Japanese Horror Movies

The Japanese have been known for shocking audiences with their graphic representations of spirits and poltergeists. They've never failed to harness that scare factor from the people watching their movies, because everything is planned out to build up to something horrifying. If there ever was a film genre of the Japs that made it big, it was horror.

Movies like 'One Missed Call', 'The Ring', 'The Grudge', and so on, are all US remakes, trying to capture and redo what the Japanese could only amplify. Nothing beats a great Japanese horror movie compilation, that is both spine tingling and hair-raising. Find out here which movies are still hot on the charts, when it comes to the Japan's best.

These are some of the scariest Japanese horror films to hit the movie scene, which you are sure to enjoy if you haven't watched any of these yet.

A widower is given a chance to select a new bride based on auditions after losing his wife, watching as his son moves away from home after her death. The new bride is selected through a friend and film producer who makes him choose her according to his liking, where they are then put in a movie. Not aware that there is no movie intended, he later discovers that a sinister plot is about to unfold.

Reiko, who is a reporter, finds herself amidst a baffling case of deaths, after victims watch a video tape, dying exactly one week after. Her cousin Tomoko was also one of the people who died after viewing the contents on the tape. She teams up with ex-husband Ryuji to solve the mystery behind the tape, leading them to an Island, and a girl named Sadako.

Cleverly adapted by the English version 'Dark Water', this movie revolves around the strange incidents that take place in Yoshimi's new apartment, where a little girl and her red bag randomly seem to appear in places. She later discovers why this happens, unraveling the shocking story that ensues.

A strange suicide scenario unfolds when 54 students together jump off a platform in Shinkuju station, Tokyo, where detective Kuroda is following on a lead from a woman called 'The Bat', who tries to give them clues about the deaths of those who died in the suicide.

Kakihara who is heading a gang of loyalists, is searching for a man named Anjo, who takes off with 3 million yen. Using brutal means to search for him, he comes face to face with his frightening opposition, who is a psychopathic killer named 'Ichi', on his conquest to find Anjo.

There's a whole lot more when it comes to the best Japanese movies covering the horror genre. Be sure to check out some of the top horror movies to have graced the gore and frightening silver screen.

• Tales from the Dead
• Ju-on
• Kairo
• Uzumaki
• Jisatsu Sakuru
• Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan
• Grotesque
• Kwaidan
• Horrors of Malformed Men
• Ayakashi
• The Curse
• Infection
• Cure

• Guinea Pig
• Ju-on 2
• Noroi
• Pyrokinesis
• Cursed
• Jigoku
• Eko Eko Azarak
• Naked Blood
• Marebito
• One Missed Call
• One Missed Call 2
• One Missed Call - Final
• Tokyo Gore Police
• Dark Tales of Japan
• Carved

• Jisatsu Saakuru
• Onibaba
• Tetsuo
• Gakko No Kaidan
• Parasite Eve
• Sweet Home
• Versus
• Kakashi
• Unholy Women
• Reincarnation
• Shikoku
• Voice
• Tomie

I hope that you get down to watching all these movies, because without these, there would be no real horror movies without it being Japanese inspired.