Yoshihiro Nishimura, known for directing “Tokyo Gore Police,” died Monday in Tokyo at age 59 after a hospital stay for liver disease.
Nishimura passed away following nearly two weeks of treatment in a Tokyo hospital. His career started in the early 2000s with short films and effects work before his 2008 commercial debut “Tokyo Gore Police,” which screened at festivals worldwide and influenced Japanese horror and science-fiction cinema.
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the pioneering designer behind beat-'em-up classics Double Dragon, Renegade, and River City, has died at age 64. His son announced the death, which occurred on April 2, 2026, with confirmations from Famitsu magazine and biographer Florent Gorges.
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Toyoji Sudo, mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, was found dead in a drainage ditch, with police believing the death to be a suicide.
Shinya Tsukamoto’s drama ‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’, centered on a Vietnam War veteran’s torment, will release in Japanese cinemas. The film completes the director’s informal trilogy of 20th-century war stories, following ‘Fires on the Plain’ and ‘Shadow of Fire’. The announcement comes on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29.
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Police investigating the murders of a 76-year-old mother and her 41-year-old daughter in their Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture apartment said each suffered more than 10 stab wounds to the head and neck. A male relative discovered the bodies around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call from the daughter's workplace about her absence. No murder weapon was found at the scene.