I’m trying to remember the name of a movie. I think it was about this guy whose mom died and she’d left a diary or something. The guy starts going through his mom’s stuff and finds the diary. It turns out his mom was a killer and she had detailed her crimes or something in it?

I watched the whole movie and i didn't understand a thing); im new to the franchise someone explain (: Is sadako evil? Why did she always see little kid and whats her story with the sea ?

Hi everyone, some of you will remember me, some of you won't, im posting again here because there are major updates on my channel, BIG UPDATES, in case you dont remember me here it is again: I'm worldbreaker, a J.horror collector my goal is to make japanese horror movies more known in the west, for this I have in my possession more than 1600 movies of the japanese horror genre, among these are more than 50 movies by the master of found footage, koji shiraishi, also the 100 volumes of honto ni atta norori no video, also all volumes of yami douga, among others, ALL TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND SPANISH AND FREE, if you want to know more visit my subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldbreakerJHorror/ , now if you want a personalized translation of your favorite movie, you can write to me in private, i can translate from japanese to english, spanish, german.

does anyone know where i can find an english subtitle version?

Hi! I watched a Japanese horror short on youtube like 2 years ago, can’t find it anymore. Does anyone know:

People visit a deserted hospital, they keep seeing and hearing hints of people. Climax is at the end when they do a first person camera shot of a woman wrapped in bandages shuffling quickly towards them at night. I thought it was called bandage woman or something :( thanks!

I forget the exact name of it, but I watched one that was about the spirit of a Slit mouth woman possessing random moms to kill children. I didn’t like that one too much, so I was hoping for one a bit more enjoyable

Hypnosis This movies great watch it 😊

hey everyone, ive been trying to find a good japanese found footage horror movie but i cant find any decent ones. i want one that’ll keep me up at night, yk? i always watch horror movies alone in the middle of the night. lights off n everything. i need the whole experience. my personal favorites ive watched (i havent watched many) are incantation and gonjiam haunted asylum. so- what are some of your favorites? similar or not. but PLSSS i need your guys’ help🙏

Hey all. I have never seen a J Horror film before and i want to change that. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations that i would enjoy. My favorite sub genre of horror is 80's Slashers. So if there is anything similar to that, I would really like to watch it. Thanks!

I love that were getting a lot of J-horror bluray lately! Excited to watch these! I've seen Noroi, all the rest are new to me!

Kidan Pieces of Darkness 2016 , and Stories of Apparitions 2006 Both are great horror, check it out

Never seen any of these, excited to watch!

Really enjoy confessions, I recommend that one for sure. The movie was great, but the book was wow.

I just learned this book exists and I'm definitely going to read it eventually, but I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on it?

Looks like Shudder is adding a bunch of J-Horror titles this month

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Halloween is over. Tell us what is the best Japanese horror movie you have seen in the last two weeks or in October?

35 movies and 2 TV shows later, I think I'm ready for a break, haha

That was a lot of J-horror! Feel free to AMA about the films :)

My wife and I went into this month without a plan besides sticking to J-horror. We ended up mostly grinding out a few specific directors (and one classic tale), so I separated them out a bit below.

Sion Sono

Suicide Club is a fun horror movie, but Noriko's Dinner Table is a true masterpiece, not just with regards to horror, but as a film, full stop. You absolutely don't have to have seen Suicide Club to watch it, and, perhaps, it's better served if you haven't (though I'm not totally decided on that). It's a true must-see.

• Suicide Club (2001)

• Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

Takashi Miike

Happiness of the Katakuris is some of the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time. It's absolutely bananas, but in the best way--and it's okay for non-horror lovers too. I actually plan to watch it with my horror-hating mother-in-law.

Visitor Q is... what the fuck. What the actual fuck. lol. If you like deeply fucked up, bizarre, deranged, evil shit, that's also strangely heartwarming, but no less completely fucked.... this is the one for you. But, like, this one is really fucked up. According to my wife I had a look of horror on my face for the whole movie, and that's not usual for me. I've watched a lot of weird, disturbing shit, but this one might take the cake. Two thumbs up!

Imprint is less horrific than its reputation. If you've been putting it off for that reason, if you can handle Audition, you should check it out.

Over Your Dead Body is a true masterpiece. However, I would highly recommend at the very least reading the wiki entry for Yotsuya Kaidan before watching the movie. Ideally, you'd watch a few old adaptations of the story, first, but the wiki will suffice if you don't want to devote that much time. That said, you should absolutely see this film.

• Audition (1999)

• The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

• Visitor Q (2001)

• Masters of Horror: Imprint (2006)

• Over Your Dead Body (2014)

Takashi Shimizu

Shimizu's movies don't get nearly enough love. They're not masterpieces, but they're mostly good (if too frequently confusing) fun. Ox-Head Village is his weakest work that I've seen, with some frustration-inducing choices. Reincarnation is great, as is Suicide Forest Village (the later for the remarkable visuals, if nothing else).

• Reincarnation (2005)

• Howling Village (2019)

• Suicide Forest Village (2021)

• Homunculus (2021)

• Ox-Head Village (2022)

Koji Shiraishi

I did not plan to watch this entire series. In fact, I didn't even know what it was when the month started. But boy am I glad I did. What a wild, intricate, absurd, fun series of found footage films. There's also a whole host of short films that go along with it all, filling out the world. I found this list on Letterboxd that seems to have everything connected to the story. The best entries are, imo, the last two, though the charms of the early ones are great as well.

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost (2012)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 03: Legend of a Human-Eating Kappa (2013)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet (2013)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya (2014)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Most Terrifying Movie in History (2014)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Final Chapter (2015)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Fear Adventure: Kokkuri-san (2015)

• Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Dark Mystery: Snake Woman (2015)

• Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi! (2023)

Films adapting Yotsuya Kaidan

Once we decided we were going to watch Over Your Dead Body, we decided to check off some older films we'd been wanting to watch but had put off. Of these, it's hard to say which is best. They all have their merits, and they all have their drawbacks.

In total (that I can find), there are 10 extant feature film adaptations of Yotsuya Kaidan. Not listed here are the 1959 Kenji Misumi version, Ghost Story of Oiwa's Spirit (1961), Illusion of Blood (1965), The Oiwa Phantom (1969), Summer of Evil (1981), and Crest of Betrayal (1994), that last one being a mash up with the Chushingura (47 ronin) tale (a mashup with an interesting historical precedent!). We plan to watch the rest.

Be forewarned if you think of doing what we did: These movies are deeply bleak. We felt just so sad watching them. So, be ready for that.

• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) - Keisuke Kinoshita

• Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949) - Keisuke Kinoshita

• Yotsuya Kaidan (1956) - Masaki Mori

• The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) - Nobuo Nakagawa

Other directors

• A Page of Madness (1926) - Teinosuke Kinugasa

Incredible silent-era fever dream.

• Onibaba (1964) - Kaneto Shindo

Exceptionally gorgeous film. Watch in a dark room with no distractions.

• World Apartment Horror (1991) - Katsuhiro Otomo

Incredibly fun! Oh man, was this a ride! Definitely check this out!

• 2LDK (2003) - Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Another super fun ride of a movie. What a bizzare string of events.

• Kaidan (2007) - Hideo Nakata

Utterly gorgeous film that picks pieces from various old ghost stories (including Yotsuya Kaidan!) and weaves them together.

• Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012) - Naoyuki Tomomatsu

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone willy-nilly. My wife and I really enjoyed this, because we're a couple of sicko perverts who've become largely inured to the unique brand of sexual violence so often seen in Japanese adult material. If you are fine with pink films, then you'll probably be fine with this. Honestly, after the first 5 minutes the violence chills out and it becomes a very silly romp. There's five in the series and we plan to keep watching as long as they keep us laughing.

• fuji_jukai.mov (2016) - Sakashita Katsumi

No subtitles that I could find, but if your Japanese is decent you can follow along well enough. It's a good take on the Aokigahara suicide forest trope.

• Kisaragi Station (2022)

A fun, competent horror film. Not brilliant, but not bad at all. A solid recommendation from me.

• Zom 100 (2023) - Ishida Yusuke

Ugh. The first, like, 15-20 minutes are fun, but it just becomes stupid after that (this is coming from the guy and gal who thoroughly enjoyed Rape Zombie, mind you) and the last 20 minutes draaaaaags.

Television

• SOIL (2010)

What the heck did I just watch? (in a good way)

• Ju-On: Origins (2020)

Competent horror show. Not great, not bad, imo.

Im bored and I wanna watch some scary movies and I came across Sadako but idk which order to watch them in since there's alot of films and google wont give me an answer- Soo I just wanted to ask which order to watch the sadako movies in! :D

Its a Japanese horror movie that Im almost 100% sure was called "Campus Ghost Stories" but I cant find it on Google so I must be wrong. It was split into two tales: the first was about a girl with an evil doppelganger who crushed on a guy, and the second was about a... evil presence haunting an apartment? Anyway Im going back on old films I watched for nostalgia's sake. It honestly wasnt that scary to me but Id still love to know what movie I watched, and maybe watch it again

Please help me, thank you

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New 45 minutes movie by the same director as Cure and Pulse, as well as other movies I still have to check out (Charisma and Retribution look really interesting). The same eerie atmosphere with themes about alienation is present here, this time through a sound that makes people go mad in ways the film never really explains (which is a positive, I tend to dislike exposition dumps).

Like in Pulse, a couple scenes here are really really creepy even though nothing egregious is actually happening, it just speaks volumes of Kurosawa's command of space and sound. Every interaction in this short movie is just slightly off, feeding into that vibe of complete alienation in modern society, even when we don't really realize it. On top of that, we have an abstract horror spreading around, but unlike Pulse we don't really see how (also due to the shorter nature of this movie, that by the way makes it really easy to rewatch).

As far as subtle horror goes, I struggle to think of someone doing it better than this guy, though I'm open to recommendations.

Potentially my film of the year, tied with Terrifier 3 for VERY different reasons. It just depends whether I'm in the mood for a glorious practical gorefest or for an eerie and dreary piece, but I'm lucky we got both this year, and I'm ultimately glad that dark and uncomfortable cinema is still alive these days.

I'm looking for a Japanese Anthology short, can't find it anymore on YT or Dailymotion, here's the story goes.

A night class had just finished, and all the students were heading home. One girl realized she’d left something in the classroom and decided to go back when she saw the lights were still on. As she entered the room, she noticed another student sitting by the window. But as she approached, she realized it was only half of a body. She rushed down each floor, but the ghost followed her.

Please help me. Thanks a lot