Japanese Horror Movies - Page 4 of 10

Shinya Tsukamoto wrote, produced, directed, edited and stars in this Japanese thriller. Goda (Tsukamoto) grieves over the suicide of his lover (Kyoka Suzuki), wondering if he might bear some responsibility. Failing to acquire a gun, he wanders Tokyo streets, meets Chisato (Kirina Mano), and is beaten by her street-gang associates. He sets out for revenge - only to receive more beatings from the gang. Made in black and white, Bullet Ballet was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival and the 1998 Toronto…

The seven videos on this brief (42 minutes) disc combine music from Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004) with recut imagery from the film. The musical styles vary from the jazzy "River of Crystals," sung in English by Kimiko Itoh, to Japanese choral chants. The viewer has a choice of listening in Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, or Digimatic Virtualizer X Enhanced Stereo. The lyrics are available in English, Japanese, and a karaoke version--each syllable lights up as the singer intones…

A group of people on a photo shoot in the woods take refuge in a dark house as a dense fog rolls in. When night falls, a mud-covered creature from the nearby swamp stalks them one by one brutally killing them and performing horrific sex-games with the women. ENTRAILS OF THE VIRGIN is the controversial sex-and-gore nightmare from director Gaira (Kazuo Komizu). Presented here for the first time with a brand new, digitally mastered anamorphic widescreen transfer from original vault materials, ENTRAILS…

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S., MINORU KAWASAKI S FOLLOW-UP TO CALAMARI WRESTLER, A CULT CLASSIC PSY-KOALA HORROR / COMEDY! Tamura is an average Japanese salaryman working in the offices of a pickle distribution company. He is well liked in the office, hard-working, polite, wears a suit and tie, and also happens to be a six-foot tall koala bear. But when his girlfriend Yoko turns up dead one day and Tamura is the chief suspect, he is forced to enlist the help of his boss (a white rabbit)…

In a novel previously published under the best-selling author's pseudonym, Leigh Nichols, an American owner of a Japanese nightclub meets a fellow expatriate who helps her uncover the terrible truth about her real identity. Reprint.

The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Godzilla, King of the Monsters was originally a 98-minute Japanese horror film, until a U.S. company bought the rights and reissued the film at its current 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe-smoking Raymond Burr. True to the fashion of cautionary monster movies, Godzilla has arisen due to nuclear radiation--a 400-foot, fire-breathing dinosaur resurrected in Tokyo…

In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons.By the beginning of 1945, American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one. The Japanese had so few metals left that the military had begun using wooden coins and clay pots for hand grenades. For the first time in 800 years, Japan faced imminent invasion. As Germany faltered, the combined strength of every warring…

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. TEST 3 SNOW ORACLE When magical warming strikes Yokai Academy, you had better... a. reduce your supernatural footprint b. hightail it to snow-fairy country c. deny that monster activity has anything to do with it

Horrifying Japanese stories will send chills up your spine. Six spisodes: Peony Lamp, She Bear, Yamaba, Nurarilyon, Heartbroken Trip and Lost Souls

In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, the girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, girls come back as a flesh-eating zombie nicknamed "Stacy". The world is in chaos. Countries suffer from famine, war, and zero-population growth because of this teenage death epidemic. To keep the zombies from returning and eating innocent people,…

POLITICALLY INCORRECT SATIRE SINKS TO A NEW DEPTH IN THE OUTRAGEOUS SPOOF THAT TELLS THE SHOCKING STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WORLD SINKS...EXCEPT JAPAN! It is 2011, and due to global warming and the shifting of tectonic plates, most of the Earth s land mass has sunk beneath the surface of the ocean. Only Japan remains, and refugees from all nations try to incorporate themselves into Japanese society: famous American actors do TV costume samurai dramas, white women serve as French maids for middle-class…

With the Japanese currently leading the way in thought-provoking cinematic violence, it's only fitting that Kinji [**]asaku's Battle Royale is being touted as a Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens with a series of fleeting images of unruly Japanese schoolchildren, whose bad behavior provides a justification for the "punishments" that will ensue. Once the prequel has been dispensed with, the classmates are drugged and awaken…

I'm confused about so many reviews bad-mouthing english dubbing. Since when was American English so horrible? I admit, some translations are terribly done, but overall, I prefer English dubbing. Japanese is okay, but I don't speak it, so some voices are too high pitched and too similar to other characters for me to distinguish. If you like the voice actor for Kenshin (TV series) you'll like the english dubbing, he does the voice of Shido the vampire detective. It would have been better…

In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, a gripping tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong KongIn 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Will is sent to an internment camp, where he and other foreigners struggle daily for survival. Meanwhile,…

R to L (Japanese Style). Destiny Kazuma returns after two months looking older and wiser. In exchange for five years of his life, Kazuma has been granted the ability to use the power that permeates his body as a weapon! So Nora can use magic attacks again...but will that be enough to defeat the leader of the Resistance?