Disney+ Sets January 2027 Premiere for Japanese Horror Anthology Night Tales Club
Disney+ will premiere Night Tales Club in January 2027. The six-part supernatural mystery was unveiled on Wednesday, 21 October, with first-look images and a teaser trailer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The show is an anthology, meaning each episode tells a separate story. All six are adapted from a collection by Japanese horror writer Ichi Sawamura, who also wrote the script for each episode. A different filmmaker directs each one. The directors are Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Shinzo Katayama, Yukiko Sode, Yuichiro Sakashita and Yosuke Nakamura. Kenji Nakajima directs the framing sequences that feature the lead actor, Takayuki Yamada. The series is produced by Yusuke Wakabayashi and Teruhisa Yamamoto.
Yamada plays Hojo, a wealthy businessman fascinated by things nobody can explain. Hojo sets up the Night Tales Club and offers 20 million yen, about $130,000 in gold, to people who bring supernatural experiences and evidence to it. Deadline reports that Hojo sees ghost stories, monsters and other strange events as "bugs" in an underlying conspiracy. That is the character's view, not a fact about the real world.
Night Tales Club is the latest of Disney+'s Japanese originals. The service has previously released Gannibal, a folk-horror series starring Yuya Yagira that returned for a second season in 2025. It has also launched Land of Tanabata, the cross-cultural romantic comedy Merry Berry Love, and the comedy variety show The One Shot.
The series sits inside a wider plan. Disney has said it expects to roughly triple its annual output of international original series over the next three years. In April, the company signed a multi-year development agreement with The Seven, a production company owned by the Japanese broadcaster TBS, to make more Japanese live-action originals for global streaming. A development deal means the two companies will work on projects together before any are committed to production.
Leadership in the region has also changed. Carol Choi replaced Luke Kang, who is retiring, as president of The Walt Disney Company APAC, Deadline reported. The change came one day before the teaser announcement.
No premiere date beyond January 2027 has been given. The teaser trailer and first-look images are the first public look at the series.
