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- DirectorMari AsatoStarsAoi MorikawaAyami NakajôKôdai AsakaA student at a conservative all-girls school tries to unravel the connection between a series of deaths and what appears to be a cursed photograph.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko TakeuchiA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
- DirectorHiguchinskyStarsEriko HatsuneFhi FanHinako SaekiThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiShin'ichi TsutsumiKazue FukiishiPeople mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsMiho KannoMami NakamuraYoriko DôguchiA 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.
- DirectorTomijiro MitsuishiStarsSayaka YamaguchiYôsuke KubozukaKen'ichi EndôA 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.
- DirectorSatoshi TakemotoStarsYûma NakayamaHaruka ShimazakiMaryjun TakahashiSet at a university where a series of bizarre and unexplained phenomena are occurring the movie is the plot of the popular Haunted Campus novel put to film. Members of the 'occult study group 'Oka Ken' spring into action investigating and countering the haunting, disturbances and incidents where students are targeted.
- DirectorManabu AsôStarsMaki HorikitaMeisa KurokiJang Keun-sukThe timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsAyaka MiyoshiRyôta BandôTsuyoshi FurukawaAfter her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsNatsumi TakamoriMika AkizukiAyanaAfter a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsNatsumi MatsubaraAi ShinozakiRurika YokoyamaEri is an inconspicuous female high school student who goes completely unnoticed by her classmates. In contrast, her childhood friend Mitsuko is the class leader and is constantly hit on by their creepy teacher, Chida. In order to protect her friend, Eri obtains a funerary rumored to hold ashes that cause certain death for anyone who gets them in their mouth.
- DirectorKazuyuki ShibuyaStarsKumiko AkiyoshiMao AsamiLisa GotôTeenager 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 dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
- DirectorShun'ya ItôStarsShin'ya ÔwadaEmiko YamauchiMasami HasegawaA man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsKôkiRiku HagiwaraKeiko HoriuchiIn a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyukiTwo groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
- DirectorShun NakaharaStarsNozomi AndôAoi MiyazakiJun KunimuraTomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMiki SakaiSatoshi TsumabukiKumiko EndôAn art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsYousuke ItouMio KudoAki MoritaA girl who joins the paranormal activity school club sees a ghost at the school one day. Someone sends in a photograph of a ghost at the same time. The club begins investigating, but friends from school soon begin to disappear. The girl begins also searching for her friends at a cave known for the presence of ghosts. She had a hint from the photograph that was sent in.
- DirectorRenpei TsukamotoStarsRie MimuraHisashi YoshizawaChisunA Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsYû AbiruMayuko IwasaSayuri OyamadaFollows 3 actresses who play themselves as they appear on a paranormal television show to investigate the exorcism of the Kaneda family.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsMika AzumaHorikenKôen KondôKoji Shiraishi is interested in strange indiscriminate murder at a sightseeing resort. He goes behind the camera to investigate the circumstances surrounding strange occurrences and interview the survivors.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsJin MurakiRio KannoTomono KugaA documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei OguchiA mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsKazuki KatôAyaka KomatsuChihiro OhtsukaHaving lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother. Yuri's mother meets a new man, but they are deeply in debt and forced to leave their home. Yuri is then forced to take a job as a call girl to support her brother. One day Yuri's brother becomes ill but since Yuri has to work, she unwillingly leaves him at home. When she returns, she finds him dead in the bathtub. Her heart is scarred with regret and she suffers with a pain that will never go away. After some time has passed, Mayu, a colleague of Yuri's, tells her about a mysterious mobile app that is rumored to enable its user to talk to the dead. Yet, it comes with a warning: Never reply if the dead soul says, "I want to see you." Because she blames herself for her brother's death and will do anything to tell him how sorry she is, Yuri downloads the app and reaches out to her dead brother. Meanwhile, the app's users begin to die.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsMariya SuzukiShizuka UmemotoAsuka KataokaAfter her mother's death, Eri receives a strange visit from a man who may be connected to a program her mother watched on TV the day before her death.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTomomi MiyashitaKazuhiro NakaharaA fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsReina TriendlMariko ShinodaErina ManoA girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsKanako MomotaAkari HayamiShiori TamaiHorror mockumentary about a school haunted by a wish-granting ghost that drags people off into hell if it deems their wish to be impure.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsMiki NakataniHitomi SatôKyôko FukadaReiko 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsTina TamashiroTom FujitaManami HashimotoTormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsHideaki TakizawaDaiki AriokaMugi KadowakiWhen abused children return after they went missing, their abusers find a mysterious death after 3 days. Local newspaper reporter Shunya investigates the deaths, while his girlfriend Naomi gets too close to one of the haunted children.
- DirectorToshirô InomataStarsRuna NagaiAkira HiraiChie TanakaThe mysterious Tomie, the girl who cannot die, makes her way through three separate eposodic stories of terror.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsYui IchikawaLeo MorimotoNaoki TanakaA 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 island's siren starts wailing.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsYûrei YanagiYasuyo ShirashimaKei IshibashiA filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsChiaki KuriyamaMegumi SatôTsugumiAbout hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
- DirectorJôji IidaStarsKôichi SatôMiki NakataniHinako SaekiA 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 relentless spirit.
- DirectorHiroshi TakahashiStarsRie KitaharaFujiko KojimaNana AsakawaSet in entertainment venue Toshimaen, the story takes us to young obsessed women who are handy and active with their mobile telephones, which is normal enough. Except the photographs and the videos are taking a toll and having an impact to the point of changing lives. There is a surprise or two at hand.
- DirectorJohn CairnsStarsRino HigaMax MackenzieAsami MizukawaSakura 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 start attacking the women. Sakura goes on the run to find the source of the problem. Along the way she meets a mother and her son, who's been infected. She gets some supplies from the mother and soon encounters another woman, but she's not so friendly. She's holding 2 people captive. The captives aren't who they seem to be. What's the real cause of the madness?
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsYasuyuki HiranoHaruna KawaguchiTakashi KodamaAs 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.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa UeharaA mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsHiroshi MikamiNoriko SakaiMaki HorikitaA newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
- DirectorYôhei FukudaStarsKôsuke EndôMarika ItôAika KobayashiA student is haunted by chilling visions surrounding her, leading to sinister acts that put her life and those around her in danger.
- DirectorShinju FunabikiStarsUmika KawashimaAki AsakuraMaki AizawaHigh school student Ayumi kills herself and leaves behind a cryptic message that says "will be killed by boyfriend." Ayumi's classmates Satomi and Yuka investigate her suicide and quickly links her death to a popular cellphone dating simulation game called Keitai Kareshi. The main features of the game include a 'love gauge' that determines how well the player is faring and the ability to chat with other players. Satomi, Yuka download the game to their phones and begin interacting with their new virtual boyfriends. Soon after, Satomi shares the game with her co-worker who -- not long after the love gauge on her cellphone hit zero -- dies from electrocution. Meanwhile, Yuka sends the game to her manager who turns up dead the following day following a mysterious accident. The mystery deepens as Satomi discovers the image of Naoto, a senior student whom Satomi secretly admired, on her friend Hisami's cellphone.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsArisa NakamuraMayu SuganoAsana MamoruA group of teenagers go camping in the woods where they find themselves in deep trouble, when poop covered zombies that are controlled by parasites come out to attack them.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsYûko ÔshimaMami YamasakiMai NishidaA young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it .
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsSayuri IwataMiu NakamuraYôko ChôsokabeThe story of TekeTeke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and TekeTeke starts hunting them down one by one.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsElaiza IkedaTakashi TsukamotoHiroya ShimizuA group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyo IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu SawakiA widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsAtsuko MaedaHiroki NarimiyaRyô IwamatsuNursing 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 neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu (Hiroki Narimiya), the handyman cleaning up the old man's apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted. When the late night scratching returns, Asuka ventures back into her neighbor's home and comes face to face with an apparition of the old man! Panicked by the discovery of her apartment emptied and her family gone, Asuka seeks help from Shinobu, who brings in a spiritualist to exorcise Asuka of the evil surrounding her. However, as she delves into the girl's predicament, the spiritualist discovers that signs points not to the old man but to a small boy living in the complex with a past as tragic as the one Asuka herself lives in denial of.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsYûki AmamiAtsuro WatabeEugene HaradaAkira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsRika AdachiToshihito KokuboKeita MachidaSara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsHitomi AraiShôno HayamaKai InowakiAyano, Yuri, Miyu and Mei are high school female students victims of paranormal incidents that may be linked to a gas accident occurred to first-year students in class number 4, years ago.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsRyôsuke IkeokaRina IkomaJunFacing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko Ever After so they will stay friends forever. Instead, they were whisked away to a haunted graduation ceremony for Heavenly Host Elementary School, forced to close after a series of gruesome murders. What fate awaits Naomi and her friends at the cursed school...?
- DirectorDaisuke KobayashiStarsAnna IriyamaKenta SugaShô JinnaiFriends go to a rumored haunted mansion on the outskirts of town and when they get there they get more than they expected.
- DirectorKenta FukasakuStarsMisaki YonemuraHiroya MatsumotoRina SaitoSix classmates receive an e-mail from Asuka; who supposedly committed suicide. Later that night they all get together in a classroom and are surprised by a person wearing a bloody rat mask. The costumed Rat quickly begins attacking them while screaming; this is revenge for Asuka's death.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsMichiko HadaMari HoshinoTae KimuraINFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where a doctor's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient.
- DirectorTomohiro KuboStarsYû AbiruChika ArakawaFukutenA 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.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYumi AdachiHideko HaraFûju KamioOne day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsJun'ichi OkadaNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiOne day, a visitor leaves Hideki a memo of his unborn daughter's name "Chisa". Two years later, Hideki's house is attacked by a sinister presence. To protect his family, Hideki asks for help to perform a ritual to break an unknown spell.
- DirectorTomoya KainumaStarsSaki YamaguchiAimirôraShôko FujimatsuA blog on a mysterious website quickly spreads like wildfire, starting a dangerous online game. When users are required to write their experiences online, the comments take a dark, demented turn, as if the players are being possessed as they play. (Japanese with English subtitles)
- DirectorHajime HashimotoStarsRio KomiyaRiku IchikawaRina KoikeSet in a solitary island school where only students who have caused problems are gathered, and communication from the world is cut off. Homura Itsuki comes to the school as a transfer student. At the school, there is a study group for the 19th-century French cruel drama "Grand Guignol", and Itsuki ends up joining that study group. In addition to the members of the study group, the teachers who manage them, the head chef, the mysterious new teacher, and other people who gather at the school are somewhat suspicious. And finally, a serial murder case like "Grand Guignol" occurs. On an isolated island with no way to escape, Itsuki and his friends are caught up in the vortex of fear of death and love and hate between men.
- DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsYukie NakamaSeiichi TanabeKumiko AsôIn 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...
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKichiemon NakamuraNobuko OtowaKei SatôTwo women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsYuri TsunematsuMiyu HondaRui KiharaHaruna Tsunematsu (Yuri Tsunematsu) is studying folklore at university and she decides the subject of her graduation thesis will be the "Kisaragi Station" urban legend which has been a hot topic on the Internet since 2004.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsMutsuo YoshiokaSeiichi KohinataHana AmanoA school teacher is woken by a sound that fills him with dread.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsKanna HashimotoGordon MaedaMaika YamamotoA high school student and her friends are trapped in a time loop by a ghost and the only way to escape is to find the corpse of the ghost's previous victim.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsMoe AraiMiu NakamuraAika OhtaA photography student's life takes a turn for the worse when her dead sister is welcomed back into the family home.
- DirectorNoboru IguchiStarsRyôhei AbeHidemitsu BanYuni HongAfter a group of girls get murdered, they come back as ghosts and seek revenge.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsMasumi AsanoAyame GôrikiHiroaki HirataAt the spooky western styled mansion turned restaurant "Thriller Restaurant," Kuroka and Ryu disappear. After their disappearance others start to disappear at the restaurant. Rumors soon start that the devil himself is responsible for the missing persons.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsSakurako KonishiHarumi ShuhamaRena TakedaNana Sasaki joins an on-line meeting with her former high school classmates, Yuki and Suzu, where they rehash the terrifying Samejima Incident, an urban legend that has been circulating around the Internet for two decades with the following warning: those who find the truth behind it will be cursed and die.
- DirectorMasafumi YamadaStarsTsunenori AokiRinka IchishimaRyôsuke IkeokaThe Kisigari students return to Heavenly Host Elementary where if you die, the memory of you will forever be lost.
- DirectorHideyuki HirayamaStarsHironobu NomuraKasumi ToyamaShiori YonezawaA young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true...
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsHisako ShirataMinamiAnri BanA 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.
- DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsMizuki YamamotoTina TamashiroAimi SatsukawaThe vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.