Horror films here have traditionally featured vengeful female ghosts, but Japanese filmmakers do also take cues from Hollywood, where zombies have long flourished since George Romero's seminal "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). Even so, Japanese zombie films, such as Hiroshi Shinagawa's "Z Island" ("Z Airando," 2015) and Takashi Miike's "Yakuza Apocalypse" ("Gokudo Daisenso," 2015), have trouble taking the undead seriously.