Asian Horror
If you're curious what the "Asian Horror" thing was all about this is your starter list. The Glory Days were from 1998 to 2005. Mostly Japanese and Korean. This list is mainstream stuff that created the BUZZ, not the more bloody and painful "Extreme" offerings.
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- 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.This one kick-started the J-Horror movement and made famous the long-haired creepy girl, the J-Horror Goth Chick, a staple of many Asian Horrors. This also mainstreamed the frequent topic of a ghostly haunting as the result of an unnatural death--suicide or murder.
- DirectorKi-hyeong ParkStarsKim Gyu-riYun Ji-hyePark Jin-heeIn a Korean school, students are regularly beaten and mistreated by their teachers. However, the spirit of one pupil, who died ten years ago, periodically returns in the guise of a new girl, thus able to gain a revenge on the culprits.There are five films in the Korean "Whispering Corridors" series. They aren't related by characters or plot, but they all take place in a girls high school and involve suicide or another type of uncool death and its requisite ghost.
- DirectorsKyu-dong MinKim Tae-yongStarsKim Gyu-riPark YejinLee Yeong-jinIn this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.This is "Whispering Corridors II", my favorite of the series, although it's the least horrorish of the bunch.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyô IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower has his film producer friend organize a fake audition as a means of helping him find a new girlfriend, but the woman he selects is not who she appears to be.It didn't take long for established talent to enter the horror ring: Takashi Miike. The first two acts of this film aren't horror but the third act is must-see for the curious. The needle work isn't so bad but what this woman does with piano wire will make you squirm squirm squirm.
- DirectorDong-bin KimStarsShin Eun-kyungSeung-Hyun LeeJung Jin-youngAfter the mysterious death of her niece and other three teenagers on the same hour and with the symptoms of heart attack, the journalist Sun-ju decides to investigate their last moments. She discloses that the four friends had just watched a videotape exactly one week before their death in a resort. She travels to the place and finds the deadly video and after watching the weird footage, her telephone rings. When she takes a picture of herself, she sees her image blurred the same way that happened with the teenagers. She makes a copy of the cursed tape to her acquaintance, the skeptical coroner Choi Yeol. Together they seek for a hint, and find that it was taped thorough telekinesis by Eun-suh, a psychic girl that had disappeared years ago. When Sun-ju's little daughter watches the movie, Sun-ju has a stronger reason to unravel the mystery to save her daughter and her own lives.This is the Korean remake of "Ringu". It's a little more clearly expository but not as creepy. Only for the curious.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsYukie NakamaSeiichi TanabeKumiko AsôIn this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest...This is a prequel to "Ringu" which gives us the background story of Sadako, the J-Horror Goth Chick. Of all the Ringu related remakes, prequels, and sequels this is the best film. Listed here for reference. It's not real scary but it's great for more info on Sadako.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYûrei YanagiYueRyôta KoyamaA teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.Low budget but effective.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô YamamotoIn the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKen'ichi EndôShungiku UchidaKazushi WatanabeA troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyô IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai HôshôA detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
- DirectorNaoki IchioStarsUnakami HiromiReiko KataokaHida SenkoA woman drowns in the bathtub. Her frantic husband pulls her out, then lays her on the couch. He drinks until he passes out. When he awakes, she's alive. They try to carry on like nothing happened.
- DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsAngelica LeeChutcha RujinanonLawrence ChouA blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she will be able to see again. She gets more than she bargained for upon realizing she can also see ghosts.
- 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.
- DirectorByeong-ki AhnStarsHa Ji-WonKim Yu-miChoi Woo-jaeInvestigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa UeharaA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsNoriko SakaiChiharu NiiyamaKei HorieAs their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.
- 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.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLim Soo-jungYum Jung-ahKim Kap-suAfter being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.
- DirectorSoo-youn LeeStarsPark Shin-yangJun Ji-hyunYoo SeonAn engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
- DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsRace WongRosanne WongAnson LeungJiney, an artist, witnesses a car crash. She photographs the victim, becoming obsessed with death. She receives a snuff video. Her friend Jas realizes it's real. Jiney gets another disturbing tape, leaving her terrified.
- DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsShu QiEugenia YuanJesdaporn PholdeeAfter a failed suicide attempt, a pregnant woman gains the ability to see ghosts.
- DirectorsFruit ChanPark Chan-wookTakashi MiikeStarsBai LingLee Byung-hunKyôko HasegawaAn Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.
- DirectorSong Il-gonStarsKam Woo-seongJung SuhKang Kyung-hunA recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods.
- DirectorsBanjong PisanthanakunParkpoom WongpoomStarsAnanda EveringhamNatthaweeranuch ThongmeeAchita SikamanaWhen Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.