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Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights
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Cast
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How Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Live-action anthology Series adapting from Junji Ito's selected works.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 12 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
202612 episodes
7.5IMDbJunji Ito’s nightmares step into the real world in this live-action horror anthology. Across thirteen chilling tales, ordinary lives are pulled into the uncanny, where beauty becomes obsession, bodies betray their owners, and familiar places twist into something grotesque. From the fogbound terror of “Lovesickness” to stories of phantom pain, cursed music, and impossible transformations, each episode brings Ito’s singular imagination to life in flesh and blood.
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Latest Episodes
S01E06
Episode 6
S01E01
Lovesickness (Part 1)
- Directed by Yûta Shimotsu
- Written by Tatsuro Inamoto, Junji Ito
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Soichiro KogaProducer
- 野部真悠Producer
- Toshiki KitagawaExecutive Producer
- Mikihiko HirataProducer
Writing
- Tatsuro InamotoWriter
- Junji ItoWriter
- Daisuke HosakaWriter
Direction
- Yûta ShimotsuDirector
- Ryota KondoDirector
- Atsuhiro YamadaDirector
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