Asian Cinema
Some of the more imaginative, original, and scary films are being made in Asia. From Ghosts, to Zombies, and the Supernatural, you will find some of the best right here!!!


999-9999- WIDESCREEN, FILMED IN THAILAND W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES. A new girl has just transferred to a school after the death of a girl at her last school. When a couple of friends start investigating the case, they find out about the number 999-9999. If you call this number after midnight, you will get anything you ask for... in exchange for something. But as the friends start making their wishes, they start dropping dead after every wish have been granted. How can the evil phone number be stopped, and who or what is it really that's granting their wishes? (2002)
ALL NIGHT LONG- Widescreen, Japanese Language w/English subtitles. When three teenage boys witness the murder of a young woman they become bonded by their shared experience. When a female friend is raped by a gang of miscreants, the three boys hunt down the perpetrators and slaughter them. (1992)
ALL NIGHT LONG 2- In Japanese w/English subtitles. During his school summer holiday break, Shinichi is pestered by a gang of homosexual thugs who specialize in rape and murder. Things quickly turn from bad to worse, until the final confrontation between Shinichi and the leader of the gang ends in a bloodbath of epic proportions. (1995)
ALL NIGHT LONG 3- Asian horror w/English subtitles. A bellboy stalks a woman who frequents the hotel where he works. The final film in the twisted trilogy. (2003)
ASIAN TRAILERS – Two hours of great trailers from Asian Horror and Action films
ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER- Japanese horror/slasher w/English subtitles. Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac. (1976)
ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE- Classic late night film about shipwrecked passengers on an island loaded with mushrooms. They begin to eat them and soon become transforming into “Mushroom People”. A hard-to-find late night classic. (1964)
BAMBOO TORTURE GARDEN (aka Chinese Torture Chamber)- Widescreen, in Japanese Language w/English subtitles. A Hong Kong "Category 3" (exploitation) classic set during the Sung Dynasty, as a corrupt magistrate subjects a lovely, innocent young bride to inconceivable physical punishments after "convicting" her of killing her husband (by causing his penis to explode, of course). Plenty of raunch and unintentional humor. Viewer discretion advised. (1994)
BATTLE ROYALE- Ninth grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food and various arms. They have to fight each other for three days long until the last one remains and are forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule. Warning! Very unnerving and graphic. Mature buyers only. (2000)
BEASTS (aka Flesh And The Bloody Terror) - Chinese with English subtitles. A group of young girls on a camping trip encounter four thugs who take one of the girls and they rape her. Her father hearing about this takes vengeance in his own hands A Chinese version of “I Spit On Your Grave”. (1980)
BEAUTY EVIL ROSE- If the concept of exploitation
hasn't opened to you yet, here is a recommended low-budget
Chinese film that exploits so many elements that it's hard to
count them! Beauty Evil Rose begins like a soft-core sex film but
the rest of the stuff is some kind of combination of thriller,
horror, fantasy, comedy, soft-core and a cop movie genres... all
this in irresistible cheap way. Just look at those scenes
involving witchcraft and "snakes" coming out from the
mouths. A very fun experience. (1994) ![]()
BEHEADED- An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and
unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood
Lotus. Asian language w/English subtitles. (1993) ![]()
BIOTHERAPY- “Biotherapy" is a fairly nasty
Japanese gore-fest about a group of Japanese scientists stalked
and viciously butchered by a creepy-looking alien. This
relatively unknown ultra low-budget splatter film is rather
well-made and captivating. It is a short film, about 35 minutes,
but well worth it. Japanese language only. (1986) ![]()
BIO-COPS- Over at Texas Red River Army Depot, sinister research in ongoing. Hong Kong scientists are working to create superhuman Painless Warriors, hoping to beat similar Russian plans. The virus necessary to the plan’s success mutates and the result is the Zombie New Human. Lots of zombie gore. (2000)
BIO-ZOMBIE- A toxic chemical changes people into zombies who lust after human flesh. Six people are trapped in a shopping mall not knowing that zombies are with them. Japanese with English sub-titles. (1998)
BLACK MAGIC WITH BUDDAH (Nao Mo) – Hong Kong horror w/English subtitles. THE BLACK MAGIC WITH BUDDHA manages to be hilarious, surreal and horrific, all at the same time. Just when you think it can’t get any stranger, you can bet that the very next scene outdoes the previous in that respect. Some of the absurd highlights include: the refrigerator containing lots of pulsating brains; POV-shots of the brain terrorizing people; a man in a bathtub who is sucked to death by half a dozen living brains; the pulsating brain that breathes heavily (I don’t dare to ask how it manages this!); the brain crawling up a wall; the brain jumping out of a Mona Lisa picture; Ben’s ghastly mutation as he is possessed by the brain; a bizarre exorcism; and much more... (1983)
BLIND WOMAN'S CURSE- Widescreen, Japanese Language w/English subtitles. Extremely rare film. Tachinbana Akemi was woman yakuza. When she killed enemy yakuzas, she cut the enemy boss's daughter's eyes by mistake. After Akemi was jailed and served out her term, her women, who were all tattooed, were killed and skinned one after another. Akemi knew that a blind woman knife thrower in the carnival was the woman who’s eyes Akemi cut. (1970)
BLOOD
SORCERY-
A story that is quite common in Asian horror flicks. You will
have a good time with this spook-show spectacle. Apart from some
quick editing, a few zooms and several cool masks, you will be
pleased to watch blood spurting out of tap, a wheelchair that
dashes down a steep slope – of course with the user on it
– and a nice duel between the bad and the good magician.
In Japanese language w/English subtitles. (1986) ![]()
BLOODTHIRSTY ROSE (aka Evil Of Dracula)- Shiraki, a psychology teacher gets a new job to teach at a girl's college campus. When he arrives he finds out that the principle’s wife was killed in an auto accident days earlier. That night he sees a girl who had disappeared weeks before with blood dripping from her breast, then he sees the principle’s wife. From all his evidence, Shiraki figures out that all this is being caused by vampires and suspects that the principle and his supposedly dead wife are the culprits. Rare English Dubbed print. (1974)
CALAMITY OF SNAKES- UPGRADED PRINT. Great quality letterboxed ENGLISH LANGUAGE
print of this Asian fright fest about a slew of slithering
serpents who put the bite on greedy land developers that have
disturbed their nest. Truly the stuff nightmares are made of.
(1983) ![]()
CHAOS- In Japanese Language with English sub-titles. A creepy and terrorific psychotic thriller from director Hideo Nakata (Ring, Ring 2). A woman is kidnapped on purpose, to test her husband's love for her. Then a story takes an unexpected and twisted turn... Creepy and recommended. (2001)
CHAOS IN THE GRAVEYARD- Thai horror, widescreen, w/English subtitles. Horror/comedy from Thailand. (2004)
CHINESE SUPER NINJAS- From the wonderful Shaw Bros. Two warring clan leaders challenge each other to a tournament involving their best fighters. One clan loses heavily, and in revenge employs the services of the Five Element Ninjas, whose fighting styles are based on the five Chinese elements. The ninjas dutifully defeat the victorious clan but then turn on their employers. It seems as though the ninjas are set to rule the martial world - but the sole surviving member of the clans meets up with an old man who alone knows the secret of how to defeat the ninjas... (1982)
CORPSE MANIA- Chinese language. A startling tale of a necrophilia serial murderer courtesan corpse, "Corpse Mania" could be called "outrageous" and "amazing", but never "politically correct"! Be warned: you may regret it, but you'll never forget it. (1981)
CROCODILE MEN- Six tribal chiefs believed by villagers and police to possess a mystical ability to turn themselves into crocodiles have been arrested for killing 33 people. One suspect, a chief of Buma village in Bandundu province, about 330 miles from the capital of Kinshasa, confessed to killing and eating five people. Asian language w/English subtitles. (1978)
DARK WATER- The taut lines of tension throughout the film will have you glued to the screen from the first to the last moment, hooked by the incredibly edgy ambience. And if you thought the famous ‘last scene’ of The Ring was awesomely chilling, there’s an equal delight near the end of Dark Water, and one which had every hair standing up on the back of your neck… In Japanese language with English sub-titles!!! (2002)
DEADLY CAMP- Friday the 13th... Hong Kong style! A Psychotic family kills people that trespass on there lonely island. A family that slays together, stays together. Brutal and bloody. In Japanese with English sub-titles. (1999)
DEMON'S BABY- Plot involves evil spells, demonic possession and cannibalism. A priest and members of the household staff race against time to fight this evil. In Japanese with English sub-titles. (1998)
DEVIL SPECIES- Thailand horror w/English Subtitles. A mistake of experiment may transform human into devil species. Dr. Diana and her father, Dr. Rung, discovered a new kind of snake-bite serum. Both scientists were invited by World Health Organization (WHO) to receive a great award at Switzerland. Dr. Diana had to travel with Alex, her boyfriend, because her father would like to continue experimenting at the laboratory. During the experiment, Dr. Rung was bitten by a fierce snake. This made him transform into devil species with human's body and snake's head. At the same night, he killed all scientists in the research institute. (2004)
DEVIL'S FETUS- A very nasty Asian gore film has a woman raped by a slime covered zombie at a party as the other party goers eat worm infested cake. Then arrives a pack of zombies lead by a demon that been decapitated at least a half -dozen times. THIS FILM IS GRAPHIC IN NATURE AND IS FOR MATURE BUYERS OVER THE AGE OF 18 ONLY.
DIAL D FOR DEMONS- Widescreen, Japanese Language w/English subtitles. Several friends stay at a resort villa where many suicides, by using burning charcoal, have happened there. Before nightfall, they begin to witness many horrible incidents. One by one, they receive the exact time of their respective Doomsday via their cell-phones and beepers. In succession, each is charcoal-burnt to death. The only girl still alive, together with the spirit of her boyfriend, unveil the evil and mystery of a charcoal demon. (2000)
DIECOVERY- Thai language w/English subtitles. A newly wed couple goes on a honeymoon to the wilderness of Thailand. Unfortunately there's someone there waiting for them. Someone with evil intentions. See 25 years ago a girl was killed there and buried in the yard. So now the couple has to try to escape this ghostly nightmare. (2003)
DOCTOR VAMPIRE- Chinese Language w/English subtitles. Bowie Lam plays a doctor, who after stumbling upon an old castle whilst visiting England, becomes captivated by the beauty of Ellen Chan. He doesn’t realize at first that she is a vampire, until she bites him. He then returns to Hong Kong and causes all sorts of problems in the hospital he works at. Doctor Vampire is a unique take on the vampire genre. It's really great stuff -- a fine mix of horror and comedy in the vein of Evil Dead 2. (1990)
DOLL CEMETERY- Japanese horror w/English subtitles. Nanami and Daisue join their high school's occult research club to investigate a curse surrounding a student who committed suicide after being possessed by the spirit of a doll. They came to "The Doll Cemetery"... But will they leave alive? (2004)
DUMPLING- Asian Horror w/English subtitles. Mrs. Li, an aging television actress, goes to Aunt Mei, a former doctor from the Chinese mainland, whose dumplings are reputed to be able to rejuvenate one's youth. Aunt Mei requires her to keep returning for treatment. As she becomes aware that her husband is seeing other, younger women, Mrs. Li returns to Mei, demanding the full and more immediate treatment. But as she does so she becomes aware that the meat in Aunt Mei's dumplings comes from a horrific source that Aunt Mei obtains from the backstreet. Proof of age 16 must be presented when ordering. (2004)
EKO EKO AZARAK (Wizard Of Darkness)- Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. One by one, thirteen girls are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. Each girl is offered as a sacrifice by a mysterious robed person, to create an entryway for a demon to come to earth. Beheading, crucifixion, artery letting are some of the gore ways of disposing of the girls. WIDESCREEN IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE W/ ENGLISH SUB-TITLES!!! (1995)
EKO EKO AZARAK II: Birth Of The Wizard- Prequel to Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard Of Darkness. A melancholy high school girl named Kuroi Misa who has a secret stalker/guardian named Saiga. Trouble starts when the tomb of a witch is uncovered, who is resurrected and takes over others’ bodies in an attempt to get Misa, whose spiritual energy can make her invincible. A great, fun film.
EKO EKO AZARAK III (Misa, The Dark Angel)- Japanese Language w/English subtitles. This excellent film is visually similar to the works of Sam Saimi and Peter Jackson. It is creepy, in addition to being involving and genuinely scary. It has a certain visual style with just the right camera angles, horrifying sound effects, along with amounts of blood and gore. This film continues the story of the Eko Eko Azarak series. (1998)
EKO EKO AZARAK IV- Widescreen, in Japanese language w/English subtitles. The fourth installment in this popular series from Japan. In this film, Misa Kuroi, the Japanese high school girl with Satanic powers, mysteriously appears in various high schools.
ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN- Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse. A very weird exploitation flick. Very highly recommended. In Japanese language only. No sub-titles. Warning contains some sexually explicit scenes.(1986)
EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE-Another great entry to the “Starman" series from Japan. In this film, Starman battles deformed Marpetians ruled by the brain of Balazar, an evil scientist. Lots of camp fun. (1956/59)
EVIL BLACK MAGIC- Asian film, widescreen, English subtitles-. Hong Kong’s version of “The Evil Dead” with zombies, nails thru heads, and other various gruesome goings-on.(198?)
EVIL DEAD TRAP- Nami, a talk show hostess, tells her audience to send in home videos to profile on her late night program. She receives an anonymous videotape, containing terrifying imagery. She watches in horror as an unseen filmmaker follows a route to an abandoned factory- and brutally tortures and kills a woman on camera. Great nightmarish from Japan, dubbed in English, with plenty of action. WARNING: This films is at times very graphic. (1988)
EVIL DEAD TRAP 3 (Mutilation For A Tender Love)- A female cop investigates a maniac who specializes in slaughtering lesbians. She finds herself entangled in a complex web involving brutal axe murders and headless, limbless bodies. Widescreen format in Japanese language w/English subtitles. (1993)
FEAR OF THE MUMMY- Asian Language. Here is a real obscure treasure, an Asian mummy film. A Mummy is revived by scientists and it goes on a killing spree. (197?)
FRESHLY SEVERED HEAD- Widescreen, in Japanese language only. Dead Woman’s head won’t stay in the grave. (1967)
GHOST ACTRESS (Joyu-rei)- Widescreen, Japanese Language w/English subtitles. Ghost story about an actress haunting a studio during the filming of a WWII period drama. (1996)
GHOST OF THE HUNCHBACK- Asian Language. This variation on themes elaborated in Italian horror movies tells of a mansion which is inhabited by ghosts and managed by a hunchbacked caretaker. When a doctor, his assistant and his young niece ignore the hunchback's warnings and install themselves in the place, they are horribly killed. (1965)
GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA- The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband. (1959)
GHOST SYSTEM- Asian horror w/English subtitles. Misaki receives an email from a friend who had supposedly died when they were younger. She investigates and finds a scientist who uses the "Ghost System" to contact spirits. (2002)
GOKE, BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL- A pretty amazing airplane disaster/horror/sci-fi movie. When a plane crashes, the survivors are killed by a space vampire that takes over their bodies. Lots of surprising grisly make-up in this Japanese production. Dubbed in English. (1969)
GUTS OF A VIRGIN- Strong uncut widescreen print of “ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN“, in Japanese language w/English subtitles. (1986)
HAUNTED COP SHOP 2- Japanese language w/English subtitles. Specially trained government troops are sent to clean out a city that is plagued by vampires, ghosts and cannibalistic zombies. (1988)
HAUNTED NIGHT- Foreign language. Concerns three high-school friends. Back when they were about nine or ten they went exploring a haunted house on a rainy night, together with hulking school bully Tongkon. On discovering a trapdoor, Tongkon insisted on exploring the cellar alone. The others latched the trap after him then left and Tongkon was never seen again. Seven years later, the bully they killed is back to haunt them, still looking like his ten-year-old self and still wearing the same green rain coat that he wore on that night. (2004)
HAUNTED SCHOOL- T here are tales about a haunted school--doors unlocked open up to tempt innocent children; and there is no way to return once they enter. What exactly is happening inside the haunted school? Will the children ever be able to escape? Widescreen format in Japanese language w/English subtitles. (1995)
HE LIVES BY NIGHT- (slasher) Asian film with both Japanese and English Languages. No subtitles. This is a great fun slasher comedy. Unlike 'Scream' the comedy is not dependent upon knowledge of modern horror films but effectively makes its own humor. The killings remain horrific despite the comedy; although the film is more serious at the start, more comedic at the end and there is a great scene in the middle where we successfully get both because the victim and her girlfriend are trying to scare each other as the killer prowls about. (1982)
HERE COMES A VAMPIRE- Uncut Japanese Language w/English subtitles. A vengeful ghost possesses one cop after another in a precinct and turns them into bloodthirsty monsters. (1990)
HEX VS. WITCHCRAFT- Shaw Bros. Asian film w/English subtitles.Director Kuei Chih-hung gets to combine his comedic (Mr. Funny - Bone) with his horror (Ghost Eyes) genres in a tale of a marriage made in hell! A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways. (1980)
HIGH-HEELED PUNISHERS- Japanese Language. Thrilling entertainment from Japan as three young and beautiful waitresses spend their off hours in fetish gear fighting crime. These girls are in the revenge business, taking on female clients who have been wronged by men. Their victims suffer painful and humiliating genital-related tortures. (1995)
HIRUKO, GOBLIN HUNTER- A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko. Japanese language with English sub-titles. (1990)
HOLY VIRGIN VS. THE EVIL DEAD- Japanese Language w/English subtitles. The Moon monster kills and rapes several female students and injures their teacher, he gets out on bail and tries to hunt down the moon monster, this leads to a load of different plot turns and developments and telling them here may spoil the enjoyment for you. A very enjoyable movie that everybody should try and hunt down and watch and enjoy. A good mixture of Martial Arts and Gruesome Horror. (1990)
HOUSE OF MAD SOULS- Chinese language w/English subtitles. When an eight-year-old boy tragically dies, his spirit remains in the home where he lived; driving away all those who attempt to live in the house. Eight years after his death, a psychiatric doctor named Jitta dares to pursue the mystery of this haunting, and in doing so, uncovers the horrific secret of the little boy's death. (2004)
HUMAN PORK CHOP- Gory Asian horror with English subtitles. Cops break into a dark and dingy apartment and find human teeth on a dresser, a hidden skull, and a bag full of human internal organs. Although the film claims to be fictitious, Human Pork Chop is indeed based on true events. Scenes include human skulls stuffed inside "Hello Kitty" dolls (very popular dolls in Japan), and other extremely grisly happenings. A highly recommended film for gore film fans.(1999)
HUMAN VAPOR- A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. (1960)
HUNGRY DEVIL SPIRIT (Gakidama) – Japanese horror w/English subtitles. A ghost sighting investigator is sent to photograph a reported inhabitance in a local forest. One night he is woken by a bright floating light that he photographs. The light suddenly attacks him entering his stomach via his mouth, where it dwells increasing his appetite to huge extremes. After a short while he begins to experience stomach cramps and spews forth a demon. His appetite is then turned to new extremes when he begins to crave human flesh! He soon finds out from an unknown creepy man who shares his experience that the only way to combat his craving is to eat one of the ghouls that created his desire!
INFRA-MAN- The ten million year-old Princess Dragon Mom (Terry Liu) attempts to conquer the earth with her legion of mutant monsters. In response, Professor Chang (Wang Hsieh) creates Infra-man, turning a young volunteer into a bionic superhero to save the world. However, the Princess kidnaps Chang's daughter. Can Infra-man save her and the planet before it's too late? (1975)
INTERACTIVE MURDERS- Widescreen in Korean language w/English subtitles. Korean shocker about a madman who kidnaps a series of people and taunts the police with clues over the internet. (2001)
INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN- Humanoids in spacesuits with cone-shaped headpieces, from the eighth planet, attack a group of Earth children rescued by a silver-suited hero they call Space Chief. Later, scientists and military leaders try to put an electronic bubble over Tokyo to fight off the aliens. Along comes Space Chief again to the rescue. Japanese production dubbed in English stars Shinichi (Sonny) Chiba. (1961)
INVISIBLE MAN VS THE FLY- Very rare late 50’s Japanese horror, no English subtitles. On a remote island, a mad scientist turns himself into a fly to fight his invisible rival. Very rare and recommended. (1957)
JAPANESE SPIDERMAN (Supaida-Man) - Asian language. Put together from a 41 episode TV show in Japan comes the adventures of the web-slinging hero, except in Japanese language. (197?)
KAKASHI- Widescreen print in Japanese w/English subtitles. Kaoru is searching for her brother Tuyoshi, who disappeared. The only clue she has is a letter signed by Izumi, a childhood friend of Kaoru, that begs for her to visit in order to help her leave this nightmare. Going to the village where Izumi lives, she finds out that the inhabitants are not quite friendly and odd things are going on. Everybody seems to be obsessed with their Kakashis ( Japanese scarecrows). And soon she begins having nightmares. (2001)
KHOONI MURDA- Hindi language. Ranjit an obsessive lover (and killer) relentlessly pursues Rekha till he is burnt alive in a scuffle with Rekha's friends. But that's not the end of him, as his corpse comes back to take revenge. (1989)
KUNG FU FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE- To appease his father's ghost, Chun Sing (Billy Chong) seeks revenge on Kam Tai-fu (Lo Lieh), the man responsible for his death. To do so, he must gather aid from helpful undead corpses, government agents, and the townsfolk in order to