Japanese Movies by Genre: Horror
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I Am a Hero (2015)
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Plot: Hideo Suzuki is an aspiring manga artist living a mundane life until one day people around him start contracting a virus called ZQN and turning into zombies. After being attacked by his own infected girlfriend, Hideo escapes with a shotgun he happens to own and goes on the run with a high school girl named Hiromi he meets along the way.While on the run, Hiromi is bitten by a ZQN-infected baby, but since the baby has no teeth, Hiromi is only partially infected herself and doesn't lose control of her mind. -
Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld (2015)
Director: Takashi Miike
Plot: Kagayama is a low-ranking yakuza who works under a boss named Kamiura, who also happens to be a vampire. An international assassin attacks Kamiura, but before dying he bites Kagayama and gives him vampiric powers. Kagayama then sets forth on a mission to avenge his dead boss. -
As the Gods Will (2014)
Director: Takashi Miike
Plot: A 2nd-year high school student named Shun Takahata lives an ordinary teenage life until one day a malevolent Daruma doll appears in front of his class and forces the students to participate in a series of children's games such as “Daruma-san ga Koronda" with death as the penalty for losing. With no knowledge of who's behind the games, he's left with no other choice but to keep winning as his only means of protecting himself and his childhood friend, Ichika. Meanwhile, a troubled classmate named Takeru seems to actually be relishing the opportunity to get other students killed. -
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Parasyte - Part 1 (2014)
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Plot: Earth is quietly invaded by alien parasites which have the ability to crawl through people's nostrils or ear canal to access their brains, eventually taking full control of their body. Shinichi Izumi manages to partially escape this fate because he happens to be wearing headphones when one of these parasites attempts to control him. The parasite, “Migi", instead takes up residence in Shinichi's right hand and the two form a symbiotic relationship with both of their personalities fully intact. Together, they fight against other parasites who devour humans as food. -
Greatful Dead (2013)
Director: Eiji Uchida
Plot: A love-hate relationship develops between a deranged young woman and an old man. Nami inherits a large sum of money, freeing up time for her to engage in a series of bizarre hobbies, including spying on lonely people like herself. One day she spies on an old man as he watches porn DVDs in his home. After witnessing this, she begins relentlessly stalking him. -
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Director: Takashi Miike
Plot: A yakuza boss goes missing and one of his underlings, Kakihara, makes it his mission to find out who's responsible. A masochist at heart, Kakihara is intrigued by the trail of blood and guts which eventually leads him to Ichi—a brain-washed killer with an immeasurable potential for destruction and a highly unstable personality to go along with it.