Night Tales Club Sets January 2027 Disney+ and Hulu Premiere

By Marcus Bennett

“Night Tales Club” is set to premiere on Disney+ and Hulu in January 2027, assembling seven filmmakers around six supernatural tales from a literary collection.

Yamada Takayuki leads the series as Hojo, a high-flying businessman fixated on the unexplained. He becomes the anthology’s storyteller.

Six stories, one conspiracy frame

Hojo believes that ghosts, curses and other paranormal events are “bugs,” or glitches that point to a hidden conspiracy. He offers JPY 20 million ($126,000) in gold to anyone willing to attend the Night Tales Club and present a firsthand account of the supernatural along with proof.

Six such accounts make up the series. Hojo pursues the truth behind each one.

Each episode adapts a different tale from Sawamura Ichi’s collection of short horror stories. Sawamura also adapted the material for the screen. The writer therefore supplies both the source material and the screen adaptation.

The seven filmmakers divide the work between six anthology episodes and the sequences featuring Hojo. Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Shimizu Takashi each take one episode. The remaining four episode directors likewise work on one installment each.

• Kurosawa Kiyoshi directs one episode. His credits include “Cure” and “Wife of a Spy.”
• Shimizu Takashi directs one episode. He is known for “Ju-on” and “The Inugami Family.”
• Katayama Shinzo directs one episode, with credits including “Gannibal” and “The Human Vapor.”
• Sode Yukiko directs one episode. Her credits include “Aristocrats” and “All the Lovers in the Night.”
• Sakashita Yuichiro directs one episode. His credits include “I Can’t Cry With Your Face” and “Blonde.”
• Nakamura Yosuke directs one episode, with “Higuma!!” and “Poison Girl” among his credits.
• Nakajima Kenji directs the Hojo sequences. His credits include “The Naked Director” and “Tokyo Swindlers.”

Nakajima handles the connective sequences. The other six directors each handle a separate story, giving the series six individual installments within a single narrative structure.

Wakabayashi Yusuke and Yamamoto Teruhisa produce. Sawamura said: “As the original author of these stories, I feel an enormous sense of surprise and joy that they will soon be available on screen to scare audiences around the world.”

His wording stresses both his role as the original author and the screen’s ability to frighten audiences worldwide.

What does the January 2027 launch change for viewers?

For viewers, the launch brings six distinct tales into one overarching search for proof, with each episode anchored by a firsthand account and Hojo’s JPY 20 million incentive.

“Night Tales Club” joins a growing lineup of Japanese series on Disney+. The service already carries:

• “Gannibal,” in which a police officer stumbles on something sinister in a remote village.
• “Land of Tanabata,” about a college student with an apparently pointless power who looks into a murder.
• “Merry Berry Love,” a cross-cultural romantic comedy.
• “The One Shot,” a comedy variety show.

Disney+ already spans darker mysteries, romance and comedy. “Night Tales Club” extends that mix by adding a supernatural anthology with an overarching conspiracy narrative.

The January release will test whether Hojo’s conspiracy-driven search can hold six separate accounts together while preserving each story’s horror.