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Dark Tales of Japan (2005) - 5 Episodes

Dark Tales of Japan (日本のこわい夜, Nihon no Kowaiya?) is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.

The five tales are:

Episode 1
The Spiderwoman (くも女, Kumo Onna?) Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura; teleplay by Yoshihiro Nakamura; starring Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yôko Maki, Anri Sugihara, and Kanako Fukaura.

Two magazine reporters pursue a story about a local legend of a Spider Woman. Though the magazine's circulation has shot up 20% following their dramatic articles, they have yet to find a single shred of evidence backing up their stories. Then they hear about a young girl who claims to have been attacked by the horrible monster.

Episode 2
Crevices (すきま, Sukima?) Directed by Norio Tsuruta; teleplay by Naoya Takayama; starring Shunsuke Nakamura, Shigenori Yamazaki, and Kyûsaku Shimada.

Visiting the apartment of a missing friend, a young man is startled to find every crack and crevice of the apartment's interior sealed with red tape. Upon reviewing computer and video files, it appears his friend suffered from some sort of mental breakdown wherein he was completely obsessed with the terror that someone was watching him. But how could the friend have simply disappeared? As he and the apartment manager set out to remove the massive amount of red tape, very strange things begin to occur.

Episode 3
The Sacrifice (大生首, Ōnamakubi?) Directed by Kôji Shiraishi; teleplay by Kôji Shiraishi and Naoyuki Yokota; starring Yû Yamada, Moro Morooka, and Megumi Asaoka.

A young woman returns to her rural home from Tokyo to tend to her ailing mother. Once there, she realizes that her troubles with a co-worker stalker may have followed her to her family home. Haunted by childhood memories and the growing fear of the obsessed co-worker, she wakes in the middle of the night and discovers a terrifying sight.

Episode 4
Blonde Kwaidan (金髪怪談, Kinpatsu Kaidan?) Directed by Takashi Shimizu; teleplay by Takashi Shimizu; starring Tetta Sugimoto.

A Japanese man, visiting Hollywood for the first time, is very excited about meeting genuine blondies. However, there may be one blonde in particular who is too much for him...

Episode 5
Presentiment (予緘, Yokan?) Directed by Masayuki Ochiai; teleplay by Masayuki Ochiai and Toshiya Ôno; starring Teruyuki Kagawa and Hijiri Kojima.

After just committing the perfect embezzlement, a Japanese businessman boards the elevator to make his escape. Riding with him are three unusual passengers who increasingly display a deep knowledge about himself and what he has done. When the elevator suddenly breaks down, his real terror begins, with the strange company of folk inside the elevator and the police and rescue team outside.

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Taxi Tonight (2006) - 1 Movie

This Thai horror film begins with a poor man looking for a way to make a buck. Seeing a used taxi cab for sale, the businessman-in-training buys the cab and begins a career driving people around. He soon learns that the life of a cabbie isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, however, as rude customers, lousy tips, and a car that seems to be haunted begin to drive the man out of his mind.

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Hometown Legends (2009) - 10 Episodes

Hometown Legends (2009) is the continuation of a classic series of ghost stories which first aired on KBS between 1977 and 1989 and later between 1996 and 1999. After a successful return in 2008, KBS decided to do another series of one-act dramas.

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Ghost System (2002) - 1 Movie

Based on a novel by Nagae Toshikazu.

"You'll be meeting your friend soon." 'Ghost System' opens with Misaki entertaining the audience with her thoughts on life, death, science, and the mysteries of the afterlife. Misaki then remembers the hours leading up to her current predicament -- cowering inside the aforementioned dilapidated building in a forest. Lovely. It all started with the disappearance of Misaki's best friend Mai.

One day both Misaki and Mai's boyfriend Wataru receive emails on their cell phones supposedly from Mai. But there are no messages, only a picture of some trees in the aforementioned forest. The two are determined to find her, even though looking for some generic trees in a large wooded area is not, as you might imagine, be that easy.

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Shikoku (1999) - 1 Movie

Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayuri's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayuri's mother has something planned for her daughter... Written by Jean-Marc Rocher

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Ghost Train (2006) - 1 Movie

Takeshi, a boy taking a train, finds a ticket covered in a red bag. He picks it up woman tells him he's going to die. The next day, he disappeared after getting on the train again.

His classmate Noriko and her sister, Nana, had bumped into him the day he was told he was going to die. Not only finding out that he went missing the day after they met him but Noriko had also ended picking up the same red bag ticket. The following day, on Noriko's day back from school she too was never seen again.

A conductor is demoted to lost and found organizer because of him stopping the train. The police mention there were 4 reports this month about a body on the railway. His friend asked him if he saw "The ghost" but because of the line of his work he was still in denial.

Soon the conductor had caught a little girl on their surveillance camera and had called Nana to confirm if that was her sister or not. When she came to confirm the identity of the camera, it was Noriko. She then tells them that it seems like there was something that was following her. When she metioned about that, she grew suspicious due to the conductor's reaction.

Soon after, wierd phenomenal started to happened that ended up with Nana and the Conductor forming a team and entering the train tunnel to search for the truth and her sister.

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Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (2010) - 10 Episodes

Blessed with good looks, Takano Kyohei, a college student, is always suffering from the unreasonable behaviour of customers who want him and the sexual harassment of his store manager. Because of his hot temper, he loses his head on this occasion and is fired from his part-time job.

Then one day, the glamorous owner, Ms Nakahara proposes, “I’ll give you free board-and-lodging if you can turn my niece, Sunako, into a lady!” Kyohei and Toyama Yukinojo, Oda Takenaga and Morii Ranmaru, the other guys living together in the same boarding house, are enthusiastic, but the person who appears before the four of them is a spooky girl whose hair covers her face and who loves horror and vampires.

And so, their tumultuous communal life begins... -Jdrama Weblog

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Sarp Phusa (2009) - 15 Episodes

Sarp Phusa (Cursed Frabric)

In the past, Princess Seeked, the princess from the vassal state, is skillful in weaving the golden brocade in the royal palace. She meets Prince Tad. They fall in love with each other and Princess Seeked gets pregnant later. However, Prince Tad decided to get married with Princess Chai to satisfied his parents. With her vengefulness, Princess Seeked weaves a golden brocade with her curse in every thread before she kills herself while pregnant.

In the modern day, Maipim, a girl who loves the ancient fabric gets a job to take care of the brocade shop that Preechaya is the owner after her graduation. One day, a mysterious man offers to sell a beautiful ancient brocade at the shop but was turned down and chased away instead leaving behind his cloth. After that incident, the spirit of Princess Seekad appeared to Maipim and started using her as part of her revenge to the people who have ever hurt her in the past.

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Dorm(2006) - 1 movie

In Thailand, young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to make him study harder and spend less time watching television. Once in the school, Ton feels like an outcast and misses his family and friends. His new schoolmates tell ghost stories about a boy that died in the swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide and Ton becomes quite frightened by them.

He becomes close friends with another lonely boy, Vichien, and later Ton realizes that Vichien is the boy that drowned in the swimming pool, and his death repeats every night. Ton tries to find a way to help his friend to rest in peace.

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Boot has been living with tension and stress for all of her life, she works hard for her family as a noodle cook.
Sometimes, she is controlled by a mysterious voice that suggests her to do or not to do things.

One day, she encounters a chaos in town and is rescued by a guy named Attapol who later becomes her companion. That evening after the chaos, Boot surprisingly discovers a guy lying dead under her stall, she discreetly looks at him and comes up with her new recipe. Boot begins to slice his flesh, mix it with spices, and throw it into her noodle pot.

After her secret recipe is introduced, Boot gains so many customers and reputation of her delicious noodle. Meanwhile, the haunting voice still keeps talking to her, and tell her what to do. Boot tactfully starts to lure and murder people. The more she kills, the more of her dark side reveals. And when Attapol begins to suspect Boot's behavior, he stumbles on the evil of her as he is now the hunted.

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Hansel and Gretel (2007) - 1 Movie

A reckless youngster Eun-soo drives to his mother’s, and has a car accident. When Eun-soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Soon he learns all the adults who visited or stayed in the house have met mysterious yet terrible ends. More shockingly, their cruel deaths are drawn in details and made into a fairytale book by the children. Scared Eun-soo tries to find the way out, but the house is secluded in the forest with no way out. And then, Eun-soo discovers a book which tells a brutal end of none other than himself!

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Buppah Rahtree aka Flower of the Night (2003) - 1 Movie

Buppah Rahtree is an isolated, self contained girl. She’s at the top of her class in medical school but has no friends and carries a secret, tragic past with her. She does, however, have an admirer in Ake, a wealthy young man who was drawn to her when she turned down the advances of his best friend and who has followed her from a distance for a month. Rahtree eventually opens up to Ake but what should have been a happy ending for her turns progressively more tragic. Ake turns out to be an entirely amoral cad and Rahtree, pregnant from their lone weekend together, is pressured into an abortion and abandoned in her run down apartment where things turn septic, she dies and is undiscovered for at least a month.

Things really get rolling after Rahtree’s corpse is discovered. The police arrive and she is shrouded according to local custom but when they try to remove the corpse it simply refuses to go, twitching wildly until the police drop it and run screaming from the room. Rahtree’s body may be dead but her spirit is very much alive, very angry, and it will not leave without a fight.

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Nang Nak (1999) - 1 Movie

In rural village in Thailand, Mak (Winai Kraibutr) is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak (Intira Jaroenpura). Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks. Mysterious events occur around the village.

A friend visits and sees Mak living together with Nak. The villagers, knowing that Nak died in childbirth several months previously, realize what is happening, that Mak is spellbound by Nak's ghost. People who attempt to tell Mak, or who know too much, are killed by the Nak's ghost, who becomes more aggressive due to her inability to accept her early death and her desperate desire to stay with her husband.

Toward the end, Mak discovers what is happening, and shocked, flees to the local temple. The villagers attempt several solutions, including burning down the house and in the end summon a ghost exorciser to destroy her forehead (this would destroy her soul as well as the ghost).

The country's most respected Buddhist monk (in the film Somdej To) arrives in the final moments, takes charge and in a tearful farewell Nak repents, leaving her husband to live his life. Somdejto has the centre of her forehead cut out and made a girdle brooch. He wore it till his last day. The epilogue states that it later became in possession of His Royal Highness Prince Chumbhorn Ketudomsak. Then, handed down to many others, nondetected. Until now nobody knows where the item is.

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Haunting Me (2007) - 1 Movie

2007 Thailand Taew, Cartoon, Mot-dum and Songkram are four aging-yet-still-outrageous katoey (drag queens) who run a boarding house for boys in provincial Thailand.

After helping to cover up the mysterious deaths of two local teens (obese ladyboy "Pancake" and a beautiful local girl named Num-Ning), the two spirits begin haunting the dormitory, forcing the "girls" to try all sorts of crazy schemes to get rid of the ghosts. Eventually, they realize that the only way to do this is to help one the ghosts to avenge their deaths.

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Ghosts (2002) - 1 Movie

2002 By the early twentieth century, myths of ghosts and plagues perplexed people in the Phoenix City. Consequently, a medical group was commanded to stay in the Church of the Phoenix City.

Unfortunately, the church was actually the home of the ghosts.

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Red Eye (2005) - 1 Movie

In 1988, a train travelling from Seoul to Yeosu was involved in a myesterious accident that killed about 100 people. The cause of the accident was never discovered.

Now, 16 years later, the train is making its final run. Not long after the trip begins, the passengers start to notice strange things as the ghosts of the victims of the 80's crash begin to make their presence felt.

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Ghost Delivery (2004) - 1 Movie

Piroyan is a not your typical young man. He has supernatural powers. He also runs a ghost-lending business from home. People go to Piroyan when they need a ghost to haunt someone for them. Things go smoothly for this enterprising young man until he lets loose Ratree, a sexy female ghost, by mistake. Ratree is so appealing, she has men and demons battling over her. Funny, scary, sexy, and filled with great action and visual effects, GHOST DELIVERY truly defies categorization.

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Bangkok Haunted (2001) - 1 Movie

Three young women gathered in a coffee bar in Bangkok tell and discuss three original ghost stories with each other. The first tale: In Bangkok, the young Jieb receives an ancient drum not listed in the order from the truck of Transportation Company owned by Mr. Anake. She calls her former Professor Arkom, who identifies the markings for good luck that she describes and tells the story of the orphan Paga. In 1917, the renowned music teacher Jangwah-Chuem and his wife Peng raise the beautiful Paga with their deformed son Gnod. Paga is a good and loving sister and daughter and becomes a great beautiful dancer. When Paga falls in love for the handsome Fond, the jealous Gnod and she vanish from their village. Jieb investigates the mystery of their disappearance and discloses the eerie truth with tragic consequences. The second tale: The gorgeous Pam receives a sample from her next-door neighbor of a love potion that makes the user irresistible to men. Pam does not know that the essence is made of blood of dead women and uses in a man in a night-club, who becomes an insatiable lover. When she uses in her acquaintance Tim, she finds the price of the aphrodisiac. The third tale: Detective Nop is in charge of the investigation of the death of a woman called Gunaya found hanged in a distant storeroom. He does not accept his chief position of suicide and he is convinced that it is a murder case. He investigates the husband of the victim, Vinal, and her former boy-friend In. When he believes he has solved the case, there is a twist with tragic consequences.

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Painted Skin (2009) - 1 Movie

Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit (huli jing) that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general, who is married to Pei Rong (Zhao Wei).

Another older love triangle is present, between the general's brother Pang Yong (Donnie Yen), Wang Sheng, and his wife. Pei Rong asks Pang Yong for help as she suspects Xiao Wei for what she really is. Pang Yong is aided by an inexperienced 'demon buster', Xia Bing (Betty Sun). Hints of a developing relationship between Xia Bing and Pang Yong are there, although this is never fully explored. Another subplot revolves around Xiao Wei's demon ally (Qi Yuwu), who is actually morphed from a lizard, and who also has unreciprocated feelings for Xiao Wei and helps her obtain all the human hearts she needs.

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Alone (2007) - 1 Movie

Is there a closer bond than the one between sisters? Perhaps if those sisters are conjoined twins… But the closest relationships are also the ones that can turn on us the worst. This fact is painfully obvious to Pim, a young Thai woman plagued by visions of her sister Ploy, a conjoined twin who didn’t survive the attempt to separate the pair, a procedure Pim insisted on.

If ALONE casts early doubts as to whether Pim’s visions are supernatural or purely the product of her own guilty conscience those suspicions are soon erased as Ploy becomes more forceful in her appearances, and more violent. It seems the dead sister is bent on blood.

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