Topic: Japanese Horror

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Synopsis This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant....

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Synopsis A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Akira Ishihama · Machiko Hasegawa · Jun Fujikawa

Synopsis A young apprentice and his master are looking in the mountains a very special tree to carve a statue of the goddess Kannon. After finding it, begin a very big blizzard and found themselfs obliged to take refuge in a...

Direction Hidehiko Kadota · Tetsuo Imazawa · Kenji Nakamura · Kouzou Nagayama

Synopsis TV Series (2006). 11 Episodes. A collection of three classic Japanese horror stories: "Yotsuya Kaidan," the story of a wife betrayed by her husband who seeks vengeance even in death, "Tenshu Monogatari," the story of forbidden love between a goddess...

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Nanako Matsushima · Miki Nakatani · Hiroyuki Sanada · Yuko Takeuchi

Synopsis In Ring (1998), a journalist investigates a chilling urban legend about a cursed videotape that kills its viewers seven days after watching it. When her niece dies mysteriously after viewing the tape, she delves deeper, uncovering a dark and supernatural...

Direction Tomoya Takashima

Synopsis TV series (2013-2018). The show is organized into a series of shorts with each episode being only a few minutes in length. Each episode features a different tale based on urban legends and myths of Japanese origin and is animated...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Noriko Kitazawa · Katsuko Wakasugi · Shuntarô Emi

Synopsis The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Masato Hagiwara · Tsuyoshi Ujiki · Anna Nakagawa

Synopsis A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Direction Yuki Ogawa

Synopsis TV Series (2021). 12 Episodes. One day, Miko suddenly started seeing grotesque beings that others couldn't. Her response was not to run, not to face them, but to do everything she can to completely ignore them! Can she keep a...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Kazue Fukiishi · Tsugumi · Ken Mitsuishi · Yuriko Yoshitaka

Synopsis A sequel to 2002's cult-status film "Suicide Club", director Sion Sono's "Noriko's Dinner Table" tells the compelling and profound tale of the collapse and reconstruction of the family unit. The story follows Noriko, a seemingly unhappy teenager who lives with...

Direction Fruit Chan · Park Chan-wook · Takashi Miike

Cast Bai Ling · Pauline Lau · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Meme Tian

Synopsis A beautiful female novelist, still guilt-ridden over the childhood death of her twin sister, receives a mysterious invitation to meet at the site of her sister’s demise… more… A retired actress longing to retain her beauty seeks the rejuvenating effects...

Direction Gore Verbinski

Cast Naomi Watts · Martin Henderson · Brian Cox · David Dorfman

Synopsis The Ring (2002) follows journalist Rachel Keller as she investigates a mysterious videotape that is said to cause the viewer's death seven days after watching it. When her niece dies under strange circumstances, Rachel discovers the tape and watches it...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Eihi Shiina · Tetsu Sawaki · Jun Kunimura

Synopsis In Audition (1999), a widowed middle-aged man, Aoyama, seeks companionship and decides to hold a fake audition to find a new wife. He becomes captivated by Asami, a mysterious and seemingly perfect woman. As their relationship deepens, Aoyama discovers unsettling...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Toshio Hosokawa · Yuriko Ejima · Takashi Wada · Fujie Satsuki

Synopsis The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kimiko Ikegami · Kumiko Ohba · Yôko Minamida · Mitsutoshi Ishigami

Synopsis When Oshare finds out that her Father's girlfriend is joining them on their summer trip, she and her friends decide to go to her aunt's farmhouse instead. From the moment they arrive, strange things begin to happen and the girls...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Takashi Wada · Noriko Kitazawa · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the...

Direction Takashi Shimizu

Cast Yûrei Yanagi · Chiaki Kuriyama · Hitomi Miwa · Taro Suwa

Synopsis Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only...

Direction Takashi Watanabe · Shigeyuki Suga

Synopsis A light in the sky, followed by a strange aura and grisly murders. Each character tells there own connection to the event and to a similar murder spree 5 years ago. All of the different stories are slowly tied together...

Direction Toshio Hirata · Hiroshi Hamasaki

Synopsis Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract...