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- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA 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.Audition (Ôdishon) (1999)
Drama – Romance – Horror – Mystery – Thriller – Romantic Mystery Drama – Middle-Aged Widower – Loneliness – Melancholy – Grif Trauma – New Wife Search – Fake Casting Audition – Shy Enigmatic Young Woman – Romantic Relationship – Attraction – Psychological Horror – Discomfort Sense – Social Isolation – Claustrophobic Threat – Nightmarish Terror – Body Horror – Mental Disorder – Childhood Trauma – Psychosexual Drama – Femme Fatale – Female Oppression – Seduction/Deception – Sexual Sadism Disorder (SSD) – Childhood Trauma – Sexual Abuse – Female Exploitation – Gender Battle – Revenge Horror – Vigilantism – Sadism – Brutality – Atrocity – Torture – Paranoia – Art-Horror – Surrealism – Fatalism – Others – J-Horror – Bizarre – E x t r e m e – Disturbing – WTF Factor – Shock Value – Slow-Burn – No-Exit Finale – Memorable Villain – Iconic Film – Cult Status – Classic Status – Best 90's – Re-Watch Value – F a v e – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan – 1001 Must-See Movies
★★★★★★★★ (8/10)-M - DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsMasato HagiwaraKoji YakushoTsuyoshi UjikiA frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.Cure (Kyua) (1997)*
Crime – Mystery – Horror – Thriller – Crime Mystery Thriller – Emotionally Repressed Police Detective – Bizarre Unmotivated Murders Case – Serial-Killer – Murder Mystery – Investigation – Enigmatic Amnesiac Man Prime-Suspect – Cryptic Hypnotic Powers – Apathy – Cat-Mouse Game Theory – Manhunt – Psychological Manipulation – Magnetism – Paroxysm – Vigilantism – Vengeance – Psychological Horror – Mental Disorder – Psychopath – Psychological Maze – Nightmarish Fears – Existential Threat – Supernatural Horror – Occult Horror – Paranoid Thriller – Uncharted Realms – Unseen Malevolent Force – Ever-Present Threat – Suspicions – Simmering Tension – Mistrust – Paranoia – Art-Horror – Metaphorical – Bizarre – Uncanny Experience – Others – J-Horror – Disturbing – Shock Value – Criterion Collection – Cult Status – Classic Status – Re-Watch Value – F a v e – Best 90's – RE-Watch Value – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★★★ (8/10)-S - DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.Ringu (1998)*
Mystery – Horror – Thriller – Horror Mystery Thriller – Bizarre Unlabeled Videotape – Supernatural Death Curse – Mysterious Viewer's Death – Single Mother Journalist Next Victim – Investigation – Vengeful Spirit Presence – Uncertainty Stress – Desperation – Anxiety – Hysteria – Paranoia – Psychological Horror – Depressing Atmosphere – Nightmarish Fears – Claustrophobic Dread – Supernatural Horror – Acute Terror – Others – Bizarre – Disturbing – Nihilism – Slow-Burn – Koji Suzuki's 1991 Novel – Cult Status – Classic Status – Re-Watchable – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10)-Μ - DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
Horror – Thriller – Supernatural Horror Thriller – Young People Group – co-Workers / Friends Mysterious Disappearance – Investigation – Weird Website – Malevolent Spirit Presence – Possession – Ghost Invasion – Suspense – Apocalypse Horror – Psychological Horror – Unsettling Atmosphere – Discomfort Sense – Supernatural Threat – Claustrophobic Dread – Existential Terror – Metaphysical Horror – Paranoid Fears – Isolationism – Alienation – Uncertainty Stress – Fear – Despair – Paranoia – Puzzle Film – Complicate Storytelling – Non-Linear Timelines – Parallel Narratives – Multiple Protagonists – Art-Horror – Surrealism – Uncanny Experience – Others – Modern Anxieties – Technophobia – Social Commentary – Hitchcockian Aura – Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 Novel – J-Horror Wave – Cult Status – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10) - DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa UeharaA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)*
Horror – Supernatural Horror – Quiet Tokyo Suburb House – Social-Services Nurse – Catatonic Elderly-Woman Care – House Dark Past – Vengeful "Ju-on" Curse – Malevolent-Spirit Presence – Police Investigation – New-Inhabitants Mysterious Disappearance – Enigmatic Deaths – Panic Attack – Fear – Paranoia – Gore – Unsettling Atmosphere – Discomfort Sense – Nightmarish Terror – Claustrophobic Dread – Eerie Horror – Puzzle Film – Non-Linear Timeline – Complex Fragmented Storytelling – Others – Haunted-House Film – Japanese Folklore – Disturbing – Bizarre – Shock Value – J-Horror Wave – Cult Status – Classic Status – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10)-S - DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.Kwaidan (Kaidan) (1964)
Drama – Fantasy – Horror – Folk Horror Anthology – Four Ghost Stories – Haunting Tales – Demonic Comeuppance – Spiritual Trials – Psychological Horror – Nightmarish Fears – Existential Dread – Supernatural Horror – Art-House Horror – Atmospheric – Surrealism – Expressionism – Metaphysical – Elliptical – Bizarre – Mise-en-Scène – Uncanny Experience – Others – Lafcadio Hearn's 1904 Novel – Criterion Collection – Classic Status – Cult Status – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10) - DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoYûko NakamuraCoccoWhen 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.Kotoko (2011)*
Drama – Horror – Psychological Drama – Mental Distress Single-Mother – Double-Visions (Diplopia) Episodes – Terrifying Hallucinations – Motherhood Anxieties – Japanese Social Services Taken-her-Son Away – Desperation – Alienation – Fear – Misery – Nervous Breakdown – Psychological Horror – Violent Thoughts – Self-Harm – Mania – Nightmarish Terror – Body Horror – Existential Horror – Psychosexual Horror – Paranoia – Psychological Chaos – Downward Spiral – Paranoid Thriller – Self-Deception – Derealization Symptoms – Paranoid Phobias – Ever-Present Threat – Delusional Disorder – Schizoid Chaos – Distrust – Art-Horror – Unsettling Atmosphere – Surrealism – Avant-Garde – Grotesque – Experimental Film – Others – J-Horror Wave – Bizarre – Disturbing – Shock Value – E x t r e m e – Indie – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10)-S - DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsTakako MatsuYoshino KimuraMasaki OkadaA psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.Confessions (Kokukaku) (2010)
Drama – Thriller – Drama – Disrespectful Junior-High Class School – Grieving-Mother Teacher – Daughter's Mysterious Death – Murder Mystery – Love-Loss Trauma – Two Students Murder-Accusation – Twisted Revenge Thriller – Twisted Punishment – Milk Injecting With HIV-Positive Blood – Cruelty – Anxiety – Panic Attack – Confusion – Anarchy – Downward Spiral – Payback Justice – Cold-Blooded Avenger – Vigilantism – Nemesis – Psychological Horror – Unsettling Atmosphere – Discomfort Sense – Nightmarish Feel – Unsettling Horror – Grief Trauma – Guilt Complex – Puzzle Film – Non-Linear Timeline – Multiple-Persons Narratives – Art-House Horror – Symbolism – Others – Social Commentary – Bulling-Effect Study – Social Satire – Caustic Humour – Amoralism – Cynicism – Nihilism – Plot-Twist – No-Exit Finale – J-Horror Wave – Kanae Minato's 2008 Novel – Re-Watchable – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10) - 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.Battle Royale (2000)
Action – Thriller – Dystopian Action Thriller – Near-Future – Japanese Totalitarian Government – Annual Battle-Royale Act – 42-High-School Students Group – Deserted Island – Kill-Each-Other Mission – Survival Horror – Battle Survival – Trapped Survival – Fear – Atrocity – Brutality – Violence – Massacre – Gore – Delirium – Hysteria – Paranoia – Unsettling Atmosphere – Discomfort Sense – Futuristic Nightmare – Adolescent Angst – Sadism – Black Comedy – Satirical Fiction – Social Satire – Others – Social Commentary – Generational Warfare – Sadism – Cynicism – Nihilism – J-Horror Wave – Extravagant – Bizarre – Avant-Garde – Grotesque – Disturbing – E x t r e m e – Koushun Takami's 1999 Novel – Cult Status – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★★★ (6/10) - DirectorSion SonoStarsMitsuru FukikoshiDendenAsuka KurosawaThe lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMasumi MiyazakiIssei IshidaRie KuwanaThe 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.Strange Circus (Kimyo Na Sakasu) (2005)
Drama – Mystery – Horror – Thriller – Erotic Mystery Drama – Paraplegic Erotic-Novelist Woman – New Novel-Project – Dysfunctional Family's Chronicle Theme – Morbid (Incest-Suicide-Murder) Story – Mysterious Past – Asexual Young Man Personal Assistant – Secret Investigation – Story's Origins Uncover Plan – Psychological Horror – Discomfort Sense – Nightmarish Feel – Mental Disorder – Antisocial Personality Disorder – Childhood Trauma – Psychosexual Drama – Nymphomaniac – Sexual Abuse – Sexual Violence – Self-Mutilation – Incest Activities – Art-Horror – Uncanny Experience – Surrealism – Eccentric – Avant-Garde – Grotesque – Others – Bizarre – Disturbing – E x t r e m e – Mindfuck – Shock value – J-Horror Wave – Foreign Language – Asian – Japan
★★★★ (4/10) - DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsYûta SoneKimika YoshinoShohei HinoA 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsKotoha HiroyamaHiroaki KawatsureShigeo ÔsakoA doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.Grotesque (Gurotesuku) (2009)
★★★ (3/10) - DirectorSion SonoStarsKazue FukiishiTsugumiYuriko YoshitakaA teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
- DirectorShin'ichirô UedaStarsTakayuki HamatsuYuzuki AkiyamaHarumi ShuhamaThings go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.One Cut of the Dead
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorFruit ChanPark Chan-wookTakashi MiikeStarsBai LingLee Byung-hunKyoko HasegawaAn Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsReina TriendlMariko ShinodaErina ManoA girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei OguchiA mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsMichiko HadaMari HoshinoTae KimuraINFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where a doctor's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTomomi MiyashitaKazuhiro NakaharaA fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYûkaKarinaKippei ShînaA 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.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTakahiro MuraseTakahiro KandakaA 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono KugaA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
- DirectorRyu KanedaMasaki AdachiHiroshi AndoStarsPatrick HarlanYui IchikawaRyunosuke KamikiHiroshi Ando aka "Zoo" Synopsis.....This collection of shocking, unpredictable stories feature the first screen adaptation of the number one young author of his generation, Otsuichi. Working with five different directors, ZOO features five stories (four live-action, one animated) of fear, sadness and pain. ======================================================================================= "Zoo" A man kills a woman at an abandoned zoo and takes pictures of her dead body everyday. Then suddenly the zoo is gone and the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred. "Kazari and Yoko" The mother of twin sisters, Kazari and Yoko, loves only one of her daughters, and abuses the other. When the abused tries to break free, things take shocking turns. "Seven Rooms" One day, a young boy and his older sister find themselves trapped in a small, concrete room. There are seven rooms in all, each containing a different prisoner. On the sixth day, everyone will be massacred. Can they survive? "So Far" A young boy's father is convinced that his mother is dead. The mother is convinced the father is dead. The boy is the only person that both father and mother can see. "When the Sun Shines" CG animation about a unique man learning about life and death in a world where most of humanity has already died out.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsMasahiro MotokiRyôYasutaka TsutsuiA 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.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTadanobu AsanoNao ÔmoriShin'ya TsukamotoAs sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyo IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai HoshoA detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsEiji FunakoshiMako MidoriNoriko SengokuA blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei SatôTwo 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.
- DirectorHiguchinskyStarsEriko HatsuneFhi FanHinako SaekiThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiShin'ichi TsutsumiKazue FukiishiPeople mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKenji SawadaKeiko MatsuzakaShinji TakedaA family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKazuya NakayamaKaori MomoiRyûhei MatsudaAn executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsHiroshi MikamiNoriko SakaiMaki HorikitaA newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
- 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?
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsFumi NikaidôTakehiro HiraHideaki ItôA popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
- DirectorEiji UchidaStarsAiraItsuji ItaoYoichiro KawakamiNami 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.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiHideaki ItôEbizô IchikawaFiction 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.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsKoji YakushoManami KonishiTsuyoshi IharaAn experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.
- DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsTakao OsawaMasaya KatôKanae UotaniA raging god of battle and a master samurai duke it out in a series of sword fights in a remote temple.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsChiaki KuriyamaMegumi SatôTsugumiAbout hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro TamuraA 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsEriko SatôHaruhiko KatôChiharu KawaiA 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.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsTeruo YoshidaYukie KagawaTeruko YumiAfter 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.