Japanese Horror Dramas
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- DirectorTôichirô RutôStarsYuka MasudaChal InoueRyô KaratoReika, a news announcer, is haunted by visions related to an incident when she was 10 years old. Who is Akane, the child who appears in her visions? And is Akane responsible for the incidents that Reika announces on her news show?
- StarsShun'ya ShiraishiRyohei SuzukiRio YamashitaHiganjima is a remote island in Japan. Bloodthirsty vampires dwell on Higanjima as a result of a virus that infected people. Miyamoto Akira who has come to Higanjima in search of his missing older brother, Atsushi, learns of a vaccine that can neutralize the vampires and boldly gets into their midst. However, Atsushi is infected and has become an underling of the master vampire, Miyabi, who rules the island.
- StarsRei KikukawaKen KaitôHitomi TakahashiAi Machida is a tour bus guide gifted with powers to sense the spirits of the cursed and dead. One day she is assigned to guide the "Midnight Ghost Tour", that takes tourists to various spiritual hotspots. What kinds of mysteries and secrets will she see?
- StarsSeiichi TanabeRin TakanashiHiroyuki OnoueUltra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monsters appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.
- StarsKumiko AsôTamaki OgawaTôru Nakamura"Kaiki Renai Sakusen" follows three women and depicts their persona lives, work lives and their fight against a monster. Natsumi (Kumiko Aso) is 36-years-old. She dreamed of becoming a cafe owner and saved money to achieve her dream, but she was swindled out of her money. She now works at the cafe where she dreamed of becoming the owner. Akiko (Maki Sakai) is 39-years-old. She works as a music teacher and awaits for the perfect man. Fuyu (Tamaki Ogawa) is 38-years-old. She thinks of herself as an actress.
- StarsMitz MangroveYui YokoyamaNagisa SakaguchiBased on the eponymous collection of short stories by author Akimoto Yasushi, this new drama features the idols of the female group AKB48 this time on the theme of horror.
- StarsGorô KishitaniAkiko YadaTakami YoshimotoProfessor Andou Mitsuo gets tangled into the web of the video tape and Yamamura Sadako by pure luck. Unbeknown to the circumstances of discovering the tape, Mitsuo resumed the search to find the real 'truth' that was left hanging from Takayama Ryuuji and Asakawa Kazuyuki as Sadako continues to lurk, killing more people faster in another way than by watching the tape.
- StarsMasahiro InoueAfter the former Makai Knight turned Horror Jinga was defeated by Ryuga Dougai as Garo during the events of Garo: Kami no Kiba.
- StarsKanau TanakaTarô SurugaEmiko MatsuokaNaomi Imura, who lived in the Kuroyuri Complex, fell to her death in the property. The police believe it to be suicide, but her brother Yosuke, the only living relative, begins to investigate the truth behind Naomi's death.
- StarsAi TakabeGaku ShindoAnna SonodaFumiyo Nabekura is a gloomy high school teacher that doesn't have any friends. She then starts to dress up at night as a ghost to frighten others, but starts to come across actual ghosts .
- StarsMasami NagasawaReika KirishimaKôdai AsakaThe story of the nurse Tsugumi "Yabu" Oda through her experience as a nurse and explains how the zombie pandemic spreads across Japan.
- StarsIssei TakahashiAsuka ShibuyaMoro MorookaKiyoshi Imawano and his family move into a haunted house. The entire family, except the occult-obsessed father, gains the power to see ghosts and spirits. An undead monk, secret government agents, even UFOs start showing up. It's up to Kiyoshi to find out why the house is troubled by all these strange occurrences and save his family, and possibly the world, from inter-dimensional terrors.
- StarsNijirô MurakamiAkari HayamiTetsushi TanakaA TV director and assistant director apprentice start work at TV Tokyo news archives. There they are asked to sort out old news footage that have not been air ed because they are too bizarre and could not be verified.
- StarsTomohiro WakiTomohiro KakuYû InabaEarly summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that Rena, Mion and the others that Keiichi trusted may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn. As if the girls' characters had completely changed, a sewing needle is found in his food, he is chased by mysterious men, and is involved in an accident which could have killed him. He could no longer trust anyone, and then one mystery leads to another, bringing out a shockingly bloody ending.
- StarsKazuki KitamuraTakashi KashiwabaraMiho ShiraishiFamily bonds are tested as Azusa's past comes back to haunt her with a vengeance. Are her fears real or imagined? Is she fixating on inconsequential coincidences, lending cruel memories greater power, or is there actually someone watching?
- StarsKanata HongôRyûsei YokohamaFumika ShimizuSet in a near future where people whose last names are "Sato" become targets of a real tag, and when they are caught, they get killed.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsTsuyoshi AbeYumi AdachiMika AkizukiManami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.
- CreatorYasushi AkimotoStarsCristina ValenzuelaSakura MiyawakiAnna IriyamaAdvancements in regenerative medicine have made it possible to regenerate human organs, once considered impossible. However, ethical concerns arise regarding the recreation of life and bodies after losing someone we love.
- StarsRei KikukawaKanji TsudaAkiko KinouchiA remake of the 2004 hit horror movie of the same name, Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) in which the "message of death" is spread throughout the city via cellphones. Yumi the ex-student of Meiwa's Girls High School and Sendou, a detective is bend on finding the truth behind these cases where a few selected people had received a missed call from themselves fore-telling their death time which when the voice message is retrieved.
- StarsKazuma SuzukiKahoKensuke OhwadaThe Kumagawa Hospital which is located in the outskirts of town. Ogami Runa joined as a nursing staff 2 weeks ago. One night, with the lights all turned low, her fellow colleague, Suzuki Ayako is terrified out of her wits when a woman dressed in a school uniform with blood dripping all over, appears before her.
- StarsKyôko KoizumiHazuki KimuraManatsu KimuraThe murder of a young girl is never solved. Her mother who is torn by grief puts a curse on the four of the girl's classmates. These four girls are forced into adulthood which eventually triggers a tragic chain of events.
- StarsSayuri IwataAya SugimotoKazuki KatôSomewhere in the vast realm of the Internet, there is a message board called "Jigoku Tsushin (Hell Message),"which could only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. When grudges are posted on the website, Hell Girl will appear and drag the nemesis into inferno. Such rumor seems to be an urban legend that is believed among children but it is not just a rumor. Her name is Ai Emma. Usually, she is a quiet girl, but when she sympathizes with the grudge, she turns into Hell Girl. Although not mentioned in the rumor, it is necessary to reach an agreement with her. In order to send the target to Hell, the client's soul will be destined to go to Hell after the his/her death. Clients who get their revenge with the help from Hell Girl will have to live the rest of their lives with an engraved cross mark on their chests.
- StarsMirei SasakiSarina UshioMei Higashimura11 Japanese school girls awaken bound to the floor of a dining room and must discover why they are there and how they can escape.
- StarsHaruka TomatsuRakuto TochiharaHassei TakanoTwo high school students, a university, and tutor living in a western-style mansion. The doors of your home keeping a big secret that everyone should avoid disclosing. They are vampires and fight to protect what they consider important.
- StarsSaki FukudaTakahiro NishijimaAyame MisakiA comedy story about a teenage girl who runs into mysterious happenings through her communicating with ghosts. Asuka suddenly develops her supernatural ability after her traffic accident. While trying to help make ghosts' wishes come true, she falls in love with a mysterious guy named Kaito who turns out to be an incarnate ghost.
- StarsMika HijiiRyosei KonishiAnri OkamotoGaro focuses on Kouga Saezima, the current possessor of the title, Golden Knight Garo, who protects humanity against dark demonic infestations called Horrors. One day he meets a young girl named Kaoru whom he saves from a horror, but gets stained with horror's blood. The makai knights have the rule that those that have been stained by the blood of a horror shall be executed before experiencing a painful death after approximately 100 days.
- StarsTae KimuraJun MihoIkki SawamuraAme Sakurai is in junior high and lives with her father, who is a butterfly collector in search of the Troides Magellunus. One fateful day, he decided to take a trip to Taiwan in hopes of catching the elusive specimen. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and Ame is left with only memories of Father. Memories that seem to have allowed him to return as a spirit guide for Ame.