Asian
“Sometimes… spirits long for their loved ones.”
My choices for the ten best Ghost Story films
- Kwaidan
- A Chinese Ghost Story
- Ringu
- Onibaba
- Ju-on 1&2
- The Maid
- Shutter
- Pulse {aka Kairo}
- Bloody Parrot
- The Ghost {aka Ryeong}
Asian Horror isn’t a genre or sub-genre, but just horror from Asia. The films I collect here will include stylized Japanese Kaidan, the J-horror (and K-horror) that replaced it, with its long haired ghosts, contortionists, and cursed electronics, Hong Kong action-horror, and every other type of Asian horror film.
Asian Horror:
- Arang (2005)
- Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
- Dark Water (2002)
- Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
- Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of a Wizard (1996)
- The Eye “Jian gui” (2002)
- Gantz: 0
- The Grudge (2004)
- The Heirloom {Zhaibian} (2005)
- Jigoku {Hell} (1960)
- Ju-On 1 & 2 (2000)
- Ju-On: The Grudge (2003)
- Kuroneko (1968)
- The Maid (2005)
- Mr. Vampire (1985)
- One Missed Call {Chakushin Ari} (2003)
- Pulse {Kairo} (2001)
- Reincarnation {Rinne} (2005)
- The Ring (2001) / Ringu (1998) / The Ring Virus (1999)
- Rings (2005)
- Ringu 0: Birthday (2005)
- Ringu 2 (1998)
- R-Point (2004)
- The Ghost {Ryeong} (2004)
- Shikoku (1999)
- Silk (2003)
- Song at Midnight (1937)
- Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
- Tomie (1999)
- Uzumaki “Spiral” (2000)
- Versus (2000)
- Whispering Corridors {Yeogo Goedam} (1998)
- Whispering Corridors 2 {Yeogo Goedam II} (1999)
- Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs (2003)
Asian Horror Sorted by Year:
- Song at Midnight (1937)
- Jigoku {Hell} (1960)
- Kuroneko (1968)
- Mr. Vampire (1985)
- Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
- Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of a Wizard (1996)
- Whispering Corridors {Yeogo Goedam} (1998)
- Ringu 2 (1998)
- The Ring (2001) / Ringu (1998) / The Ring Virus (1999)
- Tomie (1999)
- Whispering Corridors 2 {Yeogo Goedam II} (1999)
- Shikoku (1999)
- Uzumaki “Spiral” (2000)
- Versus (2000)
- Ju-On 1 & 2 (2000)
- Pulse {Kairo} (2001)
- Dark Water (2002)
- The Eye “Jian gui” (2002)
- Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs (2003)
- Silk (2003)
- One Missed Call {Chakushin Ari} (2003)
- Ju-On: The Grudge (2003)
- The Ghost {Ryeong} (2004)
- The Grudge (2004)
- R-Point (2004)
- Arang (2005)
- The Heirloom {Zhaibian} (2005)
- Rings (2005)
- Reincarnation {Rinne} (2005)
- Ringu 0: Birthday (2005)
- The Maid (2005)
- Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
- Gantz: 0
- Tokyo Ghoul (2017)