The upcoming movie is said to be a take on the 1997 Japanese horror thriller novel Audition by Ryū Murakami, which was adapted into the 1999 film of the same name directed by leg ...

Black & white Japanese classics hold up in all aspects, inspiring Western blockbusters. Zatoichi, Harakiri, and Ugetsu are ...

For anyone who has never seen Audition, the movie is most satisfying when you ... before suddenly diving into the deep end of grotesque horror. Audition is the perfect example of a successful ...

A ‘genuinely alarming’ Japanese horror film with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score will fuel your nightmares as it arrives on Amazon Prime Video. Released in 1998, Ring follows investigative ...

Even those not well-versed in international horror may recognize the ghost mask from Onibaba, a grimacing face referenced in countless Western films. The face comes from Japanese mythology ...

changed the face of modern horror films and introduced the world to Sadako, one of the most haunting figures in cinema history. Based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991 novel, the film brought Japanese ...

It's also one of the few jump scare-based horror films that is actually frightening, thus proving that this oft-maligned scare tactic can actually work when given to a filmmaker that can use it well.

Miike recalled how “when horror movies became popular in Japan, everyone was watching Hollywood movies” and filmmakers began to “rebel against that.” “The feeling that only Japanese ...

This 2001 masterpiece from Japanese horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa is perhaps the scariest movie on this list. Pulse follows several people in Japan whose dealings with computers, and time spent ...

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.