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Japanese horror films from the 2020s
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Godzilla Minus One
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
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Resident Evil: Death Island
In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing whales in the bay. Join
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Exit 8
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
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Dollhouse
After losing their child, a mother finds solace in a life-sized ancient doll she finds on the market. When a new daughter enters the family's life, strange things begin to happen and no matter how hard the family tries to get rid of it, th
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Bullied by his boss, worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel alive!
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DAN DA DAN: Evil Eye
Momo and Okarun set out on their latest adventure, traveling to a hot springs town home rented by Jiji, Momo's childhood friend and former crush, with the goal to solve the mystery surrounding his family. When they arrive, strange locals derail their investigation before it can properly begin, and the group soon learns there's more lurking under the surface of the town than they could possibly have imagined. Theatrical event featuring four episodes of the anime, including the first three episodes of the second season, and an exclusive interview with series co-directors Fuga Yamashiro and Abel Góngora.
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Chime
A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
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Cloud
Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
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The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe
1955. Kitaro's father, Medama Oyaji, comes to Yagura Village in search of his missing wife. The village was ruled by the Ryuga clan, which controls Japan's political and business circles behind the scenes. Mizuki, who works at a blood bank, visits the village with a secret mission to mourn the death of the head of his family, and meets Kitaro's father. While an ugly fight unfolds over the succession of the head of the family, a member of the family is brutally murdered at the village shrine. It was the beginning of a terrifying chain of events.
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Sana
Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it themselves and become involved in a mysterious incident. What is the mystery behind this melody ?
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Best Wishes to All
A young woman's visit to her grandparents' home leads to the discovery of what's brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.
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Suicide Forest Village
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 Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
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Sana: Let Me Hear
During the summer vacation period, temporary teacher Honoka Kimijima is in charge of a supplementary class. One day, a female student suddenly jumps off from the school rooftop and dies in front of Honoka Kimijima.
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Evil Has Always Had a Name
In the midst of the chaos in Raccoon City following a virus outbreak, a mother and daughter traverse the infected-filled streets in pursuit of safety.
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Hot Spring Shark Attack
In a small hot spring town in Japan, a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and begins terrorizing the local hot spring facilities. As the threat escalates, the townspeople band together to protect their beloved town from the menacing predator, leading to a fierce and thrilling battle.
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Mag Mag
The revenge story of a woman whose partner is murdered by a ghost, and who will soon discover the true identity of the one she must avenge.
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Woman of the Photographs
Solitary and skilled photographer Kai is afraid of women. When he encounters a beautiful model, Kyoko suffering from body dysmorphia, they begin a twisted romance. Kai is determined to save Kyoko from her anguishes, even if it means death to himself.
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Life of Mariko in Kabukicho
A small bar in Tokyo's red-light district run by an undercover detective with a tragic past links together a group of eccentrics, a search for aliens, FBI investigators, bizarre love affairs and assassins.
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Lumberjack the Monster
A self-proclaimed psychopath, coldblooded lawyer Ninomiya becomes obsessed with stopping an ax-wielding serial killer who's made him their next target.
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex
An elite salaryman drunkenly tries to die by suicide, but is saved by a mysterious stranger who holds him captive and sexually torments him.
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Journey Beyond the Night
Harutoshi, an aspiring manga artist, goes on an overnight trip with friends from his school years. On the way, however, he goes into despair when he learns the results of the manga award he entered. Just then, Saya, who he used to have feelings for, belatedly joins them.
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Grand Guignol
At an isolated reform school, transfer student Itsuki joins a drama group—but when real murders mimic their dark plays, fear, love, and secrets spiral out of control.
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Videophobia
A young woman discovers that a sex tape made without her knowledge is circulating online. Paranoia takes over, along with a sense of injustice. Her sudden terror of video triggers a downward spiral where she loses all social bearings.
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Yellow Dragon's Village
Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.
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The Sound of Summer
In the relentless heat of the gruelling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off. Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘the Cicada Man’. Who is that strange man and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas? More important, what does he do with them? As the heat starts to get to our heroine, and her sanity depletes, real life and delusion begin to mix. Her darkest nightmares seep into our world and she fears the Cicada Man has planted his swarm of insects inside her. She must get them out – at all costs. Thus begins her downward spiral into extreme paranoia and self-mutilation. She just needs to make it through the summer.
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Hitch Hike
University students Ryoko and Akane get lost on a mountain road on their way home from a hike. They finally reach a bus stop, but there is no sign of a bus coming. Furthermore, Ryoko has an injured leg, and Akane's boyfriend is at a drinking party and cannot come to pick her up. The two decided to hitchhike out of the goodness of their hearts. It seemed reckless deep in the mountains, but as luck would have it, a camper pulled up. From the driver's seat...
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My Mother's Eyes
Both Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. One day, they are involved in a traffic accident and Hitomi loses her sight. She wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri, injured and hospitalized, wears VR goggles, and the two share one vision.
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MAD CATS
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.
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The Convenience Store
Yukino, a part-time worker at a convenience store, and the strange experience she has when she encounters a mysterious customer in the middle of the night.
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Signal 100
A group of high school students are forced into a game where they are hypnotized to commit suicide on an unknown command. Where no one is safe from a sudden death, how can they avoid their fates?
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Stigmatized Properties
Yamano Yamame, an entertainer who can't sell, is unreasonably told by his seniors that he should live in the accident property because he will put it on TV, and he moves to the property where the murder occurred due to his appearance on TV and the low rent. At first glance, the room was a normal room, but a mysterious white object was reflected in the image of the room, and the sound was disturbed. The program in which Yamame appeared became lively, and Yamame moved around the accident property in search of new material. Yamame, who encounters various mysterious phenomena in the room where he lives, makes a big break as an "entertainer who lives in the accident property".
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The Samejima Incident
Every year, Nana Sasaki and her former classmates hold a reunion of their high school music club. This year, the reunion is being held online. However, one of them, Ayumi, doesn't show up. When the others voice their concern, Yuki and Suzu reluctantly tell them about the Samejima Incident, an urban legend which circulated on the internet 20 years earlier. Those who find the truth about it become cursed and die. As Nana and the others start to panic, the real horror begins.
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Re/Member: The Last Night
Three years after completing a deadly game, high schoolers trapped in a looping nightmare must survive brutal encounters and unravel a terrifying curse.
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The Day of Destruction
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness. A young Shugendo practitioner goes missing only to resurface transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it.
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Maniac Driver
A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
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New Religion
After her daughter's death, divorced Miyabi works as a call girl. One day, she meets a weird customer who wants to take a picture of her spine. Then, at another assignation, her feet. She soon realises that every time she allows her body to be photographed, her daughter's spirit gets closer. Soon only her eyes remain to be captured, leading to the collapse of society in this bold, visionary and unique fantasy.
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Ox-Head Village
Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…
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Homunculus
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, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.
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Howling Village
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
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The Island of Giant Insects
After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a seemingly deserted island. Mutsumi found the other survivors, and used her wilderness knowledge to help them. She expects that they will be re
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Cube
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
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The Greatest Living Show
On moonlit nights, within this great fair, a carousal awaits. An audience of shadows, rocking in merriment to the greatest show, oh, perhaps the greatest ever been told. Dancers, perfumed in milk and honey. Lyons, roaring like the orchestral pit. And the ringmaster, with his most alluring smile... I, too, wish to stand upon his stage.
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A short amateur stop-motion animation about self-harm. Watch on YouTube: ito can't sleep
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Lullaby
A horror thesis animation film that depicts a world of nightmares, where the characters do not move—only the backgrounds move.
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Godzilla Minus Zero
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.
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Sink Your Teeth: A Tokyo Ghoul Celebration
Ken Kaneki is a loner. In a world where ghouls—human-like creatures who survive on human flesh—and people are at war, his biggest concern is which novel to pick up next. But when a date with the mysterious Rize turns deadly, a lifesaving operation horrifyingly transforms him into a human-ghoul hybrid. Can he find his place in a society where it's hunt or be hunted? (Episodes 1, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of Tokyo Ghoul's iconic English dub.)
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Ultraseven If Story: The Future 55 Years Ago
Ultraseven. Even after half a century has passed since its initial broadcasting, his story is still etched into people's memories. The story that connects the present as the future of 55 years ago, will be depicted as an 'IF story' that "may have existed" as an episode of the series at the time of its broadcast in 1967, and tell the story of "how it happened."
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Love You as the World Ends: The Movie
Utopia was a tower of hope, but it was a tower of despair created by human desires. In Utopia, they were researching the only way to save this world: a vaccine against the monster called Golem. One girl with special antibodies was used as research material. Her name is Mirai, the daughter of Hibiki Mamiya. Hibiki decides to rescue Mirai together with five men who have gathered in Utopia. The men are trying to rescue their loved ones, to save their family and friends, and to steal food and money to survive. Although each of them has their own non-negotiables and some rebellion, they gradually come to resonate with Hibiki's beliefs and decide to fight together.
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Deform
The plot concerns 10 college students who, as part of a personal project, investigate an abandoned building that was recently seen with a mysterious white, glowing pillar on it. However, things rapidly get out of hand, because whatever is in there has... plans for them.
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This Man
An inexplicable wave of tragic deaths plunges two investigators into the heart of a fateful whirlwind, where logic and facts have no value as a far-fetched urban legend seems to come true. A mother plagued by terrifying dreams, seeing her friends and colleagues disappear one after the other, and her family witness the horror unfold.
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Toxic Daughter
Hagino, her husband Atsuhiro and her teenage stepdaughter Moeka move into a new house. For someone who was not blessed with a warm affectionate family, this was what she had always dreamed of. However, one day while Hagino is out, she receives a call from Moeka asking for her help. She rushes home and finds her house turned upside down, Moeka's clothes torn to shreds and a strange young girl is standing over her, with a pair of scissors in her hand.
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The Misogyny
An actress penning a play inspired by the story of a woman vanishing into thin air becomes disturbed by unexplained phenomena at her rental villa.
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Nightmare Resort
College student Sakura (Rikka Ihara) has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend Satoshi (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along with another childhood friend, Nozomi (Shiori Akita), he invites her to come work a part-time job at a resort inn on an island. The inn is normally run by a husband-and-wife couple, along with a part-timer named Iwasaki.
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Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie
A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.
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Curse of the Apocalypse: Chapter 3
Amumo98 introduces their next series that delves even deeper into the world of psychics.
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The Werewolf Game: Death Game's Operator
People are gathered by recruitment or being kidnapped.These people take part in the Werewolf Game. The participants must risk their lives in the game, while wealthy people wager on the winners and losers of the game. Masamune (Yuuki Ogoe) works as an operator of the game. He finds out that female high school student Yuzuki Natsume is one of the participants in the Werewolf Game. Masamune once taught Yuzuki Natsume as a private tutor. He wants to save her and he is willing to risk his life to do so.
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The Hungry God
There has existed a fierce god named "Otokogami" since the Old Stone Age. The god is called "Otokogami (literally translated as Male God)" because he takes young boys as sacrifices. However, no one actually knew what he really was. The story starts when Wada, a guy who works for a construction company, finds a buried cultural asset during construction in the newly developed residential area of Nissei City. A few days later, something strange happened. A deep hole appeared at the construction site, and Wada's son went missing. The hole leads to a mysterious forest where beautiful women in kimonos and shrine maidens perform a mysterious ritual to appease a male deity. When Wada learns that his son has wandered into the forest, he decides to jump into the hole to rescue his son.
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Ogre Reduction
The government launches a brutal campaign to eradicate the Kijo, half-human, half-demon hybrids. Their method: hunting and severing the horns of demons…
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The Gesuidouz
From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.
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The Blood
Yoshinori returns after six years to his family house, where his mother Etsuko lives alone. His decision to return is sparked by the seventh anniversary of his younger brother's death. He brings along his fiancée Kanae, who is pregnant. Etsuko warmly welcomes them both, but Yoshinori can't help but think that something is strange. That night, Kanae is struck by "a sound that must not be heard", and then the hell really begins.
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Bye Bye Vamp
Vampires have lived and coexisted with humans since medieval Romania. They set their sights on Nobara High School, a private school in Ibaraki Prefecture, as a place of prosperity. One day, Goro, a second-year high school student who likes women, is attacked by someone. The next day, he went to school dressed as a woman and became gay. His classmate Kyohei Kohinata predicts that if he is bitten by a vampire, he will become homosexual.
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Mabito
In the autumn of 1944, five Japanese soldiers enter a restricted forest to search for a missing military plane. Eventually, they make eye contact with "something" and one by one, they disappear.
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Visitors (Complete Edition)
A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a friend and find themselves plummeting into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 13
The teams of the 'Not Found' and 'Honto Ni Atta. Noroi No Video' franchises join forces to create the definitive psychic documentary series.
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 14
The definitive edition of a serious and scary psychic documentary brought together by the staff of two popular series! Born as "Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO" that inherited the DNA of "Cursed Psychic Video XXX"! The 14th DVD release of the new series with even more power!
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 17
The 17th psychic documentary that inherits the DNA of "Cursed Psychic Video XXX". A video of cherry blossom viewing. Behind the video, which should be fun, is something eerie. Contains 5 episodes, including "Hanami", "Jamevu-Mikan-", "Negi", and "Water Tank".
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Psychic Manjara 33
A cursed accident property! The thirty third volume of a cruel psychic video collection!!
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Psychic Yuranbon 19: The Phantom Documents of Death
The tragedy of Sunzen Shakuma!! A collection of psychic images drowning in mystery!! The 19th collection of mysterious psychic images!
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Blue Hole
Everyone who has stepped in a certain room in a regular apartment building has gone missing… The owner of the apartment has called the now popular Occult research team to investigate.
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Psychic Yuranbon 18: For Tomomiemi
The oldest impurized prayer!! A collection of psychic videos that reveal the truth!! The spirit of the blessing that was poisoned by the fall!! The 18th installment of the ultimate psychic video collection!
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Psychic Manjara 36
A trap of ghosts lurking in everyday life!! A tragedy possessed by evil spirits!! A spiritual documentary of the abyss!!
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Psychic Manjara 32
The real fear is humans!? The 32nd volume of a shocking ghost video collection!! A shocking spiritual documentary!!
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IDOL NEVER DiES
An idol group in a certain town in Tochigi is struggling to complete a music video on the day predicted to be the last day of the earth.
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Psychic Manjara 35
The ghost of terror spreads the curse!! The 35th edition of the collection of psychic images of darkness!
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Henshurei: Deleted
An assistant editor and assistant producer discover a mysterious ghost in the footage of a movie project they are working on. As they work on the project a series of strange deaths begin to occur.
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Psychic Manjara 40
The definitive version of the urban legend actual record psychic video collection! Supervised by "Ryo Matsumoto" who sent out a number of horror and psychic DVDs to the world. It contains a large number of profound horror psychic videos, from psychic posted videos to investigation of bizarre phenomena. The fortieth bullet.
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Who Said Death Is Beautiful?
A zombie outbreak at the hospital they reside in forces a trio of survivors to venture out into the unknown. This is the first studio movie to utilize Stable Diffusion in a significant capacity.
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 15
The 15th DVD release of the new series with even more power!! Contains six psychic images, including; "Night Left", "Exhibits", "Cicada Voice", "Projectors", "!" and "Typos".
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Psychic Yuranbon 17: Cicada Sign
A cursed and mysterious code!! A collection of psychic images that expose the darkness!! A box of deciphered Pandora that could not be posted in the popular psychic post documentary series "Psychic Yuranbon"!! The 17th collection of conspiracy psychic images!
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 10
The definitive edition of a serious and scary psychic documentary brought together by the staff of two popular series! Born as "Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO" that inherited the DNA of "Cursed Psychic Video XXX"! Release of the 10th DVD of the new series with even more power!
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Psychic Manjara 38
Volume 38 of the deceptive psychic video collection!! A problematic series that has been featured in numerous media!! Deception that devours the weak!!
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Psychic Yuranbon 16: Puppet Flower
Abominable grudge!! A collection of psychic images approaching the abyss of darkness!! The lament of a horrible girl that could not be posted. The 16th collection of psychic images buried in the darkness!
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Psychic Manjara 37
A blow to the heart!! The 37th collection of psychedelic images of fear infection!!
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Psychic Manjara 34
Evil spirits punish sinners!? The 34th volume of a mysterious psychic video collection!!
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The Unsolved Love Hotel Murder Case Incident
Starting out as nothing but a drunken whim, filmmakers Guy and Dave, along with their bartender friend Kuromi, set out to explore the site of the brutal and mysterious murder of a young woman in a love hotel, an incident that took place twenty years prior. The trio make their way into the middle of nowhere to the town, which is rife with rumours of ghosts and curses, and the now abandoned building. They document their night in the murder room—a night that becomes a terrifying ordeal.
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Cursed Psychic Video XXX_NEO 08
The eighth DVD of the new series that has been further powered up is released! Contains five segments.
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Psychic Manjara 29
The 29th volume of the shivering psychic video collection!! A problematic series that has been picked up by numerous media outlets!! The grudge captured by the camera! Amazing psychic documentary!!
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The Invisible Half
Elena, a "half" Japanese high school girl, struggles with her identity. While constantly watched, she discovers she's also being watched by something else—a monster that can only be seen through her smartphone and heard through her earphones.
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The Cannibal Girl
Tamako, a girl suffering from anorexia, falls in love with Yōko, a female photographer who shares the same struggle. The two plan to die together in a double suicide. However, just before doing so, Yōko confesses, “The truth is… I can’t stop wanting to eat you.” And thus begins a twisted ritual of love, filled with terror…
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Psychic Manjara 28
Things that are not alive are reflected!! The 28th collection of scary ghost images!!
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Psychic Manjara 30
A person who should have died is shown!! The 30th carefully selected psychic video collection!!
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Sealed Video 60: Cursed Voice
60th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.
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Sealed Video 48: Bright Red Balloon
48th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.