Japanese Horror Flix

[Gloomy Bear]

Well it seems that Hollywood really has a sweet tooth for snatching up some of Asia's horror films! I'm sure some of you saw the remakes of; One Missed Call, The Grudge, The Ring, and now! SHUTTER! Umm I just gotta say one thing on that, Shutter was originally a THAI film (thans superjaz!)...so why is it based in Tokyo? Goodness I hate these damn remakes. Sorry if anyone enjoyed them but just had to get that lil rant out...

On a lighter note has anyone watched any good J-horror films lately?

I'm obsessed with Takashi Miike and so of course have to push all his films on you guys <3 Here is a small list of some of his flix (American titles provided) that are really worth watching!
- Ichi the Killer (Tadanobu Asano is a sexy masochistic yakuza n.n;
- Audition (Gross part is that scene with girl umm...being sick in the dog dish...really happen. Talk about devotion to a roll.)
- Imprint (It's in Engrish! Beware the graphic abortions.)
- One Missed Call
- Happiness of the Katakuris (Claymation, zombies, horror, all wrapped up in a screwy musical!)
- MPD Psycho (It's an anthology...only the edited versions are out there now)

Anyways there are lots more but those are some of his best in my opinion, other Japanese horror(ish) films to check out.
- Uzumaki
- 2LDK
- Banquet of the Beasts
- Suicide Club (Come die with us!)
- Tomie
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Kk there are lots and lots and lots more. But what about you guys have you seen any worth watching or any of the ones mentioned?

Films You Guys Added
Dark Water - pieisexactlythree
The Magnificent Seven - jaybug (it's a Western based off Kurosawa's Seven Samurai)

[pieisexactlythree]

I'd add to that list the original version of Dark Water, also by Hideo Nakata.

[Gloomy Bear]

Yea it was a decent movie, very slow to build up but interesting nonetheless.

If you liked that one you should check out some of the J-Horror anthology's out there, most of them have the same sorta feel.

Oh! Have you seen Tetsuo: The Iron Man? Now that film was strange- black and white all the way with very little speaking...but it was creepy as sin.

[jaybug]

Don't forget the Western Classic, the Magnificent Seven was based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Which is how we got Toshiro Mifune temaing up with Charles Bronson in a film or two also.

[Gloomy Bear]

Sounds interesting never saw it myself though I'll have to check it out <3 Thx!

[superjaz]

lets see I belive that shutter was a Thai film,

I picked up uzumaki at sakura con, and I got MPD psycho compleat set for valintines day

"One missed call 2" (not as good as the first)

Once again Tomie, but there are about 8 differnt Tomie films, in japan playing Tomie is like playing james bond

"Noriko's Dinner Table" kinda a sequal to suicide club

"pulse" don't open doors to the void and let it meld with technology it will kills you,

"spiral" the real sequal to the ring that follows the book of the same name, not to be mistaken with 'uzumaki' they are 2 diff movies

 (lighter stuff)
"Moon child", not gory but a vampire flick staring Gackt and Hyde
"Last quarter moon"  more a a ghost story starring Hyde and Chiaki Kuriyama
chinese--

"The Eye", cornea transplants from a psychic a bad idea?

"The Eye 2" (not bad for a sequal) reincarnation is freaky when you can see the spirts waiting for your unborn baby

Korean
"a tale of two sisters"  when blended familys go bad
"Bunshinsaba" not bad, Korean flicks like to stress the leason 'dont kill the peeps with psychic powers they will come back to haunt/kill/possess you
 
"Nightmare" see above

Its a anime but i would count as horror
"vampre hunter D" D is just bad ass
"vampire hunter D blood lust" see above..but prettier

honrable mentions both Miike Takeshi
The Great Yokai War"--every single japanese spirt ghost goblin thingy ever is in this awesome movie
with the cutest hamster cat thing ever

"Visitor Q" have not seen but the description I have read is the most disturbing one I have ever read  for any movie ever

[Gloomy Bear]

Oh thanks Jazz I changed it <3

Yea they are all pretty good movies, haven't seen Spiral but I wasn't really a fan of any of his movies...they all seemed to slow and re-used the same ghostie.

Did you ever see Three, Extremes? Fruit Chan's Dumplings was amazing, fetus dumplings = eternal youth.

[jaybug]

Oh yeah! When Godzilla was released in the US, it was classed as a horror film.

And one of the best at that time, was an American film, which seems to me to be styled in the contemporary Japanese monster movie way was titled The Green Slime. Scared me when it came out on TV, but I was just a little kid then.

[EveofAbyss]

Hmmm, you would consider 2LDK a horror film? I really enjoy it, but (to me) it is humorous/tragic more than horrific, but I know what you may be getting at.

I also absolutely love the films of Takashi Miike. "Audition" really is probably the most terrifying, disturbing movie I've ever seen. I also like "Ichi the Killer", "Ichi-1", "Gozu", "3 Extremes", "Dumplings" (which is included in "3 Extremes").

Great films! There are more, but I have to think a bit.

[GaaraoftheFunk]

I'm too lazy to see if someone else said this,But Reincarnation is good too.

[superjaz]

I'm too lazy to see if someone else said this,But Reincarnation is good too.

It was pretty good going along but i feel like it fizzled out a bit at the end,

[GaaraoftheFunk]

It actually

I'm too lazy to see if someone else said this,But Reincarnation is good too.

It was pretty good going along but i feel like it fizzled out a bit at the end,

It actually confused me a bit at the end because i was like,"Uh..Okay..?"
But other then that i thought it was good.;-;
And i would just like to say,American versions of japanese horror films SUCK.
They have such less believable emotions.
And its just...Not as scary and suspenceful to me.
We kill them.=_=;

[superjaz]

And i would just like to say,American versions of japanese horror films SUCK.
They have such less believable emotions.
And its just...Not as scary and suspenceful to me.
We kill them.=_=;

yeah and the make them have unbelivable happy ending too
also should be listed Dark water by Koji suzuki, i havent seen all but i know the story line and the bits i saw from the american version seemed okay, if they changed it, it was only to make it more understandable and as japanese horror flick can be confusing i can see why

on koji susuki
 he wrote the books, ring, spiral, loop, birthday all having to do with the ring.

these books were well written and made sense, and over all a bit techy and weird at times, and at no point did a creepy little girl crawl out of a well
Ring i belive is one of the worst american remakes tieing with one missed call.
I think it was especualy bad, cuz when any book is made into a movie, or a japanese movie is remade in the states, some parts of it are changed edited out or added, and most often not for the better so with Ring, you have a srtange book made into a japanese movie then made ntoan american movie,
the rings chance for sucking increased dramaticly more, it really didnt stand a chance to be a good movie, not with the way hollywood handels j-horror remakes

[pieisexactlythree]

Spiral was a bit of a disaster, imo, but Birthday was a really fantastic film. It was of equal quality to the original ring.  The fact that it was a tragic romance, with Sakdako as the heroine threw me for a loop, but it really got me emotionally.

[EveofAbyss]

Now I never saw the originals, or read the books, but I was always rather pleased and impressed by the american The Ring and The Ring 2. I thought, for one who has no experience with the original sources, the movies were remarkable in their depiction of mood, atmosphere, and horror. The movies accomplished the goal of being horror films, in my opinion, and, as said, to one who has not been exposed to the japanese sources of inspiration, I think the movies carry very little fault.