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- DirectorShunichi NagasakiStarsYui NatsukawaMichitaka TsutsuiChiaki KuriyamaWhen Hinako was a child she was separated from Fumiya and Sayori as she moved to Tokyo. Now she has returned to Shikoku, but it turns out that Sayori drowned. When Hinako starts seeing Sayori in her dreams, she seeks help from Fumiya.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorAlessandro FantiniStarsSacha MuhlebachHelene SalviniLucy KingJames Hallway came to Tokyo looking for the dream and a life with his beautiful wife, Sophie. Instead he found a life of toil, torment and alcoholism. Unable to face his descent into self destruction, Sophie left, abandoning him to his downward spiral into the gutter. When things can't get any worse, his grip on reality is stolen from under him as he experiences all manner of hallucinations and ultimately a coma. When he is revived he begins to learn some terrifying truths about his condition and his connection to a long forgotten legend from ancient Japan.
- DirectorTetsuo ImazawaAnimated game similar to Dragon's Lair. In feudal Japan, young ninja Hayate must battle all sorts of monsters and avoid all sorts of traps to reach the palace where evil samurai mage holds the princess he loves.
- DirectorKimiyoshi YasudaStarsJun FujimakiMiwa TakadaMasaru HiraizumiThe local yôkai (Japanese spirits) interfere to avenge a murder and thwart the plans of corrupt officials.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyunosuke KamikiHiroyuki MiyasakoChiaki KuriyamaA young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KurodaKimiyoshi YasudaStarsKôjirô HongôPepe HozumiMasami FurukidoThe murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai (Japanese spirits.)
- DirectorYoshiyuki KurodaStarsYoshihiko AoyamaRokkô TouraAkane KawasakiWhen a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsYûta SoneKimika YoshinoShohei HinoA yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiUtako MitsuyaYôichi NumataA group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
- CreatorHiroshi ShiibashiStarsDarrel GuilbeauLiam O'BrienGrant GeorgeRikuo Nura appears to be an average middle school student. No one knows that he comes home every day to a house full of youkai, nor that he transforms into the all-powerful leader of these spirits at night. However, much to the disappointment of many, Rikuo is determined to live as normal a life as possible.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsKenji SawadaMasaki KudouHideo MurotaA goblin is sent to Earth to behead students and turn their bodies into demons.
- StarsYutaka MatsushigeRyô KaseAoba KawaiIn national broadcaster NHK's 'ghost story,' four episodes have been compiled into two films. Each story is taken from, or at least inspired by a well-known and familiar classic Japanese macabre tale involving spirits or other horror, set in various era and often updated.
- StarsShin KoyamadaLisa NakamaSakiBorn from a Coconut, IPPEI could see Nature's spirits invisible to normal human eyes. Without knowing his true ability and destiny, Ippei becomes isolated from people around him except a mythical spirit, and his only human friend KANA.
- StarsTakako HondaKurumi MamiyaTomoko KawakamiA group of school kids and a possessed cat fight ghosts in their neighborhood.
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsNorihei MikiReiko DanYasuko NakadaThe mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorKatsuhide MotokiStarsEiji WentzMao InoueRena TanakaKitaro is half-human and half-yokai (a general term for creatures and supernatural beings), orphaned as a child and dedicated to keeping the peace between the human and yokai worlds. Kitaro tries to save a high school girl named Yumeko and stop a stone with the power to control both worlds from falling into the wrong hands.
- DirectorKatsuhide MotokiStarsEiji WentzKie KitanoRena TanakaSet in the same world populated by Yokai, demon spirits with supernatural powers - Wentz Eiji of WaT reprises his role as half-human, half-yokai hero Kitaro, who takes it upon himself to resolve the problems that arise when human and Yokai collide in modern-day Japan. This time Kitaro and his friends are investigating a series of mysterious disappearances. They stumble upon a yokai conspiracy and a cursed cycle that dates back 1000 years.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsShinchô KokonteiMakoto NonomuraYuriko IshidaA community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsHiroiki AriyoshiEri FuseMaya HamaokaWhen a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShigeru AmachiNoriko KitazawaKatsuko WakasugiThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsToshio HosokawaMidori ChikumaYuriko EjimaThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsYukiko KuwaharaYukie KagawaSeizaburô KawazuAn old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaJitsuko YoshimuraKei SatôTwo women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.