Asian horror movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant asian horror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious, disturbing and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with supernatural, death, ghost, blood, violence, danger, deadly, murder, gore and nightmare plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as asian horror: Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003), Shutter (2004), The Chanting (2006), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Sleep (2023), Over Your Dead Body (2014), Pulse (2001), Revenge of the Pontianak (2019), Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019), Werewolf Game: Lovers (2018).

List of asian horror movies

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Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: vengeful ghost, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, ghost story, revenge, curse, supernatural, danger, abandoned house, curses spells and rituals, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 7.0
 49K
Shutter (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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 5.9
 516
The Chanting (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young college student moves to a new boarding house in a very haunted area.
Style: indonesian
Plot: supernatural, asian prostitute, pagan, evil, motel, car accident, boarding house, vampire, stepfather, mirror, fatal accident, tree ...
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
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 6.6
 2K
Sleep (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hyun-su and Soo-jin are newlyweds. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of what happened the night ...
Style: dark comedy, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: sleepwalking, husband wife relationship, married couple, sleeping, pregnancy, sleepwalker, problem, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations, family problems ...
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Mai-chan's Daily Life: The Movie (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A young maid who cannot die is rented out by her master to paying customers to do whatever they want to her.
Style: disturbing, sadistic, suspense, anime, controversial ...
Plot: violence, perversion, punishment, maid, abuse, torture, sadistic horror, sadistic psychopath, sadistic violence, teenage girl, sadistic cruelty, sadist ...
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Over Your Dead Body (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the ...
Style: stylized, thought provoking, philosophical, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: golddigger, loose woman, sluttiness, sex scene, slutty attitude, nymph, nymphomania, easy woman, death, blood, murder, nightmare ...
Place: japan
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 6.5
 25K
Pulse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
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Revenge of the Pontianak (2019)
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Singapore, Malaysia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A newly married couple’s life is shaken by the arrival of a vengeful Pontianak, forcing them down a dark path of betrayal, witchcraft and murder.
Style: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, scary, bleak ...
Plot: vampire, wedding, creature, revenge, monster, murder, curse, female vampire, hunting, mission, rescue, vampirism ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: malaysia, singapore
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Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Saki, Anju, Chiaki, Ami, and Kaya reunite for the first time in years. The five of them excitedly decide to go Toshimaen Amusement Park, a place that was very important to them when they were younger. None of them know that they're about to ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: paranormal, haunted, japanese girl, japanese woman, peril, paranormal phenomena, demon, violence, evil, revenge, fear, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Werewolf Game: Lovers (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Contestants in "The Werewolf Game" have to kill each other to win. These contestants have experience in similar slaughter games. Ranko Takano is one of the participants. She takes part to help a family mired in dept. New positions of ...
Style: dread, serious, disturbing, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, game, kidnapped boy, game of death, high school student, kidnapped, kidnapped girl, abduction, struggle for survival, survival game
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
Style: anthology, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: monster, supernatural power, supernatural, youth, death, violence, revenge, deadly creature, strong female presence, killings, peril, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 5.4
 948
Cult (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so ...
Style: bleak, scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, demon, supernatural, exorcism, paranormal, shaman, paranormal phenomena, ghost, violence, evil, pursuit, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 6.5
 1K
Sweet Home (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
Style: cult classic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, body horror, resident evil, sorcery, supernatural horror, occult, murder, painter, mansion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
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Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A psycho scientist sent in to inoculate the luscious young student bodies against a new virus makes a little error in judgment, resulting in a not-so-little flesh-eating zombie problem. Now, with most of the school and all of the teachers running ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, queer horror, splatter ...
Plot: strong female lead, zombie, seduction, living dead, japanese schoolgirl, teamwork, survival horror, erotica, violence, undead, female student, virus ...
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Hunger of the Dead (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: In year 20xx, the world was plagued with zombies. Human race was on a verge of extinction and clock was ticking for those who were still alive. When a young male protagonist, Toshiyuki (Ryouta MURAI) was running alone from a horde, he comes across ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, humorous, tense ...
Plot: zombie, food industry, walking dead, food shortage, eating human flesh, meat, farming, zombie violence, living dead, survival, pandemic, cannibalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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The Vampire Doll (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even ...
Style: gothic horror, classic horror, gothic, grindhouse, crying ...
Plot: vampire, kaiju, doll, mitsubishi, giant monster, asian prostitute, sexploitation, rural setting, supernatural horror, deal with the devil, death of daughter, rainstorm ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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 5.4
 145
Hana-Dama (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also ...
Style: tense, suspense, sincere, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: bullying, bully, schoolgirl, insanity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, insane, teenage girl, social problems, mockery, exploitation, japanese schoolgirl ...
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The Buddhist Spell (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Fantasy period piece. Some magic tree spirit lady and a young monk fight some bat-head guy.
Plot: tree, possession, buddhist, buddhism, demon, female ghost, monk, love, revenge, ghost, blood, violence ...
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 6.6
 10
Z (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: pandemic, zombie, walking dead, living dead, virus, undead, characters in danger, survival, evil, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, violence ...
Place: japan
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A strange virus turns 90% of the world population into Lust eating Zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males were found to be uninfected. These men team up with the Zombies to go after the flesh and blood of surviving young women to fill ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie violence, evil dead, zombie attack, zombie rape, walking dead, undead, rage, violence, rapist, virus, fight, survival ...
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Hide and Go Kill 2 (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online of hide and seek, she begins to wonder if it could be related to her disappearance somehow. Ryoko ...
Style: suspense
Plot: internet, kickass, serial killer, technology, puzzle, rice, high school teacher, spiritualism, ghost, urban legend, high school student, female ghost ...
Place: japan
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 6.2
 2K
Inner Senses (2002)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, serious ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, mental illness, danger, mysterious character, uncover truth, supernatural, losing-it hero, doctors and patients, supernatural ability, mind game ...
Place: china
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 6.1
 1K
Possessed (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When 13-year-old So-Jin disappears, her elder sister Hee-Jin returns to the apartment of their religious-maniac mother. Tae-Hwan, a cop, who reluctantly has to take the case seriously is confronted with more and more suicides that are difficult to ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, police investigation, missing person, danger, ghost, life turned upside down, family problems, death in the family, suicide, mysterious death, mother daughter relationship, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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 6.2
 773
Countdown (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this Thai thriller set in New York City, three rich kids want to throw a New Year’s Eve party in their apartment. They call up a drug dealer, an American guy called Jesus. When Jesus arrives the countdown bash turns into a psychological game ...
Style: serious, scary, realistic, sadistic, mystic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: new year, youth, danger, teenage life, drug abuse, violent content, torture, kidnapping, drug dealer, graphic violence, home invasion, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, thailand, new york
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 6.7
 9K
Wicked City (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: This animated Japanese film is a dark, adult-oriented thriller. A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of spider-like aliens is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female alien, are assigned ...
Style: anime, adult anime, adult animation, manga, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: demon, supernatural, good versus evil, supernatural ability, save the world, parallel world, beast, space and aliens, erotica, heroic mission, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: future
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young ...
Style: slasher, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, child in peril, danger, gory, suburbs, brutality, missing child, investigation, urban legend, extreme, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: curse, ghost, vengeance, danger, rivalry, youth, supernatural, village, curses spells and rituals, mute or deaf, ouija, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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 5.0
 598
The Locker (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, urban legend, supernatural, danger, youth, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, looking for love, city life, student life, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 968
The Unseeable (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualjin who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, mind bending, surprise ending
Plot: ghost, haunted house, pregnancy, mysterious character, woman in danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, estate, twists and turns, disappearance, mysterious man, nightmare ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: thailand, asia
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