Up Next in Japanese Horror

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  Tetsuo: The Iron Man

  Tetsuo: The Iron Man

  Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto • 1989 • Japan
  Starring Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka

  An ordinary Japanese salaryman undergoes a shocking metamorphosis in Shinya Tsukamoto’s legendary fusion of body horror and cyberpunk expressionism. A strange man known only as the “metal fetishist”...

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  Ring

  Ring

  Directed by Hideo Nakata • 1998 • Japan
  Starring Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani

  The film that launched the craze for J-horror in the West, director Hideo Nakata’s international sensation melded traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary anxieties about the spread of techn...

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  Audition

  Audition

  Directed by Takashi Miike • 1999 • Japan
  Starring Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda

  In one of the most notorious horror films ever made, recent widower Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) sets out to find a new wife by staging an “audition.” Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu becomes encha...