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Horror From The East...

by Dethcharm • Created 4 years ago • Modified 3 months ago
Few events have influenced modern horror films more than the Asian horror boom of the late 1990's and the early 2000's. Here are some fan favorites -as well as some lesser known titles- from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore. As an added bonus, some older classics will also be added from time to time...
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  • Eihi Shiina in Audition (1999)

    1. Audition

    19991h 55m1870Metascore
    7.1 (95K)
    A widower has his film producer friend organize a fake audition as a means of helping him find a new girlfriend, but the woman he selects is not who she appears to be.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyô IshibashiEihi ShiinaTetsu Sawaki
  • Ring (1998)

    2. Ring

    19981h 36m15
    7.2 (82K)
    When her niece is found dead along with three friends after viewing a supposedly cursed videotape, reporter Reiko sets out to investigate. She finds the tape, watches it and receives a phone call informing her that she'll die in a week.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsNanako MatsushimaMiki NakataniYûko Takeuchi
  • Pulse (2001)

    3. Pulse

    20011h 59m1568Metascore
    6.5 (29K)
    Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
    DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsHaruhiko KatôKumiko AsôKoyuki
  • Ju On: The Grudge (2002)

    4. Ju On: The Grudge

    20021h 32m1548Metascore
    6.7 (51K)
    A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa Uehara
  • Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)

    5. Ju-On: The Grudge 2

    20031h 32m15
    6.3 (12K)
    As their curse spreads on, the ghosts find their chance to live once again through the pregnancy of a cursed woman.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsNoriko SakaiChiharu NiiyamaKei Horie
  • Hitomi Kuroki in Dark Water (2002)

    6. Dark Water

    20021h 41m15
    6.7 (36K)
    A mother going through a divorce moves into a run down apartment with her daughter. A persistent leak from above, visions of a missing girl, and other eerie phenomena become increasingly menacing as clues to a past tragedy come to light.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei Oguchi
  • Yogen (2004)

    7. Yogen

    20041h 35m12
    6.2 (4.7K)
    A newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
    DirectorNorio TsurutaStarsHiroshi MikamiNoriko SakaiMaki Horikita
  • Bûsu (2005)

    8. Bûsu

    20051h 13mNot Rated
    6.4 (475)
    Shogo (Ryuta Sato), the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of Studio 6, a creepy and dilapidated booth abandoned since its last DJ committed suicide several years ago. Suddenly, Shogo begins receiving disturbing calls, the voice on the line whispers "Liar" over and over. Is the joke on him, has someone discovered the truth about his sinister past, or has the curse of Studio 6 been unleashed again? In this Booth, all sins will be atoned for.
    DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraStarsMaiko AsanoMakoto AshikawaMansaku Ikeuchi
  • Akumu tantei (2006)

    9. Akumu tantei

    20061h 46mUnrated
    6.0 (2.9K)
    Three lonely individuals in Tokyo contemplate suicide, their lives intertwining through surreal dreams and nightmares until a shocking event changes everything.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsRyûhei MatsudaHitomiMasanobu Andô
  • Ab-normal Beauty (2004)

    10. Ab-normal Beauty

    20041h 41m18
    5.8 (2.6K)
    Jiney, an artist, witnesses a car crash. She photographs the victim, becoming obsessed with death. She receives a snuff video. Her friend Jas realizes it's real. Jiney gets another disturbing tape, leaving her terrified.
    DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsRace WongRosanne WongAnson Leung
  • Bloody Reunion (2006)

    11. Bloody Reunion

    20061h 33mNot Rated
    5.9 (2.7K)
    Buried grudges have disasterous consequences for a class reunion in this unapologetically bloody film from Korean director Dae-wung Lim.
    DirectorDae-wung LimStarsLee Dong-kyuJang Seong-wonSeol-ah Yu
  • Geomi sup (2004)

    12. Geomi sup

    20041h 52m15
    6.5 (2.3K)
    A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods.
    DirectorSong Il-gonStarsKam Woo-seongJung SuhKang Kyung-hun
  • Pôn (2002)

    13. Pôn

    20021h 44m15
    6.1 (5.4K)
    Investigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.
    DirectorByeong-ki AhnStarsHa Ji-WonKim Yu-miChoi Woo-jae
  • Three... Extremes (2004)

    14. Three... Extremes

    20042h 6mR66Metascore
    6.9 (21K)
    An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.
    DirectorsFruit ChanPark Chan-wookTakashi MiikeStarsBai LingLee Byung-hunKyôko Hasegawa
  • The Eye (2002)

    15. The Eye

    20021h 39m1566Metascore
    6.6 (31K)
    A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she will be able to see again. She gets more than she bargained for upon realizing she can also see ghosts.
    DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsAngelica LeeChutcha RujinanonLawrence Chou
  • Akasia (2003)

    16. Akasia

    20031h 43m15
    5.6 (2.1K)
    After unsuccessfully trying to have a baby of their own, Dr. Kim Do-il and his father convince his wife Choi Mi-sook to adopt a child in an orphanage. Mi-sook is connected to arts and chooses the six years Kim Jin-sung that loves to draw trees. The boy becomes close to the eight years old next door neighbor Min-jee and is attracted to an old Acacia tree in their lawn. When Mi-sook unexpectedly gets pregnant, her mother asks her to return Jin-sung to the orphanage, beginning the rejection process of the boy. When the baby is born, Mi-sook does not treat Jin-sung well, who believes the acacia tree is his mother, and in a rainy night he vanishes. Along the next days, the family becomes insane, disclosing a dark secret about Jin-sung.
    DirectorKi-hyeong ParkStarsShim Hye-jinKim Jin-geunMoon Oh-bin
  • The Maid (2005)

    17. The Maid

    20051h 33mNot Rated
    5.7 (1.4K)
    "Every year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking revenge and justice before the gates of hell are closed again for another year." The eighteen years old Rosa Dimaano arrives in Singapore from Philippines to give support to her family working as a maid in the house of the artists of a Chinese opera troupe Mr. and Mrs. Teo on the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. She is welcomed by the family and introduced to their friends and their retarded son Ah-Soon. Later, Mrs. Teo advises her about their beliefs and how the dead should be respected and honored along the seventh month. However, Rosa sweeps their offer on the sidewalk breaking a basic rule and offending the spirits, and she is haunted by ghosts everywhere. When Ah-Soon calls her Esther Santos and she finds some belongings of the unknown Esther in the house, she discloses a dark and scary secret about the past of her masters.
    DirectorKelvin TongStarsAlessandra De RossiHuifang HongBenny Soh
  • Cello (2005)

    18. Cello

    20051h 34m15
    5.9 (2.8K)
    10 years ago, Mi-ju lost her ambition to become a cellist when her entire family was brutally murdered. Due to the trauma, she now leads a quiet life as a teacher with her husband and children. However, dreadful events begin to occur.
    DirectorLee Woo-cheolStarsSung Hyun-ahPark Da-anJeong Ho-bin
  • Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)

    19. Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman

    20071h 30m15
    5.4 (3.4K)
    A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
    DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsEriko SatôHaruhiko KatôChiharu Kawai
  • The Stranger from Afar (2004)

    20. The Stranger from Afar

    20041h 32m1850Metascore
    6.0 (5.9K)
    A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTomomi MiyashitaKazuhiro Nakahara
  • Face (2004)

    21. Face

    20041h 32mR
    5.6 (1.2K)
    Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from their skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung Sun-young comes to his house bringing the skull of a victim of a serial-killer that had her whole body melted down with acid by the murderer. Hyun-min refuses the assignment, but he is haunted by the ghost of the victim and scared he decides to reconstruct the face of the woman. When Jin has trouble with the transplanted heart, Hyun-min requests the donor case history to Dr. Yoon, but the doctor refuses to give the information, claiming confidentiality issue. Dr. Yoon becomes the prime suspect of Detective Suh, who is in charge of the investigation of the murder cases, and he discloses the identity of the victim based on the reconstructed face. Meanwhile Hyun-min has a premonition and finds another skull buried a long time ago below the sand in a field. He reconstructs the face, unraveling a supernatural secret.
    DirectorSang-gon YooStarsSong Yun-ahShin Hyeon-junKim Seung-wook
  • Kim Ha-neul in Ryeong (2004)

    22. Ryeong

    20041h 38m15
    5.9 (2.1K)
    Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins piecing together her past, revealing the event that caused her memory loss.
    DirectorTae-kyeong KimStarsKim Ha-neulNam Sang-miJeon Hye-bin
  • Gui si (2006)

    23. Gui si

    20061h 48mNot Rated
    6.4 (3.6K)
    In Taipei, the crippled scientist Hashimoto uses his invention of "Menger Sponge" to capture the energy of the spirit of a child in an old building. He invites the specialist in reading lips, Detective Tung, to join his research team that is studying the phenomenon to understand the movements of the lips of the ghost. Hashimoto is trying to disclose why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, and Tung discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy. He was sick with tumors and was killed by his own mother and buried nearby a nuclear plant. Hashimoto deduces that the rage of the boy for his mother associated to the location where the body was buried were the reason to keep the energy. When the government decides to shutdown the research, Hashimoto becomes insane and takes the spirit with him.
    DirectorChao-Bin SuStarsChang ChenYôsuke EguchiKarena Ka-Yan Lam
  • Wishing Stairs (2003)

    24. Wishing Stairs

    20031h 40m15
    5.8 (3.4K)
    A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
    DirectorJae-yeon YunStarsSong Ji-hyoPark Han-byeolJo An
  • Whispering Corridors (1998)

    25. Whispering Corridors

    19981h 45m15
    5.9 (3.6K)
    In a Korean school, students are regularly beaten and mistreated by their teachers. However, the spirit of one pupil, who died ten years ago, periodically returns in the guise of a new girl, thus able to gain a revenge on the culprits.
    DirectorKi-hyeong ParkStarsKim Gyu-riYun Ji-hyePark Jin-hee

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