Takashi Shimizu Movies

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of...

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to...

A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place...

Follows a young man with a dark family past who visits the village of his late mother and encounters a private eye hired by hostile villagers as a...

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai...

Seeking a late-night thrill, four university friends visit a legendary cursed tree in a haunted cemetery. When one of them disappears and the others...

Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search...

The supernatural grudge manifests itself by way of a strange cyst growing in the body of a young woman, slowly draining all life from her in revenge...

A quartet of ghost stories taking place at school: a girl who drowned in the pool begins terrorizing the students by eating their food; two girls are...

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting...

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her...

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull,...

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.

An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a...

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with...

Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it...

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.

Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events...