Asian movies I'd watch (mostly horror)
by Silence185 | created - 06 Sep 2014 | updated - 02 Jun 2016 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Battle Royale II (2003)
Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students is sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
Directors: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai
Votes: 21,442
2. Oldboy (2003)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok
Votes: 635,549 | Gross: $0.71M
3. Ichi the Killer (2001)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Votes: 60,035 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Onibaba (1964)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two 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.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 21,851
5. Ju-on: The Curse (2000 Video)
TV-PG | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Yue, Ryôta Koyama, Hitomi Miwa
Votes: 8,974
6. Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Mystery
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Yûrei Yanagi, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Ryôta Koyama
Votes: 4,057
7. Evil Dead Trap (1988)
Unrated | 102 min | Horror
A late night TV presenter receives a snuff tape, in which a woman is brutally killed. She decides to take a crew out to a location indicated in the tape, but only death and despair await them.
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa
Votes: 3,794
8. Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A female projectionist suddenly comes to the self-realization that she just in fact may be a serial killer responsible for brutally murdering everyone around her.
Director: Izô Hashimoto | Stars: Shoko Nakajima, Rie Kondoh, Shirô Sano, Shino Ikenami
Votes: 866
9. Shutter (II) (2004)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | Stars: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool
Votes: 49,141
10. The Eye (2002)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
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.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy
Votes: 30,071 | Gross: $0.51M
11. The Eye 2 (2004)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a failed suicide attempt, a pregnant woman gains the ability to see ghosts.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Shu Qi, Eugenia Yuan, Jesdaporn Pholdee, Thanarat Poonnarattanakul
Votes: 5,080
12. The Eye 3 (2005)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
Ted, his cousin May, her best friend April and April's boyfriend, Kofei take a vacation to Thailand to visit their Thai buddy, Chongkwai, who shows them a book of ten ways to see ghosts. And the game begins...
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Chen Bo-lin, Yan Kam Ching, Ng Wing Chuen, Leung Cjun Fai
Votes: 2,111
13. Whispering Corridors (1998)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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.
Director: Ki-hyeong Park | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Yun Ji-hye, Park Jin-hee, Choi Kang-hee
Votes: 3,498
14. Memento Mori (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Romance, Drama
In this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.
Directors: Kyu-dong Min, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Park Yejin, Lee Yeong-jin, Jong-hak Baek
Votes: 3,607
15. Kuchisake-onna (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
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.
Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana
Votes: 3,048
16. Arang (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
Veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-gi happen onto an incendiary homicide case. They discover that the present case is somehow related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years previously.
Director: Sang-hoon Ahn | Stars: So-yeong Choo, Lee Dong-wook, Lim Il-Gyu, Lee Jong-su
Votes: 1,861
17. Nightmare (2000)
R | 97 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Seven friends will die one by one for protecting a terrible secret. Can a vengeful spirit be stopped?
Director: Byeong-ki Ahn | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Ha Ji-Won, Choi Jeong-yun, Yoo Ji-tae
Votes: 999
18. Retribution (2006)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama
Votes: 3,259
19. Acacia (2003)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ki-hyeong Park | Stars: Shim Hye-jin, Jin-geun Kim, Oh-bin Mun, Na-yoon Jeong
Votes: 2,066
20. The Sylvian Experiments (2010)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Takahashi | Stars: Yôko Chôsokabe, Mina Fujii, Momoko Hatano, Tomohiro Kaku
Votes: 529
21. Marebito (2004)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa
Votes: 5,698 | Gross: $0.01M
22. Cinderella (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
The daughter of a plastic surgeon experiences strange events that seem to be connected her childhood.
Director: Man-dae Bong | Stars: Ah-yung Ahn, Gyu-ryun Ahn, Yoo Da-in, Do Ji-Won
Votes: 1,600
23. Gakkô no kaidan G (1998 TV Movie)
71 min | Horror
Features four short horror films, among those are "Katasumi" and "4444444444".
Directors: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tetsu Maeda, Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Medaka Ikeno, Aki Maeda, Masashi Muta, Shungiku Uchida
Votes: 352
24. Nagai yume (2000 TV Movie)
58 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?
Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Ken Arai, Kaei Asano, Shima Ashizawa, Eriko Hatsune
Votes: 509
25. Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
R | 101 min | Drama, Horror
Jiney is a talented student of Arts with a trauma in her childhood and lack of communication with her mother, and excellent photographer that is not satisfied with her awarded works. When ... See full summary »
Director: Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Race Wong, Rosanne Wong, Anson Leung, Michelle Yim
Votes: 2,601
26. Lady Vengeance (2005)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Nam-mi Kang, Jeong-nam Choi, Hye-Sook Go, Bok-hwa Baek
Votes: 86,083 | Gross: $0.21M
27. Wishing Stairs (2003)
R | 100 min | Horror, Drama
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.
Director: Jae-yeon Yun | Stars: Song Ji-Hyo, Park Han-byeol, Jo An, Park Ji-yeon
Votes: 3,308
28. One Missed Call 2 (2005)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto | Stars: Rie Mimura, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Chisun, Asaka Seto
Votes: 3,627
29. One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Mystery
The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
Director: Manabu Asô | Stars: Maki Horikita, Meisa Kuroki, Jang Keun-suk, Erika Asakura
Votes: 2,220
30. Apartment 1303 (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
Director: Ataru Oikawa | Stars: Noriko Nakagoshi, Arata Furuta, Eriko Hatsune, Yuka Itaya
Votes: 1,943
31. February 29 (2006)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
Ji-Yeon, a tollgate ticket girl, is frightened by a mysterious black car, which hands over a bloodstained ticket as a fee at midnight.
Director: Jong-hoon Jung | Stars: Lee An-Na, Eun-jin Baek, Son Jong Bum, Park Eun-hye
Votes: 869
32. Bloody Reunion (2006)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Buried grudges have disasterous consequences for a class reunion in this unapologetically bloody film from Korean director Dae-wung Lim.
Director: Dae-wung Lim | Stars: Lee Dong-kyu, Seong-won Jang, Seol-ah Yu, Oh Mi-hee
Votes: 2,622
33. Yogen (2004)
R | 95 min | Horror
A newspaper predicts the deaths of a man's (Hiroshi Mikami) family members and friends.
Director: Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai, Maki Horikita, Mayumi Ono
Votes: 4,603
34. Epitaph (2007)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
A series of horrifying events plague a Korean hospital in the 1940s.
Directors: Jung Bum-shik, Sik Jung | Stars: Kim Bo-kyung, Lee Dong-kyu, Kim Eung-soo, Jin Goo
Votes: 1,207
35. Phii khon pen (2006)
Not Rated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ting, an actress for murder illustration is hired to simulate a real-life murder case of Meen, a former Miss Thailand who was brutally killed. Afterwards, Ting can feel a strange ... See full summary »
Director: Monthon Arayangkoon | Stars: Pitchanart Sakakorn, Apasiri Nitibhon, Penpak Sirikul, Chokchai Charoensuk
Votes: 731
36. The Red Shoes (2005)
Not Rated | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.
Director: Yong-gyun Kim | Stars: Kim Hye-su, Kim Seong-su, Yeon-ah Park, Lee Eol
Votes: 3,184
37. Voices (2007)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
This creepy, supernatural thriller revolves around the paranoid belief that those dearest to you may want you dead.
Director: Ki-hwan Oh | Stars: Jin-Seo Yoon, Park Gi-woong, Lee Ki-woo, Yu-seon Ham
Votes: 1,416
38. Ghost of Mae Nak (2005)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror
A young couple reawaken the spirit of a famous old Thai legend.
Director: Mark Duffield | Stars: Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Siwat Chotchaicharin, Porntip Papanai, Jaran Ngamdee
Votes: 855
39. Ghost Train (2006)
92 min | Horror
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female ... See full summary »
Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto
Votes: 916
40. The Heirloom (2005)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Horror
A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house. When he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Director: Leste Chen | Stars: Terri Kwan, Jason Chang, Chia-Hui Chang, Tender Huang
Votes: 834
41. Tormented (2011)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror
Daigo doesn't go to school anymore. His sister, Kiriko, is worried and their father is no help. Now Daigo is missing. He's in danger, and Kiriko will have to follow him into a world of nightmares to discover the truth.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Hikari Mitsushima, Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa, Nao Ômori
Votes: 648
42. Gemini (1999)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masako Motai
Votes: 2,883
43. Ranpo jigoku (2005)
134 min | Fantasy, Horror
This four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo.
Directors: Akio Jissôji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Satô, Suguru Takeuchi | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Yûko Daike, Chisako Hara, Masami Horiuchi
Votes: 1,195
44. Forest of Death (2007)
R | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams cannot find the way out even with compasses. Ambitious reporter May is making sensationalist journalism ... See full summary »
Director: Danny Pang | Stars: Shu Qi, Ekin Cheng, Choi Wah 'Rain' Lee, Siu-Ming Lau
Votes: 591
45. Voice (2005)
Unrated | 104 min | Horror
While training after hours in her high-school, the aspiring singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her ... See full summary »
Director: Equan Choi | Stars: Na Eun-kyeong, Jeon Ji-ae, Seo Ji-hye, Hyeon-kyeong Lim
Votes: 1,713
46. Sorum (2001)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A 30 year old mystery resurfaces and takes over the lives of the people living in an eerie apartment complex.
Director: Jong-chan Yun | Stars: Jin-young Jang, Kim Myung-min, Jo An, Ju Bu-jin
Votes: 997
47. Cello (2005)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
A cellist is haunted by strange events after a car wreck
Director: Lee Woo-cheol | Stars: Sung Hyun-ah, Da-an Park, Jeong Ho-bin, Jin Woo
Votes: 2,773
48. The Chanting (2006)
93 min | Horror
A young college student moves to a new boarding house in a very haunted area.
Director: Rizal Mantovani | Stars: Julie Estelle, Evan Sanders, Ratu Felisha, Alice Iskak
Votes: 518
49. Dead Time (2007)
102 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A jaded cop. A narcoleptic journalist. A nation divided. A Fantasy you'd wish never come true.
Director: Joko Anwar | Stars: Donny Alamsyah, Fachry Albar, Ario Bayu, Fahrani
Votes: 1,110
50. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, Thriller
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroko Itô
Votes: 22,691
51. Phone (2002)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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.
Director: Byeong-ki Ahn | Stars: Ha Ji-Won, Kim Yu-mi, Woo-jae Choi, Ji-yeon Choi
Votes: 5,294
52. Face (2004)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sang-gon Yoo | Stars: Song Yun-ah, Shin Hyeon-jun, Kim Seung-wook, Ahn Suk-hwan
Votes: 1,217
53. Ghost Theater (I) (2015)
99 min | Horror
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Rika Adachi, Toshihito Kokubo, Keita Machida, Haruka Shimazaki
Votes: 401
54. Teketeke (2009)
70 min | Horror
A young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it .
Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Yûko Ôshima, Mami Yamasaki, Mai Nishida, Yamamoto Kazuyoshi
Votes: 657
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