Miniseries · Adult Swim
Uzumaki
Spiral into horror.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Uki Satake
Kirie Goshima (voice)
4 eps
Shin-ichiro Miki
Shuichi Saito (voice)
4 eps
Mariya Ise
Azami Kurotani (voice)
4 eps
Wataru Hatano
Okada (voice)
4 eps
Toshio Furukawa
Yasuo Goshima (voice)
4 eps
Mika Doi
Yukie Saito (voice)
4 eps
Takashi Matsuyama
Toshio Saito (voice)
4 eps
Katsutoshi Matsuzaki
Tokuo Katayama (voice)
4 eps
Tatsumaru Tachibana
Kazuki Tsumura (voice)
4 eps
Ami Fukushima
Shiho (voice)
4 eps
Koichi Tochika
Ikuo Yokota (voice)
4 eps
Takaaki Uchino
Boy (voice)
1 eps
Shunsuke Takeuchi
Man (voice)
1 eps
Kousuke Okamoto
Attendee (voice)
1 eps
Gen Sato
Boy (Flashback) (voice)
1 eps
Anna Nagase
Girl 1 (voice)
1 eps
Momoko Mizuki
Girl 2 (voice)
1 eps
Junji Ito
Typhoon Voice (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Uzumaki actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Uzumaki reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
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.
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
Kirie tries to escape from her town Kurouzu-cho, where the residents get obsessed with spirals due to an unexplained curse.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Episode 1
As Shuichi urges Kirie to escape the town with him, the real "spiral" horror begins.
- Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama
S01E04
Episode 4
The curse of the spirals is destroying the town and taking peoples' minds with it. The chaos reaches a fever pitch.
- Directed by Hao Wu, Daisuke Sato
S01E03
Episode 3
Kurouzu Hospital is in an uproar. Blood thirsty pregnant women and creepy babies are surrounding Kirie, and her life is in danger.
- Directed by Shigeki Awai, Yuji Moriyama
S01E02
Episode 2
Hair twisting, bodies intertwining, spirals are developing all over the town.
- Directed by Yuji Moriyama, Taiki Nishimura
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
- Mitsuhisa IshikawaExecutive Producer
- Jason DeMarcoExecutive Producer
- Haruyasu MakinoProducer
- Maki Terashima-FurutaProducer
Direction
- Hao WuDirector
- Daisuke SatoDirector
- Shigeki AwaiDirector
- Hiroshi NagahamaDirector
- Yuji MoriyamaDirector
- Kouichirou SohtomeDirector
Music
- Colin StetsonOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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