Movies by Lists - Best Japanese Horror Movies (223 [250]) 
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| 2LDKTwo 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! | 2003 | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (3.8K votes) | 70 | 20230830 |
| Ab-normal Beauty [Sei mong se jun]Jiney is a talented student of Arts with a trauma in her childhood and lack of communication with her mother, and excellent photographer that is not satisfied with her awarded works. When she witnesses a car crash, she is driven by a | 2004 | Oxide Chun Pang | Drama, Horror | 6.0 (2.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Acacia [Akasia]After unsuccessfully trying to have a baby of their own, Dr. Kim Do-il and his father convince his wife Choi Mi-sook to adopt a child in an orphanage. Mi-sook is connected to arts and chooses the six years Kim Jin-sung that loves ... | 2003 | Ki-hyeong Park | Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (2K votes) | 103 | 20230806 |
| All Night Long [Ooru naito rongu]Three Japanese youths descend into the violent realm of the Tokyo night life after witnessing a brutal murder. | 1992 | Katsuya Matsumura | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (749 votes) | 90 | 20220423 |
| All Night Long 2 [Ooru naito rongu - Sanji]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. | 1995 | Katsuya Matsumura | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (534 votes) | 68 | 20220423 |
| All Night Long Anyone Would Have Done [Ôru naito rongu 6]A psychopath follows a young woman to her home - the title of the film goes Anyone Would Have Done, so she was probably randomly chosen off the street.Another woman soon joins them - maybe the first one's sister or just a friend.The | 2009 | Katsuya Matsumura | Horror, Thriller | 4.7 (71 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| AloneDeceased Siamese twin returns to haunt surviving sister | 2007 | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (5.7K votes) | 105 | 20231023 |
| Angel Dust [Enjeru dasuto]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 Setsuko used to date. As she get closer to the | 1994 | Gakuryû Ishii | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.7 (1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Angel's Egg [Tenshi no tamago]A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg. | 1985 | Mamoru Oshii | Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (8.6K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Another Heaven [Anaza hevun]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 killer, they discover that, quite literally | 2000 | Jôji Iida | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (802 votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Apartment 1303A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. | 2007 | Ataru Oikawa | Horror | 4.7 (1.9K votes) | 94 | 20231113 |
| Apt. [Apateu]Se-jin, a young woman who lives in an old apartment in a Seoul suburb, amuses herself by observing the windows of the apartments on the other side. One day, she notices that the lights of some of these apartments are turned off at th | 2006 | Byeong-ki Ahn | Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| AragamiA raging god of battle and a master samurai duke it out in a series of sword fights in a remote temple. | 2003 | Ryûhei Kitamura | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 6.7 (2.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| ArangA salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensic | 2006 | Sang-hoon Ahn | Horror, Thriller | 6.0 (1.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Art of the Devil 2 [Long khong]A group of high school friends reunite after two years when one of their fathers' committed suicide. They all spend the night at their friend's place. When darkness falls, strange things begin to happen to them one by one. It is as i | 2005 | Pasith Buranajan, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Isara Nadee, Seree Phongnithi, Yosapong Polsap | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 5.8 (1.5K votes) | 100 | 20220423 |
| AuditionA 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. | 1999 | Takashi Miike (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.2 (78.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Avatar [Abatâ]A student in high school obtains a rare avatar on a social networking site and the boundary between her real and online identities becomes blurred. | 2011 | Atsushi Wada | Horror | 5.2 (117 votes) | 93 | 20240427 |
| Battle Royale [Batoru rowaiaru]In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (178.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Battlefield Baseball [Jigoku Kôshien]Battlefield Baseball is a tough game--it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't h | 2003 | Yudai Yamaguchi | Action, Comedy, Horror, Sport | 5.8 (1.5K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| BedevilledA woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out. | 2010 | Cheol-soo Jang | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (14.5K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Big Tits Zombies [Kyonyû doragon - Onsen zonbi vs sutorippâ 5]Lena Jodo works at an unsuccessful strip club called Paradise Ikagawa along with his five female co-workers. But everything changes when they summon an army of zombies by accident. Now they are the only ones who can save the world. | 2010 | Takao Nakano | Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 4.3 (1.4K votes) | 73 | 20240427 |
| Black Cat [Yabu no naka no kuroneko]Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai. | 1968 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.7 (7.3K votes) | 99 | 20220531 |
| Black House, The [Kuroi ie]A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. | 1999 | Yoshimitsu Morita | Horror | 6.2 (443 votes) | 118 | 20221116 |
| Blind Beast [Moju]A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model. | 1969 | Yasuzô Masumura | Drama, Horror | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Blind Woman's Curse [Hîchirimen bâkuto - Nôbarydu takahadâ]The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman. | 1970 | Teruo Ishii | Action, Crime, Horror | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Blood [Buraddo]Where does love and lust lead you...if you never die? What destiny awaits an immortal? Is there a destination for immortal love and lust? Shigenori Takechi of IZO incorporated these philosophical questions into his screenplay. Ten... | 2009 | Ten Shimoyama | Action, Horror | 4.8 (327 votes) | 85 | 20240427 |
| Body [Body sob 19; Body #19]A boy has reoccurring nightmares about a beautiful girl being cruelly murdered, but everyone around him tries to convince him that the girl is only a figment of his imagination. | 2007 | Paween Purijitpanya | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Body Snatcher from HellThe survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires. | 1968 | Hajime Satô | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Carved - The Slit-Mouthed Woman [Kuchisake-onna]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. | 2007 | Kôji Shiraishi | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (3K votes) | 90 | 20231001 |
| Cat, The [Go-hyang-i - Jook-eum-eul bo-neun doo gae-eui noon]A young woman is murdered on an elevator and the only witness is her cat Bidan. Her friend So-yeon brings the cat home and wild and disturbing things begin to happen. | 2011 | Seung-wook Byeon | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 5.7 (1.3K votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| Cello [Chello hongmijoo ilga salinsagan]A cellist is haunted by strange events after a car wreck | 2005 | Woo-cheol Lee | Horror, Mystery | 6.0 (2.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Chanting, The [Kuntilanak]A young college student moves to a new boarding house in a very haunted area. | 2006 | Rizal Mantovani | Horror | 6.1 (445 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Chaser, The [Chugyeogja]A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing. | 2008 | Na Hong-jin | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Chasing World, The [Riaru onigokko]Teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government. | 2008 | Issei Shibata | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.2 (303 votes) | 98 | 20240427 |
| Cinderella [Sin-de-rel-la]The daughter of a plastic surgeon experiences strange events that seem to be connected her childhood. | 2006 | Man-dae Bong | Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (1.5K votes) | 94 | 20231001 |
| Cold Fish [Tsumetai nettaigyo]The 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. | 2010 | Sion Sono | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (12.6K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Coming Soon [Program na winyan akat]What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was | 2008 | Sophon Sakdaphisit | Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Complex, The [Kuroyuri danchi]Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her n... | 2013 | Hideo Nakata | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 5.1 (1.2K votes) | 106 | 20220822 |
| ConfessionsA 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. | 2010 | Tetsuya Nakashima | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (38.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Crossfire [Kurosufaia]A woman with the power to start fires with her mind searches for revenge for the murder of her friend by men above the law. | 2000 | Shûsuke Kaneko | Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (503 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| CureA frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done. | 1997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (14K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Cure, The [Cure]A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done. | 1997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (14K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Curse of Dog God [Inugami no tatari]A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him. | 1977 | Shun'ya Itô | Horror | 5.6 (120 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Curse of the Dog God [Inugami no tatari]A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him. | 1977 | Shun'ya Itô | Horror | 5.6 (119 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Dark Water [Honogurai mizu no soko kara]A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water. | 2002 | Hideo Nakata | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (31.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Deadball [Deddobôru]Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseba | 2011 | Yudai Yamaguchi | Comedy, Horror, Sport | 5.2 (572 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Demons [Shura]After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge. | 1971 | Toshio Matsumoto | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (2.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Depths, The [Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi]A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his w | 1957 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Horror | 6.6 (257 votes) | 66 | 20220414 |
| Diary [Mon seung]Winnie Leung is a lonely woman that likes to make puppets and write her diary, and she misses her boy-friend Seth Lau, who left her after breaking up their relationship. Winnie leaves messages in his mail box and unsuccessfully tries | 2006 | Oxide Chun Pang | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (785 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Doll Master, The [Inhyeongsa]5 young people, a quiet doll maker in a wheelchair and her dedicated helper, a chained old man in the basement and a mysterious young girl in red... all together in a lonely doll museum in the woods. What starts out as a fun trip ... | 2004 | Yong-ki Jeong | Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (2K votes) | 90 | 20220822 |
| Dumplings [Gau ji]Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is. | 2004 | Fruit Chan | Drama, Horror | 6.7 (9.5K votes) | 91 | 20220822 |
| Eko Eko Azarak - Awakening [Eko eko azaraku]nan | 2001 | Kôsuke Suzuki | Drama, Horror | 5.3 (91 votes) | 89 | 20220423 |
| Eko Eko Azarak - Misa the Dark Angel [Eko eko azaraku III]Misa Kuroi, a good witch has evil follow her wherever she goes. A dying girl shows up out of nowhere shouting her name and when Misa transfers to the Saint Salem School for Girls, all the girls from the Drama club disappear. | 1998 | Katsuhito Ueno | Horror | 5.1 (240 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Eko Eko Azarak - The First Episode of Misa Kuroi [Eko eko azaraku - Kuroi Misa - Fâsuto episôdo]This was an entry in the Kojuncha project, in which three of Japan's foremost horror manga creators were invited to write and direct films based on their own works. Shinichi Koga, known as a leading figure in supernatural manga, take | 2011 | Shinichi Koga | Horror | 5.4 (24 votes) | 61 | 20220414 |
| Eko Eko Azarak - Wizard of Darkness [Eko eko azaraku]Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fe | 1995 | Shimako Sato | Horror | 5.9 (773 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Eko Eko Azarak II - Birth of the Wizard [Eko eko azaraku II]Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to 'Wizard of Darkness' to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. 'Birth of the Wizard' begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches | 1996 | Shimako Sato | Horror | 5.7 (296 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Empire of PassionA 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. | 1978 | Nagisa Ôshima | Drama, Horror, Romance | 7.0 (4.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Entrails of a Beautiful Woman [Bijo no harawata]A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors. | 1986 | Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 5.1 (655 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Entrails of a Virgin [Shojo no harawata]Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse. | 1986 | Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.2 (1.1K votes) | 72 | 20221212 |
| Erotic Ghost - Siren [Shin yôjo densetsu - seirên]A crew of bank robbers whisk a young girl back to their hideout, where they develop plans to rape and kill her. But when one of the crooks turns up dead, they wonder if their intended victim may be a powerful supernatural force. | 2004 | Satoshi Torao | Horror | 4.2 (225 votes) | 76 | 20231109 |
| Evil Dead Trap [Shiryô no wana]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. | 1988 | Toshiharu Ikeda | Horror | 6.3 (2.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Exte - Hair Extensions [Ekusute]About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them. | 2007 | Sion Sono, Joe DiGiorgi, Tony Salerno | Comedy, Horror | 6.3 (3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Eye 2, The [Gin gwai 2]After a failed suicide attempt, a pregnant woman gains the ability to see ghosts. | 2004 | Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (4.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Eye, The [Gin gwai]A 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. | 2002 | Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (28.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Fear of the Ghost House - Bloodsucking Doll [Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu - Chi wo sû ningyô]Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko. | 1970 | Michio Yamamoto | Horror | 6.6 (940 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Feng ShuiAfter finding a Feng Shui amulet, Joy starts to see a string of fortunate events come her way. Soon, she realizes it is, in fact, a curse. Now she must break the cycle of good fortune and death in order to save her family. | 2004 | Chito S. Roño | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (537 votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Forbidden Door, The [Pintu terlarang]The life of a successful sculptor is turned upside down when he begins receiving mysterious messages from someone who asks for his help. | 2009 | Joko Anwar | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (2.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Gemini [Sôseiji]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. | 1999 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (2.5K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Ghost of Yotsuya [Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan]The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband. | 1959 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Horror | 7.0 (1.5K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Ghost Train [Otoshimono]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 spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. ... | 2006 | Takeshi Furusawa | Horror | 4.9 (920 votes) | 92 | 20240803 |
| God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand [Kami no hidarite akuma no migite}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. | 2006 | Shûsuke Kaneko | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 5.3 (145 votes) | 94 | 20231013 |
| Godzilla [Gojira]American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (32.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Godzilla ResurgenceJapan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster. | 2016 | Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi | Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (26.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Goke Body Snatcher From HellThe survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires. | 1968 | Hajime Satô | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Gozu [Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô - Gozu]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. | 2003 | Takashi Miike (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (11.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Greatful Dead [Gureitofuru deddo]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. | 2013 | Eiji Uchida | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 6.3 (720 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| GrotesqueA doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival. | 2009 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror, Thriller | 4.8 (6.4K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| GurozukaThe members of an all-female film club unleash a bloodthirsty evil when they uncover a rumor of a former club member disappearing. The group is determined to figure out what happened, and use it as inspiration for a school project. | 2005 | Yôichi Nishiyama | Horror | 4.7 (118 votes) | 85 | 20220912 |
| Happiness of The Katakuris, TheA family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates. | 2001 | Takashi Miike (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical | 7.0 (9.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| HazeA 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. | 2005 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Horror, Mystery | 6.5 (2.6K votes) | 49 | 20211228 |
| Healing, TheA group of people venture into a remote village to ask a mysterious faith healer to cure their ailing loved ones, unaware that through unforeseen consequences, every miraculous ""healing"" would soon be repaid in kind. | 2012 | Chito S. Roño | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (658 votes) | 107 | 20240427 |
| Heirloom, The [Zhai bian]A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house. When he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen. | 2005 | Leste Chen | Drama, Horror | 5.1 (824 votes) | 97 | 20231001 |
| Hell [Jigoku]A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. | 1960 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (4.2K votes) | 101 | 20221116 |
| Hellish Love [Seidan botan-dôrô]Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead. | 1972 | Chûsei Sone | Romance, Horror | 6.0 (133 votes) | 67 | 20220414 |
| Hide and Go Kill 2 [Hitori kakurenbo - Gekijô-ban]A deadly game of online hide and seek puts a young woman's life in danger. | 2009 | Masafumi Yamada | Horror | 5.2 (301 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Horrors of Malformed Men [Kyôfu kikei ningen; Edogawa RamAfter 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. | 1969 | Teruo Ishii | Horror | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| House [Hausu]A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted. | 1977 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Comedy, Horror | 7.4 (25.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Hypnosis [Saimin]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 birthday. A middle aged detective investig... | 1999 | Masayuki Ochiai | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (731 votes) | 110 | 20240214 |
| I Saw The DevilA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases. | 2010 | Jee-woon Kim (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.8 (123.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Ichi The KillerAs 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. | 2001 | Takashi Miike (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror | 7.0 (55K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Illusion of Blood [Yotsuya kaidan]A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife. | 1965 | Shirô Toyoda | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (267 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Incite Mill, The [Inshite miru - 7-kakan no desu gêmu]Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative ""job"" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days. | 2010 | Hideo Nakata | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (1.3K votes) | 107 | 20230328 |
| Infection [Kansen]INFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. | 2004 | Masayuki Ochiai | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.0 (5.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Inferno of Torture [Tokugawa irezumi-shi - Seme jigoku]High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation | 1969 | Teruo Ishii | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (487 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Into the Mirror [Geoul sokeuro]An ex-cop, now working as a security guard in a shopping mall, tries to uncover the secret behind a series of mysterious deaths linked to mirrors. | 2003 | Sung-ho Kim, Kim Sung-ho | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (3.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Inugami Family, The [Inugami-ke no ichizoku]When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood. | 1976 | Kon Ichikawa (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.1 (821 votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| IzoAn executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance. | 2004 | Takashi Miike (*) | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War | 6.1 (4.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Joy Of Torture 2 - Oxen Split Torturing, The [Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki - Ushi-zaki no kei ]Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master tak | 1976 | Yûji Makiguchi | Drama, Horror | 5.7 (673 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Ju-On Black GhostAfter losing her child at birth, the dark horror of the grudge begins growing within her. | 2009 | Mari Asato | Fantasy, Horror | 5.3 (1.7K votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Ju-on The CurseA 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. | 2000 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror, Mystery | 6.9 (7.8K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Ju-on The GrudgeA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides. | 2002 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror | 6.7 (43.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ju-on The Grudge 2As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman. | 2003 | Takashi Shimizu | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (9.7K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ju-On White GhostAkane begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing the same yellow hat and red satchel she wore as a school child. | 2009 | Ryûta Miyake | Fantasy, Horror | 5.9 (2.2K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Ju-Rei - The Uncanny [Ju-rei_ Gekijô-ban - Kuro-ju-rei]Japanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood. | 2004 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror | 5.0 (506 votes) | 76 | 20240105 |
| KaidanJapan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Sh | 2007 | Hideo Nakata | Drama, Horror, Romance | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Killer Motel [Kirâ môteru]nan | 2012 | Kazuya Ogawa | Horror | 4.9 (25 votes) | 70 | 20240427 |
| King's Game [Ôsama gêmu]The students think of it as a silly joke when the mobile telephones ring with instructions for the classmates. The texts keep coming and the demands escalate under punishment of erasure however. The class is alone in having to obe... | 2011 | Norio Tsuruta | Horror | 5.5 (320 votes) | 82 | 20240427 |
| KotokoWhen 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. | 2011 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Drama, Horror | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Kuroneko [Yabu no naka no kuroneko]Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai. | 1968 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.7 (7.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Kwaidan [Kaidan]A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 8.0 (17K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| Laddaland [Soi-lát-daa-laen]When a family moves to Laddaland, an upscale housing development with large, beautiful homes, they discover life in their new neighborhood isn't so perfect when they encounter a series of terrifying, paranormal events that drives ... | 2011 | Sophon Sakdaphisit | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.2 (2.6K votes) | 125 | 20240427 |
| Last Supper, The [Saigo no bansan]Yuji Kotorida has become plastic surgeon to the rich and famous - almost over night transforming himself from nebbish to charismatic icon. His secret? He eats women. In a flashback, we watch the flowering of his proclivity - from ... | 2005 | Osamu Fukutani | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.9 (343 votes) | 92 | 20240427 |
| Lesson of the Evil [Aku no kyôten]A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. | 2012 | Takashi Miike (*) | Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (6K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Locker, The [Shibuya kaidan]On a whim, group of college friends decide to test the validity of a local legend involving a small locker near Shibuya station. | 2004 | Kei Horie | Horror, Thriller | 5.0 (586 votes) | 71 | 20231001 |
| Loft [Rofuto]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 an archaeologist researching an ancient mumm | 2005 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Horror | 5.5 (1.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Love Ghost [Shibito no koiwazurai]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 intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly | 2001 | Kazuyuki Shibuya | Horror | 6.4 (330 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Maid, TheEvery year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking revenge and justice before the gates of he... | 2005 | Kelvin Tong | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (1.3K votes) | 93 | 20240427 |
| MarebitoA fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo. | 2004 | Takashi Shimizu | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 6.1 (5.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MatangoShipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms. | 1963 | Ishirô Honda | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (3K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Meatball MachineFull-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 | 2005 | Yudai Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Yamamoto | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.7 (2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Meatball MachineGrease monkey Yoji works in a small shop. The best part of his day is watching the cute Sachiko walk by during his breaks. He never feels he is good enough to chat her up however. He comes across an alien parasite and, not knowing be | 1999 | Jun'ichi Yamamoto | Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (123 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Memento Mori [Yeogo goedam II] In 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. | 1999 | Tae-yong Kim, Kyu-dong Min | Horror, Romance, Drama | 6.4 (3.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Metamorphosis [Henge]A young couple are living a quiet and happy life, until the husband suddenly begins howling uncontrollably. | 2011 | Hajime Ohata | Horror | 5.3 (237 votes) | 54 | 20240319 |
| Monster Killer [Red tears - kôrui]Copious amounts of blood characterize two Tokyo detectives' hunt for a serial killer. | 2011 | Takanori Tsujimoto | Action, Horror | 4.7 (151 votes) | 87 | 20240427 |
| Muoi - The Legend of a Portrait [Muoi]Muoi"" charts the path of a Korean writer who travels to Vietnam in search of stories for her second novel. There she learns about a mystery centered around a century-old vengeful spirit. | 2007 | Tae-kyeong Kim | Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (1.1K votes) | 93 | 20231001 |
| Naked Blood [Nekeddo burâddo_ Megyaku]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. | 1996 | Hisayasu Satô | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (2.3K votes) | 76 | 20240427 |
| Nightmare DetectiveThree 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 simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifyin | 2006 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (2.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare Detective 2 [Akumu tantei 2]Still haunted by his unwanted abilities, which allow him to enter other people's dreams, and memories of his mother dying when he was a child, Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda) contemplates suicide while slowly drowning in his world | 2008 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Drama, Horror | 6.1 (691 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Noriko's Dinner Table [Noriko no shokutaku]A 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 | 2005 | Sion Sono | Drama, Horror | 7.1 (4.5K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| Noroi - The CurseA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba." | 2005 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (11.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Occult [Okaruto]Koji 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. | 2009 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 110 | 20220822 |
| OldboyAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. | 2003 | Park Chan-wook (*) | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (553.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| One Missed Call [Chakushin ari]People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths. | 2003 | Takashi Miike (*) | Horror, Mystery | 6.2 (17.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| One Missed Call 2 [Chakushin ari 2]A 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? | 2005 | Renpei Tsukamoto | Horror, Mystery | 5.4 (3.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| One Missed Call Final [Chakushin ari final]The 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. | 2006 | Manabu Asô | Horror | 5.0 (1.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Oneechanbara - The MovieIn the year 20XX a mysterious scientist discovers a way to bring back the dead . . . only it turns one town into a zombie-infested hellhole. But when the world falls into ruin, only one woman, her trusty katana and sexy bikini can sa | 2008 | Yôhei Fukuda | Action, Horror | 4.7 (1.3K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| OnibabaTwo 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. | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (18.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Onmyoji - The Yin Yang Master [Onmyoji]When samurai Hiromasa comes to Seimei, Kyoto's court Onmyoji (a fortune teller in commune with the spirits), to warn of a plot against the government, the two discover that the court's formidable magician, Doson, is indeed planning a | 2001 | Yôjirô Takita | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.3 (1.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Ouija Board [Bunshinsaba]A 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 | 2004 | Byeong-ki Ahn | Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (1.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Over Your Dead Body [Kuime]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. | 2014 | Takashi Miike (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| P.O.V. - A Cursed Film [POV_ Norowareta firumu]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. | 2012 | Norio Tsuruta | Horror | 5.8 (471 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Page of Madness, A [Kurutta ippêji]A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife. | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.5 (3.4K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Paranormal Activity 2 - Tokyo Night [Paranômaru akutibiti - Dai-2-shô - Tokyo Night]A young woman returns to Tokyo, following a car accident that fractured both of her legs. While her brother Koichi provides hospitality for Haruka, weird noises and events transpire in the house - leading to a more horrifying truth. | 2010 | Toshikazu Nagae | Horror, Mystery | 5.1 (5.2K votes) | 90 | 20231001 |
| Perfect Blue [Pafekuto buru]A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (69K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Phantom of the ToiletThere are two versions of "Toire No Hanako-san." The first version, released in 1995, was set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko (Maeda Ai plays Takuya's younger brother) | 1995 | Joji Matsuoka | Horror | 5.7 (119 votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Phobia [See prang; 4BIA]4BIA is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange about this new stranger that she is attracted to. | 2008 | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Paween Purijitpanya, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Parkpoom Wongpoom | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (3.3K votes) | 240 | 20211228 |
| Possessed [Bulshinjiok]After Hee-jin's younger sister So-jin, who is possessed by a spirit,disappears,the neighbors die one by one and a secret underlying their deaths is revealed. | 2009 | Lee Yong-ju | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (948 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| PremonitionWhile stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section. | 2004 | Norio Tsuruta | Horror | 6.2 (4.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Pulse [Kairo]Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet. | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (19.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Rampo Noir [Ranpo jigoku]This four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo. | 2005 | Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Suguru Takeuchi | Fantasy, Horror | 6.2 (1.1K votes) | 134 | 20220822 |
| Rape Zombie - Lust of the Dead [Reipu zonbi - Lust of the dead]After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet ho | 2012 | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Horror | 3.8 (912 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Rape Zombie - Lust of the Dead 2 [Reipu zonbi - Lust of the dead 2]After a nuclear attack, a strange virus has turned 90% of the male population of the world into lust-filled zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males have been found who are uninfected. This small group of healthy men decides | 2013 | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Horror | 3.6 (393 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Rape Zombie - Lust of the Dead 3 [Reipu zonbi - Lust of the dead 3]Japan's war against the zombie hordes continues, and the army of Ghoul-fighting girls struggles to survive when their leader is lost to insanity. | 2013 | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Horror | 3.7 (360 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| RasenA 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 relentles | 1998 | Jôji Iida | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.2 (3.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Re-cycle [Gwai wik]A writer wants to get a glimpse of some genuine supernatural occurrences while doing research for a novel, but her experiences lead her down a dark path as she witnesses vivid hallucinations and begins to lose her grip on reality. | 2006 | Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (5.1K votes) | 108 | 20220822 |
| Reincarnation [Rinne]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. | 2005 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror, Mystery | 6.2 (6.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Retribution [Sakebi]An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress. | 2006 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (2.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Rika - The Zombie Killer [Saikyô heiki joshikôsei_ Rika - zonbi hantâ vs saikyô zonbi Gurorian]Rika never expected to encounter the living dead as she skipped school to visit her grandfather. She is forced to survive and discovers incredible zombie fighting skills. | 2008 | Ken'ichi Fujiwara | Action, Horror | 5.2 (447 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| RinguA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | Horror, Mystery | 7.2 (68K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ringu 0 BasudenIn 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... | 2000 | Norio Tsuruta | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Ringu 2Reiko 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. | 1999 | Hideo Nakata | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (13.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| RodanA mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow coworkers and discovers prehistoric nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creat | 1956 | Ishirô Honda | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (5.1K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Sadako 3DThe spiteful ghost of Sadako, a murdered woman whose body was thrown down a well, reaches the Internet searching for a host in order to live once again. | 2012 | Tsutomu Hanabusa | Horror | 3.7 (1.8K votes) | 96 | 20240501 |
| Samurai Princess [Samurai purinsesu - Gedô-hime]AS group of young schoolgirls walking through the woods is attacked and raped by a gang of thugs. Only one of the girls survives, but is badly injured. She is found by a scientist who takes her back to his lab, gives her a new roboti | 2009 | Kengo Kaji | Action, Horror | 4.4 (913 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Samurai Reincarnation [Makai tenshô]The villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling) | 1981 | Kinji Fukasaku | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (892 votes) | 122 | 20220315 |
| Schoolgirl ApocalypseSakura is your typical Japanese school girl that lives in a small town in the mountains. One day at school, during archery practice, her teacher and classmate start acting strange. Soon, all the men in the town turn aggressive and st | 2011 | John Cairns | Horror | 5.4 (116 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Screams of Blasphemy [964 Pinocchio]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, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate | 1991 | Shozin Fukui | Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (1.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Seven Days [Sebeun deijeu]A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty. | 2007 | Shin-yeon Won | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.7 (1.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Sexual Parasite - Killer Pussy [Kiseichuu - kiraa pusshii]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. | 2004 | Takao Nakano | Comedy, Horror | 4.2 (687 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| ShikokuWhen Hinako was a child she was separated from Fumiya and Sayori as she moved to Tokyo. Now she has returned to Shikoku, but it turns out that Sayori drowned. When Hinako starts seeing Sayori in her dreams, she seeks help from Fum... | 1999 | Shunichi Nagasaki | Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (747 votes) | 100 | 20240427 |
| Shogun's Sadism [Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki - Ushi-zaki no kei]Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master tak | 1976 | Yûji Makiguchi | Drama, Horror | 5.7 (676 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| ShutterA young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past. | 2004 | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (43.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Silk [Gui Si]In Taipei, the crippled scientist Hashimoto uses his invention of "Menger Sponge" to capture the energy of the spirit of a child in an old building. He invites the specialist in reading lips, Detective Tung, to join his research team | 2006 | Chao-Bin Su | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.4 (3.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Sinners of Hell, The [Jigoku]A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. | 1960 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Drama, Horror | 6.8 (3.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Siren [Sairen]A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the isl... | 2006 | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (962 votes) | 87 | 20240427 |
| Sky HighA detective hunts a killer who is removing girls hearts. When his own fiancée falls victim to the killer, the detective discovers the otherworldly intentions of the killer and is helped from beyond the grave by his fiancée. | 2002 | Ryûhei Kitamura | Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (1.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Slit-Mouthed Woman 2, A [Kuchisake-onna 2]Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town of Gifu. The oldest sister, Sachiko Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Yukie works at a beauty salon and the youngest, Mayumi is on the track team in high s... | 2008 | Kôtarô Terauchi | Drama, Horror | 5.8 (425 votes) | 98 | 20231001 |
| Slit-Mouthed Woman, The [Kannô byôtô - nureta akai kuchibiru]A murderous ghost returns to a small Japanese town after a twenty seven-year respite in director Koji Shiraishi's low-budget tale of supernatural terror. It was nearly three decades ago that the town of Midoriyama fell prey to a d... | 2005 | Takaaki Hashiguchi | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.9 (147 votes) | 63 | 20240427 |
| Snake Woman's Curse [Kaidan hebi-onna]An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory. | 1968 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Horror | 6.3 (307 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| Snow Woman, The [Kaidan yukijorô]The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm. | 1968 | Tokuzô Tanaka | Horror, Romance | 7.1 (437 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Spider Forest [Geomi sup]A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. | 2004 | Il-gon Song | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (2.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Spiral [Uzumaki]The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals. | 2000 | Higuchinsky | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.2 (8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| St. John's Wort [Otogiriso]A game designer, and his girlfriend Nami, drive out to a decrepit mansion she just inherited, to film backgrounds for a new video game called St. John's Wort. | 2001 | Ten Shimoyama | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.6 (1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Stacy - Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies [Stacy]Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies. | 2001 | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Comedy, Horror | 5.0 (1.6K votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
| Strange CircusThe 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. | 2005 | Sion Sono | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (5.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Suicide Club [Jisatsu sâkuru]A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides. | 2001 | Sion Sono | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (20.2K votes) | 99 | 20220315 |
| Suicide Manual, The [Jisatsu manyuaru]After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual. | 2003 | Osamu Fukutani | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.6 (244 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Sylvian Experiments, The [Kyôfu]Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they | 2010 | Hiroshi Takahashi | Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.8 (490 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Tale of Two Sisters, A [Janghwa, Hongryeon]A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family. | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (61.1K votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
| Tales of Terror - Haunted Apartment [Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro - Yûrei manshon]Aimi 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... | 2005 | Akio Yoshida | Horror | 6.2 (490 votes) | 93 | 20240427 |
| Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan - The MovieBased 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. | 2004 | Keita Amemiya, Shun'ichi Hirano, Ryûta Miyake, Hirohisa Sasaki, Kôsuke Suzuki | Horror | 5.7 (427 votes) | 92 | 20240427 |
| TeketekeA 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 . | 2009 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror | 5.3 (657 votes) | 70 | 20240427 |
| Teketeke 2The 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. | 2009 | Kôji Shiraishi | Horror | 5.2 (277 votes) | 73 | 20240427 |
| Tetsuo - The IronmanA businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. | 1989 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (21.8K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Tetsuo II - Body HammerWhen metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a grisly symbiosis of metal and tissue. Who dares to defy the ultimate body-ham | 1992 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.4 (4.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Thirst [Bakjwi]Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. | 2009 | Park Chan-wook (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 7.1 (46.8K votes) | 134 | 20220822 |
| Three... ExtremesAn Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. | 2004 | Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Horror | 7.0 (19.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| To Sir with Love [Seuseung-ui eunhye]Buried grudges have disasterous consequences for a class reunion in this unapologetically bloody film from Korean director Dae-wung Lim. | 2006 | Dae-wung Lim | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (2.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo Gore Police [Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu]In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers. | 2008 | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.9 (11.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| TomieA 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. | 1998 | Ataru Oikawa | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | 5.2 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20221006 |
| Tomie - Forbidden Fruit [Tomie - Saishuu-shô - kindan no kajitsu]Tomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family. | 2002 | Shun Nakahara | Horror | 5.6 (582 votes) | 91 | 20240427 |
| Tomie - Re-birthAn art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie. | 2001 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror | 5.4 (623 votes) | 101 | 20220423 |
| Tomie - Unlimited [Tomie - Anrimiteddo]A photography student's life takes a turn for the worse when her dead sister is welcomed back into the family home. | 2011 | Noboru Iguchi | Horror | 4.7 (819 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Tomie vs TomieA young, depressed man is trying to move on with his life after his girlfriend's bizarre death. One day, a mysterious woman notices him at work and convinces his coworkers to introduce him to her. | 2007 | Tomohiro Kubo | Horror | 4.8 (220 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Tormented [Rabitto horâ]Daigo doesn't go to school anymore. His sister, Kiriko, is worried and their father is no help. Now Daigo is missing. He's in danger, and Kiriko will have to follow him into a world of nightmares to discover the truth. | 2011 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror | 5.2 (589 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| TsigoineruwaizenA surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways. | 1980 | Seijun Suzuki (*) | Horror, Mystery | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Twilight Dinner [Chô-inran - Shimai donburi]A pale-looking man, Kazuhiko, is being questioned by the police following the extremely bloody murder of a young woman. He begins his story with the day that two sisters, Akiko and Mayuko, moved into the house across from his. Aft... | 1998 | Yutaka Ikejima | Drama, Horror | 6.3 (123 votes) | 64 | 20240427 |
| Under the Blossoming Cherry TreesA mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim. | 1975 | Masahiro Shinoda | Fantasy, History, Horror | 7.4 (877 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Unholy Women [Kowai onna]When 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. | 2006 | Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, Keisuke Toyoshima | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (720 votes) | 107 | 20240427 |
| Vampire Doll, The [Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu - Chi wo sû ninKeiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko. | 1970 | Michio Yamamoto | Horror | 6.6 (937 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl [Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken]A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy. | 2009 | Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Action, Comedy, Horror | 5.7 (3.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Vanished [Oyayubi sagashi]Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell. | 2006 | Naoto Kumazawa | Horror, Mystery | 4.9 (140 votes) | 96 | 20221212 |
| Visitor Q [Bijitâ Q]A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures. | 2001 | Takashi Miike (*) | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 (15.9K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Voice [Yeogo goedam 4_ Moksori]While training after hours in her high-school, the aspiring singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcasts at lun | 2005 | Equan Choi | Horror | 6.3 (1.6K votes) | 104 | 20220423 |
| Whispering Corridors [Yeogo goedam]While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher Mrs. Park startles and calls the young teacher Eun-young Hur, telling her that the deceased Jin-ju Jang is back. The line dies and Mrs. Park is attacked and killed by a gho | 1998 | Ki-hyeong Park | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (3.3K votes) | 105 | 20220423 |
| Wild ZeroOnly legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies. | 1999 | Tetsuro Takeuchi | Comedy, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (3.7K votes) | 98 | 20231017 |
| Wishing Stairs [Yeogo goedam 3 - Yeowoo gyedan]A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins. | 2003 | Jae-yeon Yun | Horror, Drama | 5.8 (3.3K votes) | 100 | 20231116 |
| Wolf Guy [Urufu gai - Moero ôkami-otoko]A man with a special power attempts to help a cursed woman. | 1975 | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Action, Horror | 6.3 (952 votes) | 86 | 20220723 |
| Yoga Class [Yoga hakwon]After the co-host of a shopping channel TV show loses her job to a younger rival, she enrolls in an intensive yoga course. The very strict trainer informs her students that there will be serious consequences if they do not follow ... | 2009 | Jae-yeon Yun | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.7 (609 votes) | 97 | 20231001 |
| Zigeunerweisen [Tsigoineruwaizen]A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways. | 1980 | Seijun Suzuki (*) | Horror, Mystery | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Zombie Hunter Rika [Saikyô heiki joshikôsei_ Rika - zonbi hantâ vs saikyô zonbi Gurorian] Rika never expected to encounter the living dead as she skipped school to visit her grandfather. She is forced to survive and discovers incredible zombie fighting skills. | 2008 | Ken'ichi Fujiwara | Action, Horror | 5.2 (474 votes) | 86 | 20240820 |
| Zombie Self-Defense Force [Zonbi jieitai]Training mission turns to terror. A blood soaked battle against the living dead begins. | 2006 | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 4.6 (456 votes) | 75 | 20231013 |
| ZooHiroshi Ando aka "Zoo"\n\nSynopsis.....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 featur | 2005 | Ryu Kaneda, Masaki Adachi, Hiroshi Ando, Komiya Masatetsu, Junpei Mizusaki | Horror | 6.7 (547 votes) | 120 | 20220414 |
| Hitori kakurenbo shin gekijouban | 2010 | Masafumi Yamada | Horror | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tales from the Dead | 2008 | Jason Cuadrado | Horror | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Shinsei toire no Hanako-san | 1998 | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Horror | 5.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Densen uta | 2007 | Masato Harada | Horror, Mystery | 5.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Shiryôha | 2005 | Yôichirô Hayama | Horror | 4.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Eko eko azaraku: B-page | 2006 | Taichi Itô | Horror | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Eko eko azaraku: R-page | 2006 | Taichi Itô | Horror | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Senritsu meikyû 3D | 2009 | Takashi Shimizu | Horror, Thriller | 3.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| X gêmu | 2010 | Yôhei Fukuda | Horror | 5.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Raifu izu deddo | 2012 | Kôsuke Hishinuma | Horror | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro - Igyô | 2012 | Noboru Iguchi | Horror | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kannô no yakata: hitozuma shôten | 2004 | Takaaki Hashiguchi | Horror | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| X gêmu 2 | 2012 | Masafumi Yamada | Horror, Thriller | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Nekome kozô | 2006 | Noboru Iguchi | Horror | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sôginin - andâteikâ | 2012 | Naoyoshi Kawamatsu | Horror | 3.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Harami: Shiroi kyôfu | 2005 | Yûji Tajiri | Horror | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Merî-san no denwa | 2011 | Mitsuhiro Mihara | Horror | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Keitai kanojo + | 2012 | Shô Tsukikawa | Horror | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kokkuri-san: Gekijô-ban | 2011 | Jirô Nagae | Horror | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Lost Harmony | 2011 | Yoshimasa Toki | Horror | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ai no ejiki: Onna kyôshi Haruka no kokuhaku | 2010 | Katsuhiko Tsutsui | Horror | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Keitai kareshi + | 2012 | Shô Tsukikawa | Horror | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kyôfu shinbun | 2011 | Ken'ichi Ohmori | Horror | 5.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Reibaku: Shôjo no shibari | 2006 | Kôshû Kaizan | Horror | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Baan phii sing | 2007 | Monthon Arayangkoon | Horror | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Yee dou hung gaan | 2002 | Chi-Leung Law | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ragini MMS | 2011 | Pavan Kirpalani | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Unborn | 2003 | Bhandit Thongdee | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |