Scheduled for release on January 17, 2009, Pandemic involves large-scale virus that infects 25 million people. Satoshi Tsumabuki plays a doctor working to save lives at a field hospital and Rei Dan plays a medical officer from the World Health Organization. For the first teaser, see this link. For full trailers, see this link and this link.

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A woman (Miki Nakatani) allows herself to be kidnapped in a scheme to trick her rich businessman husband into paying a ransom. The man helping her (Masato Hagiwara) returns home one day to find her dead. Left with no other option he buries her corpse out in the middle of the woods. At least he thinks he does… For the teaser, see this link.

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A subtitled trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Nightmare Detective 2 popped up on YouTube yesterday. I have no idea where, why, or how this originated (maybe a promo from Cannes) but it looks to be a real corker. This time around Nightmare Detective Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda) reluctantly helps a school girl named Yukie who is convinced her next nightmare about a former classmate will kill her in the same way it killed her friends. Currently there’s no solid release date and the official website isn’t live yet, but I’m sure more will be coming out very soon. Check out the aspect ratio-adjusted trailer after the break.

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Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Nightmare Detective 2 starring Ryuhei Matsuda. Slated for release in 2008. For the Japanese trailer, see this link.

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The official website for Takahisa Zeze‘s Pandemic (Kansen Rettou) went live today and there have been all sorts of new developments since the movie was first announced at the beginning of the year. The release date has been officially set at January 17, 2009. Some new cast additions include Ryoko Kuninaka as a nurse named Takako, Yuji Tanaka as Takako’s husband, Chizuru Ikewaki as the wife of the first infected patient, Takanori Takeyama as a freelance virus researcher, Koichi Sato as an ER doctor, and Tatsuya Fuji as a university professor and expert on the influenza virus.

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