The best Yoji Tanaka’s horror movies

Yoji Tanaka

Yoji Tanaka

08/08/1963 (60 años)
Today we present the best Yoji Tanaka’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Yoji Tanaka’s movies.
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Ju-on: The Grudge

Ju-on: The Grudge
6.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 18/10/2002
  • Character: Yûji Tôyama (uncredited)
Volunteer home-care worker Rika is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.

Ringu 0

Ringu 0
5.9/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 22/01/2000
  • Character: Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.

Exte: Hair Extensions

Exte: Hair Extensions
6.3/10
An aspiring hair dresser (Kuriyama) becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.

Alive

Alive
5.5/10
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.

Kakashi

Kakashi
5.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 13/09/2001
  • Character: Junsa (uncredited)
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?

Meatball Machine Kodoku

Meatball Machine Kodoku
5.8/10
Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 18/08/2001
  • Character: Rokuyama
Set in a future dystopia where teenaged girls begin dying for no apparent reason -- and often in an elated, chronically happy state of mind. One of these girls, Stacy, is back from the dead, however, and she's ready to gorge herself on human flesh. As more and more teenage-girl zombies begin to feast on the living, the people of Japan brace themselves and try to find a way to end the madness.

Yamagata Scream

Yamagata Scream
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/08/2009
  • Character: Bubaigawa
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.

Swan's Song

Swan's Song
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/11/2002
  • Character: Detective Yamashita
Mina and Mizuki sisters attended a ballet class in Tokyo. One day, the sisters return home separately, but younger sister, Mizuki, is kidnapped on the way home and discovered as a corpse. On that day, Mina blames herself for returning home, leaving her sister to practice ballet staying. Her mother, Teruko, is also very upset by the news of the discovery of her body, causing deep emotional wounds. The incident was featured on a variety show, and the mother and daughter, who couldn't stand the curiosity of the world, moved to a quiet country town far from the city. Although they started a new life, Teruko is bullied by a mysterious mad woman and Mina is bullied at school. And a mysterious murder case occurs again around them.

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