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- DirectorRob MarshallStarsZiyi ZhangKen WatanabeMichelle YeohThe heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
- DirectorAkio YoshidaStarsMei KurokawaYoshihiko HosodaYûta SoneAimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force. Aimi begins to see visions of a girl that doesn't exist. She learns that a girl named Ai lived here 30 years ago before she vanished one day on her way home from school. Aimi is driven to find out more about her. She learns that Ai wasn't abducted, but in fact came back to the building the day she disappeared. Can Aimi learn the horrible truth of what happened to Ai? And what is the dark, disturbing secret that the two girls share?
- StarsTaishi NakagawaMaika YamamotoNaomi AkimotoGirl magically shrinks to a 15 cm (6") height and hides out in her former childhood sweetheart's bedroom, both hoping for her return to normal.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraMasayuki OchiaiTakashi ShimizuStarsKayoko ShiraishiShôzô EndôYoshinori OkadaDark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.
- DirectorShinju FunabikiStarsUmika KawashimaAki AsakuraMaki AizawaHigh school student Ayumi kills herself and leaves behind a cryptic message that says "will be killed by boyfriend." Ayumi's classmates Satomi and Yuka investigate her suicide and quickly links her death to a popular cellphone dating simulation game called Keitai Kareshi. The main features of the game include a 'love gauge' that determines how well the player is faring and the ability to chat with other players. Satomi, Yuka download the game to their phones and begin interacting with their new virtual boyfriends. Soon after, Satomi shares the game with her co-worker who -- not long after the love gauge on her cellphone hit zero -- dies from electrocution. Meanwhile, Yuka sends the game to her manager who turns up dead the following day following a mysterious accident. The mystery deepens as Satomi discovers the image of Naoto, a senior student whom Satomi secretly admired, on her friend Hisami's cellphone.
- DirectorKentarô HagiwaraStarsMasataka KubotaFumika ShimizuNobuyuki SuzukiA Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a superpowered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.
- DirectorMakoto ShinozakiStarsNaomi AkimotoMaki IzawaYû Kikkawa
- DirectorByeong-ki AhnStarsKim Gyu-riSe-eun LeeLee Yu-riA high school girl moves from Seoul to a small remote village, where she is constantly harassed and bullied by the jealous common village girls. In a desperate bid to get back at her classmates, she tries to conjure a ghost to haunt them.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsRyo IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai HoshoA detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
- DirectorKeita AmemiyaShun'ichi HiranoRyûta MiyakeStarsNaoto TakenakaYasufumi HayashiKazunari ShigesawaBased on stories collected throughout Japan by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama, and japanese horror TV show: 'Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro'. It compiled eight stories by seven directors.
- 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 ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa UeharaA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsKazushi AndôDaiki SawadaA young man receives a haunting phone call from a mysterious ghostly boy.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu KanaokaA businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
- DirectorKôta YoshidaStarsYuki TeradaRuito AoyagiNami OmuraToshiko, a high school student, receives a text message and picture from her brother, whom she has not seen in years. The image foretells the death of a woman a day later. This is only the first of many haunting images that appear throughout the film.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsNoriko NakagoshiArata FurutaEriko HatsuneA modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsYûko ÔshimaMami YamasakiMai NishidaA young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it .
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsSayuri IwataMiu NakamuraYôko ChôsokabeThe story of TekeTeke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and TekeTeke starts hunting them down one by one.
- DirectorKeita AmemiyaTakuji SuzukiKeisuke ToyoshimaStarsNoriko NakagoshiYûko KobayashiRiko SuzukiWhen Val is released from prison, she's determined to make a new life for herself. But the criminal underworld won't let her go that easily, and her former boss won't stop until she's paid her debt - with blood.
- DirectorYoshihiro HoshinoStarsKyôko AkibaYumeaki HirayamaTakaaki IwaoEmployees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsBilly DragoShihô HarumiMichiéIn 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.
- 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.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsMiki NakataniEtsushi ToyokawaHidetoshi NishijimaReiko, 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 an archaeologist researching an ancient mummy that was recently found.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsYûka UenoRyôma BabaAyame MisakiA teenage girl moves to the countryside from Tokyo to stay with her grandmother. She enrolls at the local high school and makes a friend on her first day. The friend has been bullied, but the girl cannot lend a helping hand out of fear. The friend is trapped in the restroom. Worried, she returns to school, but the friend is dead.
- DirectorIwao TakahashiStarsYû AbiruUrara AwataAkira KuboA detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsRyûhei MatsudaYûko ÔshimaSayaka AkimotoA thriller centered on an urban legend about a song that fatally affects its listeners.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono KugaA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsHiroshi MikamiNoriko SakaiMaki HorikitaA newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiShin'ichi TsutsumiKazue FukiishiPeople mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsKazunari NinomiyaKanata HongôKen'ichi MatsuyamaAfter trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHideaki ItôKôichi SatôQuentin TarantinoA nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
- DirectorSatoshi ToraoStarsNozomi AndôAsumi MiwaChiaki OhtaNozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true.
- DirectorOsamu FukutaniStarsChisato MorishitaKenji MizuhashiYûko NakamuraAfter a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
- StarsRina UchiyamaYôzaburô ItôSatomi IshiiAn 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).
- DirectorMari AsatoStarsKaori AsôToru BabaYasuyuki HiranoA series of murders occur where girls are killed but the criminals are also killed, making it difficult for the police. However, the only thing they know about them is that it has to do with a game about a virtual girlfriend named Erika.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsTina TamashiroTom FujitaManami HashimotoTormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKoji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiAs former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKyôko FukadaAnna TsuchiyaHiroyuki MiyasakoMomoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
- 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsManami AraiYumi EndôSeina FukadaThis second part shows things from Miho's point of view, and reflects back on the death of a close friend which triggered the later incidents.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsManami AraiYumi EndôSeina FukadaOne night at a strange cram school, a class and a small film crew shooting a commercial are attacked by two teenage girls.
- 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.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsChiaki KuriyamaMegumi SatôTsugumiAbout hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsShinichirô ArakawaNobuyoshi ArakiKazushi FuekiThis faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
- 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.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMiki MizunoMakoto TogashiMegumi KagurazakaA 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 investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsChinatsu WakatsukiMiku UenoEriko IchinoheJapanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsMizuki YamamotoTina TamashiroAimi SatsukawaThe vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.
- StarsRen ÔsugiNaoki HosakaTomoko NakajimaAfter 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.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsShô AoyagiYoshihiko HakamadaYasuhito HidaA school teacher visits the home of a boy who's been absent from school for a long period of time, unaware of the horrific tragedy which occurred in the boy's household many years ago.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsRie MiyazawaHana SugisakiAoi ItôA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsTsunenori AokiRinka IchishimaRyôsuke IkeokaThe Kisigari students return to Heavenly Host Elementary where if you die, the memory of you will forever be lost.
- 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.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- DirectorTakehiko ShinjôStarsMao InoueMasaki OkadaNatsuki HaradaTakuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsBeckyBengalMasayuki DeaiA young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKazuki KitamuraTomorô TaguchiDan LiA group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in life and eventually find trouble with the local crime syndicate.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsMinase YashiroAsamiNobuhiro NishiharaMaimed while seeking revenge, a girl becomes stronger than ever.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsArisa NakamuraMayu SuganoAsana MamoruA group of teenagers go camping in the woods where they find themselves in deep trouble, when poop covered zombies that are controlled by parasites come out to attack them.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsShiori AkitaHonoraMarie IitoyoA college student steals the panties of a girl he likes and gets caught, which sets off a chain of events that sends his life and the lives of others around him out of control.
- DirectorHideshi HinoStarsHiroshi TamuraKirara YûgaoAnja BlagojevicLate 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.
- DirectorSatoru OguraA duo of guys capture and brutally torture a young girl to the point of piercing her retina.
- DirectorHajime TabeStarsMitsuru FukikoshiKobuhei HayashiyaMasami HisamotoA drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!
- DirectorKazuyuki SakamotoStarsAjaKôki KaiNarumi KonnoAll set to enjoy their day off, three high school friends, Yukino, Asako, and Natsu, board a seemingly normal train... when suddenly, a deafening sound and a flash of light envelop them!....But the three arrive at school the next day as if nothing happened. And yet, something is not right....They see oddly familiar faces, their families are out of sync and they are chased by strange men in black. Plagued by these nightmarish sensations, Yukino flees, only to find herself in front of the amusement park they were heading to on that fateful train ride. Slumping to the ground, Yukino comes to a strange realization....They are stuck between nightmare and reality, between the walls of two worlds that are closing in on them. But which world is real...?!"
- DirectorHideshi HinoStarsIsamiAyaka Tomoda
- DirectorHideshi HinoStarsShigeru SaikiMari SomeiMasami HisamotoAn artist rescues a mermaid in a sewer who develops bleeding sores all over her body, paints a portrait with her oozes and eventually disjoints her.
- CreatorShinji WadaStarsYuki SaitôKôji NakaHiroyuki Nagato
- DirectorHideo TanakaStarsYui AsakaMasatô IbuKeizô KanieNeo-nazi takes over a school, turns it into training camp with attempt to coup d'etat. Sukeban Deka should stop him, but it seems to impossible if she's alone.
- DirectorHideo TanakaStarsYui AsakaYuka OhnishiYuma NakamuraBrash young politician Kuraudo Sekin has formed an elite security bureau to crack down on juvenile crime. But due to its extreme methods of justice, the bureau's most promising young member, Yui Kazama (Yui Asaka), refuses to aid them any further and resigns. Now it seems that the bureau may have a shadier purpose - to take over the Japanese government. So now Yui and her sisters must lead the resistance to oppose the evil bureau and save Japan from a coup d'état.
77. Sukeban Deka III: Shôjo ninpô-chô denki: san-shimai mottomo kiken na tabi: yattsu no shi no wana
19871h 12m6.5 (14)TV MovieDirectorHideo TanakaStarsYui AsakaSatomi FukunagaNagare Hagiwara- StarsSayuri IwataAya SugimotoKazuki KatôSomewhere in the vast realm of the Internet, there is a message board called "Jigoku Tsushin (Hell Message),"which could only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. When grudges are posted on the website, Hell Girl will appear and drag the nemesis into inferno. Such rumor seems to be an urban legend that is believed among children but it is not just a rumor. Her name is Ai Emma. Usually, she is a quiet girl, but when she sympathizes with the grudge, she turns into Hell Girl. Although not mentioned in the rumor, it is necessary to reach an agreement with her. In order to send the target to Hell, the client's soul will be destined to go to Hell after the his/her death. Clients who get their revenge with the help from Hell Girl will have to live the rest of their lives with an engraved cross mark on their chests.
- 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 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.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShô AikawaLi-Wei ChangShih ChangA Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.