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Movies by Lists - Extreme Japanese Films (87 [87])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
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!2003Yukihiko TsutsumiComedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller6.8 (3.8K votes)7020230830
4444444444A young man receives a haunting phone call from a mysterious ghostly boy.1998Takashi ShimizuShort, Horror5.6 (580 votes)320231109
Ada - Part 1 [Ada - Senritsu-hen]One night at a strange cram school, a class and a small film crew shooting a commercial are attacked by two teenage girls.2013Kôji ShiraishiHorror6.4 (41 votes)020240501
Ada 2 - Zetsubô henThis 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.2013Kôji ShiraishiHorror6.4 (28 votes)020240501
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.1999Takashi Miike (*)Drama, Horror, Mystery7.2 (78.6K votes)11520211228
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.2000Kinji FukasakuAction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller7.6 (178.9K votes)11420211228
Battle Royale 2 [Batoru rowaiaru II - Chinkonka]Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.2003Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji FukasakuAction, Adventure, Drama, Thriller4.7 (20.2K votes)15520211228
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.2007Kôji ShiraishiDrama, Horror, Thriller5.4 (3K votes)9020231001
Chô Akunin [Super Villain]In an editorial office the staff write about murders and other crimes. A video tape arrives one day. It features a man who calls himself 'a bad person' who claims he has raped 107 women over ten years. The video also depicts a rape. 2011Kôji ShiraishiCrime, Drama6.4 (32 votes)9020220414
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.2010Sion SonoCrime, Drama, Horror, Thriller7.1 (12.6K votes)14620211228
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...2013Hideo NakataDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery5.1 (1.2K votes)10620220822
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.2010Tetsuya NakashimaDrama, Thriller7.7 (38.1K votes)10620211228
CureA frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.1997Kiyoshi KurosawaCrime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.5 (14K votes)11120211228
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.1997Kiyoshi KurosawaCrime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.5 (14K votes)11120211228
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.2002Hideo NakataDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.7 (31.8K votes)10120211228
Exte - Hair Extensions [Ekusute]About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.2007Sion Sono, Joe DiGiorgi, Tony SalernoComedy, Horror6.3 (3K votes)10820211228
Ghost of Yotsuya [Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan]The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.1959Nobuo NakagawaHorror7.0 (1.5K votes)7620211228
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.2003Takashi Miike (*)Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (11.8K votes)12920211228
GrotesqueA doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.2009Kôji ShiraishiHorror, Thriller4.8 (6.4K votes)7320211228
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and BloodLate 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.1985Hideshi HinoShort, Horror4.9 (4K votes)4220211228
Guinea Pig 3: He Never DiesAfter being dumped by his girlfriend for a friend, he attempts suicide - which turns up pain-free - and decides to scare the guy by literally throwing his own guts at him.1986Masayuki KusumiShort, Comedy, Horror4.7 (1.6K votes)3920211228
Guinea Pig 4: Devil Woman DoctorA drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!1986Hajime TabeComedy, Horror4.0 (927 votes)5220211228
Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the ManholeAn 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.1988Hideshi HinoHorror5.4 (2.2K votes)6320211228
Guinea Pig 6: Android of Notre DameA dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experim1989Kazuhito KuramotoHorror3.9 (1.2K votes)5120211228
Guinea Pig: Devil's ExperimentA duo of guys capture and brutally torture a young girl to the point of piercing her retina.1985Satoru OguraShort, Horror3.9 (3.7K votes)4320211228
Gyo - Tokyo Fish Attack [Gyo]The friends Kaori, Erika and Aki are on a vacation to celebrate their upcoming graduation, when suddenly an infestation of mysterious walking fish forces them to reevaluate everything they care about in order to stay alive.2012Takayuki HiraoAnimation, Horror5.5 (1.8K votes)7020231001
Hanging Garden [Kûchû teien]A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.2005Toshiaki ToyodaDrama7.0 (823 votes)11420211228
Hell [Jigoku]A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.1960Nobuo NakagawaCrime, Drama, Horror, Thriller6.8 (4.2K votes)10120221116
House [Hausu]A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.1977Nobuhiko ÔbayashiComedy, Horror7.4 (25.4K votes)8820211228
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.2001Takashi Miike (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Horror7.0 (55K votes)12920211228
In a Corner [Katasumi]Two schoolgirls are gruesomely victimized by a horrifying ghost.1998Takashi ShimizuShort, Horror5.8 (597 votes)420240501
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 tak1976Yûji MakiguchiDrama, Horror5.7 (673 votes)8020211228
Ju On The Final CurseFollowing the events of Ju-on: The Beginning of the End, Mai, the older sister of elementary schoolteacher Yui Shono, goes to look for her sister, who disappeared after a year while working in an elementary school. Mai soon discovers2015Masayuki OchiaiHorror4.5 (859 votes)9020211228
Ju-On Black GhostAfter losing her child at birth, the dark horror of the grudge begins growing within her.2009Mari AsatoFantasy, Horror5.3 (1.7K votes)6020211228
Ju-on The Beginning of the EndA 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.2014Masayuki OchiaiHorror5.2 (1.5K votes)9120211228
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.2000Takashi ShimizuHorror, Mystery6.9 (7.8K votes)7020211228
Ju-on The Curse 2On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.2000Takashi ShimizuHorror, Mystery6.1 (3.4K votes)7620211228
Ju-on The GrudgeA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.2002Takashi ShimizuHorror6.7 (43.6K votes)9220211228
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.2003Takashi ShimizuDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.4 (9.7K votes)9220211228
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.2009Ryûta MiyakeFantasy, Horror5.9 (2.2K votes)6120211228
Kichiku - Banquet of the Beasts [Kichiku dai enkai]While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and viol1997Kazuyoshi KumakiriDrama, Horror5.3 (653 votes)10020220414
Kwaidan [Kaidan]A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.1964Masaki KobayashiDrama, Fantasy, Horror8.0 (17K votes)18320211228
MarebitoA fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.2004Takashi ShimizuDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery6.1 (5.2K votes)9220211228
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.1996Hisayasu SatôDrama, Horror, Sci-Fi6.1 (2.3K votes)7620240427
Noroi - The CurseA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."2005Kôji ShiraishiHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (11.8K votes)11520211228
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.2009Kôji ShiraishiHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (1.5K votes)11020220822
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.1964Kaneto Shindô (*)Drama, Horror8.0 (18.3K votes)10320211228
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.2014Takashi Miike (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller6.1 (1.4K votes)9320211228
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.2004Norio TsurutaHorror6.2 (4.3K votes)9520211228
Pulse [Kairo]Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.2001Kiyoshi KurosawaHorror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.6 (19.3K votes)11920211228
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 relentles1998Jôji IidaDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.2 (3.3K votes)9720211228
Record of Sweet Murder, A [Aru yasashiki satsujinsha no kiroku]A South Korean journalist and a Japanese cameraman in South Korea are invited to an abandoned apartment one day. They are invited by a murderer and they know it. While there they stumble upon a video featuring the murderer. The polic2014Kôji ShiraishiHorror6.3 (287 votes)8620211228
Red Room [Akai misshitsu heya Kindan no ôsama geemu]Four random people (two sisters and a married couple) volunteer to participate in a mysterious game for a chance to win 10 million yen. They have to take turns torturing their fellow players until only one is left.1999Daisuke YamanouchiHorror4.7 (1.1K votes)6820211228
Red Room 2 [Shin akai misshitsu heya - Kowareta ningyô-tachi]Another four average citizens play the 'King Game', for a chance to win big money. They torture each other in increasingly horrific ways as per the games rules.2000Daisuke YamanouchiCrime, Horror, Thriller5.0 (483 votes)8120240501
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.2005Takashi ShimizuHorror, Mystery6.2 (6.4K votes)9620211228
Ring [Ringu]In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at ...1995Chisui TakigawaHorror, Mystery6.3 (596 votes)9520240501
RinguA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.1998Hideo NakataHorror, Mystery7.2 (68K votes)9620211228
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...2000Norio TsurutaHorror, Mystery, Thriller6.0 (9K votes)9920211228
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.1999Hideo NakataHorror, Mystery, Sci-Fi5.9 (13.3K votes)9520211228
Sadako 2 3DFuko Ando (Miori Takimoto) is a 24-years-old graduate student in psychology. She is tasked to take care of her 4-year-old niece. Soon, mysterious events occur around her niece. She then learns of an incident involving a cursed vid...2013Tsutomu HanabusaHorror4.1 (891 votes)9620240501
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.2012Tsutomu HanabusaHorror3.7 (1.8K votes)9620240501
Sadako vs. KayakoThe vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.2016Kôji ShiraishiHorror5.1 (4K votes)9820240501
Serpent's Path [Hebi no michi]A man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.1998Kiyoshi KurosawaCrime6.9 (651 votes)8520211228
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 tak1976Yûji MakiguchiDrama, Horror5.7 (676 votes)8020211228
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.1960Nobuo NakagawaDrama, Horror6.8 (3.9K votes)10120211228
Spiral [Uzumaki]The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.2000HiguchinskyDrama, Fantasy, Horror6.2 (8K votes)9020211228
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.2005Sion SonoDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (5.6K votes)10820211228
Suicide Club [Jisatsu sâkuru]A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.2001Sion SonoCrime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (20.2K votes)9920220315
Suicide Manual, The [Jisatsu manyuaru]After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.2003Osamu FukutaniDrama, Horror, Thriller4.6 (244 votes)8620211228
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.2004Keita Amemiya, Shun'ichi Hirano, Ryûta Miyake, Hirohisa Sasaki, Kôsuke SuzukiHorror5.7 (427 votes)9220240427
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 .2009Kôji ShiraishiHorror5.3 (657 votes)7020240427
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.2009Kôji ShiraishiHorror5.2 (277 votes)7320240427
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.1989Shin'ya TsukamotoHorror, Sci-Fi7.0 (21.8K votes)6720211228
Tetsuo 3 The Bullet ManLosing his son Tom in a hit and run triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. When the driver who killed Tom reappears, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal - a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollable ra2009Shin'ya TsukamotoAction, Horror, Sci-Fi5.5 (1.9K votes)7120211228
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-ham1992Shin'ya TsukamotoHorror, Sci-Fi6.4 (4.4K votes)8320211228
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.2008Yoshihiro NishimuraAction, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi5.9 (11.5K votes)11020211228
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.1998Ataru OikawaCrime, Drama, Horror, Mystery5.2 (1.8K votes)9520221006
Tomie - Another Face [Tomie - anaza feisu]The mysterious Tomie, the girl who cannot die, makes her way through three separate eposodic stories of terror.1999Toshirô InomataHorror, Romance5.1 (381 votes)7220211228
Tomie - BeginningWhen a beautiful young girl transfers to a new high school, the students become possessed and soon realize that behind this beauty is an unexplainable evil.2005Ataru OikawaHorror4.9 (383 votes)7420211228
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.2002Shun NakaharaHorror5.6 (582 votes)9120240427
Tomie - Re-birthAn art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.2001Takashi ShimizuHorror5.4 (623 votes)10120220423
Tomie - ReplayA young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything looks ordinary until the name "Tomie" begins appearing throughout the notebook.2000Tomijiro MitsuishiHorror5.4 (671 votes)9520211228
Tomie - RevengeA young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.2005Ataru OikawaHorror4.1 (257 votes)7220211228
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.2011Noboru IguchiHorror4.7 (819 votes)8520211228
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.2007Tomohiro KuboHorror4.8 (220 votes)8620211228
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.2006Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, Keisuke ToyoshimaDrama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller5.8 (720 votes)10720240427
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.2001Takashi Miike (*)Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller6.6 (15.9K votes)8420211228