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THE TOP ASIAN HORROR5 :
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| Rank |
Film |
Points |
L |
#1 |
| #1 |
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964) |
33 |
9 |
3 |
| #2 |
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964) |
22 |
6 |
3 |
| #3 |
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) |
18 |
5 |
2 |
| #4 |
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999) |
17 |
4 |
1 |
| #5 |
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998) |
15 |
6 |
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L=How many lists each film appears on
#1=How many number one votes each film recieves
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Individual lists:
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David Sterritt
Chairman, National Society of Film Critics
(chronological order)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
Film Critic, Cinematical.com, Las Vegas Weekly,
San Jose Metro, Combustible Celluloid.com
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Uzumaki (Higichinsky, 2000)
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung, 1987)
And: The Host (Bong Joon-ho) and Mr. Vampire (Ricky Lau)
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J.E. Snavely
Home Theatre Cinephile
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Gwoemul: The Host (Joon-ho Bong, 2006)
Shutter (Banjong Pisanthanakun/Parkpoom Wongpoom, 2004)
Ju-On: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, 2003)
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Michael Parent
Film Student
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Guinea Pig (Satoru Ogura, 1985)
Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
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Matt Severson
Film Enthusiast
& Photograph Department Supervisor, Margaret Herrick Library
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
"Dumplings" [Three Extremes] (Fruit Chan, 2004)
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Mathew Viola
Film Fanatic
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979) - Perhaps not strictly a “horror” film, but it’s certainly far more disturbing than the Rings, Grudges, Eyes and Pulses of the world.
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-Woon, 2003)
301-302 (Park Chul-Soo, 1995)
Dumplings (Fruit Chan, 2004) - This pick is for the shorter version from Three…Extremes.
With apologies to Audition and The Host.
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Jesse Richards
Filmmaker
I’m not terribly interested in what would probably be considered typical "Asian horror", like Ju-on or Ringu or any of those films; and some like Audition I thought were flat out obnoxious and stupid. Some of my picks have supernatural elements, but most are not exactly "horror" films.
Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Kaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
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Bryan Alexander
Film Enthusiast
Onibaba (Shindo, 1965) - One of the great horror movies of all time. Gorgeous yet stark, severe and despairing. One part story of wartime ruin, one part folk tale, one part noirish desire, one part existential nightmare. The final image ("I am a human being!") is one of the best of cinema.
Kaidan (Kobayashi, 1964) - (also "Kwaidan"). Splendid anthology movie, with each tale ramping up the imagination and power.
Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim, 2005) - A powerful story of a family in tragedy... and then moreso. Several layers of narrative build and collapse, driven at what seems to be a slow pace, but which is ultimately a marvel of economy.
Ringu (Nakata, 1998) - A furiously strange little film, compressing urban legend into media horror into folklore, then embedding in a quiet family drama. And it is largely very minimal, even understated, despite flashes of panic. The American remake has some lovely images, too.
Audition (Miike, 1999) - What begins as social satire twitches into screaming Guignol. It all fits together, from the opening deathbed to the final tenderness.
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Szabolcs Dömötör
Film Enthusiast & Amateur Film Critic
(in no particular order)
Tetsuo (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
Tetsuo II (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1992)
Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Ju-on (Takashi Shimizu, 2004)
Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
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Doug Riblet
Cinephile
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
A Chinese Ghost Story (Siu-Tung Ching, 1987)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
Mr. Vampire (Ricky Lau, 1985)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Honorable mention:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989),
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997) &
Mothra (Ishiro Honda, 1961)
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Jesse Walker
Film Enthusiast and Managing Editor, Reason Magazine
I've seen almost none of Asia's recent horror boom, so my list relies on
the classics:
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
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Matthew Griffiths
Film Enthusiast
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
Rusted Body: Guts of a Virgin III (Kazuo Komizu, 1987)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 2001)
Battle Royale (Batoru Rowaiaru, 2000)
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Kevyn Knox
Film Critic, Essayist + Historian
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 2001)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Uzumaki (Higichinsky, 2000)
Special Mention: Ugetsu (Mizoguchi) which goes so far beyond simple "horror" as to be dis(over)qualified.
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*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created
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