Good Asian horror movies?

[trancejeremy]

I finished watching "The Locker" (1 & 2, actually) and thought they were quite good.

I have already seen and liked:

Double Vision
One Missed Call 1&2
Inner Senses (sorta a horror movie)
Eko Eko Azak (something like that)

Sorta liked, but eh:

Marebito (Neat to see a movie about Deros and the whole Shaver thing, but otherwise weird)
Pulse
The Death Curse
Night Corridor
Armageddon
Bio Zombie (don't like Zombie movies much. I did like Versus but that's not really a horror movie)

Didn't like:

Uzumaki


Any other ideas for others? My netflix queue is running short on them

 

[Mark Chance]

The Cello
The Eye
St. John's Wort
Two Sisters
Spider Forest*
Old Boy*
No Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance*
Running on Karma*

* Not really horror per se, but worth looking at nonetheless.

 

[Soel]

I'll second The Eye.

also, I offer the following (but many of the ones you thought were "eh," I thought were really good.

Three: Extremes (three short films)
Cure (more of a suspense, from the guy who made Pulse. Almost anything from This director is gold)
Tomie (only bother with the first one)
Tale of Two Sisters (like many korean films, this one tends to be drama-heavy, but its good)
Junk (zombies)
Wild Zero (zombies, and rock'n'roll fun! drinking game included as a special feature!)
Ringu (the original japanese version of the Ring, again only the first one)
Audition (just about anything Miike makes is great)

 

[horacethegrey]

How come you haven't mentioned The Ring? That flick for me is the starting point for all people getting into Asian horror.

EDIT: Damn. Beat me to it.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Audition is good. Not my favorite (and not quite what I was expecting when I got it), but it's enjoyable and twisted.

I haven't seen anyone mention Versus yet, which I quite enjoyed (zombies and martial arts).

 

[Tuzenbach]

The movie that "The Grudge" was based upon was pretty good. Not exactly positive about the Japanese name, but phonetically, it sounded like "Ju On". I'm sure a Google search for The Grudge would shed more light.....

 

[Tuzenbach]

Here we go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju-on:_The_Grudge

 

[Rackhir]

Audition is good. Not my favorite (and not quite what I was expecting when I got it), but it's enjoyable and twisted.

I haven't seen anyone mention Versus yet, which I quite enjoyed (zombies and martial arts).

Actually the OP did mention it, in the description of another movie.

I've not seen it, but I have heard a lot of good things about Audition. Though like most of the director's movies it is NOT for the weak of stomach and Audition is supposed to be particularly gut churning.

I thought Ju-on was so-so. Haven't seen the original movie so I'm not sure if it's any better.

"Stacy" was sort of interesting. It's about a plague where teenage girls die and turn into zombies. It's definitely slapstick and wacky, very much Romero played for laughs. The end was a definite "WTF?" as it gets pretty silly.

"Another Heaven" was pretty good. It falls into the "mysterious string of serial killings by multiple different people with the same MO". kind of genre. The begining is absolutely hysterically funny.

"The Eye" was pretty decent.

"Suicide Club" was interesting in parts, but ultimately I found it kind of unsatisfying. Not with out its merits though. It centers around mass suicides that take place seemingly spontaniously and for no obvious reason.

 

[WayneLigon]

Kibakichi is a good period horror movie, about the shapeshifting races of Japan being maginalized and exploited. Has the best kappa I've ever seen.

Cure was very good. I had to look at the ending a couple times before I really figured out what was going on, but it was a good film overall.

Suicide Club was also pretty good, though of course seeing 54 sailor-suited schoolgirls off themselves all at once would warm almost anyone's heart.

Battle Royale could be considered a horror film, just for the premise: ..takes place early in the new millennium, with Japan on the verge of societal collapse. When even the schoolchildren begin to abuse the system, the government introduces a strict new punishment whereby a randomly chosen group of students are taken to a desert island and forced to fight each other to the death.

Audition is still my favorite japanese horror film to date. Starting off like a silly romantic comedy, it devolves into some pretty horrific scenes.

 

[sydbar]

I agree on Battle Royale, and Versus, neither is what you could consider a true horror film, but both are horror like, and extremely entertaining, to me at least.