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: 273,277 | 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: 194,946

3. 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: 33,936

4. 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: 77,785

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: 25,792 | Gross: $0.05M

6. 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: 18,371

7. 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: 48,238 | Gross: $0.33M

8. 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: 4,512

9. 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: 17,090

10. 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: 4,214

11. 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: 1,251

12. 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 life.

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

Votes: 8,142

13. 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: 4,594

14. 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: 35,031

15. 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: 2,519

16. 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: 8,118

17. 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: 8,641

18. 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: 9,022

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: 4,238

20. 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: 5,359

21. 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: 4,005

22. 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: 1,984

23. 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: 4,000

24. 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: 1,355

25. 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: 6,780

26. 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: 6,812

27. 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: 9,944

28. Adrenaline no yoru (2015–2016)

14 min | Horror, Thriller

Based on the eponymous collection of short stories by author Akimoto Yasushi, this new drama features the idols of the female group AKB48 this time on the theme of horror.

Stars: Mitz Mangrove, Yui Yokoyama, Nagisa Sakaguchi, Sayaka Yamamoto

Votes: 16

29. 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: 635

30. Sweet Home (1989)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Shingo Yamashiro, Nokko, Fukumi Kuroda

Votes: 1,133

31. 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: 371

32. 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: 2,271

33. 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: 1,034

34. 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.

35. 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: 517

36. 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: 1,451

37. 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: 559

38. Horny House of Horror (2010 Video)

75 min | Comedy, Horror

Add a Plot

Director: Jun Tsugita | Stars: Miyavi Matsunoi, Asami, Minto Suzuki, Yûya Ishikawa

Votes: 520

39. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)

390 min | Drama, Horror

Manami is targeted by vampires on her 22nd birthday and K, who possesses tremendous power, tries to save her in a raging battle. On that day, young men and women are invited to the hotel where a huge matchmaking convention is being held.

Stars: Ami Tomite, Kaho, Hirotatsu Terabayashi, Megumi Kagurazaka

Votes: 701

40. 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: 3,372

41. Scissorpenis (2018)

Horror

There is a man who wants to have sex and any woman would do. His idea to get some is to become a married man, but ironically his wife was only into marriage and not the sex part. He becomes... See full summary »

Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Stars: Maki Aoyama, Ryô Asagiri, Hiroshi Gunji, Okaruto Tantei Hachi-Hachi

Votes: 34

42. Mai-chan no nichijô (2014)

55 min | Horror

A sadistic place in a remote location put out a help wanted ad luring young teen girls to come work as a live in maid only to control them for Sexual abuse, Torture, Murder and Cannibalism.

Director: Sade Satô | Stars: Miyako Akane, An Koshi, Shôgo Maruyama, Chiyoko Nameless

Votes: 265

43. 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

44. Blue Demon (2014)

Not Rated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Friends go to a rumored haunted mansion on the outskirts of town and when they get there they get more than they expected.

Director: Daisuke Kobayashi | Stars: Anna Iriyama, Kenta Suga, Shô Jinnai, Seiya Motoki

Votes: 217

45. Immersion (I) (2023)

109 min | Horror

Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Daigo Nishihata, Mizuki Yamamoto, Yûta Hiraoka, Rina Ikoma

Votes: 169

46. 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: 1,097

47. Vampire Clay (2017)

80 min | Horror

A plasticine demon devours the denizens of a rural art school.

Director: Sôichi Umezawa | Stars: Ena Fujita, Asuka Kurosawa, Yuyu Makihara, Ryô Shinoda

Votes: 493

48. 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: 494

49. Hidden Attack of the Dead (2018)

TV-MA | 74 min | Horror

Kimi faces financial difficulties by taking an illegal loan to pay off her father's medical fee, but he passed away. She is emotionally exhausted for being demanded every day for the payment of debts.

Director: Seiji Chiba | Stars: Shôko Takasaki, Misaki Amano, Takumi Anbo, Yû Fukuda

Votes: 33

50. 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: 1,374