Teruyoshi Ishii

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From PSYCHIC VISION: JAGANREI (1988) and straight-to-video SCARY TRUE STORIES to such key titles as RING (1998), PULSE (2001) and THE GRUDGE (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

Jessica, an American female programmer, comes to Japan to develop a cutting-edge robot for her brother Brian, who has an incurable disease that causes him to lose the use of his limbs. As the development of her robot program progresses, a series of bizarre phenomena begin to strike. In fact, Jessica has an idea about the phenomena. Before coming to Japan, a network application she had released in the U.S. had resulted in a suicide.

Jessica, an American female programmer, comes to Japan to develop a cutting-edge robot for her brother Brian, who has an incurable disease that causes him to lose the use of his limbs. As the development of her robot program progresses, a series of bizarre phenomena begin to strike. In fact, Jessica has an idea about the phenomena. Before coming to Japan, a network application she had released in the U.S. had resulted in a suicide.

"The Abashiri Family" are one of the most notorious mafia family members in the world. Even though their family consists of only five members, just the words "Abashiri Family" strikes fear in other gang members. The head of the mafia clan then decides to send to his cherished only daughter Kikunosuke to a boarding school. What the father doesn't know is that the boarding school are run by enemies of the Abashiri Family and they have no intentions of graduating their students

Yuko, a high school girl, receives a newspaper called Horror News, in which mysterious events of the future are written.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman

A compilation film consisting of 4 episodes of the Japanese TV series "1001 Nightmares".

A young boy gets caught up in the machinations of a new religious order, that seeks to revive demonic beings.

A young boy gets caught up in the machinations of a new religious order, that seeks to revive demonic beings.

Kyoko Sawai, a TV reporter, is making a report about an idol singer named Emi Kato. Emi and her staff are preparing the promotion of her next tune "Love Craft". And as spiritual accidents happen around her, Kyoko finds out that the woman who composed the tune died seven years before.

Three girls, who are would-be ‘idols’, try to train somewhere in Daikanyama, by order of a manager of secret ‘idol’ school.