Japanese short-film platform SAMANSA launches ZOTTO BOX on 30 September 2026, bringing in three Japanese comedians – Chance Ohsaki, Machiura Pink, and Lucifer Yoshioka – to pitch horror concepts set in an apartment, an office break room, and a late-night laundrette. None of them feel like your usual haunted-house clichés either, and SAMANSA already plans to keep the series going with more creator collaborations down the line.
The three shorts currently streaming are:
- 霊穴 (Reiketsu) – 12 mins 33 secs: Pitched by Chance Ohsaki, directed by Yuta Ito, and starring Takato Tanaka as a depressed guy on the verge of suicide who notices an impossible hole suddenly appearing on his computer screen.
- 壁中液 (Hekichūeki) – 15 mins 52 secs: The longest of the three, coming from an idea by Machiura Pink with Shunta Seki directing and Hiroki Sato starring as an exhausted salaryman who spots a mysterious hole in the office break-room wall leaking an unknown liquid—and for reasons nobody will ever understand, decides to taste it.
- 洗う。 (Arau.) – 8 mins 18 secs: Lucifer Yoshioka based this one on the creepy feeling he used to get sitting in coin laundries late at night as a university student. Yuta Ito returns to direct Mayu Yamaguchi as a woman watching a TV news report about a hotel murder right before spotting a hooded figure lurking outside the laundrette glass.
More Asian horror movie news.
- A Story Beginning With Kuniko: Japanese Found-Footage Horror Arrives on DVD in October
- Kinki Archive: Complete Edition Gets 2-Disc DVD Release in Japan
- Tenement Gets Dark Sky Blu-ray Release This September
- Sealed Video 86: Jinmenmushi Gets December 2026 DVD Release in Japan
- The Curse Gets Japanese DVD Release This October
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