Ring / The Ring / Ringu (1998)
Horror | Mystery
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô, Takashi Takayama
Director: Hideo Nakata
It's in the Woods / Sore ga Iru Mori (2022)
Horror | Mystery
There are many mysterious and strange phenomenons taking place in a forest. People, including Tanaka Junichi, witness the unidentifiable "that" and experience unknown fear.
Starring: Masaki Aiba, Honoka Matsumoto, Kenshin Uehara, Noriko Eguchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hidekazu Mashima
Director: Hideo Nakata
Stigmatized Properties / Jiko Bukken: Kowai Madori (2020)
Horror
Yamame Yamano is an unpopular comedian. His senior informs him that "…it will air on TV, if you stay at the stigmatized property where a murder took place." That is how Yamame Yamano begins to stay at stigmatized properties. And at those stigmatized properties, he experiences various unnatural phenomena.
Starring: Kazuya Kamenashi, Nao Honda, Kôji Seto, Hôka Kinoshita, Noriko Eguchi, Megumi
Director: Hideo Nakata
Stolen Identity 2 / Sumaho o otoshita dake na no ni 2 / Sumaho wo otoshita dake na no ni: Toraware no satsujinki (2020)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In the sequel to the 2018 movie months have passed since the major case involving a serial murderer. The matter has not been resolved it seems because a corpse is uncovered in the vicinity as the old case. When the detective assigned is seeking answers he does not look to the outside, but to the inside of a prison cell.
Starring: Yûdai Chiba, Mai Shiraishi, Ryô Narita, Takuma Otoo, Nao Honda, Noriko Eguchi
Director: Hideo Nakata
The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer / Satsujinki o kau onna (2019)
Horror | Thriller
When Kyoko was a child her stepfather loved her sexually. She took refuge in the world of fantasy and multiple personalities. Kyoko has three flat-mates now one of whom is a lesbian who is into Kyoko. In turn, Kyoko is beginning to be horny. Unfortunately, this is not helping Kyoko's precarious mental state.
Starring: Rin Asuka, Shôka Ôshima, Airi Matsuyama, Hitomi Nakatani, Kenji Mizuhashi, Toshie Negishi
Director: Hideo Nakata
Sadako (2019)
Horror
A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.
Starring: Elaiza Ikeda, Takashi Tsukamoto, Hiroya Shimizu, Himeka Himejima, Ren Kiriyama, Rie Tomosaka
Director: Hideo Nakata
Stolen Identity / Sumaho o otoshita dake nanoni (2018)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Asami Inaba is a temporary worker at a company. One day, her boyfriend leaves his smartphone in a taxi. Since then, mysterious things take place around her like her credit card bill having charges she did not place. She gets involved in a big case.
Starring: Keiko Kitagawa, Yûdai Chiba, Ryô Narita, Kei Tanaka, Taizô Harada
Director: Hideo Nakata
Monsterz (2014)
Drama | Sci-Fi
A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive ?
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takayuki Yamada, Satomi Ishihara, Tomorô Taguchi, Motoki Ochiai, Taiga, Masaki Miura, Mina Fujii, Yutaka Matsushige, Tae Kimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
White Lily / Howaito rirî (2016)
Drama
Nikkatsu has rebooted the Roman porno label and recommenced production of new works reviving its function as a sandbox for playful experimentation with the aim of attaing new forms of cinematic expression. Hideo Nakata entered Nikkatsu as an assistant director and experienced several on-location shoots for Roman porno soft-core series, but this film is the first Roman porno title directed by Nakata himself. He challenges a lesbian world taking over from the old title spirits, with his respect for his master, director Masaru konuma.
Starring: Rin Asuka, Kaori Yamaguchi
Director: Hideo Nakata
Dark Water / Honogurai mizu no soko kara (2002)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
No one loses their mind instantly – Sanity seeps away one drop at a time. Yoshimi simply wanted a better life – for both herself and her daughter Ikuko. Unfortunately, such wishes may sometimes be hard to come by. The custody battle has grown embittered and hurtful, her new job is less than desirable, and Ikuko’s schoolwork has taken a turn for the worse. But, Yoshimi has something bigger to worry about. Something upstairs. Something cold and dank. Something that should have never been.
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yu Tokui
Director: Hideo Nakata
Ghost Theater / Gekijô rei (2015)
Horror
Sara is totally happy. The young actress gained her first little role in a play by the playhouse-baron Gota Nishikono. Sara admires the leading actresses Aoi and Kaori who are practicing hard every day. But then a staff member is found dead and while the police is investigating the situation, Aoi falls from a balcony and is taken to hospital. Due to her injuries she won't be able to play the leading role. So, in a hurry, Gota gives the part to Sara who is almost overwhelmed. But Sara has got to learn very soon, that having the leading role is not to her advantage. Because she is recognizing slowly that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost!
Starring: Haruka Shimazaki, Rika Adachi, Riho Takada, Keita Machida, Mantarô Koichi
Director: Hideo Nakata
Ring 2 / The Ring 2 / Ringu 2 (1999)
Horror
In the third film in the "Ring" series, Reiko takes Yoichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satô, Kyôko Fukada, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada
Director: Hideo Nakata
Death Note: L Change the World / Death Note 3 / L: Change the World (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
The Complex / Kuroyuri danchi (2013)
Horror
Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man's apartment.
Starring: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya
Director: Hideo Nakata
The Ring Two / The Ring 2 (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
The Incite Mill / Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Haruka Ayase, Satomi Ishihara, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda
Director: Hideo Nakata
