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Gamera (ガメラ) is a 2015 Japanese kaiju monster film directed by Katsuhito Ishii and produced by Kadokawa Pictures. It will apparently be a reboot to the Gamera series as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary …
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Ghost Theatre – aka Ghost Theater and original title: Gekijô rei – is a 2015 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Hideo Nakata (Ring; Ring 2; Dark Water; Kaidan) from a screenplay …
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Attack on Titan – aka 進撃の巨人 – “Shingeki no kyojin: Attack on Titan” – is a 2015 Japanese action-monster film directed by Shinji Higuchi for Toho Pictures. It based on the manga …
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Pacemaker Pictures Inc. was an American distribution company that specialised in releasing imported European horror movies with lurid advertising campaigns, often many years later than their initial production/release. The company …
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Corpse Party is a 2015 Japanese horror film directed by Masafumi Yamada (Hitori Kakurenbo Gekijōban, Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashi) and starring Rina Ikoma, Ryōsuke Ikeoka and Nozomi Maeda. The film is …
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Gozu – 極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 ＧＯＺＵ Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: “Yakuza Horror Theatre: Cow’s Head” – is a Japanese cult film directed by Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer) and written by Sakichi Sato. It stars Hideki …
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Godzilla is a Bandai Namco computer game for PS3 and PS4 that is released on 14th July 2015 in North America and 17th July 2015 in Europe. The game has been animated …
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Lake of Dracula is a 1971 Japanese supernatural horror film made by the Toho company following Hammer’s Gothic tradition. The film is considered the second in a trilogy of films …
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Cambiare is a bar situated in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan, the interior and sign-design of which is based on visuals from Dario Argento’s classic 1977 horror film, Suspiria. …
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Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned is a 1980 animated Japanese TV movie version of Marvel’s The Tomb of Dracula comic produced by Toei and directed by Minoru Okazaki. It was titled Yami no Teiō: …
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Hell – original title: 地獄 Jigoku and also known as Japanese Hell – is a 1999 Japanese horror film written and directed by Teruo Ishii. It is a loose remake of the 1960 film …
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Parasyte: Part 2 is the second instalment of a two-part live-action Japanese Toho adaption of Iwaaki Hitoshi’s sci-fi horror manga directed by Takashi Yamazaki from a screenplay he co-wrote with …
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‘A god incarnate. A city doomed.’ Godzilla Resurgence – aka Shin Godzilla and Shin Gojira – is a 2017 Japanese re-imagining of Toho’s most successful monster. The film was written and directed by …
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Blind Woman’s Curse – aka The Tattooed Swordswoman and 怪談昇り竜 – is a 1970 Japanese supernatural action film directed by Teruo Ishii and starring Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood), Hoki Tokuda and Makoto Satō. Akemi (Kaji) is a dragon tattooed …
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Killers – aka: キラーズ, “Kirazu” – is a 2014 Japanese-Indonesian psychological thriller film directed by The Mo Brothers (Macabre) and starring Kazuki Kitamura, Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi and Luna Maya. The story was written by Takuji …
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Over Your Dead Body – in Japanese 喰女-クイメ- aka Kuime – is a 2014 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer), and starring Ichikawa Ebizō XI and Kō Shibasaki. It was released …
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‘Soul power… soul power… come to me!’ Sweet Home (スウィートホーム Suwīto hōmu) is a 1989 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and produced by Juzo Itami. It stars Nobuko …
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Zombie TV is a 2013 Japanese action horror comedy film co-written and co-directed by Maelie Makuno, Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police; Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl; Helldriver) and Naoya Tashiro (splatter shorts: …
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Kappa (河童, “river-child”), alternatively called Kawatarō (川太郎, “river-boy”), Komahiki (“horse puller”), or Kawako (川子, “river-child”), are a yōkai (a class of supernatural monster) found in Japanese folklore, and also a cryptid. Their name comes from a mixture of the word “kawa” …
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Dead Banging – original title Metaruka and also known as Metalca – is a 2013 Japanese comedy horror film written and directed by Eiji Uchida (Greatful Dead). The movie stars Ryusuke Komakine, …
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Ju-on: Beginning of the End is a 2014 Japanese horror film and the seventh instalment of the Ju-on franchise. The film was written and directed by Masayuki Ochiai (Infection; Shutter; Haunted School: …
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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. is a 2003 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka. It was the twenty-seventh film to be released in the Japanese Godzilla series. It stars Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka, Mitsuki Koga, Plot synopsis: Mechagodzilla is undergoing …
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Godzilla: Final Wars (ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ Gojira: Fainaru Wōzu) is a 2004 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus), written by Wataru Mimura and Isao Kiriyama and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. It is the 28th installment in the Godzilla film series, and …
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‘The most colossal conflict the screen has ever known’ King Kong vs. Godzilla is a 1962 Japanese science-fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda with visual …
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Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス Supurattāhausu) is a 1988 arcade game developed and published by Namco. It is also the title of the entire series of subsequent games released in home console and personal computer formats. Due to its violent nature as well as …
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Monsterz is a 2014 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata (Ring). It is a remake of Min-suk Kim’s 2010 film Haunters. It stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takayuki Yamada, Satomi Ishihara, Tomorowo Taguchi, and Motoki …
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Evil Dead Trap is a 1988 Japanese horror film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and produced by Japan Home Video. Plot: TV show host Nami asks her viewers to send their …
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‘Never a horror like it!’ Rodan (ラドン Radon) is a fictional Japanese mutated pterosaur introduced in Rodan, a 1956 release from Toho Studios, the company that produced the Godzilla series. Like Godzilla and Anguirus, he is designed after a type of prehistoric reptile (the Japanese name “Radon” …
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Sanguivorous – original title: Kyuketsu – is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Naoki Yoshimoto. It stars Masaya Adachi, Ayumi Kazizawa, Ko Murobushi and Mutsuko Yoshinaga. Review: Avant-garde cinema seems to be …
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Exte: Hair Extensions is a 2007 Japanese horror film written and directed by Sion Sono (The Suicide Club). The movie stars Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, and Megumi Satō. The title is a Japanese slang shortening of …
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction horror film about a businessman who accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist; the latter gets his revenge by slowly turning …
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Nezulla (Saikyôjû tanjô Nezura; also known as Nezulla: The Rat Monster) is a 2002 Japanese direct-to-video horror film written and directed by Kanta Tagawa. It stars Ayumi Tokitou, Yoshiyuki Kubota,and Mika Katsumura. In Japan, a U.S. …
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The Human-Faced Dog – original title: ザ・人面犬 aka The Jin-Men-Ken – is a 1990 Japanese fake documentary film about an urban myth. Dave Jackson from the wonderfully entertaining blog Mondo Exploito explains: Look at …
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Zombie Hunter Rika aka Zombie Killer Rika and High School Girl Rika: Zombie Hunter is a 2008 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Ken’ichi Fujiwara and co-written with Takeyuki Morikaku. The movie stars Lisa Kudô (as Risa Kudô playing …
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The Complex (original title: クロユリ団地 Kuroyuri danchi) is a 2013 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata (Ring, Ring 2, Dark Water) from a screenplay by Junya Kato and Ryuta Miyake. Plot: Asuka (Atsuko Maeda), a young …
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla is a 1974 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda and featuring special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film stars Gorō Mutsumi, Hiroshi …
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‘1400 pounds of frozen fury that moves like a man!’ Half Human is a 1955 tokusatsu film made by Toho’s Godzilla production team, consisting of Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Tomoyuki Tanaka. This was …
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Aku no Kyōten (悪の教典 literally, “Lesson of Evil”), known in English as Lesson of Evil and Lesson of the Evil is a 2012 Japanese slasher thriller film directed by Takashi Miike, starring Hideaki Itō, Takayuki Yamada and Mitsuru Fukikoshi. It is …
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Sadako 3D 2 is a 2013 Japanese horror film directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa based on a novel by Kôji Suzuki. The film stars Miori Takimoto, Satomi Ishihara, Kôji Seto and Yûsuke Yamamoto. It is slated for an August 30th release …
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Godzilla vs. Gigan is a 1972 Japanese science-fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film starred Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi and Minoru Takashima. The 12th film of the Godzilla series, this film …
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Deadball (デッドボール Deddobōru) is a 2011 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Yudai Yamaguchi. The film stars Tak Sakaguchi as Jubeh Yakyu, a seventeen-year-old who accidentally kills his father with his extra powerful baseball arm. Years later, …
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Dagora, the Space Monster is a 1964 tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios. It was directed by the “Golden Duo” of director Ishirō Honda and special-effects …
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The Living Skeleton (aka Kyûketsu Dokuro-Sen/Bloodsucking Skeleton Ship/Vampire Skeleton Ship/Vampire Skull Ship/Living Skeleton) is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Hiroshi Matsuno and produced by Shochiku. It was written by …
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Jigoku – 地獄, “Hell”, also titled The Sinners of Hell, is a 1960 Japanese horror film, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and starring Utako Mitsuya and Shigeru Amachi. Jigoku was re-made in …
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Saiyūki – original title: 西遊記 – also known by its British title Monkey, is a Japanese television fantasy drama based on the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by …
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Godzilla is a 30-minute animated series co-produced between Hanna-Barbera Productions and Toho in 1978 and aired on NBC in the United States and TV Tokyo in Japan. The series is an animated adaptation of the Japanese Godzilla films produced by Toho. It continued to air until 1981. Derided by many aficionados …
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Vengeance Is Mine is a 1979 film directed by Shōhei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryuzo Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi (played by Iwao Enokizu …
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The Coffin Bank is a horror-themed piggy bank that seems to have first been made by Yonezawa Toys (also known as Yone) in Japan in the 1950’s and were a …
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Horrors of Malformed Men is a 1969 Japanese horror film directed by Teruo Ishii from works by Edogawa Rampo. The movie is considered a precursor to Toei’s ventures into the …
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Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film produced by Toho and directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on four stories from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folk tales, …
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