Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "japanese-horror"

1. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

R | 101 min | Action, Horror

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber

Votes: 272,533 | Gross: $59.02M

2. Battle Royale (2000)

Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Votes: 194,467

3. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,514

4. House (1977)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba, Ai Matsubara

Votes: 33,742

5. Pulse (2001)

R | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka

Votes: 25,600 | Gross: $0.05M

6. Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

R | 92 min | Horror

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa

Votes: 48,087 | Gross: $0.33M

7. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror

A contagion turns men into violent, sexually aggressive zombies worldwide. Surviving women must fight for survival by finding a way to kill the infected men, possibly humanity's only hope.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Rina Aikawa, Yui Aikawa, Kazuyoshi Akishima, Asami

Votes: 1,239

8. Another (2012)

TV-MA | 286 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A young man named, Koichi Sakakibara, transfers to a new school where he finds himself drawn into a mystery involving a mysterious girl and a series of gruesome deaths.

Stars: Atsushi Abe, Natsumi Takamori, Tomoaki Maeno, Monica Rial

Votes: 18,240

9. Tag (2015)

85 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A 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.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai

Votes: 8,097

10. Bijitâ Q (2001)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô

Votes: 17,056

11. Final Cut (2022)

112 min | Comedy, Horror

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield

Votes: 4,508

12. Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985 Video)

42 min | Short, Horror

Late 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.

Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Hiroshi Tamura, Kirara Yûgao, Anja Blagojevic

Votes: 4,491

13. Dark Water (2002)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

Votes: 34,935

14. Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (1985 Video)

Unrated | 43 min | Short, Horror

A duo of guys capture and brutally torture a young girl to the point of piercing her retina.

Director: Satoru Ogura

Votes: 4,187

15. Ju-on: The Curse (2000 Video)

TV-PG | 70 min | Horror, Mystery

A 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.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Yue, Ryôta Koyama, Hitomi Miwa

Votes: 8,983

16. Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988 Video)

63 min | Horror

An 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.

Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Shigeru Saiki, Mari Somei, Masami Hisamoto, Gô Rijû

Votes: 2,511

17. Inferno of Torture (1969)

18+ | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Two highly skilled tattoo artists clash as the demand for tattooed geishas rises to satisfy European clients.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike, Yumiko Katayama

Votes: 633

18. Black Cat (1968)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Rokkô Toura

Votes: 8,582

19. The Evil Within (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

While investigating the scene of a cruel murder, detective Sebastian Castellanos is knocked unconscious by a mysterious and powerful force. When he awakens, he finds himself in a deranged world.

Directors: Shinji Mikami, Yun M. Watanabe | Stars: Anson Mount, Jennifer Carpenter, Jackie Earle Haley, Yuri Lowenthal

Votes: 4,208

20. As the Gods Will (2014)

TV-MA | 117 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Nijirô Murakami, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nao Ômori

Votes: 8,064

21. Ju-on: Origins (2020)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Honjo Haruka is a rookie actress. She hears the sounds of footsteps at night in her house. When she learns of psychic researcher Odajima Yasuo from a TV variety program, she seeks counseling from him about her problem.

Stars: Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Yuina Kuroshima, Seiko Iwaidô, Brock Powell

Votes: 5,349

22. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 (2013)

Not Rated | 67 min | Horror

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.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Hayato Abe, Yui Aikawa, Maki Aoyama, Asami

Votes: 549

23. Kuchisake-onna (2007)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

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.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana

Votes: 3,049

24. The Forbidden Play (2023)

110 min | Horror, Thriller

After beloved wife and mother Miyuki tragically dies, her little son chants a resurrection spell in the hope of reviving her. But something evil is pulsing underground, and a child's pure wish awakens a vengeful monster.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Daiki Shigeoka, Minato Shougaki, Uika First Summer

Votes: 166

25. Spiral (1998)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A 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.

Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Tsurumi

Votes: 3,977

26. Naked Blood (1996)

Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

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.

Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe

Votes: 2,265

27. Lesson of the Evil (2012)

Unrated | 129 min | Horror, Thriller

A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Takehiro Hira, Hideaki Itô, Shôta Sometani

Votes: 6,792

28. Ring 0: Birthday (2000)

Not Rated | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In 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...

Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô, Takeshi Wakamatsu

Votes: 9,919

29. Girl Hell 1999 (1999 Video)

65 min | Horror

Misaki is a girl trapped in a world violent beyond compare. Her home life is a wreck, two men are interested in her, and a homeless woman she regularly visits. But little does she know life is only going to get more violent...

Director: Daisuke Yamanouchi | Stars: Natsumi Harada, Yuusuke Kimura, Toshimaru Murai, Sheena Nagamori

Votes: 513

30. Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Horror

About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Satô, Tsugumi, Eri Machimoto

Votes: 3,355

31. Tomie (1998)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A 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.

Director: Ataru Oikawa | Stars: Miho Kanno, Mami Nakamura, Yoriko Dôguchi, Tomorô Taguchi

Votes: 1,971

32. Big Tits Zombies (2010)

73 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

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.

Director: Takao Nakano | Stars: Sora Aoi, Risa Kasumi, Mari Sakurai, Tamayo

Votes: 1,447

33. Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 3 (2013)

Not Rated | 68 min | Horror

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.

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Yui Aikawa, Asami, Iona, Saya Kobayashi

Votes: 489

34. Ox-Head Village (2022)

Not Rated | 115 min | Horror, Mystery

In a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Kôki, Riku Hagiwara, Keiko Horiuchi, Haruka Imô

Votes: 435

35. The Vampire Doll (1970)

Not Rated | 85 min | Horror

Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.

Director: Michio Yamamoto | Stars: Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yôko Minakaze

Votes: 1,345

36. Corpse Prison: Part One (2017)

75 min | Horror

For 50 years no girls were born in a small village deep in the mountains. A professor, his assistant and his female students from university arrive in this isolated village for field work. Will they make it back?

Director: Hideo Jôjô | Stars: Moemi Katayama, Anna Tachibana, Shin'ichi Wagô, Nagomi

Votes: 236

37. Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

62 min | Horror

Trapped inside a haunted house, a body builder must save himself from a gruesome ghost hell-bent on revenge.

Director: Shinichi Fukazawa | Stars: Shinichi Fukazawa, Masaaki Kai, Masahiro Kai, Aki Tama Mai

Votes: 1,016

38. Reincarnation (2005)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

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.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto

Votes: 6,767

39. It Comes (I) (2018)

135 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

One 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.

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Nana Komatsu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Haru Kuroki

Votes: 1,399

40. Onechanbara: The Movie (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Horror

In 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Yôhei Fukuda | Stars: Eri Otoguro, Tomohiro Waki, Tarô Suwa, Manami Hashimoto

Votes: 1,373

41. Guinea Pig 4: Devil Woman Doctor (1986 Video)

52 min | Comedy, Horror

A drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!

Director: Hajime Tabe | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Masami Hisamoto, Nezumi Imamura

Votes: 1,118

42. School-Live! (2019)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

It tells the story of Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuki Takeya, Yuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki attending the same high school in Japan, but they also know one another because they reside in the school's ... See full summary »

Director: Issei Shibata | Stars: Nanami Abe, Honora, Daichi Kaneko, Rio Kiyohara

Votes: 271

43. Vampire Hunter D: Resurrection

Animation, Adventure, Horror | Pre-production

The adventures of a mysterious vampire hunter known only as D, in a world dominated by monsters.

44. Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)

Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Mystery

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Ryôta Koyama

Votes: 4,062

45. School-Live! (2015– )

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A young girl pretends to live a normal school life with her friends, unable to perceive what is truly happening around her.

Stars: Inori Minase, Ari Ozawa, Mao Ichimichi, Rie Takahashi

Votes: 1,090

46. Signal 100 (2019)

88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?

Director: Lisa Takeba | Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Yûta Koseki, Toshiki Seto, Shôma Kai

Votes: 366

47. Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)

Not Rated | 98 min | Horror

The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Aimi Satsukawa, Misato Tanaka

Votes: 3,988

48. Banned from Broadcast 2: A Damned Big Family (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 45 min | Horror, Mystery

After the father of a large family is injured and takes a leave of absence, mysterious things start happening in the household.

Director: Toshikazu Nagae

49. Penance (2012)

270 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

The murder of a young girl is never solved. Her mother who is torn by grief puts a curse on the four of the girl's classmates. These four girls are forced into adulthood which eventually triggers a tragic chain of events.

Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Hazuki Kimura, Manatsu Kimura, Kyôka Shibata

Votes: 1,199

50. King's Game (2017)

TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A class of high school students receive a text message welcoming them to a game where they are given tasks they must complete in 24 hours.

Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Comona Lewin, Mao Ichimichi, Yui Horie

Votes: 586