About Japanese Horror Anthology: Underworld - Movie
Series of short Japanese horror films.
List of Japanese Horror Anthology: Underworld - Movie Episodes
AKA
稲川淳二の戦慄のホラー
Inagawa Junji no Senritsu no Horror
Summary
This is one of two collections of ghost tales from the prolific productions of Inagawa Junji, Japan's predominant contemporary master storyteller of Japanese ghost tales. Here you experience six supernatural ghost stories haunting contemporary Tokyo-ites.
Chain Mail
AKA: チェーンメール
The basic premise of this tale is very akin to that of Chakushin Ari [One Missed Call]. A small group of high school girls receive text messages on their cell phones purportedly from Tomie, the young girl who committed suicide shortly after a horrendous bullying from the girls. Accompanying each text message is a grainy photo of a young girl in some form of suffering. The messages recommends that each girl pass along the message to three companions lest they themselves suffer the same fate as the girl in the photo.
Left Behind in the Mountain
AKA: Yama no Naka no Wasuremono
山の中の忘れ物
Aided by the ease of online dating sites, a young man increasingly meets a variety of young woman for first dates involving a long drive into the mountains to enjoy refreshing scenery. When they all fail to "put out", his anger causes him to routinely leave each girl abandonded at the remote spot. On one occasion, however, upon returning to the city he is suddenly met by the young woman he had just abandoned. In a manner he finds unable to refuse, she insists they drive back to the remote spot in order to find something she had "left behind"
Tattoo
A young woman looking for a racier expression of herself decides to get a Tattoo from a mysterious shop. Inside the shop, the amazingly seductive tattooist easily and quickly creates on the young girl's chest a beautiful butterfly tattoo. The tattoo seems to carry with it some bizarre characteristics and soon the girl is regularly having nightmares of a bloody and brutal killing.
Viewfinder's Memory
AKA: Findaa no Kioku
ファインダーの記憶
Three high school boys enjoy a summer vacation at a parent's cottage next to the ocean. While enjoying the beach, they encounter a beautiful young woman who quickly takes a liking to them. As they enjoy each others' company on the beach, one boy peers through the video camera he had brought along to capture the memories. What he sees in the camera, however, brings back startling other memories.
Guardian Angel
AKA: Dareka ga Miteiru
誰かが見ている
After squandering her grandmother's inheritance on the foolish business ideas of her runaway boyfriend and being hounded by increasingly boisterous creditors demanding their money, a young woman contemplates suicide as the means of escape. Try as she might, however, her attempts are always thwarted by a mysterious force inside the house.
Mortuary
AKA: Reianshitsu
霊安室
A new hospital intern is asked to bring the body of a young boy recently killed in an auto accident down to the hospital's morgue. Once in the quiet morgue, the child's mother arrives to inquire about the fate of her boy.