J-Horror Movies From 1949 to 2021
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- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsUreo EgawaNijiko KiyokawaSôji KiyokawaTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has some weird history. It is believed that one game played on the board requires one death.
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsKinuyo TanakaKen UeharaHisako YamaneIemon Tamiya is an impoverished master-less samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
- DirectorKiyohiko UshiharaStarsKeiju KobayashiTeruko AkatsukiKatsuko WakasugiWhen a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
- DirectorRyôhei AraiStarsShinobu ArakiKôtarô BandôTakaji FukuiA woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.
- DirectorRyôhei AraiStarsTakako IrieMichiko AiYoshitaro Sadato
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo TanakaA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
- DirectorBin KatôStarsMichiyo AiKôtarô BandôTakako Irie
- DirectorMotoyoshi OdaStarsSeizaburô KawazuHaruo TanakaJôji OkaA homicidal maniac known as 'The Ghost Man', aided by a three-fingered lunatic, stalks and kills innocent young women and poses their corpses for photos that he keeps in an album.
- DirectorBin KatôStarsTakako IrieYoshitaro SadatoMichiko Ai
- DirectorBin KatôStarsKôichi AiharaToshio ChibaJun Fujikawa
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsHiroshi OgasawaraAkemi TsukushiTetsurô TanbaRyutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga.
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsTomisaburô WakayamaAkemi TsukushiChieko SômaOiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeShirley YamaguchiKaoru YachigusaLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsRyô IkebeAsami KujiIchirô ArishimaThe story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsKanjûrô ArashiShôji NakayamaJôji Oka
- DirectorKatsuhiko TasakaStarsShintarô KatsuTakako IrieMichiko Ai
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsKatsuko WakasugiTakashi WadaNoriko KitazawaA blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
- DirectorGorô KadonoStarsJûzaburô AkechiShigeru AmachiHiroshi HayashiA samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
- DirectorKyôtarô NamikiStarsShôji NakayamaJunko EbataShigeru AmachiThe year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsToshio HosokawaMidori ChikumaYuriko EjimaThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsShintarô KatsuChieko MurataMieko Kondô
- DirectorGorô KadonoStarsAkira NakamuraKatsuko WakasugiAsao MatsumotoAfter apprenticing himself to a painter, a man decides that the painter's knowledge isn't enough--he wants his wife too. But as it turns out, the painter's death doesn't keep him from exacting revenge.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsYumi ShirakawaKenji SaharaAkihiko HirataWhen a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police - until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a "ghost ship" that has turned up in the harbor, have created radioactive creatures - "H-Men" - who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch.
- DirectorHiroyuki YamamotoStarsSusumu FujitaJôji OkaChikako MiyagiA spider-like man kidnaps young women and tortures them in his cellar
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShôji NakayamaNaoko KuboShigeru Amachi
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsKôichi AiharaShinobu ArakiRyuji Fukui
- DirectorMitsuo HirotsuStarsToshio ChibaRumiko KomachiIkuko Môri
- DirectorMorihei MagataniStarsBunta SugawaraSeiji HaraKazuo HaradaThe mountain people's traditional rituals are threatened by police investigating missing hikers.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiNoriko KitazawaKatsuko WakasugiThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
- DirectorMasaki MôriStarsNoriko KitazawaShôzaburô DateReiko Seto
- DirectorMorihei MagataniStarsYôko MiharaBunta SugawaraReiko SetoYumi Aoyama is now a girl diver in shallow waters to cut oysters and other shellfish delicacies, and eventually pearls, from the shallow underwater rocks, like so many poor girls of her village. She comes from a rich family, but the Aoyama's treasure has been buried in a great earthquake when she was a little girl, and with the treasure, her lost sister. Yumi tells Kyouko, a policewoman friend, that she has seen the ghost of her dead sister, telling her how to find the entrance to a cave where their family's treasure is. As Kyouko begins an investigation, she finds out that the ghost story is part of a conspiracy by a criminal gang, who is out looking for an easy way to access the enormous treasure. Girl divers' friendship and blood relations come to a halt when ghosts vanish and truth is exposed - culminating in some hand to hand fighting by the seashore. (Semi-documentary footage of actual Ama women diving and exploring underwater tunnels and caves.)
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiTakashi WadaJunko IkeuchiA woman who's been missing for twenty years suddenly turns up alive, and looking not a day older than when she vanished. When her daughter sees a painting of a woman identical to her mother, her reporter boyfriend helps her track down the owner.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsHisako TsukubaTamio KawajiRyôhei UchidaWhile in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsKazuo HasegawaYasuko NakadaYôko UrajiKenji MISUMI's YOTSUYA KWAIDAN is presumed to be the first colored film version of the famous play. Deviating heavily from the original source, Fuji YAHIRO depicts cold blooded protagonist Iemon as a tragic hero. The "righteous revenge" for his ruthlessly murdered wife leads to the redemption of her evil spirit. The visionary finale is without a question the apex of this underrated masterpiece.
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsKazuo HasegawaRaizô IchikawaShintarô KatsuA team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape-changing, supernatural creature.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiUtako MitsuyaYôichi NumataA group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
- DirectorYoshihiro IshikawaStarsShôzaburô DateNamiji MatsuuraNoriko KitazawaTwo lovers lost in the mountains find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force doesn't want to let them go.
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsRaizô IchikawaAyako WakaoYôko Uraji
- DirectorJun FukudaStarsKôji TsurutaYumi ShirakawaSeizaburô KawazuMen are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
- DirectorKyôtarô NamikiStarsJunko IkeuchiYasuko MitaReiko SetoA woman is horribly disfigured after her peers from school throw her off a cliff. Later, the woman gets help from a witch and becomes a shapeshifting bat creature hellbent for revenge.
- DirectorTai KatôStarsAyuko FujishiroSentarô FushimiJûshirô KonoeTamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who's left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked into prostitution by a masseuse, Tamiya is joined by his friend Naosuke in turning the situation into a plot to win back Oiwa, which complicates as a new girl enters the picture. Tamiya's scheming injustices backfire in the form of an onryo, a vengeance-seeking ghost, and yet the movie's horror is entirely of human contrivance. Based on the famous Japanese Kabuki play Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV in 1825.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsAkira KuboKumi MizunoHiroshi KoizumiShipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.
- DirectorTetsuji TakechiStarsKanako MichiAkira IshihamaChôjûrô HanakawaWhile under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei SatôTwo women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
- DirectorTsuneo KobayashiStarsKô NishimuraSanae NakaharaMasao MishimaAfter a rich man drowns, his scheming relatives gather in his old house to get what is coming to them.
- DirectorHajime SatôStarsKô NishimuraMasumi HarukawaKeiko YumiA man, Chonin Mitake, dies crazy after long agony, and his dead body is cremated. His widow Yoshi, investigating on the past of her husband, goes to the mansion where he had lived, a building Leftly nicknamed "Satan's Pit" (a suggestive statue of Satan is situated in the atrium of the mansion) managed by a hunchbacked caretaker. Soon some visitors reach the house. the hunchbacked keeper warns...
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMariko OkadaJunko IkeuchiA samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
- DirectorKinya OgawaStarsYuri IzumiJunko TakatsukiKozue Hidori
- DirectorKimiyoshi YasudaStarsJun FujimakiMiwa TakadaMasaru HiraizumiThe local yôkai (Japanese spirits) interfere to avenge a murder and thwart the plans of corrupt officials.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsKôjirô HongôMiyoko AkazaMayumi OgawaOn the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
- DirectorKazuo HaseStarsMasumi HarukawaNobuo KanekoSaeda KawaguchiA Samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to "Repay his debts." Because of the Samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
- DirectorYoshihiro IshikawaStarsRyôhei UchidaKôtarô SatomiKyoko MikageA Vassal kills his lord and his wife with her cat commit suicide to avoid marrying him. Will they return and try to get revenge?
- DirectorKinya OgawaStarsReiko AkikawaMiki HayashiSetsu Shimizu
- DirectorKazui NihonmatsuStarsKeisuke SonoiYûsuke KawazuEmi ShindôAll the insects on Earth become wild and attack humans, causing Armageddon.
- DirectorHajime SatôStarsTeruo YoshidaTomomi SatôHideo KôThe survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsShiho FujimuraAkira IshihamaMachiko HasegawaThe lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.
- 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.
- DirectorHiroki MatsunoStarsKikko MatsuokaYasunori IrikawaMasumi OkadaAbout a young woman living in a seaside town haunted by the ghosts of a ship's crew murdered by modern-day pirates.
- DirectorNoriaki YuasaStarsYûko HamadaSachiko MeguroYachie MatsuiExtremely fun Daiei adaptation of two shojo horror manga into a single, crazily FX-laden story about two rival, shape-shifting sisters who are on less than good terms. However, when an evil creature makes an appearance they have to overlook their differences and join forces to battle it.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsYukiko KuwaharaYukie KagawaSeizaburô KawazuAn old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KurodaStarsYoshihiko AoyamaRokkô TouraAkane KawasakiWhen a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsEiji FunakoshiMako MidoriNoriko SengokuA blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsKei SatôYoshihiko AoyamaAkiji Kobayashi
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsKôjirô HongôNaomi KobayashiMitsuyo KameiA young woman turns to the supernatural to wreak revenge on an murderous warlord.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsTeruo YoshidaYukie KagawaTeruko YumiAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsSada AbeTakashi FujikiShôtarô HayashiDiscover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsHideyo AmamotoTadao FutamiMasao ImafukuA rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the egotistical lord's peasants suffer. Such a public display will challenge the uncaring upper class' obsession with their own personal beauty. With Chinese and Buddhist influences at a peak in 11th century Japan, the daimyo Horikawa wanted a mural of Buddhist paradise. As Yoshihide's ghastly artworks appear to come to life, the painter and his patron's mutual racism also take their toll.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KurodaKimiyoshi YasudaStarsKôjirô HongôPepe HozumiMasami FurukidoThe murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai (Japanese spirits.)
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsMeiko KajiHoki TokudaMakoto SatôThe head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.
- DirectorMichio YamamotoStarsKayo MatsuoAkira NakaoYukiko KobayashiKeiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.
- DirectorMichio YamamotoStarsWakako SakaiKatsutoshi AtarashiNami TamuraYuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.
- DirectorMichio YamamotoStarsChôei TakahashiSanae EmiMidori FujitaA doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsKatsuo NakamuraJûrô KaraYasuko SanjoAfter being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.
- DirectorChûsei SoneStarsSetsuko OgawaHidemi HaraHajime TanimotoBased on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
- DirectorMasashi MatsumotoStarsTarô ShigakiYôko IchijiMichiko HondaEnigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.
- DirectorMichio YamamotoStarsToshio KurosawaKunie TanakaKatsuhiko SasakiA teacher assumes a position at a school that's run by a vampire.
- DirectorNorifumi SuzukiStarsYumi TakigawaEmiko YamauchiYayoi WatanabeIn order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTomisaburô WakayamaShima IwashitaHiroko IsayamaA mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.
- DirectorKazuhiko YamaguchiStarsShin'ichi ChibaKyôsuke MachidaYuriko AzumaA man with a special power attempts to help a cursed woman.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKôji IshizakaYôko ShimadaTeruhiko AoiWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsMachiko KyôYuki AresaShinjirô EbaraOshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
- DirectorYasuharu HasebeStarsTamaki KatsuraYuri YamashinaNatsuko YashiroTwo restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.
- DirectorYôichi TakabayashiStarsYûtarô BanHiroshi EbieHideki HanaokaWhen a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the inner lives of the two.
- DirectorYûji MakiguchiStarsYûsuke KazatoRena UchimuraAkira ShiojiTwo short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back no matter what it takes. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, he becomes friends with a young girl named Sato in process. Together, they both escape and try to get by on scams and petty theft.
- DirectorNoboru TanakaStarsJunko MiyashitaRenji IshibashiHiroshi ChôThe landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
- 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.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorYûji MakiguchiStarsHaruka TajimaMaya HiromiKaori SeritaA woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant, she catches her fellow sisters engaging in unholy activities.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsKen'ichi HagiwaraMayumi OgawaTsutomu YamazakiThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
- DirectorChûsei SoneStarsMachiko OhtaniSanshô ShinsuiMegu KawashimaKawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother's terrible activities.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaKen OgataHiroki IwaseAfter a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.