Dark Tales of Japan - Movie

About Dark Tales of Japan - Movie

A bus hurtles down road at midnight, stopping momentarily to pick up a solitary female passenger. She asks, "Want to hear a scary story?" and in hushed tones begins her narrative of macabre tales...

List of Dark Tales of Japan - Movie Episodes

Sorry, there are no videos available at this time.

Detailed Information

• Alternative Names: 日本のこわい夜, Nihon no Kowai Yoru, Scary Nights in Japan
• Genres: jmovie, horror, anthology, jdrama
• Episodes: 3
• Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures USA
• Year: 2004

Do you want to hear a scary story?
Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura
A bus hurtles down a pitch-black road at midnight, stopping momentarily to pick up a solitary female passenger (Kayoko Shiraishi). She asks, "Want to hear a scary story?" and in hushed tones she begins her narrative of macabre tales...

The Spiderwoman
Japanese Title: Kumo Onna
Dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura

“…if you look at her, you die.”

There is a creature terrorizing the dark streets of Japan after dusk, an eight-legged beast known only through rumored attacks and the name of Kumo Onna… “the Spiderwoman.” After a group of teenagers die in a car crash just after they encounter what seems to be a strange creature on the highway, Yamazaki, a local tabloid journalist, begins to follow the building legend of the Spiderwoman, hoping to uncover her identity.

As he traces the myth, the trail of clues leads him to Kamiya City, but it seems that none of his sources have ever actually seen the creature first-hand. Just as Yamazaki is losing hope, he meets a trauma-wracked girl who claims to have been attacked by the monster…can her tale really undo the mystery of the legend…?

…and just what is the price of delving further into this deathly web…?

Crevices
Japanese Title: Sukima
Dir: Norio Tsuruta

Have you ever felt like the walls have eyes? Like there is someone, something there, just at your back—that shadow on the curtains, the blurred presence in the mirror—that sound you thought you heard just now…?

Kodera is the guarantor for his high school friend, Shimuzu and is called over to his apartment when Shimuzu skips his rent for three months. Entering the empty room, Kodera finds that every wall and window—every crevice—has been inexplicably covered with red tape.

Kodera cannot fathom what would possess Shimuzu to do this—but then he stumbles upon a video that reveals the morbid truth of his last hours and his disappearance…

Have you ever felt like the walls have eyes? Like there is someone, something there…
Don’t be silly…it’s probably all in your mind, right?

…are you sure?

The Sacrifice
Japanese Title: Onamakubi
Dir: Koji Shiraishi

Mayu, an office lady working in Tokyo was asked out by her coworker Fukuda but she rejected him immediately. The next day, strange things begin to happen around her and her friend tells her the story of a girl who rejected Fukuda before. At that time, it’s said that he told her,

“I’ll put a curse on you!”

Mayu returns to her apartment to find a symbol on her door…written in blood.

Just as things are becoming more horrifying, she receives news that her mother has fallen ill and she returns to her house on the outskirts. There she relives the memory of her grandmother’s unexpected death, just as her mother was sick… “as if grandma died in mom’s place.”

The next day, Mayu notices a symbol on the ceiling of her parent’s house… same as the one smeared upon her door!

Mayu rushes back to the city, convinced that Fukuda is somehow involved with her mother’s illness and the strange things occurring around her…what will she find when she sneaks into his house to investigate the truth…?

Blond Kwaidan
Japanese Title: Kinpatsu Kaidan
Dir: Takashi Shimizu

For his job, Ishiguro is sent to Los Angeles where he is instantly amazed by the number of natural blondes! Ishigura is to stay in the house of his Executive Director, Hirota, who is presently away on vacation with his blondie girlfriend. But then strange things start to happen in the house and he wonders if he is truly alone…

Ishigura soon finds out that the presence of this blonde isn’t quite the American dream he had in mind…

Presentiment
Japanese Title: Yokan
Dir: Masayuki Ochiai

Fukawa is finally on vacation—so why is he still at the office?

Alone, he drops to the floor—dodging the sight of the security camera—he crawls to the main cubicle and breaks into the company’s computer where he steals the client database. All the while his cell phone goes off repeatedly: first it is his wife and young daughter, currently waiting for him at their hotel. Then a mysterious woman who waits for him too…on a train station platform where she threatens to kill herself if he doesn’t arrive before the last train!

We do not know where he is going, but it would seem he isn’t going to get there very fast once he steps into an elevator that first refuses to go to the first floor and then gets stuck. Fukawa is now trapped in a metal box between floors, unable to contact anyone on his dead cell phone while the clock keeps ticking closer to 7:45 and the final train. There are three other people in this elevator… so why is he the only one who seems to care about ever getting out…?


(c) 2004 TBS OZ