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A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same method. However, as evidence points towards the detective, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins questioning his identity. His realization of what seems to be reality results in something far larger and more sinister.
The second instalment depicting the fateful confrontation of Takizawa.
A secretive assassin collective is formed with a single purpose: to eradicate absolute evil from the world. Their final target, however, turns out to be their own leader. As loyalties collapse, a brutal showdown erupts—killer against killer in a fight to the death.
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Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss."
Voyeurism, eavesdropping, stalking, and sexual assault. Yuki, a newlywed living in a housing complex, finds her daily life gradually corrupted by abnormal sexuality... What kind of sex hell does this married woman fall into?! Yuki's past. A chance encounter with a man she met at the scene of a suicide attempt. After getting married, Yuki sealed that day away in her body and moved to a huge housing complex. However, the man from that time, Saito, appears and Yuki is embraced once again. Saito strangles Yuki. Yuki feels an abnormal excitement in the ecstasy of heading towards "death". But there was a man watching them. In exchange for a recording tape, Yuki is forced to undress and descends into a life of sex and degeneracy...
Only one person challenges the final battle against the corrupt state power.
A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.
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 look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
As a newspaper reporter listens to the confession of a wife who murdered her husband, the film shockingly depicts the process by which she discovers why she killed her husband, why she started working on street corners, and how she became deeply immersed in an affair that began as prostitution to relieve boredom...
Ariya Michiru is a bright and energetic girl. One day, she gets mistaken for the ex-girlfriend of a young customer named Jūgo. And for some reason, Jūgo starts working at the shop. For Michiru, it was a real nuisance. Amidst the lively work of Mayu, who often gets SM play requests; Yaya, skilled at groper train roleplay; and Chigusa, who looks perfect in nurse outfits, Jūgo secretly aspires to be a saxophonist and diligently practices in private. But Jūgo feels something is missing. Michiru, too, can't bring herself to like Jūgo, who only ever sees her as a replacement for his ex-girlfriend. Yet, Michiru, who thrives vividly amidst the sleaze, and Jūgo, who finds something within that very sleaze, eventually fall in love...
A horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi. After winning an overwhelming number of seats in the National Diet, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shintarō Makabe, is about to undertake a constitutional revision to remove Japan's Article 9 (forbidding the building of a military). However, this leads to conflict with his wife. Meanwhile, the President of the United States has been cursed. (Description translated from Amazon.co.jp)
Takizawa joins a professional thief and carries out an assault.
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
The birth of outlaw violence, depicts the passionate and fierce way of life of men that chose the path of Shura.
Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.
Shinji Imaoka’s debut film about three men, a woman, and a dead body.
Follows a blackmailer who exploits the weaknesses of powerful villains and strips them of their wealth.
In this film, the charismatic figure of the horror world, Yô Takahashi, who laid the foundation of Japanese horror as the screenwriter for "Ring" and "Don't Look Up," finally makes his directorial debut in the horror genre. Joining him are Yudai Yamaguchi, known for "Battlefield Baseball," Kei Horie, who gained immense popularity as Gao Yellow in "Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger" and received acclaim overseas for his directorial debut "Growing Growing," and Toru Moriyama, a stalwart of TBS dramas. Together, these talented directors from the horror world ensure a film that is no less impressive than its predecessors!
A lone wolf hits the sneaky plot of a lone organization that is aiming to expand it's power over traces of Ninryukai!
A Japanese Company funded by the USA experimenting with anti-bacteriological weapons creates a mutated humanoid rat creature which becomes violent and murders the lab technicians. The lab is condemned and its horrifying experiments kept a secret. However the strange bacteria leak from the lab and spreads to the nearby inhabitants causing a humanoid epidemic! Three people are sent to the lab to uncover the US government conspiracy that unleashed a bloodthirsty monster beyond their wildest imagination.
When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.
Yuka, a trans woman who has moved to Tokyo, starts working at the gay bar ‘Laura’. Thanks to her beauty and cheerful personality, she quickly becomes the bar’s star attraction. What’s more, Yuka is over the moon when she discovers that her first love, Shinya Mochikura, also lives in the city. However, when she reunites with him, Yuka is stunned by Shinya’s cold attitude…
There's no limit to what you can see in your dreams...
Athology film based on stories from House of Cockroaches, a collection of horror stories by queen of horror manga Kanako Inuki. The stories share a theme of apartment life, the troubles of women and mundane situations turning into horrifying nightmares.
A film that takes the theme of psycho-phobia. The film visualizes a forbidden psychic experiment that is a "departing" process to a world of madness, aimed at "spiritual revolution".
Deconstruction of the Daughter of Salome
Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro is a collection of 10 short horror films, each 5 minutes long (broadcast on BSi in February 2003). This is the second installment.
Left alone by his music group, Nakanishi lands in a peaceful but strange village. He laughs and drinks with it's residents until the alcohol seems to have a supernatural effect on him ...
In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.
What if an unknown stranger somewhere impersonates you and lives life? 24-year-old TAKIGAWA Misaki (TODO Umi) aspiring to be a non-fiction writer, receives a strange phone call saying TAKIGAWA Misaki is in a coma in a hospital. Learning that someone has posed as Misaki, she visits the hospital and finds an unexpected person. She begins to discover the woman's real name and the reason why she had to be someone else.
Ryuuzaki (Ryudo Uzaki), a former ace pitcher for a Yokohama pro baseball team, was forced into retirement after a yakuza-linked game-fixing scandal and left the city behind. Fifteen years later, he returns upon learning that his estranged daughter and grandson have been murdered—both shot dead after witnessing a hitman at a crime scene. Consumed by grief and rage, Ryuuzaki vows revenge. Seeking help through old connections, he receives firearms training from Saigami (Hitoshi Ozawa), a former yakuza. As Ryuuzaki arms himself for violence, the hollow fire in his heart is reignited. A bleak tale of vengeance, solitude, and sorrow—told through the quiet, heavy presence of Ryudo Uzaki.
The villa where Uehara repeatedly met his mistress, Naomi, and where Naomi and his wife met tragic deaths. Saeko, a female editor, visits Uehara, who has taken up residence there, to handle his next novel, "Evil Spirit," following the publication of "The Mistress's Ghost." Saeko, who has always admired the author, stays at his villa and begins to take care of his needs. The distraught Uehara is bewildered by Saeko, who wears the same perfume as his deceased wife, but gradually begins to open up to her... But when the two, drawn to each other, desire each other physically, Naomi's vengeful spirit awakens! Naomi will never allow love. Strange phenomena occur one after another, and their minds and bodies are consumed.
One day, 300 year-old Namahage is caught in a trap. While being transferred he manages to escape. Wandering through the suburbs of Tokyo, Namahage meets 11-year-old Mamoru and he moves in at the boy's house without Mamoru's mother's knowledge. Mamoru struggles to hide Namahage from his mother. Meanwhile, bad pet shop traders seek out to capture Namahage.
Nikkari works for a small tailor in a small town and supports her younger sister Yuki. Yuki has a boyfriend named Oshima, who works for an estate agency, but after learning of her illness, Oshima has been gradually pulling away from Yuki of late. Just then, the story comes to a startling conclusion when Yuki discovers that she is pregnant.
