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- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsNobuko MiyamotoShingo YamashiroNokkoA TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
- DirectorHideo NakataStarsYûrei YanagiYasuyo ShirashimaKei IshibashiA filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.
- DirectorTatsushi ÔmoriStarsHirofumi AraiJoe HyûgaMansaku IkeuchiA child's horrific murder brings to light the haunted truth of an affair between her mother and a neighbor. As a magazine reporter investigates the case, he finds that nothing is as it seems.
- DirectorYoshihiro HoshinoStarsKyôko AkibaYumeaki HirayamaTakaaki IwaoEmployees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsLily FrankySakura AndôKirin KikiOn the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
- DirectorJunta YamaguchiStarsKazunari TosaRiko FujitaniGôta IshidaA cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYumi AdachiHideko HaraFûju KamioOne day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
- DirectorToshiharu IkedaStarsMiyuki OnoAya KatsuragiHitomi KobayashiA late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsBilly DragoShihô HarumiMichiéIn the 1800s, an American returns to Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with, but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsBeckyBengalMasayuki DeaiA young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsAyaka MiyoshiRyôta BandôTsuyoshi FurukawaAfter her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as 'Howling Village' to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family's dark history.
- DirectorJirô NagaeStarsYua AshiharaAyaka KikuchiEiji MoriyamaThe sukima onna is a spirit that lives in the crevices between things. It will pull you in and you may never escape.
- DirectorRyôhei WatanabeStarsHiroki HorikawaGôta IshidaJûzô KakeiBecause of her last name "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and her appearance, Misa's high school classmates call her "Pooh" disparagingly. She obviously has no friends and can only let down her guard around her pet parrot and the goldfish in the science room at school. But then she finds herself quickly becoming best friends with Izumi, a cute and popular classmate. Although somewhat puzzled by Izumi's interest in her, Misa is excited about having a friend for the first time ever. But Izumi's initial angelic demeanor gradually transforms into a demonic one.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHidetoshi NishijimaYûko TakeuchiToru BabaTakakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsShôta SometaniNijirô MurakamiRyunosuke KamikiA group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsHiroki HasegawaKumiko AsôMotoki FukamiBullied and diminished by his fellow employees, demure and bashful Ryoichi Suzuki finds support in an unusual friendship with a turtle. Together they will share many adventures and finally conquer the world.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsErika SawajiriGô AyanoKôsuke ToyoharaA down-and-out man finds a new job in Tokyo's red-light district as a scout who recruits women to work in the adult-entertainment business.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsMika AkizukiTokio EmotoMotoki FukamiAfter receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKô ShibasakiHideaki ItôEbizô IchikawaFiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
- DirectorAtaru OikawaStarsHisako ShirataMinamiAnri BanA young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
- DirectorTakeshi FurusawaStarsErika SawajiriChinatsu WakatsukiShun OguriOn her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
- DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYûya YagiraMisako RenbutsuDaniel GarciaA group of teenagers take a sick girl to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth.
- DirectorToshiharu IkedaStarsKozue AyuseHyôe EnokiMakiko FujiiA two part horror film. The first segment deals with a teenage girl who leaves her body to torment the lovers of classmate Ryoji - whom she loves. The second segment deals with a girl's new haunted apartment.
- DirectorToshikazu NagaeStarsKôdai AsakaAnna IshibashiShimako IwaiYoko, a waitress with a dark past, and her boyfriend, Seiji, as well as her coworker, Daiichi, experience a series of bizarre phenomena. Everything's always a little strange in the town Funuma.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsReina TriendlMariko ShinodaErina ManoA girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she becomes less certain of who she is and her once-once normal life.