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

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).
I really wanted to like this show, but it was so underwhelming. None of the vignettes presented really fleshed out their characters or presented much buildup, background or tension. It was just a quick flash of terrified people that left me a little bored after awhile. Most of the stories would have benefited from having an entire episode devoted to them as then they could develop a back story that would give the ending more sense.