• Go Nagai, the director of The Ninja Dragon, created the anime classics Devilman, Cutey Honey, Grandizer and Tranzor Z! • Taro Maki, the producer of Big Boobs Buster, also worked on the series El Hazard and Tenchi Muyo in Love. • Close Your Eyes and Hold Me was based on the manga of the same name by Shungiku Uchida. •The Ladies Phone Sex Club is based on the manga by Haruka Inui (Ogenki Clinic). • The theme song in The Haunted Lantern is sung by Yoshikazu Mera, who also sang the theme song for Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke. • Big Boobs Buster is based on the manga of the same title by Koichiro Yasunaga. • Baptism of Blood is based on the manga by Kazuo Umezu, who is known as a master of horror manga. • Weather Woman is based on the popular manga by Tetsu Adachi, which also spawned an anime series (Weather Report Girl). • Weather Woman was a winner at the Oslo Film Festival 1996 and the Stockholm Film Festival 1996! • Also, Weather Woman was selected as one of the Top Ten Japanese films of 1996! • Actress Kei Mizutani (The Ladies Phone Sex Club, Tokyo Decameron) won Best Actress Award at the 1997 Italy Satire & Humor Festival for her role in Weather Woman. • Close Your Eyes and Hold Me was an official selection at the 1997 Palm Springs International Film Festival. • Actress Kristen Norton (Scorpion's Revenge) is known in the U.S. for her work on the children's television series VR Troopers. • The special effects in Blowback: Love and Death were done by the crew who worked on Platoon and Apocalypse Now. • Mike Monty (Blowback: Love and Death) has appeared in such American movies as Last Platoon and Violence Hunter.