Japanese Horror Aceness

You can keep your J Arthur Rank gong-bashing muscleman. 20th Century Fox's searchlights just serve as a reminder of WWII. Warner Bros? Pur-lease. The presence of the acronym "AOL" to "Time Warner" resulted in such poor feedback that they dropped it again as soon as they could. If you want to find a super-cool studio logo, look to Japan.

We've become utterly obsessed with Japanese horror. It started with Ringu and Battle Royale and has escallated to include a variety of Region 0 and Region 3 DVDs and a broadband-pummeling for some that just aren't available to buy. And at the start of the films, you tend to see significantly more dramatic logos. Maybe it's just our foreign eyes looking at them as if there's an air of Oriental mystery in them, when in fact they're common as muck, but there we go - without relocating to Japan and emersing myself in the culture for years, I'll never know.

Anyway, this is my favourite one. It's on Kairo and Dark Water and a couple of others we've got, and it's lovely to look at. I've ripped it to use as a start-up ident on DVDs that I author myself, but I ran at through Flash to get it down to a size that even 56k modem numpties could appreciate it at.

Isn't it lush? No idea what any of it says, naturally, but... well... whatever. For the picky, I should mention that it should be displayed at 16:9 so that the circular elements are, you know, circular. But I've never done video in Flash before, so tell it to someone who cares - I'm just basking in that burst of sunshine!