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V-cinema




Notable examples are director Takashi Miike , who has released several direct-to-video films after his theatrical debut, and Takashi Shimizu , whose '' Ju-on '' series of films started out as V-Cinema, becoming surprise hits as the result of favorable word of mouth.

Incidentally, former television performer Masashi Tashiro has acted as V-Cinema's director after he was dismissed from the entertainment world, too.

The term OVA (Original Video Animation) is applied when the film in question is Anime .