I watched this under the title PSYCHO SHARK although JAWS IN JAPAN is just as appropriate. Shark lovers beware, there's a CGI shark in this but it only appears for a few seconds due to the lack of budget and, yes, the special effects are pretty dreadful.In all other respects this is no different from the shot-on-video indie trash that American film-lovers have been churning out for years. The plot is about a bunch of bikini-clad girls who visit a beach resort only to mysteriously disappear one by one. An unseen killer is at hand, bumping them off one at a time, but the level of incident is very low. The PSYCHO bit comes from a shower murder featuring the odd sight of girls in bikinis showering, due to this film's no-nudity policy.The acting isn't of the worst standard but the writing is; for a film which clocks in at under 70 minutes in length, there's a heck of a lot of padding here. Most of it consists of close-ups of cleavage and various bikini footage, mostly from the top heavy model Nonami Takizawa who is very pretty. In the end, though, this is nothing other than a trashy bore.

Wow…what a dud.A word of advice to filmmakers…if you have a movie that features many well endowed bikini clad Japanese girls and a script with a bizarre shark cult and a real big shark…show the shark for more than five seconds and show some freaking t&a! What a colossal bore overall. By reusing the same found footage over and over, you may have helped the running time, but not the viewers enjoyment. The viewer will be hard pressed not to use the fast forward button to get to the "action" scenes or scenes that they think may carry some weight or gravity to further the razor thin storyline.All that being said, the Free Willy moment at the end was a laugh inducer.

You know how irritating it is, when watching a horror movie, you have to wait an awful long time before something significant or even remotely horrific happens? Tension building is a good thing, but depending on the type of movie you rented, you sometimes just want to see blood and carnage, like it's illustrated on the DVD cover and the stills on the back of the box. Well, "Psycho Shark" brings this sentiment of annoyance to a whole brand new dimension… Please, if you're not familiar with this title, I invite you to perform a search via Google Images and have a good look at the poster image. You will most likely encounter a poster of a shark emerging with wide open jaws, ready to swallow a victim in bikini, as well as stills from a ridiculous over-sized shark practically eating an entire wharf. Looks pretty cool, doesn't it? The painful truth, however, is that all these images are a bunch of shenanigans. "Psycho Shark", or "Jaws in Japan" as it is also known, isn't about raging sharks at all. More than an hour of this already relatively short movie centers on two beautiful and (very) young girls on vacation. The girls have fun and film each other in their too tight bikinis while a sinister young man observes them from a distance. For you see, the shark in the title is probably symbolic as we're dealing with a pervert with a little plastic shark on his key ring. Lame! Until suddenly and completely out of the blue, two minutes before the ending, the worst computer engineered fake shark in the history of bad horror cinema emerges from the water. The few courageous viewers who managed to last this long will be amazed at how awful the digital shark looks. I bet director John Hijiri has a profound explanation about the psychological depth and metaphors hidden in his film, but quite frankly I don't think anyone cares. When people rent a film with a bloodthirsty shark on the cover, they want to see just that!

Wow! This is arguably the worst international movie I've seen. I think no one had a clue about what they were doing, right from the script writers, the director or even the actors who looked confused about the happenings. The movie is titled Psycho shark. Although we don't get to see the shark at all till the very end of the movie, maybe the title is aptly put because this shark is truly unique, as it attacks on land too! Don't believe me? Watch the movie till the end to figure this out. The only good point I could mention here is the start, which brings excitement & suspense to the viewers but after that, the movie goes on a downward slide till the big crash at the end.Verdict: If you're a psycho, you wouldn't mind this movie. Or watch this to be one :)