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Onsen shâku

Onsen shâku

2024Movie⏱️ 1h 18m
ActionComedyHorror
5.3
IMDB Rating
266 votes

There have been cases of mysterious disappearances of onsen visitors in Atsumi city in S prefecture.The victims were eventually found dead with signs of severe injuries to their bodies resembling a vicious shark attack.

Director
Morihito Inoue
Writers
N/A
Stars
Daniel Aguilar, Shôichirô Akaboshi, Takuya Fujimura
Release Date
July 5, 2024
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 5
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

👤
Daniel Aguilar
as Professor Morelli
👤
Shôichirô Akaboshi
as Tetsuzaemon Mangan
👤
Takuya Fujimura
as Kanichi Mangan
👤
Kiyobumi Kaneko
as Denbei Tsuka
👤
Koichi Makigami
Masaki Naito
Masaki Naito
as Kohei Hanako
👤
Yuu Nakanishi
as Mayumi Kose
👤
Shigeo Ôsako
as Prime Minister
Mio Takaki
Mio Takaki
as Ayako Tsuka

💰 Box Office

$34,714
Worldwide Gross
$34,714
Domestic Gross
$23,390
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.78 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Atami City, Shizuoka, Japan
Production
Plan A

🏷️ Keywords

kaijusharkgiant monstertokusatsu

🎯 Categories

JapaneseActionComedyHorror

⭐ Featured Review

Has to be the worst shark movie in history of shark movies...
by paul_m_haakonsen2025-09-19
1/10

"The fact that the 2024 movie "Onsen Shâku" (aka "Hotspring Sharkattack") was a Japanese shark-themed movie that I hadn't already seen, nor actually heard about, was more than sufficient to make to stop, take notice and then sit down and watch the movie. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon the movie here in 2025, and needed no persuasion to check out the movie. Now, I was expecting this to possibly be bad, but writer Morihito Inoue put together a script that was utterly garbage and took the movie to a whole new and undiscovered level of bad. The movie was so bad tha..."

💡 Did You Know?

Director Morihito Inoue about horror and comedy: "You're talking about balance and something that, you know, laughter and fear are essentially, they're almost like two sides of the same coin. You can kind of separate them by a thin slip of paper, like, for example, if you take something upi fear far enough, you take horror far enough, it eventually becomes absurd and becomes funny. So for me, I wasn't really worried so much about balance. I was just kind of thinking, hey, let's just go straight into the comedy. Let's just have fun with it and see what comes out."

📖 Synopsis

There have been cases of mysterious disappearances of onsen visitors in Atsumi city in S prefecture.The victims were eventually found dead with signs of severe injuries to their bodies resembling a vicious shark attack.