Japanese Horror Movies
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- DirectorMari AsatoStarsAoi MorikawaAyami NakajôKôdai AsakaA student at a conservative all-girls school tries to unravel the connection between a series of deaths and what appears to be a cursed photograph.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiWhen her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.
- DirectorHiguchinskyStarsEriko HatsuneFhi FanHinako SaekiThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiShin'ichi TsutsumiKazue FukiishiYumi tries to assuage the fears of a friend, Yoko, who has received a disturbing voice mail from herself. In the message, Yoko screams while chatting with Yumi. Three days later, the exact call plays out, and Yoko dies.
- DirectorTomijiro MitsuishiStarsSayaka YamaguchiYôsuke KubozukaKen'ichi EndôA young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name "Tomie" begins appearing throughout the notebook.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsMiho KannoMami NakamuraYoriko DôguchiA traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
- DirectorSatoshi TakemotoStarsYûma NakayamaHaruka ShimazakiMaryjun TakahashiSet at a university where a series of bizarre and unexplained phenomena are occurring the movie is the plot of the popular Haunted Campus novel put to film. Members of the 'occult study group 'Oka Ken' spring into action investigating and countering the haunting, disturbances and incidents where students are targeted.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsAyaka MiyoshiRyôta BandôTsuyoshi FurukawaAfter her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsNatsumi TakamoriMika AkizukiAyanaAfter a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
- DirectorShun'ya ItôStarsShin'ya ÔwadaEmiko YamauchiMasami HasegawaA man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him.
- DirectorManabu AsôStarsMaki HorikitaMeisa KurokiJang Keun-sukThe timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsNatsumi MatsubaraAi ShinozakiRurika YokoyamaEri is an inconspicuous female high school student who goes completely unnoticed by her classmates. In contrast, her childhood friend Mitsuko is the class leader and is constantly hit on by their creepy teacher, Chida. In order to protect her friend, Eri obtains a funerary rumored to hold ashes that cause certain death for anyone who gets them in their mouth.
- DirectorKazuyuki ShibuyaStarsKumiko AkiyoshiMao AsamiLisa GotôTeenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsNozomi AndôAoi MiyazakiJun KunimuraTomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMiki SakaiSatoshi TsumabukiKumiko EndôAn art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono KugaA prominent paranormal journalist Kobayashi goes missing shortly after completing a documentary. What begins as an investigation into strange noises soon evolves into the chilling mystery of a demonic entity named Kagutaba.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsKôkiRiku HagiwaraKeiko HoriuchiIn a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsYousuke ItouMio KudoAki MoritaA girl who joins the paranormal activity school club sees a ghost at the school one day. Someone sends in a photograph of a ghost at the same time. The club begins investigating, but friends from school soon begin to disappear. The girl begins also searching for her friends at a cave known for the presence of ghosts. She had a hint from the photograph that was sent in.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsMariya SuzukiShizuka UmemotoAsuka KataokaAfter her mother's death, Eri receives a strange visit from a man who may be connected to a program her mother watched on TV the day before her death.
- DirectorRenpei TsukamotoStarsRie MimuraHisashi YoshizawaChisunA Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsYû AbiruMayuko IwasaSayuri OyamadaFollows 3 actresses who play themselves as they appear on a paranormal television show to investigate the exorcism of the Kaneda family.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsMika AzumaHorikenKôen KondôKoji Shiraishi is interested in strange indiscriminate murder at a sightseeing resort. He goes behind the camera to investigate the circumstances surrounding strange occurrences and interview the survivors.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei OguchiA mother going through a divorce moves into a run down apartment with her daughter. A persistent leak from above, visions of a missing girl, and other eerie phenomena become increasingly menacing as clues to a past tragedy come to light.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsKazuki KatôAyaka KomatsuChihiro OhtsukaHaving lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother. Yuri's mother meets a new man, but they are deeply in debt and forced to leave their home. Yuri is then forced to take a job as a call girl to support her brother. One day Yuri's brother becomes ill but since Yuri has to work, she unwillingly leaves him at home. When she returns, she finds him dead in the bathtub. Her heart is scarred with regret and she suffers with a pain that will never go away. After some time has passed, Mayu, a colleague of Yuri's, tells her about a mysterious mobile app that is rumored to enable its user to talk to the dead. Yet, it comes with a warning: Never reply if the dead soul says, "I want to see you." Because she blames herself for her brother's death and will do anything to tell him how sorry she is, Yuri downloads the app and reaches out to her dead brother. Meanwhile, the app's users begin to die.