Tends to focus on psychological horror, tension building (suspense), and the supernatural, particularly involving ghosts (yūrei) and poltergeists.
Le Reste...
A mix of all genres
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favorites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of two previously unexplored genres—youth cinema and films depicting lower-class settings—considered alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime, and the Japanese New Wave.
Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-color film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favorites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.
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The list is based on the contents of the Book, sorted by chapters:
Film of the Year
Alternative Japan
Anime / Animation
Chambara / Samurai Cinema
Contemporary Blockbusters
J-Horror / Japanese Horror
Jidai-geki / Period Drama
Nuberu Bagu / The Japanese New Wave
Seishun eiga / Japanese Youth Cinema
Shomin-geki / Lower Class Life
Yakuza / Gangster
More information on this is also aviable on http://worldcinemadirectory.co.uk/!
List for the 1st edition: http://trakt.tv/user/sp1ti/lists/directory-of-world-cinema-japan
Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first installment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favorites, and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of two previously unexplored genres—youth cinema and films depicting lower-class settings—considered alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime, and the Japanese New Wave.
Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-color film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favorites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.
The list is based on the contents of the Book, sorted by chapters:
More information on this is also aviable on http://worldcinemadirectory.co.uk/!
List for the 1st edition: http://trakt.tv/users/sp1ti/lists/directory-of-world-cinema-japan
A list of films which were adapted from either Manga, Manhwa or Anime.
Many sourced from deano11's IMDB-List http://www.imdb.com/list/3uFsOeRH6ss but extended by quite a few.
Just a list of movies that I think are good or even great, that most people rate very low and think are pretty bad.
The Maestro. The Megalodon. The Murder Hornet. The Mama. The Toe-Mashing Mackerel Musketeer. The Madly Mopey Dopey Shieldmaiden Unladen. The Mop Up Job. The Mist-Mash Mystical Ninja Man Mono-No-Oshara Big Daddy Mac.
The Majordomo Loanin', Missy Bonin', Muppet In Towin', Incalculably Mysterious Metal-Show-Goin' Maniac. The Malpracticing Mullover Walk-a-Mile-in-my-Shoes Medic. The Musical Mallsoft Mistress With The Microlock.
The Mess Mixing, Multiverse Misleading, Meticulous Military-Grade 'Oh-Shi*-is-this-Malware' Mega Malware Megadrop. The Mess Hall Molly. The MP4-Minded Manmade Machine. The Unmalleable Not-So-Mellowed Out Mean-Mugger-Lubber. The Monitored Mar-Cin. The Multi-Core Magnet Link Mainframe Moose. The Midget Widget & Lemony Snicket's Muddled, Mindless, Motley, Miscellaneous Movies You'll Read But Never See Main Monster of a List.
The next mission in your mabblin' multinational macabre melodramatic mnemonic run-on I've assembled. More more more, of that sweet sweet mimetic musk. I bet my melted nougat you wouldn't read this much. And uh-oh brother, this, my, maldin-mana-jama is none other than The Third. But don't mask my mic, this molten molded malefic myriad is what's mogging you and malady's map to our macros. Care not to mention our Mister Meat & and Misses Muff Milk's minx magazines, and that's what most mentally middle-ground morally martial manipulating maggotbators most definitely, certainly, maptasticlapatagazzardly, want...
Not depicted by you.
Live action adaptations of manga/manhua/manhwa /webtoons/anime/donghua / games/ etc.
Have to take more from here:
1:
https://trakt.tv/users/oya-kesh/lists/live-action-asian-movies?sort=rank,asc
5: take more Chinese from here:
https://www.anime-planet.com/users/Ahlex/lists/danmei-that-have-been-adapted-to-donghua-828560
6: game adapt. to add from here.
https://trakt.tv/users/darkman1498/lists/video-game-adaptations?sort=rank,asc
A collection of Eastern (Russian, Korean, Japanese, etc.) films to watch, since the western industry is unfulfilling these days. This list will get longer and correspond with my watchlist.
The official Asian Cinema Takeout Fanzine movie list.
All things Horrific: Undead, Demons, Devils, Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Slashers, Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror, Monsters, Possession, Succubus, Incubus,
Country's: Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, China
Movies/ Shows all genres
Scary movies
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix
From the book of the same name, published by Rue Morgue magazine.
You've seen The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, The Blob. But are you familiar with The Exorcist III, Amityville II: The Possession or The Blob remake? Or minor masterpieces like Incubus, The Black Pit of Dr. M or Ichi The Killer? Fright film fans need look no further that this indispensable guide from the experts at Rue Morgue, the world's leading horror in culture and entertainment magazine. Concisely written with a view to expanding the horror film lover's palette, 200 ALTERNATIVE HORROR FILMS YOU NEED TO SEE outlines those cinematic gems you ay have missed - classic and contemporary, mainstream and obscure, home-made and foreign... and those films that simply need to make your viewing list. Featuring interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Tobe Hooper, Gaspar Noe, Roger Corman, Fred Dekker, Larry Cohen, Stuart Gordon, Ed Sanchez and more. Plus the top gore films, slashers, vampire flicks, foreign zombie movies, family fright fests and tons more!
Japanese Horror
by cage