The BEST episodes written by Hiromu Kumamoto
#1 - The Umbrella Goddess
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 8
This is the story of a particular boy who went to visit his friend, who had just moved out to the country...
#2 - Swamp Offering
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 4
Haruko moves to a village in the countryside to live with her new husband's family, On the way, he tells her about a custom in the village that requires its residents to toss their most prized possessions into a swamp. Shortly after they arrive at his family's home, Haruko is forced to join in this ritual with the rest of the villagers...
#3 - Contradiction
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 7
This story begins with a phone call that was received at a particular young woman's home, in the middle of the night...
#4 - Zanbai
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 2
This is the story of a man who went to a particular village in the country on a business trip...
#5 - Sewing Shears
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 3
A young woman in college has moved into a certain old apartment building. As she's unpacking her belongings, she sees a spot on the wooden floor where a mismatched board has been added. Curious, she lifts the board to find a dirt surface with a pair of rusty scissors stuck in the earth...
#6 - Tormentor
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 13
This is the story of a particular group of boys attending an elementary school in the country...
#7 - Refrigerator
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 13
The story of a close-knit family. The children look forward to their mother's cooking, and the parents watch out for their children. They live a happy life... but that happiness begins to change. What will become of this family?
#8 - Public Phone
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 7
Chie suddenly gets a call from her younger sister during work asking for her help. She heads toward the phone booth that her sister directed her to, but an unusual sight awaits her... What could have happened to Chie's sister?
#9 - The Empress Doll
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 8
Two teenage couples visit an abandoned house for a test of courage. They find a set of dolls where the Empress doll is missing.
#10 - Wall Woman
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 4
This is the story of a particular college student who fell in love with a woman living in the housing complex across the street...
#11 - Video
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 11
This is a story that three middle school students experienced on the last day of summer vacation...
#12 - Drawings
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 13
A student teacher is on her way to her first day at her new school when she meets a strange boy at the park, sitting by himself drawing in a sketchbook. When she gets to school, she sees that the boy is in her class...
#13 - Inside
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 3
This is the story of a particular boy who found a worn-out old doll, and his family...
#14 - Tongue
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 1
A salaryman on his way home from work spots a cat lying lifelessly in the road after being hit by a car. He carries it to the sidewalk, but it's clearly beyond help, so he makes a grave for it and heads home. That night, while relaxing at home, he hears what sounds like a kitten's cry...
#15 - Delivery
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 1
Katagiri is housesitting for his friend, who's traveling and needs someone to be there to accept an important package he's expecting. The delivery finally arrives late that evening, but his friend says he's expecting another package the next day and asks him to stay one more night. Katagiri begins to wonder what is in these packages that's so important...
#16 - Calling Crane
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 10
Some middle school girls are staying over at a classmate's house. At school that day, the girls had agreed to perform a ritual at the sleepover that they believe will let them speak to the dead. They're having a great time as they begin the ritual, but...
#17 - Tomonari-kun
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 12
This is the story of a high school girl and some young boys who lived in a particular housing complex...
#18 - The Next Floor
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 5
This is the story of a particular family that went shopping for their young son's birthday present at a department store...
#19 - Hair
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 4
This is the story of a teacher at a particular elementary school who had to work a bit late one day...
#20 - Lend It to Me
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 1
A young man is visiting a public bath house on his way home from work, when a mysterious, sweet voice from the women's bath asks him to lend her one thing after another...
#21 - The Family Rule
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 3
This is the story of a boy named Toshiharu who moved back to the country with his parents.
#22 - Manga Café
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 7 - Episode 10
Matsudera works at a certain manga café. One day, a guest asks if he has found a misplaced earring, and that's where the terror begins...
#23 - Night Bus
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 5
A group of college students sets off on a night bus to go on vacation. On the way, one of them develops a stomachache and asks the driver to stop at a service area along the highway. But when he returns from the bathroom, the atmosphere inside the bus is very different..
#24 - The Noisy Hospital Room
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 4
Joyful laughter can often be heard coming from a certain hospital room, but patients are warned that it's the hospital's rule to never enter it...
#25 - Behind
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 7
On a field trip with his school class, Osamu is having trouble getting to sleep because of a scary dream he's been having...
#26 - The Fourth Man
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 9
Haruko overhears a story about the Handshake Men, mysterious men who show up on the roadside and ask people to shake hands. It's said that horrible things happen to those who refuse to shake a Handshake Man's hand...
#27 - Tunnel
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 2
Two men are driving through the mountains when they take a wrong turn and get lost. To make things worse, they end up stuck in a tunnel when they run out of gas...
#28 - Fish Tank
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 2
A boy in middle school learns of a creepy old house near his school. He decides to check it out and, once inside, discovers a large fish tank in one room. Curious to know what's in it, he cautiously peers through the glass...
#29 - Red High Heel
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 4
A salaryman has missed the last train after working overtime. He tries to hail a taxi some distance from the train station, but is unable to catch one. As he's wondering what he should do, he spots a vacant taxi racing along an empty street at high speed and finally manages to catch a ride, but then..
#30 - Guess Who?
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 6
A high school student is visiting an amusement park with an older member of her club, whom she has a crush on. She's thrilled at the prospect of going on this date with the senpai she admires. But on the way home, they see a creepy woman on the train platform, and from that point onward, the girl's head is overtaken by a frightening suspicion...
#31 - Merry-go-round
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 3 - Episode 10
Shinichi and Satomi visit an amusement park in a mall, and a clown invites them to ride the merry-go-round. Shinichi opts to watch while Satomi rides, and he notices that the other kids on the ride don't seem to be having much fun...
#32 - Cassette Tape
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 8
A man has returned to his hometown to attend the wedding of a friend from elementary school. To please his family, he arrives a day early to stay at his parents' home the night before. As he's marveling at how his childhood bedroom hasn't changed at all, he discovers a cassette tape in a desk drawer labeled "What Happened Today" and decides to listen to it...
#33 - Grinding Teeth
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 9
An office lady uses some of her paid leave to go on a trip with her coworkers, but during the trip, she develops a toothache. Hoping to get it fixed even though she's on vacation, she visits a local, old-looking dental clinic. The dentist takes one look at her tooth and shoves pliers into her mouth to pull it without asking for her approval...
#34 - White Line
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 11
A new teacher is staying after school grading tests for her class. When she glances out the window, she sees a student in an unfamiliar, old-looking school uniform, laying white powder lines in the schoolyard. The teacher steps outside to issue a warning, but the student is gone, and the white line continues into the school building. So she follows it inside to find the student...
#35 - Footsteps
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 7
A husband, after finally receiving some time off, accompanies his wife on a shopping trip. Along the way, he receives an invitation from a friend to go out for drinks. To avoid upsetting his wife, he replies to his friend in a bathroom stall, but then he notices some creepy writing on the wall...
#36 - Snow Hut
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 12
A boy in elementary school has been brought to the snowy country by his parents to visit his grandparents over winter break. He doesn't often see snow, so he's overjoyed to have snowball fights and build snow huts with his cousin. Then, in a grove of trees, they find a snow hut with no entrance...
#37 - Underground Walkway
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 4 - Episode 13
A college student is caught in a sudden rainfall on the way home from a night out drinking. He attempts to take shelter until the rain stops, but discovers an underground path to the train station and heads down it. A bit ahead of him in the dark, empty passage, he spots a man in what looks like a construction worker's uniform, who tries to lead him down a side path that leads away from the station..
#38 - Thunderous Visitor
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 1
Thunder rumbles on a stormy night. At a certain house where Ryousuke, a high school boy is currently home alone, the phone rings just moments after the power goes out. Then a flash of lightning displays the shape of a person outside the window...
#39 - Tomonashi Cave
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 2
A group of high school students is visiting a certain cave on a field trip. A small group of them enters a corridor leading away from the main cave... but one of them, Tomoko, is ultimately left alone. After a few moments, she hears the screams of her classmates from deep inside the cave...
#40 - The Dripping
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 5
Shimada, a salaryman, stops by a convenience store on his way home from work. It suddenly starts to rain, and he doesn't have an umbrella, so he "borrows" one that he finds on the umbrella rack. But as he walks along with the umbrella open, he senses a darkness approaching from behind...
#41 - The Overhead Rack
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 6
This is the story of a particular man who did nothing but work, work, work, day in and day out...
#42 - Sakura
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 6
Shouta has been admitted to a hospital in the countryside after a car accident. He finds himself regularly conversing through the wall with two children in the room next to his. Eventually these conversations leave Shouta with a sense of fear...
#43 - Cursed
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 9
This is the story of a particular mother and daughter who were inflicted with a terrible curse...
#44 - The Moon
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 10
This is a story about the members of a particular high school baseball team staying in a lodge for training camp...
#45 - The Wind's Warning
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 6 - Episode 3
Hideaki is a salaryman who lives alone in a company housing unit. One night, when he returns from the office, he hears the wind blowing through the open balcony door. Memories of a tragic event one month ago then take over Hideaki's mind...
#46 - The Talisman Woman
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 1 - Episode 1
This is the story of a man who had just moved into a particular apartment...
#47 - Taro-chan
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 1
This is the story of a particular rookie police officer who displayed his ventriloquism ability at a traffic safety meeting...
#48 - Ominie-san
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 9
This is the story of a new teacher who moved from Tokyo to teach at a middle school in the countryside...
#49 - Netsuke
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 12
This is the story of a particular female college student who came to help at her grandmother's store...
#50 - Bringer Drums
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories - Season 2 - Episode 13
This is the story of a particular married couple that moved to a village in the countryside...