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Dark Tales of Japan (日本のこわい夜, Nihon no Kowai Yoru) is a 2004 made-for-TV film anthology of five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus travelling on a long isolated mountain road.
School Ghost Stories (Japanese: 学校の怪談, Hepburn: Gakkō no Kaidan), also known as Haunted School, is a 1995 Japanese horror film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. [1] It follows a group of schoolchildren who encounter spirits and other supernatural happenings in an abandoned wing of their elementary school.
Creepy (クリーピー 偽りの隣人, Kurīpī: Itsuwari no Rinjin, lit. Creepy, False Neighbours) is a 2016 Japanese thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, [4] starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yūko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi, and Masahiro Higashide. Based on the 2012 novel by Yutaka Maekawa, it is about a married couple ...
Story 1 of the Japanese television drama Kaidan Hyaku Shosetsu was a version of Yotsuya Kaidan, [13] and episodes 1–4 of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, a 2006 anime television series, were also a retelling of the story. Some critics have identified loose connections between the story of Oiwa and the plot of the Ju-On films. [14]
Ju-On: The Grudge is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.It is the third installment in the Ju-On series and the first to be released theatrically (the first two being direct-to-video productions).
School Ghost Stories; Gekijōban Zero; Gemini (1999 film) The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen; The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond; Ghost Cat of Yonaki Swamp; Ghost of Chibusa Enoki; Ghost of Saga Mansion; The Ghost of Yotsuya (Daiei film) The Ghost of Yotsuya (Shintoho film) Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo; Ghost Theater; Ghost Train (2006 film)
Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ, Noroi) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Kōji Shiraishi.It stars Jin Muraki as Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal researcher investigating a series of mysterious events for a documentary.
Both films were shot in nine days and feature a story that is a variation on the classic haunted house theme, as well as a popular Japanese horror trope, the "vengeful ghost" . The titular curse, ju-on, is one which takes on a life of its own and seeks new victims. Anyone who encounters a ghost killed by the curse is killed themselves and the ...