Piranha II: The Spawning marked James Cameron's first feature credit as director, a low-budget creature feature that grafted aerial flying-fish horror onto the surf-and-bikini template of its 1978 Roger Corman predecessor. The Japanese theatrical run of October 1982 carried the more direct title 殺人魚フライングキラー, and the B2 poster leans into the lurid creature artwork produced for the local marketing campaign. Released two years before The Terminator, the film holds a particular place in Cameron's filmography as the sole genre exercise he has publicly disowned, which has only sharpened collector interest in original printings tied to its first commercial release. A primary-source Japanese B2 from a now-uncommon corner of his early career.