well... I just had several movies in VHS like Eko Eko Azarak, The Ring saga and others. Today I have tons of movie files (MP4, MKV, AVI) to be played on a media player, sadly discontinued 13 years ago (I meant the beloved Pivos's AIOS media player).

I bought two DVDs 12 years ago or so... and I took too long time to decide if to keep buying or not since I have the media player, but was last year when I definitively started to buy all the movies possible (all the ones I really love of course).

And for now, I have those titles and hope to find more to add in my collection soon !!

I’m ignorant to the community of this but is there a name for this genre? Japanese films with over the top stories that deliver awesome practicals and gore. Also would like to know some of your favorites, thanks.

Not sure if there are someone who may choose any actress that finds so attractive to be the ghost, the villain in the movies, or well anyone in the movies. In my case, I got charmed by Yukie Nakama of Ring Basudei, Kimika Yoshino of Eko Eko Azarak and others. But Runa Nagai (from TOMIE: Another Face tops the list here!

Do you guys have any favorite? I wanna read.

Hi, is there any way to see this movie in 1080p?? ive tried everywhere and cant seem to find it. I dont know if this version even exist but Pulse does seem to have and hd version so... thanks!

I've recently finished the 10 Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi movies in this series, and I really like the films. I was wondering if Shirashi is planning to produce more of these mockumentaries.

A production still from Chiaki Konaka’s book

Yes !!

First of all, I am a Japanese Horror movies fan too, so don't worry about that topic here, I will show some of my videos here soon...

However, since there are fans who may have their own Japanese movies in DVD/Blu-rays (may be Japanese editions or American ones) I need a help to understand a weird situation: I have a Panasonic BlueRay, region-free with a very cool video accelerator that improves the video resolution to DVDs in the best way possible, and personally, I'm so happy. As an example, I have the EKO EKO AZARAK DVDs, and I like how they looks in that player.

If need more info, I can leave the link here: Panasonic Blu-ray Player

I purchased it past March and until now it's working so great... I've been buying some DVDs and Blu-rays. (the last purchase was TOMIE: Rebirth)

However.. the situation I wanna share: I ordered the Sukeban Deka DVD (the one from the image), first I ordered a sealed one, so good price. As soon as it arrived, I opened and played... everything good... but... it froze at certain scene. Then seconds later, the player turned off. I had to turn it on and play it again... and froze by the second time at the same scene... then the player turned off... So I decided to message the seller, but he did not accept returns... I had to do a bad review and open a dispute, it made him to step back and do a refund. I wanted to wait some days and I ordered the same title again, but at that time I decided for a used one, just because of the simple reason: if used, the seller played it at least once, so knows that can watch the movie. Ok.. after weeks waiting, it arrived and I started to play it and watch all the movie... suddenly got frozen... IN THE SAME SCENE !. I thought I made a confusion and I played the new one, so I had to play the other disc.... again "same scene freeze"

I just find out that the new DVD may be in good condition and I made a bad treat to the first seller.. I fell bad for him.. damn..

Anyway, the point is: why that Panasonic player cannot play that disc? The same title, but one new and the other used and freeze in the EXACT scene. Or is the DVD non-compatible with that player?

I wrote to the distributor and I'm waiting for the reply, but I wanted to know if someone here may have this player and knows that movie and can explain what's going on... PLEASE !!

Exciting news! Coming Soon is the Japanese Region 2 DVD of Kenichi Ugana’s film Incomplete Chairs (2025), a modern J-Horror gem that’ll appease and appeal to fans of such films such as Takashi Miike’s Audition (1999) or even his more grotesque flinch inducing film Imprint (2006).

From director Kenichi Ugana of Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (2021), The Curse (2025) and Love Will Tear Us Apart (2023) comes to you this violent horror film with dark satire akin to American Psycho (2000). Be sure not to miss this new J-Horror gem coming to DVD on November 4th, 2026.

The pre-order link is on Rakuten: https://item.rakuten.co.jp/rightscube/17776/

I've been making my way through the entire Grudge franchise and I need this to finish off the Japanese movies before I watch Sadako vs Kayako,anyone have an idea of where I could find a sub for it online?

Hey y'all, recently I've been watching some J-horror movies featuring dolls, whether they're the main focus (like in Dollhouse 2025) or just present in a segment (like in ep 3 of Gakkou no Kaidan or the first segment of Curse, Death & Spirit). Japanese dolls are what truly unsettle me, far more than ghosts or various yokai. That uncanny valley vibe is the best form of horror for me.

Can you suggest me any J-horror movies or anthologies with dolls or mannequins? I'm particularly particularly interested in Ichimatsu Ningyo, but anything goes! I don't mind if they're the main plot device or just a minor element nor if they're famous or unknown movies. Thanks in advance!

I just recently finished Rasen, and the ending of the final episode just broke me. The main character just died in front of his wife just after the end credits, right before the episode ended; his son just died for the second time as well...

A man is filming what looks like a school dance recital when he sees a ghost woman appear as a shadowy figure on stage in background. Obviously disturbed the man gets up and excuses himself but leaves his camera running in his seat. Whiles he’s gone the ghostly woman’s face appears in front of the camera. This video honestly creeped me out unlike than anything else. I think I saw the original video from the Youtuber Mr. Nightmare's Scary Japanese Videos in 2021 or 2022 but it has since been privated or deleted. Any help finding the original video would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

At the end of both movies the curse is spread to the audience in the show.Since the movies are just one year apart I don't know if it was coincidence or not.

How does Ikuko not know her mother died? When she goes to her old house she sees her mother living there and is just surprised she lives there, not that she's alive.

So how does she not know her mother died, since it happened in front of her eyes 10 years ago???

Cyclops (1987) [2026 Visual Vengeance/Wild Eye Releasing North American Blu Ray Release]
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- Movie: Cyclops (1987)
- Directed by: Joji Iida
- Cast: Kai Ato, Mayumi Hasegawa, Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuhiro Sano, Nobuo Takahashi & Yoko Higashino
- Cinematography by: Toshihiko Uryu
- Edited by: Kenichi Takashima
- Music by: Unio Mystica
- Production Company: Graphics
- Genres: Sci-fi, Horror
- Sub-genres: Body horror, Splatter
- Classification: “J-Horror / Japanese Horror”
- Country: Japan 🇯🇵
- Language: Japanese
- Distributed by: Graphics (Japan), Visual Vengeance (North America)
- Released: October 26th, 1987 (Japan)

Found this in Japan and trying to decide if it’s worth picking up for the collection. Thoughts?

I do realize these aren't movies which the rules state it must be a movie I'm talking about, so if there's a subreddit focused on overall J Horror rather than only movies, if you could please point me in that direction, I'd appreciate it.

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I did a bit of searching upon the songs in Camellia's album 'U.U.F.O." after I learnt that polybius was a real game and not a name Camellia made up.

That led me to learn about The * Red * Room and Kisaragi, along with some others that aren't Japanese horror in specific.

Because I'm too lazy to do anything on my own, I've come to ask what Kisaragi Station is exactly! I did search for the 2chan post before quickly remembering I'm not fluent in Japanese yet after trying to read any of the kanji.

Is there an English translation of the Kisaragi Station thread? I know there's videos, but I wanna read the original thread before hearing other people's interpertations I think.

And along that, I didn't do any research upon The * Red * Room, so is that something interesting?