Tokyo Horror Award Winners

        

BEST FEATURE
IDOL NEVER DiES

BEST SHORT
The Island of the Resuscitated Dead

BEST SPECIAL FX
Alex's Machine

BEST DIRECTOR
Welcome to Candy's

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mantra
Colonie

BEST ACTOR
Joseph Steven Yang [EYECATCHER]

BEST ACTRESS
Flavie Péan [Welcome to Candy's]

BEST ANIMATION
ATM
Pop!

BEST MONSTER
Hooves

BEST SPLATTER
All You Can Eat

BEST KILL
Mantra

BEST MUSIC
Emergence

BEST VISUALS
Karada
EYECATCHER

AUDIENCE FAVORITE
The Island of the Resuscitated Dead
MOST EROTIC
Karada
Mantra

MOST CREEPY
CATHARSIS
Old Photograph

MOST FUNNY
CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man

MOST DIABOLICAL
Caregiver

MOST CLEVER
SCRIPT

MOST EXCITING
Half Samurai

MOST UNIQUE
Sewing Love

WINNERS BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Grand Falls Killings
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Monsters
ap*pe*tite

NOMINEES BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
What's Eating Keegan the Vegan
Marah From Eilat
BIG IN JAPAN
Consumed

WINNERS BEST SHORT SCRIPT
Legacy
Le Bassin (The Pond)
Slasher Sessions

NOMINEES BEST SHORT SCRIPT
Henry's Stare
Sirens of Silence
Devil in the Dark
The Black Paintings

Tokyo Horror massacred July 1st!




Our first year was a huge success! We want to thank everyone who
came out and all the filmmakers who made it possible especially Iguchi-san!
Special thanks as well to Amber for the press and reviews!

初年度は大成功を収めることができました! ご来場いただいた皆様、
そしてそれを可能にしてくれた映画制作者の皆様に感謝申し上げます。
特に井口監督、そしてプレスとレビューをして下さったAmberには心より感謝致します。




Awards are to be announced by July 15th.
We are working on sending all filmmakers pictures from the festival too.

受賞作品については、7 月 15 日までにウェブサイトで発表します。
私たちは全ての映画制作者に映画祭の写真を送る取り組みを行なっています。


We are honored to show IDOL NEVER DiES, the new film of Noboru Iguchi, the renowned director of The Machine Girl, Mutant Girls Squad, RoboGeisha, Tomie: Unlimited, etc.

「地球絶滅の日にライブをするアイドル達を描いた音楽ファンタジー。」
A musical fantasy depicting idols performing live on Earth Extinction Day.




2023年7月1日上映スケジュール
〒1640002 東京都 中野区 上高田 5丁目45-9 新井薬師IMAビル B1
This is the screening schedule for Saturday, July 1st, at 5-45-9 Kamitakada Floor B1 IMA Building (Araiyakushi-mae Station on Seibu Shinjuku Line):
(西武新宿線 新井薬師前駅 徒歩3分)
4:10pm Location Open to Public
4:20pm Hooves [Bahrain バーレーン]
4:27pm ATM [Taiwan 台湾]
4:30pm Colonie [France フランス]
4:44pm CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man [US アメリカ合衆国]
4:59pm Emergence [US アメリカ合衆国]
5:03pm Old Photograph [Japan 日本]
5:08pm 5 min Q&A/Audience Chat
5:13pm Pop! [US アメリカ合衆国]
5:15pm EYECATCHER [US アメリカ合衆国]
5:28pm SCRIPT [Italy イタリア]
5:36pm Caregiver [US アメリカ合衆国]
5:41pm CATHARSIS [France フランス]
5:59pm Half Samurai [Japan 日本]
6:10pm 5 min Q&A/Audience Chat
6:15pm Mantra [France フランス]
6:32pm Welcome to Candy's [France フランス]
6:46pm Karada [Venezuela ベネズエラ]
7:00pm All You Can Eat [UK イギリス]
7:13pm Alex's Machine [France フランス]
7:39pm Sewing Love [Japan 日本]
7:48pm 5 min Q&A/Audience Chat
7:53pm The Island of the Resuscitated Dead [Italy イタリア]
8:13pm IDOL NEVER DiES [Japan 日本]
9:35pm Special Video Q&A with Noboru Iguchi
9:45pm Tokyo Horror Conclusion

The following scripts have been chosen as well:
Sirens of Silence • Are You There, Hannah? • Slasher Sessions • Black-Eyed Kid • Big in Japan • Henry's Stare • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Monsters • Sneakerhead • Visage • Lillith • Lira's Angel • Inferno Junkies • Waste Watchers • The Shadow PPL • Consumed • Demon • The Greenwood • Devil in the Dark • Let's Go Kill God • Legacy • Revival • Just Coffee • Wealdmount House • Grand Falls Killings • The Black Paintings • ap*pe*tite • Lab Partners • Le Bassin (The Pond) • The Only Child • Exterminator • What's Eating Keegan the Vegan • Savage Valley • The Warden • Marah From Eilat
Japan is famous for its amazing horror movies yet it doesn't have a dedicated horror festival so we'd like to change that. We're just a new small festival but we hope to grow and become a mecca for horror fans, both domestic and international. Our judges consist of both Japanese and Americans with experience making films. Please submit your movies either with English subtitles or in English.

日本は多くの素晴らしいホラー映画で有名ですが、ホラー専用のフェスティバルがないので、私たちはそれを作りたいと思っています。私たちはまだ新しい小さな映画祭ですが、国内外のホラーファンのメッカになるように成長していきたいです。

Our festival director is Yuriko Kawanishi. She really loves Ringu and The Blair Witch Project. We have a nice venue reserved in Nakano at 5 Chome-45-9 Kamitakada for our screening date on Saturday, July 1st, 2023. Nakano is just one stop from Shinjuku aka the home of Godzilla. In between showing the selected films, we'll conduct Q&As with attending cast and crew as well as ask the audience their opinions of the movies.

選ばれた作品は、東京の中野で観客の前で上映されます。SFはもちろん、カルト、ダークファンタジー、不気味なアニメーション、ミステリー、実録の犯罪ドキュメンタリー、ホラー関連ドキュメントなど、ホラーに関連するものなら何でも歓迎です。映画祭期間中は、参加キャスト・スタッフへのQ&Aや、観客の皆様からの映画に対するご意見をお伺いする予定です。

Japan has a long cultural history with horror dating back to traditional ghost stories and classic black & white films like A Page of Madness (1926), Yotsuya Kaidan (1949), Onibaba (1964), etc. In the 1980s, the great horror magazine V-Zone was quite popular here until an awful real life incident with Tsutomu Miyazaki nicknamed the "Otaku Murderer" sparked a backlash against horror.

私たちは本当にホラーが大好きで、海外の映画制作者が日本のホラーファンと繋がる手助けをするだけでなく、この地をサポートしたいと思っています。審査員は、映画制作経験のある日本人とアメリカ人で構成されています。応募作品は、英語字幕付き、または英語でお願いします。日本語の字幕は必要ありません。

We also want to help horror fans connect with the fantastic horror scene here like the Video Market store in Shinjuku, which has been home to foreign imported releases for decades. Pretty much every Japanese horror fan knows about this store. It's like a holy shrine for horror aficionados with its signatures of celebrities who visited like Bill Moseley lining the walls in addition to Texas Chainsaw Massacre props, a lifesize Alien, etc. You can find it at the 4F 7 Chome-9-13 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku.

We welcome sci-fi films too and anything horror adjacent like cult, dark fantasy, etc.

SFはもちろん、カルト、ダークファンタジー、不気味なアニメーション、ミステリー、実録の犯罪ドキュメンタリー、ホラー関連ドキュメントなど、ホラーに関連するものなら何でも歓迎です。

Please feel free to email us if you have any questions:
tokyohorrorfilmfestival@yahoo.co.jp

Rules & Terms

Please make sure you have all rights necessary for your film to be exhibited. By submitting to our festival, you grant us permission to screen your film in front of a live audience in Tokyo and use your poster as well as images from your film for our festival's promotion. Refunds can be granted under special extenuating circumstances as determined by our festival director. Please keep communication with our staff courteous and professional. Please ensure the email address you have provided on FilmFreeway is correct and up-to-date since we can't be responsible for missed emails due to your address being mistyped or an old one you no longer check.

作品の出品に必要な権利関係をご確認ください。映画祭に応募することにより、東京でのライブ上映、映画祭の宣伝のためのポスターや映像の使用を許可したものとみなします。スタッフとのコミュニケーションはマナーを忘れず、プロフェッショナルにお願いします。FilmFreewayに登録されたメールアドレスが正しく、最新のものであることをご確認ください。メールアドレスの入力ミスや古いメールアドレスのためにメールが届かない場合、弊社は責任を負いかねますのでご了承ください。