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Living Death

Aka: Disbelief Hell / Possessed / Hell of the Non-believers / Bool-sin-ji-ok
Director: Yong-Joo Lee
Release date: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Shim Eun-kyung as So-jin
Young-nam Jang as Su-kyeong
Bo-yeon Kim as Mother
Hie-kyung Moon as Kyeong-ja
Chang-jik Lee

Synopsis:
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 explain rationally. And why does the skeptical Hee-Jin, who keeps having gruesome encounters with suicides, have to keep coughing? (Credit: Imdb)

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A Snake of June

Aka: Rokugatsu no hebi
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Release date: 2002
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Erotic, Mature 18+, Mystery

Starring:
Asuka Kurosawa as Rinko Tatsumi
Yuji Kohtari as Shigehiko
Shinya Tsukamoto as Iguchi
Mansaku Fuwa
Tomoko Matsumoto

Synopsis:
Rinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He's older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo's rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she's wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she'll follow his instructions. She's humiliated and agrees. He tells her he's only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead?
(Credit: Imdb)

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Awards:
Fantasporto:
International Fantasy Film Award: Best Actress: Asuka Kurosawa
International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award: Tsukamoto Shinya
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Art Direction: Shinya Tsukamoto
Venice film Festival:
Kinematrix Film Award: Feature Films: Shinya Tsukamoto
San Marco Special Jury Award: Shinya Tsukamoto

Award Nominations:
Fantasporto: International Fantasy Film Award: Best Film
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Film

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Cursed

Aka: 'Chô' kowai hanashi A: yami no karasu
Director: Yoshihiro Hoshino
Release date: 2004
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Kyôko Akiba as Ryôko Kagami
Yumeaki Hirayama as DFJ News anchorman
Takaaki Iwao as Komori, the night-shift clerk
Etsuyo Mitani as Store owner's wife
Hiroko Satô as Nao Shingaki
Osamu Takahashi as Store owner

Synopsis:
Experience a new fear. Prepare for the unknown… You will see something you will never forget…Nao Shingaki has a part-time job at a mini-mart. Outwardly, it looks like any other mini-mart, but there is something unmistakably abnormal about the place. Inside, the air is choked with vengeful spirits. Outside, thebackyard reeks with a horrible smell. The owner of the mini-mart seems to be overjoyed by the severe injuries sustained by a sales rep for a majorfranchise; while his wife suffers from an unknown madness and spends all of her time staring into the security cameras. Now the spirits have claimed the souls of the night-shift clerk and several customers. Nao is now faced with the task of somehow trying to escape this demonic terror!
(Credit: Amazon)

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Tagline: Don't Look Back...

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Ju-On: The Curse 2 (TV Version)

Aka: Ju-On 2
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2000
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Yûrei Yanagi as Shunsuke Kobayashi
Takako Fuji as Kayako Saeki
Takashi Matsuyama as Takeo Saeki
Yûko Daike as Kyôko Suzuki
Makoto Ashikawa as Tatsuya Suzuki
Yue as Manami Kobayashi

Synopsis:
Ju-on 2 is the second film in the Japanese horror series. The film was released in Japan on March 25, 2000 and was later released onto video on April 14, 2000.
Much of this sequel is a recap of the first film, nearly 30 minutes of retelling out of 76 minutes. Also the rest of the movie introduces new information on those events, and new characters, as well as briefly introducing events which would play into the two theatrical films.
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Ju-On: The Curse (TV Version)

Aka: Ju-On
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2000
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Yûrei Yanagi as Shunsuke Kobayashi
Yue as Manami Kobayashi
Ryôta Koyama as Toshio Saeki
Hitomi Miwa as Yuki
Asumi Miwa as Kanna Murakami
Chiaki Kuriyama as Mizuho Tamura
Yoriko Douguchi as Nakamura
Denden as Yoshikawa
Tarô Suwa as Kamio

Synopsis:
Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only to find the dead ghost of his mother, and consequently has a heart attack and becomes a ghost himself. The story goes on to tell of the new tenants of the house and what they experience, and an investigation by two police officers into why so many people are dissapearing. (Credit: Imdb)

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Ju-On - The Grudge 2

Aka: Ju-On: The Curse 2 / Ju-On 4 / Ju-on 2: Gekijô-ban
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English(Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Starring:
Noriko Sakai as Kyoko Harase
Chiharu Niiyama as Tomoka Miura
Kei Horie as Noritaka Yamashita
Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu
Ayumu Saitô as Masashi Ishikura

Synopsis:
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 they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old fetus in her womb.
(Credit: Imdb)

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Award Nomination:
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Film

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Ju-On - The Grudge

Aka: The Grudge / Ju-on: Gekijô-ban / Ju-On 3
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Release date: 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Starring:
Megumi Okina as Rika Nishina
Misaki Ito as Hitomi Tokunaga
Misa Uehara as Izumi Tôyama
Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu
Kanji Tsuda as Katsuya Tokunaga

Synopsis:
It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once... no, even now there is a terror here, born of a spirit that possesses this place. The various supernatural experiences undergone by the different owners of the house, unaware of the horrible events that have taken place here, mingle across time, and the true form of the terrifying, invisible "Ju-On" that nests in this house becomes clear...
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Award:
Screamfest: Festival Trophy: Best Foreign Film

Award Nomination:
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Saturn Award: Best DVD Release

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The Crying Tree

Aka: Jun Ka Por
Director: Nopporn Vatin
Release date: 2008
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Preeyanuch Parnopradub
Pimpun Juntha
Pittaya Na Ranong

Synopsis:
Terror is running through an idyllic country resort, for every time the words of 'The Crying Tree' are heard, residents know that when the music stops, one of them will have been murdered...
(Credit: Lovefilm)

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Cinderella

Director: Bong Man-dae

Release date: August 17, 2006
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Drama

Starring:
Ahn Ah-hyun
Ahn Gyu-ryun

Jeon So-min

Shin Se-kyeong

Synopsis:
Hyeon-su is a normal girl on summer break. Hyeon-su's mother is a plastic surgeon who has coincidentally operated on all of Hyeon-su's friends. Her friends discover that all of them saw something very strange and very frightening when they went under the knife. Hyeon-su's mother is keeping a secret that is somehow connected to this ghost that is haunting all of her patients, and Hyeon-su takes it upon herself to figure out what's going on before more of her friends kill themselves, or worse. (IMDB)

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H

Director: Jong-yuk Lee
Release date: December 27, 2002
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Starring:
Yeom Jeong-ah,

Ji Jin-hee

Jo Seung-woo

Seung Ji-roo

Kwon Kyeok-poong

Synopsis:
A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. Warning, the full summery reveals certain spoilers. (IMDB.com)

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Romance of Darkness

Aka: Mizu ni sumu hana
Director: Kenji Goto
Release date: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Starring:
Aki Maeda - Rikka Nikaidou
Katsuyo Asari
Katsunobu Ito
Keiko Kitagawa - Rikka Mizuchi
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Koji Sato
Mizuho Takasugi
Chikuzai Terunosuke

Synopsis:
It happened in the blink of an eye. Rikka's world turned upside down when her school field trip bus flipped and plummeted into a lake. Everyone inside that bus drowned... except for Rikka, but she wasn't saved by anything as simple as luck. When she was released from the hospital, Rikka was then attacked repeatedly in a series of bizarre incidents all involving water... and a sadistic aquatic beauty whose name is -- Rikka!? What does our heroine have that the sadistic Rikka wants back? What was it that saved her from drowning, and who gave it to her and why...?
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4th Period Mystery

Aka: Detectives in 40 Minutes / 4th Period Murder Mystery / 4Gyosi Churi Yeongyeok / The Clue
Director: Lee Sang-woo
Release date: 2009
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Starring:
Yoo Seung-ho
Kang So-ra
Jo Sang-geun
Jeon Joon-hong
Jeong Seok-yong
Park Cheol-min

Synopsis:
During fourth period, high schooler Da-jeong finds his classmate Tae-gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murderer, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends.
(Credit: Hancinema)

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Nang Nak

Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
Release date: 1999
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Starring:
Intira Jaroenpura as Nak
Winai Kraibutr as Mak
Manit Meekaewjaroen
Pramote Suksatit
Pracha Thawongfia

Synopsis:
Based on a Thai legend. Mak leaves for Bangkok and is seriously wounded in the Chiang Toong War. His wife, Nak, dies together with her stillborn child, but when Mak returns, they continue to live together, without his being aware that she is a ghost. But the forces of the supernatural realm eventually prove that such co-existence ultimately leads to an unexpected resolution.
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Dragon Head

Aka: Doragon Heddo
Director: Joji Iida
Release date: August 30, 2003
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Starring:
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Sayaka
Takayuki Yamada
Naohito Fujiki
Yoshimasa Kondo

Synopsis:
Mochizuki's Dragon Head manga series was featured in Weekly Young Magazine from September 1994 to December 1999. The story is an intense mystery about Teru Aoki (Tsumabuki) who is returning home on the bullet train from a class trip with his teacher and classmates. While the train is passing through a tunnel, the train runs off the tracks and crashes. Everyone aboard the train except Teru seems to have died in the accident.
However, while Teru stumbles around through the darkness and the rubble, one of his female classmates, Ako Seto (SAYAKA) grabs his ankle. Apparently she is one of the rare survivors of the crash. When they finally escape the dark and deadly tunnel, they discover a world of mass destruction. Unaware of what happened or the cause of the destruction, they must struggle to survive in an unforgiving enviroment, which resembles an apocalyptic Tokyo.

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Vanished

Aka: Oyayubi Sagashi
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
Release date: 2006
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Starring:
Ken Miyake as Takeshi
Ayumi Ito as Chie
Ken'ichi Matsuyama as Tomohiko
Runa Nagai as Aya
Hiroyuki Onoue as Nobuhisa

Synopsis:
According to an urban legend, there is a young girl with a missing index finger, and anyone who finds her index finger will be granted a wish. Just for fun, six elementary school students play an eerie spirit game to search for the finger, only to find one person missing at the game’s completion. Eight years later, the remaining five members meet again at their student reunion, still guilt-ridden over the events of the past. They decide to play the spirit game once more in order to find their friend. This time, everyone starts disappearing, one by one…
(Credit: Avistaz)

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Love Ghost

Aka: Shibito no Koiwazurai / Lovesick Dead
Director: Kazuyuki Shibuya
Release date: 2001
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance

Starring:
Kumiko Akiyoshi as Kazuko
Mao Asami as Satoui Naoko
Risa Goto as Fukuda Midori

Synopsis:
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
(Credit: Imdb)

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Burn

Aka: Khon Fai Luk
Director: Peter Manus
Release date: 2008
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Suspense

Starring:

Bongkot Kongmalai
Chalat Na Songkla

Synopsis:

Burn circles around the mystery of Spontaneous human combustion (SHC), the belief that the human body sometimes burns without an external source of ignition.
The story follows the investigation of a female victim’s mysterious death caused by SHC. Mona, the daughter of the victim, is an ambitious lawyer who accidentally involves in the crime. She regrets the unfinished reconciliation between her and her mother.
The incident brings her to Ploy, a nurse whose mother passed from SCH as well. Both girls seek to find the truth behind their mother’s death. Kwan, a diehard journalist, follows her instinct to unveil the evil force behind the case.

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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Aka: Chinjeolhan Geumjassi
Director: Park Chan-wook
Release date: July 29, 2005
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Starring:
Lee Young-Ae
Choi Min-Sik
Kwon Yea-Young
Kim Byeong-Ok
Kim She-hu

Synopsis:
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?

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Suicide Club

Aka: Jisatsu Sakuru / Suicide Circle
Director: Sion Sono
Release date: 2001
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror, Mature 18+, Mystery,Thriller

Starring:
Ryo Ishibashi
Masatoshi Nagase
Mai Hosho
Tamao Sato
Takashi Nomura

Synopsis:
In Tokyo, when fifty-four high-school students commit a collective suicide, jumping from a platform in Shinjuku Station, the police force leaded by Detective Kuroda has no clue to follow. Then he receives an e-mail from a young woman, The Bat, advising that there is a site where red dots mean the number of persons that died. Kuroda and his team investigate the deaths going nowhere.
(Credit: Imdb)

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Amour-Legende

Aka: Song Shu Zi Sha Shi Jian
Director: Wu Mi-sen
Release date: 2006
Language: Mandarin / Japanese / English
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Starring:
Yôsuke Kubozuka as Oshima
Rachel Ngan as May
Han Chang as Tom
Hsu Wei-ning as Coco

Synopsis:
Oshima (Kubozuka Yusuke) wakes up in the middle of a desert in South America with no memory. A woman named Coco (Rachel Ngan) is lying beside him. Coco tells Oshima that he was originally planning on crossing the desert with his girlfriend May to get to Snow Mountain, but May suddenly disappeared, leaving him at bay. Coco helped him out by chance, and now they're heading to Snow Mountain together. Perhaps May is already there...
(Credit: Yesasia)

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