Junji Ito
The international success of the Japanese films launched a revival of horror filmmaking in Japan that resulted in such pictures as Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film "Pulse" (known as in Japan), Takashi Shimizu's (2000), Hideo Nakata's , also based on a short story by Suzuki), and Higuchinsky's "Uzumaki" (2000, a.k.a. "Vortex", based on the Junji Ito horror manga of the same name).