site. Then the bus suddenly stops. There is a run-down, spooky-looking abandoned building there. The director decides to use this spooky deserted building as their new location site, but the whole cre...

Tales of Terror: Buun

2008

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi poster
5.0

The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring Hello! Project's No. 1 idol, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. The terror unfolds as it preys on a high school girl who has closed her heart due to her sister's death.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi

2010