Looking For Scary Japanese/Thai Films?

_Audition_ by Takashi Miike [Japanese]. A surprising slow-burn from the audacious director.

_Shutter_ by Pisanthanakun and Wongpoom [Thai]. Hopefully you have not been marred by the remake as the original can cure you from sleep for a week.

_Gemini_ by Shinya Tsukamoto [Japanese]. One of the two great contemporary Japanese genre directors.

_Marebito_ by Takashi Shimizu [Japanese]. A far creepier film than his more popular _Ju-on/The Grudge_ films.

_Uzumaki_ by Higuchinsky [Japanese]. As beautiful as it is disturbing.

_Kaidan_ by Masaki Kobayashi [Japanese]. One of the grandfather's of J-Horror.

_Jigoku_ by Nobuo Nakagawa [Japanese]. One of the other grandfather's of J-Horror. Though visceral whereas Kobayashi was subtle.

_Ugetsu Monogatari_ by Kenji Mizoguchi [Japanese]. A beautiful ghost story.

_Onibada_ by Kaneto Shindo [Japenese]. Disturbing with a nightmarish fable-like quality.

_Pitfall_ by Hiroshi Teshigahara [Japanese]. Existential horror.

_Dark Water_ by Hideo Nakata [Japanese]. Quite similar to his _Ringu_, but with greater atmosphere and less, as Tobe Hooper puts it, chair jumpers.

_Cure_ by Kiyoshi Kurosawa [Japanese]. The second of the two great contemporary Japanese genre directors.

_A Tale Of Two Sisters_ by Kim Ji-Woon [Korean]. Disturbing atmosphere and chair jumpers abound.

_Dumplings_ by Fruit Chan [Hong Kong]. Immensely unsettling.

_The Eye_ by the Pang Brothers [Chinese].

Grudge 2 is Japanese, and it's not a carry-on from the first one with Sarah Michelle Gellar

Suicide Club and A Battle Royale

Audition

The Red Shoes, Shutter... There's lots more though but I just named some

if you ask any thai ppl, they'd say "the Shutter"

but then Hollywood is manking a crappy version of it, so better watch Thai version before hollywood ruin the story for you

the ring- the original is japanese and it's way better

Dumplings....

A woman eats dead baby fetus in dumplings to stay young. freaky movie!

battle royale

crudge