Japanese-languages of horror
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1. 2LDK (2003)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Two actresses who have auditioned for one part, sharing the same apartment with opposite personalities equals a night which either neither of them will forget - if they survive!
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Stars: Maho Nonami, Eiko Koike, Maki Tsujimura, Runa Tsukishima
Votes: 3,901
2. 964 Pinocchio (1991)
97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, ... See full summary »
Director: Shozin Fukui | Stars: Haji Suzuki, Onn-chan, Kôji Ôtsubo, Kyoko Hara
Votes: 2,311
3. A Bloody Aria (2006)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Drama, Horror
On a day trip through countryside, aspiring opera singer In-jeong flees to woods to escape advances of her lecherous professor and mentor, Yeong-sun.
Directors: Won Shin-yeon, Won Sin Yun | Stars: Lee Byung-joon, Oh Dal-su, Kyung Ho Jung, Shi-hoo Kim
Votes: 939 | Gross: $0.00M
4. Chain: Rensa jusatsu (2006)
71 min | Horror
High school girls receive a cursed chain mail that causes death to those who receive it and don't forward the message to a certain amount of people.
Director: Ryûichi Honda | Stars: Aoi Miura, Hiromi Nakajima, Mirai Sagara, Miyû Sawai
Votes: 51
5. Kuchisake-onna (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana
Votes: 3,045
6. Abunômaru: Ingyaku (1988)
64 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist.The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Masae Abe, Sayaka Hitomi, Kiyomi Itô, Reika Kazami
Votes: 167
7. Alive (2002)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Horror
After surviving his own execution, Tenshu chooses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials.
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Hideo Sakaki, Ryô, Koyuki, Shun Sugata
Votes: 1,483
8. Enjeru dasuto (1994)
116 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who ... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryôko Takizawa
Votes: 1,303
9. Another (2012)
109 min | Horror, Mystery
After 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.
Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Natsumi Takamori, Mika Akizuki, Ayana, Guin Poon Chaw
Votes: 886
10. Anaza hevun (2000)
R | 132 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the... See full summary »
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Yôsuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Takashi Kashiwabara, Yukiko Okamoto
Votes: 871
11. Apartment 1303 (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
Director: Ataru Oikawa | Stars: Noriko Nakagoshi, Arata Furuta, Eriko Hatsune, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 1,943
12. Arcana (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A detective teams up with an amnesiac lady who can talk with the dead to solve a mass murder mystery.
Director: Yoshitaka Yamaguchi | Stars: Kaito, Gorô Kishitani, Morris Matsumura, Masataka Nakagauchi
Votes: 119
13. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,112
14. Dan Oniroku: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (1985)
67 min | Horror
A teacher is assaulted by children at her new job in the country. Then the torture begins.
Director: Masahito Segawa | Stars: Ran Masaki, Seiichirô Fukuyama, Nobutaka Masutomi, Saori Mizuno
Votes: 473
15. Bilocation (2013)
119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
"Bilocation" is a supernatural phenomenon in which an individual appears in two different places at the same time, which has been reported historically worldwide. What if your alter ego ... See full summary »
Director: Mari Asato | Stars: Asami Mizukawa, Yôsuke Asari, Chûkichi Kubo, Maiko
Votes: 603
16. Blind Beast (1969)
86 min | Drama, Horror
A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
Votes: 3,900
17. Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A vampire named Saya, who is part of a covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
Director: Chris Nahon | Stars: Jun Ji-hyun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, JJ Feild
Votes: 15,290 | Gross: $0.26M
18. Zankoku hanten (2008 Video)
75 min | Comedy, Horror
Why is it that men love the dumplings of Ms. Lin so much? Why is it that there are so many human disappearances in the vicinity? What did the restaurant chef's master teach him? Most ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Kawano | Stars: Mihiro, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse, Yûsuke Iwata
Votes: 322
19. Cure (1997)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Votes: 22,924 | Gross: $0.09M
20. Dark Water (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa
Votes: 34,899
21. Detective Story (2007)
99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kai Atô, Tomoharu Hasegawa, Pâko Hayashiya, Pê Hayashiya
Votes: 832
22. Don't Look Up (1996)
Unrated | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror
A filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Yasuyo Shirashima, Kei Ishibashi, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 646
23. Empire of Passion (1978)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Votes: 4,924
24. Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Unrated | 102 min | Horror
A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa
Votes: 3,784
25. Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A female projectionist suddenly comes to the self-realization that she just in fact may be a serial killer responsible for brutally murdering everyone around her.
Director: Izô Hashimoto | Stars: Shoko Nakajima, Rie Kondoh, Shirô Sano, Shino Ikenami
Votes: 862
26. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto
Votes: 3,346
27. Gemini (1999)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masako Motai
Votes: 2,876
28. Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985 Video)
42 min | Short, Horror
Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.
Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Hiroshi Tamura, Kirara Yûgao, Anja Blagojevic
Votes: 4,479
29. Guinea Pig 3: He Never Dies (1986 Video)
39 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
After being dumped by his girlfriend for a friend, he attempts suicide - which turns up pain-free - and decides to scare the guy by literally throwing his own guts at him.
Director: Masayuki Kusumi | Stars: Shinsuke Araki, Ivu, Masahiro Satô, Rie Shibata
Votes: 1,839
30. Guinea Pig 4: Devil Woman Doctor (1986 Video)
52 min | Comedy, Horror
A drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!
Director: Hajime Tabe | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Masami Hisamoto, Nezumi Imamura
Votes: 1,114
31. Girl Hell 1999 (1999 Video)
65 min | Horror
Misaki is a girl trapped in a world violent beyond compare. Her home life is a wreck, two men are interested in her, and a homeless woman she regularly visits. But little does she know life is only going to get more violent...
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Natsumi Harada, Yuusuke Kimura, Toshimaru Murai, Sheena Nagamori
Votes: 513
32. Kami no hidarite akuma no migite (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Asuka Shibuya, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Ai Maeda, Momoko Shimizu
Votes: 147
33. Psycho Gothic Lolita (2010)
TV-14 | 88 min | Action, Horror
After her mother is murdered, a girl dresses-to-kill as a Gothic Lolita. Using a deadly umbrella, she seeks revenge by slicing and dicing the wacky assassins responsible.
Director: Gô Ohara | Stars: Rina Akiyama, Ruito Aoyagi, Asami, Yukihide Benny
Votes: 897
34. Gozu (2003)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Yûta Sone, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita
Votes: 12,720 | Gross: $0.05M
35. Greatful Dead (2013)
97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
Director: Eiji Uchida | Stars: Aira, Itsuji Itao, Yoichiro Kawakami, Hôka Kinoshita
Votes: 851
36. Grotesque (2009)
Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Thriller
A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Kotoha Hiroyama, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako, Tsugumi Nagasawa
Votes: 7,447
37. Guilty of Romance (2011)
144 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to ... See full summary »
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima
Votes: 5,830
38. Best of Guinea Pig 1-4 (1988 Video)
73 min | Horror
A compilation of scenes from Sai Enterprise's Guinea Pig, Ginî piggu 2: Chiniku no hana, Ginî piggu 3: Senritsu! Shinanai otoko, and Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san.
Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Masami Hisamoto, Nezumi Imamura
Votes: 116
39. Guinea Pig 6: Android of Notre Dame (1989 Video)
51 min | Horror
A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
Director: Kazuhito Kuramoto | Stars: Toshihiko Hino, Mio Takaki, Tomorô Taguchi, Yumi Iori
Votes: 1,303
40. Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (1985 Video)
Unrated | 43 min | Short, Horror
A duo of guys capture and brutally torture a young girl to the point of piercing her retina.
Director: Satoru Ogura
Votes: 4,177
41. Hanako of the Toilet (1998)
95 min | Horror
When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Stars: Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Eri Fuse, Maya Hamaoka, Satomi Ishii
Votes: 131
42. Haze (2005)
Not Rated | 49 min | Horror, Mystery
A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato Tsujioka
Votes: 3,090
43. Gusha no bindume (2004)
96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
One elevator, one girl who can read minds and one floor where the elevator should have never stopped: the ideal ingredients for a classic piece of weird horror. In the claustrophobic space ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroki Yamaguchi | Stars: Luchino Fujisaki, Yoshiichi Kawada, Ryôsuke Koshiba, Kae Minami
Votes: 1,186
44. Helter Skelter (2012)
Unrated | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect.
Director: Mika Ninagawa | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Nao Ômori, Shinobu Terajima, Gô Ayano
Votes: 3,318
45. Hide and Go Kill 2 (2009)
R | 83 min | Horror
A deadly game of online hide and seek puts a young woman's life in danger.
Director: Masafumi Yamada | Stars: Yukie Kawamura, Mayuko Kawakita, Masahiro Usui, Ben Yuzawa
Votes: 311
46. Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi
Votes: 1,877
47.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Imprint
(2006)
TV-MA | 63 min | Horror
In the 1800s, an American returns to Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with, but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Billy Drago, Shihô Harumi, Michié, Magy
Votes: 7,632
48. Kansen (2004)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
INFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where a doctor's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient.
Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura, Yôko Maki
Votes: 5,763
49. Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
R | 92 min | Horror
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa
Votes: 48,016 | Gross: $0.33M
50. Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (2003–2005)
5 min | Short, Horror
An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama. This series led to the film, Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004).
Stars: Rina Uchiyama, Yôzaburô Itô, Satomi Ishii, Kaoru Mizuki
Votes: 174
51. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Ambrosia (2005)
67 min | Horror
A schoolgirl goes on an extreme diet in order to win the affections of a boy.
Director: Tadafumi Itô | Stars: Yuki Enomoto, Naomi Kaizuka, Anna Nakagawa, Shôko Nakagawa
Votes: 155
52. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005)
51 min | Horror
A husband and wife each believe that the other is cheating on them. The upstairs room in their house becomes a point of bizarre physical transformations.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tamaki Ogawa, Hisako Shirata
Votes: 299
53. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make (2005)
49 min | Horror
Five spirit mediums will spend 24 hours in an abandoned office building for a TV show.
Director: Taichi Itô | Stars: Alice, Koichiro Hama, Hitomi Miwa, Anna Nakagawa
Votes: 107
54. Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô - Purezento (2005)
49 min | Horror
A murderous Santa Claus terrorizes a Christmas party at a hotel.
Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Seiko Iwaidô, Takamasa Suga, Yôko Mitsuya, Hitomi Kurihara
Votes: 156
55. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: The Harlequin Girl (2005)
53 min | Horror
Young Yumiko goes to the countryside to visit a friend. The two little girls decides to enter a mysterious house where the meet a snake woman.
Director: Noboru Iguchi | Stars: Shôko Nakahara, Arisa Nakamura, Riko Narumi, Kyûsaku Shimada
Votes: 118
56. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: The Wish (2005)
50 min | Horror
A lonely schoolboy creates a new buddy in the form of a wooden doll.
Director: Atsushi Shimizu | Stars: Orito Kasahara, Natsumi Okumura, Toshinori Omi, Kyôko Tôyama
Votes: 117
57. Kichiku dai enkai (1997)
100 min | Drama, Horror
While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Stars: Shigeru Bokuda, Sumiko Mikami, Shunsuke Sawada, Toshiyuki Sugihara
Votes: 707
58. Kirei? The Terror of Beauty (2004)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
A successful plastic surgeon's life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious masked patient appears in her office and makes an unusual request.
Director: Katsuya Matsumura | Stars: Miki Asakura, Fumina Hara, Asuka Kurosawa, Kôta Kusano
Votes: 161
59. Kotoko (2011)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror
When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yûko Nakamura, Cocco, Eiichi Takahashi
Votes: 2,218
60. Kotsutsubo (2012)
82 min | Horror
Eri 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... See full summary »
Director: Jirô Nagae | Stars: Natsumi Matsubara, Ai Shinozaki, Rurika Yokoyama, Kenta Itogi
Votes: 96
61. Kwaidan (1964)
Not Rated | 183 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Votes: 19,962
62. Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Unrated | 129 min | Horror, Thriller
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Takehiro Hira, Hideaki Itô, Shôta Sometani
Votes: 6,779
63. Loft (2005)
R | 115 min | Horror
Reiko, a prize-winning writer, moves to a quiet isolated house to finish up her new novel. One night she sees the man next door transporting an object wrapped in cloth. She finds out he is ... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Miki Nakatani, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yumi Adachi
Votes: 1,222
64. Shibito no koiwazurai (2001)
95 min | Horror
Teenager 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuyuki Shibuya | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Mao Asami, Lisa Gotô, Shuntaro Hani
Votes: 360
65. Rakkî sukai daiamondo (1990 Video)
60 min | Horror
A woman wakes up in a hospital and is terrorized by horrifying hallucinations and two sadistic doctors.
Director: Izô Hashimoto | Stars: Naoko Amihama, Reiko Nakamura, Shirô Sano
Votes: 199
66. Meatball Machine (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Full-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive, this mind-blower about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave "Necroborgs" will leave you dizzy and drained - in a good way.
Directors: Yûdai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto | Stars: Issei Takahashi, Aoba Kawai, Kenichi Kawasaki, Shôichirô Masumoto
Votes: 2,276
67. MPD Psycho (2000)
54 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After his wife is murdered, a homicide detective develops multiple personalities and takes revenge on her killer. Years later the killer seems to reappear from the dead.
Stars: Ren Ôsugi, Naoki Hosaka, Tomoko Nakajima, Sadaharu Shiota
Votes: 744
68. Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe
Votes: 2,259
69. The Neighbor No. Thirteen (2005)
R | 115 min | Horror, Thriller
Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuo Inoue | Stars: Shidô Nakamura, Shun Oguri, Hirofumi Arai, Yumi Yoshimura
Votes: 1,306
70. Nightmare Detective (2006)
Unrated | 106 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 2,751
71. One Missed Call (2003)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata
Votes: 19,288
72. Onibaba (1964)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 21,820
73. Ooru naito rongu 3 saishû-shô (1996)
76 min | Horror
A bellboy stalks a woman who frequents the hotel where he works.
Director: Katsuya Matsumura | Stars: Yûjin Kitagawa, Ryôka Yuzuki, Tomorô Taguchi, Meika Seri
Votes: 433
74. All Night Long (1992)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Three Japanese youths descend into the violent realm of the Tokyo night life after witnessing a brutal murder.
Director: Katsuya Matsumura | Stars: Eisuke Tsunoda, Ryôsuke Suzuki, Yôji Ietomi, Hiromasa Taguchi
Votes: 825
75. Ooru naito rongu 2 (1995)
68 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In downtown Japan, a lonely computer nerd tries to maintain a peaceful existance while being stalked by a gang of deviant homosexuals who want to use him for their brutal S&M activities.
Director: Katsuya Matsumura | Stars: Masashi Endô, Ryôka Yuzuki, Masahito Takahashi, Takamitsu Ôkubo
Votes: 582
76. Orochi (2008)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take ... See full synopsis »
Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Yoshino Kimura, Noriko Nakagoshi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Kyûsaku Shimada
Votes: 266
77. Ghost Train (2006)
92 min | Horror
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female ... See full summary »
Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto
Votes: 914
78. Over Your Dead Body (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Hideaki Itô, Ebizô Ichikawa, Toshie Negishi
Votes: 1,591
79. P.O.V. - A Cursed Film (2012)
92 min | Horror
As part of a show, Haruna and Mirai watch a ghost video submitted by a viewer, only to experience strange occurrences that later draw the crew to Haruna's school; the location of the taken video.
Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Yasuyuki Hirano, Haruna Kawaguchi, Takashi Kodama, Yasuto Kosuda
Votes: 531
80. Parasite Eve (1997)
120 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Riona Hazuki, Tomoko Nakajima, Ayako Ômura
Votes: 1,229
81. Pet Peeve (2013)
87 min | Horror
Yoko, a waitress with a dark past, and her boyfriend, Seiji, as well as her coworker, Daiichi, experience a series of bizarre phenomena. Everything's always a little strange in the town Funuma.
Director: Toshikazu Nagae | Stars: Kôdai Asaka, Anna Ishibashi, Shimako Iwai, Hitomi Kurihara
Votes: 209
82. Purei (2005)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror
Two people kidnap a girl, hoping for a ransom.
Director: Yûichi Satô | Stars: Tetsuji Tamayama, Asami Mizukawa, Mitsuyoshi Shinoda, Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Votes: 452
83. Prayer beads (2004)
270 min | Horror
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Stars: Jun Haichi, Joe Odagiri, Kei Satô, Takashi Yûki
Votes: 67
84. Yogen (2004)
R | 95 min | Horror
A newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita, Mayumi Ono
Votes: 4,602
85. Pulse (2001)
R | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka
Votes: 25,536 | Gross: $0.05M
86. Ranpo jigoku (2005)
134 min | Fantasy, Horror
This four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo.
Directors: Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Suguru Takeuchi | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Yûko Daike, Chisako Hara, Masami Horiuchi
Votes: 1,195
87. Spiral (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Tsurumi
Votes: 3,971
88. Red Room (1999 Video)
68 min | Horror
Four random people (including a married couple) volunteer to participate in a mysterious game for a chance to win 10 million yen. They have to take turns torturing their fellow players until only one is left.
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Hiroshi Kitasenju, Sheena Nagamori, Mayumi Ookawa, Yuuki Tsukamoto
Votes: 1,193
89. Red Room 2 (2000 Video)
81 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Another four average citizens play the 'King Game', for a chance to win big money. They torture each other in increasingly horrific ways as per the games rules.
Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Miyuki Katô, Yukio Kokago, Salmon Sakeyama, Yûka Takahashi
Votes: 482
90. Reincarnation (2005)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto
Votes: 6,759
91. Retribution (2006)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama
Votes: 3,254
92. Ring 2 (1999)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Reiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satô, Kyôko Fukada, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 14,708
93. Roommate (2013)
110 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. ... See full summary »
Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Keiko Kitagawa, Kyôko Fukada, Kengo Kôra, Mariko Tsutsui
Votes: 454
94. Rubber's Lover (1996)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray, they need to find another test subject in this Japanese splatter-punk film.
Director: Shozin Fukui | Stars: Nao, Norimizu Ameya, Yôta Kawase, Mika Kunihiro
Votes: 1,086
95. Saimin (1999)
110 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's ... See full summary »
Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Gorô Inagaki, Miho Kanno, Takeshi Masu, Ken Utsui
Votes: 734
96. Séance (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish ... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Hikari Ishida
Votes: 1,992
97. Kiseichuu: kiraa pusshii (2004 Video)
60 min | Comedy, Horror
Five teenagers enter a deserted jungle and trespass inside an abandoned house only to haunted by a woman with a monster hidden inside her reproductive organs.
Director: Takao Nakano | Stars: Sachika Uchiyama, Natsumi Mitsu, Sakurako Kaoru, Tôgo Okumoto
Votes: 729
98. Spiral (2000)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Shin Eun-kyung
Votes: 8,978
99. Strange Circus (2005)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Seiko Iwaidô
Votes: 6,244
100. Suicide Club (2001)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô
Votes: 22,184
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