japanese folklore movies

Ox-Head Village (2022)
5.556 / 10

Horror, Drama, Mystery

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head...

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
8.1 / 10

Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious...

Suicide Forest Village (2021)
6.6 / 10

Horror, Mystery, Drama

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...

Kwaidan (1965)
7.693 / 10

Horror, Fantasy, Drama

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Howling Village (2020)
5.935 / 10

Horror, Mystery

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his...

Bloat (1969)
0 / 10

Horror

A military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a...

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
7.4 / 10

Drama

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress (2012)
6.9 / 10

Animation, Action, Drama, History

Hamaji, a young huntress from the mountains, stumbles into the middle of a shogun’s vendetta against a group of human-dog hybrids, the Fusé....

Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2018)
6 / 10

Horror

A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant...

The Memory Eraser (2020)
5.3 / 10

Drama, Romance

Ryoichi Yoshimori is a university student. His girlfriend, Kyoko Sawada is a few years older but the pair don’t care as they are deeply in love....

Jizo the Ghost (1898)
0 / 10

Horror

Jizo, the protector of dead children and all creatures trapped in Hell, is usually found in graveyards. Bake-Jizo is a stature placed at crossroads....

OSARU-CHAN (2021)
0 / 10

Horror, Fantasy, Crime

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly...

The Burning Buddha Man (2013)
3.2 / 10

Horror, Animation, Thriller, Fantasy

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her...

The Giants (2021)
8 / 10

Documentary

We follow the epic lives of sumo legends who made it from humble beginnings in Hawaii, to becoming the first foreigners to rise to the highest ranks...

Osomatsu-kun: Go For It! Chibita's Oni War (1988)
0 / 10

Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Osomatsu-kun New Year's Special involving Chibita and the cast in a parody of several fairy tales, the most prominent being Momotarou and Cinderella.

The Virgin Soldier (2016)
6.4 / 10

Drama

Two soldiers, Daniel and Jerome, flee a war we don’t see and we know nothing about. Jerome is badly injured, he will die, he says it, he knows it,...

Ukabu (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

Motion Picture: The Kitsune vs. the Tanukis (1933)
7.4 / 10

Fantasy, Comedy, Animation

A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple,...

Water Lily : la naissance des lotus (2015)
8 / 10

Animation, Fantasy

Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !

Usagi Yojimbo: The Last Request (2014)
0 / 10

Adventure, Animation

Lintika Films has recently made a proof of concept short film that they are shopping around Hollywood. It is a combination of 2D and 3D stop-motion...