Takashi Shimizu

Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There’s an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened (letterboxd.com).

Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas. (imdb)

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out. [IMDB]

Horror film about the bloodcurdling terror of Inunaki Village, which is said to lie beyond the haunted Old Inunaki Tunnel. (jfdb.jp)

When abused children return after they went missing, their abusers find a mysterious death after 3 days. Local newspaper reporter Shunya investigates the deaths, while his girlfriend Naomi gets too close to one of the haunted children. (imdb)

Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin. (imdb)

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. (imdb)

Daigo is a young boy whose family is falling apart around him. He lives with his older sister Kiriko and his children's book author father Kohei. One day Daigo kills a rabbit at school. In an attempt to connect with her brother, Kiriko takes Daigo to see a 3D horror film involving a rabbit doll. Somehow Daigo manifests the same rabbit doll from the movie and develops a dark bond with it. Soon, he and his sister are pulled into a limbo in which the rabbit doll grows and begins to terrorize them. (LA Pacific Film Fest)

A group of teenagers take a sick to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth. (imdb)

A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas, and nasty aliens. (abandomoviez.net)

The much-anticipated sequel to the 2004 worldwide hit The Grudge, this terrifying thriller explores the dark secrets of the grudge as the terrifying supernatural curse is unleashed on a group of seemingly unrelated victims. One by one, they are infected by the grudge, which quickly moves from a burned-down house in Tokyo and spreads to everyone who crosses his path. (Columbia Pictures)

An anthology featuring ten dreams.

Death Is Only The Beginning

Karen Davis (Gellar) is an American Nurse moves to Tokyo and encounter a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find away to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim. (imdb)

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo, leading him to a disturbing discovery. (Tartan Films)

Kiyoshi Imawano and his family move into a haunted house. The entire family, except the occult-obsessed father, gains the power to see ghosts and spirits. An undead monk, secret government agents, even UFOs start showing up. It's up to Kiyoshi to find out why the house is troubled by all these strange occurrences and save his family, and possibly the world, from inter-dimensional terrors. (imdb)

A collection of dark shorts from Japan.

Director/screenwriter Shimizu Takashi spins the tale of a family that is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit burning with hatred. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the house, the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begins, passing through all those who set foot within its walls. (Lions Gate Films)

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... (imdb)

Horror, gag, and entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro "!" Hellstone catching out hell "and" Alien of the table "are included. (imdb)

Horror, gag, entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" "Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro" !. "Kaidanui watching me ..." and "My alien" are included. (imdb)

Tomie has returned! An art student disappears after murdering his model, Tomie. Now his friends are being haunted by a resurrected Tomie. And every time she shows up, strange things begin to happen! (Amazon.com)

Sequel to "Ju-on" (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.

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. (imdb)

One of the short films that became the basis for the Ju-On series.

Features four short horror films (imdb)

"Katasumi" 1998 Japanese horror short film directed by Takashi Shimizu. It is part of a prequel to the Ju-on movies. In a Corner/Katasumi begins with two Japanese schoolgirls (revealed to be Kanna and Hisayo in the first Ju-On film) who are caring for their school's rabbits.... (asian-horror-movies)