残穢: 住んではいけない部屋 – Zan’e: Sunde wa Ikenai Heya(“Impurity – The Forbidden Room”)Japan 2015, Dir. Yoshihiro Nakamura Yuko Takeuchi – NovelistAi Hashimoto – Kubo Architecture student Kubo (Ai Hashimoto) suspects her new apartment to be haunted and asks a horror novelist (the late Yuko Takeuchi) for help. Together they try to get to the bottom of … Read more
“きさらぎ駅” – Kisaragi EkiJapan 2022, Dir. Jiro Nagae Yuri Tsunematsu – Haruna TsutsumiMiyu Honda – Asuka MiyazakiEriko Sato – Sumiko Hayama For the uninitiated, “Kisaragi station” is allegedly a mysterious train station somewhere in the Japanese countryside. It was first heard of in an internet post on the “2chan” forum in 2004. In the post, … Read more
来る – KuruJapan 2018, Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima Junichi Okada – NozakiNana Komatsu – Makoto HigaTakako Matsu – Kotoko HigaSatoshi Tsumabuki – Hideki TaharaHaru Kuroki – Kana TaharaMunetaka Aoki – Daigo Tsuda The perfect domestic dream of married couple Hideki and Haru is destroyed when an entity from Hideki’s past threatens to possess their young daughter … Read more
クロユリ団地 – Kuroyuri Danchi(“Kuroyuri Complex”)Japan 2013, Dir. Hideo Nakata Atsuko Maeda – Asuka NinomiyaHiroki Narimiya – Shinobu SasaharaKanau Tanaka – Minoru Time has stopped for the ghosts. Yours is moving forward. Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda, formerly of AKB48) moves into the run-down and allegedly haunted Kuroyuri apartment complex with her parents and her brother … Read more
樹海村 – Jukai Mura(“Jukai / Sea of Trees Village”)Japan 2021, Dir. Takashi Shimizu Mayu Yamaguchi – MeiAnna Yamada – HibikiJun Kunimura – Mr. Iguchi Jukai Village is supposedly hidden inside the famous “suicide forest” of Aokigahara nearby Mt. Fuji, “jukai” (literally “sea of trees”) being another name for the place. It’s said that whoever ventures … Read more
犬鳴村 – Inunaki Mura(“Inunaki Village”)Japan 2019, Dir. Takashi Shimizu Ayaka Miyoshi – KanadeRyota Bando – YumaTsuyoshi Furukawa – Kenji Inunaki village (literally “crying dog village”) is the subject of a famous urban legend, located in the mountain of Fukuoka Prefecture, that was supposedly flooded during a dam construction. When her brother Yuma disappears after a … Read more
真・鮫島事件 – Shin・Samejima Jiken(“The True Samejima Incident”)Japan 2020, Dir. Jiro Nagae Rena Takeda – NanaGaku Sano – Masaki Sakurako Konishi – Fumi Nana and her high school friends Fumi, Suzu, Ayumi, Ryo and Yuki are holding an online meeting, but when one of them turns up dead, the remaining friends realize something is amiss. That … Read more
としまえん (Toshimaen)2019, Hiroshi Takahashi Rie Kitahara – SakiArisa Komiya – YukaFujiko Kojima – Anju The movies starts with a group of urban explorers investigating the rumor of the haunted house at Toshimaen theme park. It is said that a curse befalls you if you knock on the door three times. Those urban explorers are never … Read more
事故物件: 恐い間取り – Jiko Bukken: Kowai Madori(“Stigmatized Properties: Scary Spaces”)2020, Hideo Nakata Kayuza Kamenashi – Yamame YamanoKoji Seto – NakaiNao Honda – Azusa “Stigmatized properties” are houses where a murder, suicide, death or other unpleasant incident occurred, and are often considered to bring bad luck or even be haunted. After the breakup of his highly … Read more
