The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve points within the virtual reality video game called Avalon.
Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies.
That day, the time stopped, but pushed a couple to make a move. The husband looked for his wife, and the wife looked for herself. They get separated and got reunited. Again, at the same place.
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
Misa Kuroi is a good witch, but wherever she goes, evil follows. When a dying girl appears out of nowhere shouting Misa's name, our heroine goes to work. Following the clues, Misa transfers to the prestigious Saint Salem School for Girls and joins the Drama Club. Soon all the girls depart for a mysterious Drama Camp, deep in the woods.
Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the young audiotypist after apparently having trouble with an ill-fitting shoe over her cast. After helping her back to her feet, Kazuko follows Tamaki back to her apartment, the two of them barely exchanging words. Once in Tamaki's room, Kazuko is dispatched on an errand to fetch some beer... Their game begins..
Kazuya (27), an office worker, is what is called a "good listener" who listens to his parents. One day, however, he happens to stop by a café and falls in love at first sight with Reiko (47), who works there, but Reiko is divorced, has a child, and suffers from dementia. Kazuya's selfish feelings lead to encounters and experiences with various people, and he realizes true love.
College student Sakura (Rikka Ihara) has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend Satoshi (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along with another childhood friend, Nozomi (Shiori Akita), he invites her to come work a part-time job at a resort inn on an island. The inn is normally run by a husband-and-wife couple, along with a part-timer named Iwasaki.
A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.
This is the third in a series of hair-raising omnibus horror stories from Japan's most famous horror storyteller, Junji Inagawa. Matsukawa is guided by Shinohara, the manager of a business partner, to a certain bar in Kamata. Sitting next to him is a pale, quiet woman. Shinohara tells him that there is a restaurant where a woman's ghost appears. At first Matsukawa makes fun of Shinohara's story, but...
A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.
"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters", a feature film which was made using a new technique called superlive-mation. It combined fact and fiction to tell daring stories of professional grifters, leaving viewers with a feeling of nostalgia for the Showa era. Following that, another movie has been completed. This new live-action film, "Eat and Run - 6 Beautiful Grifters" was made with the objective of filming its main actresses as beautifully as possible. The film is made up of six episodes directed by five different directors who rose to the challenge, two of which star Oshii himself.
Junior high school student Yuki, a member of a travelling theater troupe, changes schools every month for performances. Because of this, he does not expect to meet people at any of his schools and does not try to make friends. However, when he attends a new school, his homeroom teacher asks him to deliver something to a classmate who hasn't been coming to school, but has excellent grades. By chance, he becomes friends with him, and Ken's ex-girlfriend Maya joins them, and as the three of them spend more and more time together, Yuki begins to wish that they could see him on stage as an actor.
The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped going to school because she is being bullied. One day, they discover that Nariyuki has quit his job. As Nariyuki decides to find a new job along with Sugina, Yoshiko, a firm believer in a life based on the company, soon finds her world falling apart.
A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
When a visitor from the future shows up at school and instigates a reign of terror, a small group of students must find a way to stop the horror from spreading.
An unfaithful husband discovers a dark side to his wife that proves to be very frightening.
When Yura's family moves from Tokyo to the countryside, he enters a Christian school, a religion he knows nothing about. Yura struggles to understand the school structure and student behavior when a miniature Jesus enters his life.
Saburo Okouchi (Hideo Ishiguro), is your somewhat shy, but otherwise average, teen entering high school. Unfortunately for Saburo, his two older brothers left a looming legacy at the high school. His brothers were legendary troublemakers and now Saburo takes the crown of "elite yankee."
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.
A pair of men and women ran off from a sanatorium where personality fusion treatment for patients with multiple personality disorder was being performed. The man had five personalities and the woman had eight personalities.
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Documentary Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Aspiring celebrity Yahiro Kuwata moves to Tokyo and becomes a "Cursed Property Resident Talent," living in haunted locations for TV and social media. As he hops between eerie apartments, an old inn, and a séance-filled share house, he uncovers the dark mysteries hidden within. But his extreme sensitivity to spirits makes him an easy target for relentless supernatural attacks. In one particular cursed property, he stumbles upon an unimaginable horror and a shocking truth that will change everything.
Yuji and Yuriko's peaceful life shatters when an old diary belonging to Yuji's great-uncle Sadaichi, who died in the war, is discovered. The pages are full of an obsession with life... and one strange phrase: "I want to devour the bird—Hikuidori." From that day on, eerie phenomena start to haunt those connected to the diary. As the nightmare deepens, a strong will to live—once buried with Sadaichi—begins to twist the past and bleed into reality.
This is the story of beginning of Tomioka Silk Mill in Meiji Era. Young Ladies who came from all over Japan struggle to obtain skills of yarn-making and they matured through various experiences at the Mill.
Yosuke Shinkai is haunted by a past he cannot recall - and a body that is rapidly decomposing. He is a living corpse, unclear who he is or why he has been brought back to life only to suffer again a slow gruesome death. Based on the 1986 horror manga by Hideshi Hino.
Mikio, the former manager of a shuttered movie theater, begins tracing his origins when its building is slated for demolition and redevelopment. His high school best friend, Nobuhiro, struggles to face his father’s advancing dementia. Old things fade away, and new things are born. Every day unfolds as a fleeting moment in a city undergoing constant change.
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.