So Scary: Japanese Horror Movies

Sadako from "Ring"

"Ring"(or "Ringu" 1998) is famous of a haunted video and a female ghost, name is "Sadako",  who comes from the old well.

According to a DVD product description from amazon.com: A grainy, enigmatic videotape has the power to kill people seven days after they watch it. This brilliant premise fueled the 2002 Hollywood hit The Ring, but before that it conquered Japan in Ringu, Hideo Nakata's quietly unsettling study in terror. Fans of the U.S. version will find a less elaborate storyline and more primal fear in the original; the basic plot, however, still has a worried reporter tracking down the meaning of the video--and, having watched it herself, she has only a week to work. The film's calm, economical style actually adds to the creeping sense of dread throughout, and the hair-curling set-pieces stand out in contrast. Like an old photograph of something evil, Ringu has the strange-but-familiar power to unnerve. Guaranteed, its effect will linger for at least seven days. Longer... if you're lucky.

I saw this movie at a movie theater and was so scary. I believe that Japanese horror movies are different from "before Ring" and "after Ring". It must be a masterpiece of horror movie in Japan. Firstly, let you see a trailer of "Ring" on Youtube.

Shin Mimibukuro

Secondly, I let you know "Shin Mimibukuro". "Shin" means "New" and "Mimibukuro" is a collection of scary, strange, odd but true stories in the Edo era - about 300 years ago. So this tittle means "the collection of contemporary scary (true) stories" . I don't know whether true or not, but a series of original books (same tittle)  treats tales as true stories (Actually I can't believe that...).

Anyway, I don't care about true or not. I just care about scary or not. For this aspect, some of short movies are very scary.

Fortunately they are with English subtitle on Youtube. See them and feel scary.