How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

The J-Horror Virus

An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

For this 17th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast.  A young man trying to become a hairstylist finds the run-down apartment he's in may have a troubled past;  A new nurse finds work with an old hospital where her young patient moves a coin around pointing to who will die next;  clumsy businessman finds his clumsiness being transmitted to others when he's given a cursed votive tablet;  several high school girls visit a friend at the hospital only to find "something" may have gotten on the elevator with them;  a pond out in the country sends a strange call out to a man on vacation with his family and finally a young woman having difficulty at her job worries she's seeing images of her dead father everywhere.

Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2016

Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2017

Stories: Did Daruma fall down?,  An Accident Property, seven wonders of a certain school, Evil Sound Invitation