A normal human schoolgirl receives magical powers from a flower that blooms once every seven year in this magical fantasy by Japanese animator and filmmaker Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
The greatest atomic age giant monster rises from the radioactive depths and descends upon Tokyo in the 1954 classic, now restored to its original Japanese cut.
The meditative and metaphysical horror cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa made him one of the masters of modern Japanese horror. This haunting tale is one of his greatest works, perhaps his best.
What begins as a gentle romance based on a lie turns into a disturbed and disturbing psycho-horror nightmare that rockets into the Twilight Zone of obsession, sadism, and mutilation.
Hideo Nakata’s eerie 1998 thriller about a mysterious, unsettling videotape that kills everyone who watches it seven days later is an urban legend turned skin-crawling psycho-thriller.
Masaki Kobayashi’s quartet of ancient ghost stories may not be, strictly speaking, a horror film but it is breathtakingly lovely, visually composed like a painting, and suffused in sadness, regret, and loss.
Kaneto Shindo’s 1968 classic is one of the greatest of Japanese ghost stories, a horror film of elemental drive, social commentary, feminist rage, and visual grace
Kaneto Shindo’s primal classic looks like a ghost story and has the unsettling, hostile atmosphere of a horror movie but the real demons arise from the desperation and savagery of the human animal.
This unclassifiable Japanese haunted house/high school romp/demon killer/surreal fantasy film is like nothing you’ve seen before, a candy-colored style bomb of horror movie more jaw-droppingly unreal than scary.
