Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Japanese monster movies (2 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "Japanese horror films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 201 total.
Highest-grossing Japanese films in Japan by distributor rentals up until 1996 Year Title Japanese box office (est.) Format Rentals Gross receipts Admissions Ref. 1950: The Munekata Sisters: ¥83,780,000: Unknown Unknown [73] Live-action 1951: The Tale of Genji: ¥141,050,000: Unknown Unknown 1952: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice: ¥ ...
House (Japanese: ハウス, Hepburn: Hausu) is a 1977 Japanese comedy horror film directed and produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi.It is about a schoolgirl traveling with her six friends to her ailing aunt's country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.
Several other Asian countries have also remade Japanese horror films. For example, South Korea created their own version of the Japanese horror classic Ring , titled The Ring Virus . In 2007, Los Angeles –based writer-director Jason Cuadrado released the film Tales from the Dead , a horror film in four parts that Cuadrado filmed in the United ...
Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ, Noroi) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed and co-written by Kōji Shiraishi.It stars Jin Muraki as Masafumi Kobayashi, a paranormal researcher investigating a series of mysterious events for a documentary.
Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese neo-noir psychological horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Dōguchi and Yukijirō Hotaru. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each ...
In Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave the film a rating of 3 out of 10, calling it a "feeble Japanese remake" with "no atmosphere". [2] The Guardian was more positive, listing it as one of the best Japanese horror films.
Ju-On: The Grudge is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. It is the third installment in the Ju-On series and the first to be released theatrically (the first two being direct-to-video productions). It stars Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Takashi Matsuyama and Yui Ichikawa.