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Plot Summary:
After 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, anime, weird
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Boogiepop and Others (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a Shinigami.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime
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Bilocation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and takes her to a place. When they get there, a group of people are already gathered. All of the people there are concerned over a doppelganger like existence that looks just like them and acts like them. They call that existence "bilocation".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, clever, surreal, dark fantasy, weird
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Inferno (2005)
Plot Summary:
Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the truth and understand the infernal happenings of which there are many.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
Plot Summary:
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected is a 1991 Japanese film. The film was produced by the Japanese film company Toho.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Peeping Hole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tatsuhiko Kido is a young man who moved from Tokyo to attend a vocational school. Although he thought he had begun his new school life with no problem, he finds a hole in his wall, and sometimes he feels a gaze coming at him from that hole, so he can't relax. The night he went drinking with his classmate Yoneyama, he sees a light coming from the same hole when he comes home. When he tries calling out to the other side, he gets a reply.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, manga
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The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kosuke Mikado, who works at a bookstore, has been suffering from a peculiar constitution that ghosts can see from an early age. One day, Kosuke was invited by a exorcist, Rihito Hiyakawa, who came to the bookstore and decided to work with him. The two men, who were requested by the detective Hanzawa to investigate the serial murder case that occurred a year ago, eventually found a body, but the body was cursed. While searching for the truth, they often hear the voice of the murderer who committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, detective, weird
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Hana-Dama (2014)
Plot Summary:
Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. With a guy named Shibanai (Syun Asada), Mizuki and Kirie decide to stand up to their tormentors. Mizuki though is badly beaten by Aya. Kirie and Shibanai are assaulted by teachers and endure shocking violence. Mizuki decides to get revenge. She wanders the street at night. At that time, Mizuki becomes possessed by a poisonous flower spirit. Madness of the flower spirit begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, weird, asian horror
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School-Live! (2019)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, manga, psychotronic, asian horror
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Female Teacher: In Front of the Students (1982)
Plot Summary:
The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, sadistic, controversial, anime, transgressive, weird, asian horror
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Plot Summary:
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, erotic, psychedelic, enigmatic, erotic drama, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious
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Corpse Party (2015)
Plot Summary:
Facing 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...?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, manga
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Night's Tightrope (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Eko Eko Azarak II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Kimika Yoshino returns in this prequel to 'Wizard of Darkness' to play Misa Kuroi before she was famous, or at least before she realized she was a witch. 'Birth of the Wizard' begins in Meiji-era Japan, in a village of former witches and wizards. I say former, because someone seems to have slaughtered them. Skip to the present day, and an archaeologist discovers a mummy from the village. Blissfully unaware that the mummy is, in fact, possessed by an evil spirit (naturally), he runs off, leaving his assistant alone. The mummy comes to life, kills her, and the evil spirit takes over her body. This evil spirit is now searching for Misa, who is protected by Kyle Reese, It is Misa's destiny to defeat this evil spirit, but she needs Saiga's help to do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Terra Formars (2016)
Plot Summary:
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, psychological, manga
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and believe that a ghost exists inside. Ha-young discovers a flowerpot on the stairs and suspect that Eun-hee is somehow linked to the mystery. Suffering from hallucination upon her inauguration, Eun-hee finds a ghastly figured girl in the washroom mirror and begins to believe that the girl was the one who brought her back to this school….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, mystical, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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Reincarnation (2005)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, spooky, surprise ending, mind bending, dark, slasher
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Premonition (2004)
Plot Summary:
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, slasher, psychological thriller, mind bending, suspense, disturbing, scary
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Haze (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, dark
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Ring (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy, suspense, psychological, twist ending, intense
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Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ajin is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises he is a type of immortal known as Ajin (demi-human). Hunted by humans, Ajin is eventually found by the government and used as a subject in cruel experiments. He finds fellow demi-humans along the way as he escapes and goes on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic, exciting, suspense, intense, epic, manga
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The Promised Neverland (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, anime, dark fantasy, manga, shounen, touching
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Shrill Cries: Reshuffle (2009)
Plot Summary:
Maebara Keiichi, a young teenager, has recently moved from the city to the rural village of Hinamizawa with his family. He is adjusting quite well to his new life, making friends at the small school, playing games, passing time in relative happiness, when suddenly a gruesome murder occurs. A mystery begins to unravel — tracing back to happenings five years ago. As Keiichi learns more about these strange events, he wonders if he will be able to face the truth behind all of this.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hell Girl (2006)
Plot Summary:
"Hell Girl" was adapted into a single live-action television drama series that premiered on Nippon Television from November 4, 2006 spanning 12 half-hour episodes.[23] The series was directed by Makoto Naganuma. The theme song for the series is "Dream Catcher."[24] The live action adaptation features Sayuri Iwata as Enma Ai, Kazuki Kato as Ichimoku Ren, Aya Sugimoto as Onna Hone, Saaya Irie as Shibata Tsugumi, and Kazuhiko Nishimura as Shibata Hajime. Hisahiro Ogura, the actor who portrays Wanyundou in the live-action adaptation is also the Japanese male narrator at the beginning of every episode of the anime series. Eriko Matsushima retains her role as Enma Ai's grandmother in the live action series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky, shoujo
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Dororo (2007)
Plot Summary:
The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." His warlord father gave the originals to 48 demons in exchange for power. When Hyakkimaru kills a demon, he wins back a body part. He is spotted in one of these battles, with a giant spider demon, by Dororo, a scrappy female thief who is fascinated by not only Hyakkimaru's prowess with the sword blade poking out of his arm but the new leg he grows after dicing his opponent. Is he a man -- or a monster? After hearing his story from an old minstrel, she decides to join him on his travels and find out for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, psychological, exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, weird
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Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016)
Plot Summary:
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru (Masahiro Higashide) is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki (Sosuke Ikematsu), who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: intellectual, anime, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Lights Out (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. A frightening entity with a mysterious attachment to their mother, Sophie, has reemerged.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, creepy, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, surprise ending, psychotronic, suspense
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Silent Hill (2006)
Plot Summary:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living 'darkness' that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, creepy, disturbing, gothic horror, suspense
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Gantz, Part II: Perfect Answer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz, a mysterious giant black orb, and he is close to reaching the score he needs to resurrect his friend Kato. Outside his night time missions, Kurono continues to live his normal life, spending time with his new girlfriend Tae. Meanwhile, young pop star Eriko is being secretly ordered by Gantz to carry out assassinations, and cop Shigeta inches closer towards finding out the truth about the Gantz missions. As the missions begin to get increasingly dangerous for both the alien fighters and the general public, Kurono discovers that the endgame for Gantz is quickly approaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, anime, stylized, seinen, manga