Mysterious! Unbelievable: Urban Legends of Darkness

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kenji Shibayama directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 65-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 18 years ago.
• 3Part of the "Mysterious! Unbelievable Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
• 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 5IMDB entry: tt22335426 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Runtime

65 min · 1h 5m

Status

Released

Original language

JA

IMDB

Mysterious! Unbelievable: Urban Legends of Darkness (2008) ↗

Part of

Mysterious! Unbelievable Collection

• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable 1

  2001
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable 2

  2002
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Spiritual Medium: Off-Limits Collection

  2002
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable 3

  2002
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Special

  2002
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: EX

  2003
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Special 2

  2003
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Submission! Cursed Photographs 24

  2004
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: The World You Don't Know

  2004
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable ～Fear Contagion～

  2004
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Documentary! Cursed Photographs

  2005
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Exorcism! Most Terrifying Spirit Photographs

  2005
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Astonishing! Cursed Photograph

  2005
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! The Buried Photograph

  2005
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! Cursed Photographs

  2006
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Shocking! Spirit Photos Inviting Death

  2006
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Sealing! Cursed Death Album

  2007
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Gruesome! Photographs of Murder Scenes

  2007
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Summoning Spirits! The Cursed Camera

  2007
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Chain! Cursed Chain Mail

  2007
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! The Cursed Game

  2008
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Urban Legends of Darkness

  2008 · this one
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Impact! Spirit Photographs of Malevolence

  2008
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Book of Prophecy

  2008
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Demonstration! Death Mobile Photographs

  2009
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Impact! Journey through the Terrifying Spiritual Hell

  2012
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  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Shock! Approaching the Mystery of the Cursed Sealed Photographs that Kill People!!

  2013
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Approaching the Enigma of Truly Terrifying Lucrative Properties!

  2013

Also by

Kenji Shibayama

• 
  Perfect World

  2018 · ★ 7.5
• 
  Farewell, Happy Days

  2023 · ★ 7.0
• 
  Mysterious! Unbelievable: Horror! The Cursed Game

  2008 · ★ 5.0
• 
  Beginning of Toire No Hanako-san　

  2011 · ★ 4.0
• 
  Once Hit the Bottom

  2022 · ★ 2.0
• 
  Authentic Recordings! Cursed Urban Legends: A Collection of Urban Legends from the Showa Era

  2007

Key crew

Release history · US

When it landed

• Physical2008-05-02

Also known as

International titles

• Kaiki! Unbelievable: Yami no Toshi DensetsuJP