The best Akiko Hoshino’s movies

The spiteful ghosts of an abused girl and her grandmother, both mercilessly murdered, return to haunt and take victims under their grudge.

A young girl is sold into the red-light district Yoshiwara and is put under the care of the oiran (lead prostitute) of the Tamakiku house. The girl is rebellious, but the more experienced people in the household begin to think that she will be one day a great oiran, since an oiran needs not only beauty and talent, but she should also have the tenacity to maintain the position.

Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…

Koharu Higashimura is a 17-year-old high school student, living in a rural town. Koharu lives with her older sister Hazuki and mother Sawa. 14 years ago, Koharu's father abandoned their family after meeting a new woman. One evening at dinner time, Sawa tells her daughters that their father has terminal cancer and they should go see him before it's too late. Sawa gives her daughters a camera and asks if they can take a picture of him, because she would like to see. Koharu and Hazuki then leave for the hospital where their father is hospitalized. While riding the train to the hospital, Koharu, who has doesn't have any memories of their father, asks Hazuki about their dad.