Tag: V-cinema
Originating in 1980s Japan, V-cinema was a term trademarked by the film giant Toei Company as a general label for its direct-to-video content. With the rise in VHS player sales, as well as difficulty recouping their investments in their big-budget productions (and the popularity of OVAs), the decision to move on to producing smaller-budget films
Nighty Night: Midnight Nightmares is a 1986 independent Japanese horror anthology, directed by Hirohisa Kokusho. The film was certainly unrecognized upon its initial release, receiving an extremely limited VHS run in Japan but soon faded into obscurity. It wasn’t long before the film was considered lost media, with no known copies of these VHS releases