Carved DVD

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been grotesquely disfigured by a jealous husband. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death. Now, one by one, children are disappearing again. As teachers and officials desperately begin to investigate, a panic begins to build as the woman’s spirit returns for some unfinished business and the town’s dark secrets are exposed.

Carved stars Eriko Sato, Haruhiko Kato.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man DVD

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese Cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. Continue reading »

 
Premonition DVD

Premonition is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tsuruta Norio and based on the manga Kyoufu Shinbun (“Newspaper of Terror”) by Jiro Tsunoda.

During an outing with his wife, Ayaka, and daughter, Nana, Hideki, a high school professor, requires a payphone which he can use to upload a file for work. While waiting in the phone booth, he finds a strange newspaper page foretelling his daughter’s death (she’s alive in the back seat, but the paper says she died at about 8:00 pm, which is the current time). Continue reading »

 
Infection DVD

Infection is a 2004 Japanese horror film, and is volume one of six in the J-Horror Theater series. The film was directed by Masayuki Ochiai as a theatrical version based on an episode of the Japanese horror TV series Yonimo Kimyō na Monogatari (Tales of the Unusual). The film takes place in an under-staffed hospital that is quickly losing money. As night begins to fall, an ambulance comes to the hospital bringing a patient with a strange black rash. Dr. Akiba refuses to admit the patient, due to the hospital being low on resources and staff. Continue reading »

 
Marebito DVD

Marebito is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is about a man named Masuoka, played by Shinya Tsukamoto, who carries a camera everywhere he goes. One day he becomes obsessed with the idea of fear when he sees a frightened man shove a knife in his eye to commit suicide. Continue reading »

 
Uzumaki DVD

Uzumaki is a Japanese horror film directed by Higuchinsky. Released in 2000, Uzumaki is based on Junji Ito’s episodic manga of the same name. The plot concerns a town infected with malevolent spirals. This abstract concept manifests in grotesque ways, such as a teenager’s long hair beginning to curl and take over her mind, or a corpse wound around itself.

Among many bizarre features of the film is a heavy treatment with green colour filters, aping the style of the colour plates in the manga. Continue reading »

 
Ringu DVD

Ringu is a 1998 Japanese horror mystery film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki, which draws from the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Otaka as members of a divorced family, each cursed by a videotape. The film is the highest grossing horror film in Japan and, according to Oricon, is considered the most frightening horror movie in Japan. Continue reading »

 
Kwaidan DVD

Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese portmanteau film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means ‘ghost story’. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folk tales. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. Kwaidan is the archaic transliteration of Kaidan, meaning “ghost story”. Continue reading »

 
Pulse (Kairo) DVD

Pulse (Kairo) is a 2001 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name, and was released in the US in 2005 as Pulse. The movie is the subject of a 2006 English language remake Pulse. Continue reading »

 
Ju-on (The Grudge) DVD

Ju-on (The Grudge) is a 2003 Japanese “J-Horror” film, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film is the third entry in the Ju-on series and is the first film theatrically released. The film was released in Japan on January 25, 2003 and has spawned several sequels and an American remake titled The Grudge which was released in 2004. Continue reading »

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