Japanese Horror Films on Netflix

Seiji Hasumi is a popular teacher who has a gift for dealing with students' problems, but beneath that facade lies a sociopathic killer.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:09:02
Netflix ID: 70285592 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After 54 schoolgirls simultaneously jump in front of a train in the middle of Tokyo, the whole country becomes plagued with similar tragedies.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:39:17
Netflix ID: 60032265 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Shun Takahata's ordinary life is shattered when his teacher's head explodes and he and his classmates are forced to play deadly games.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:56:57
Netflix ID: 80139836 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A telephone operator with an adulterous secret discovers that a chronic and sadistic complainer who's been plaguing her at work lives next door.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:27:28
Netflix ID: 80196445 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Saya is part human, part monster, and has one thing on her mind: revenge. How much blood will she shed to cut down the mastermind behind her madness?

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:46:03
Netflix ID: 70287055 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The sole survivor of a freak school bus accident, a shy Japanese high schooler finds herself in a surreal -- and very violent -- alternate universe.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 01:25:31
Netflix ID: 80075825 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mystery writer gets a letter from a reader, who lives in a room that makes odd noises. Together, they investigate the space's dark and violent past.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:46:56
Netflix ID: 80098468 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuka Kabayama is one of 10 students forced into the 'werewolf game.' She has the werewolf card, requiring her to kill the other players.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:52:19
Netflix ID: 80114362 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman realizes the love letters she's been receiving in error are addressed to a stalking victim whose killer has never been caught.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:34:12
Netflix ID: 80196371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

College student Kaneki survives a ghoul attack, but becomes a ghoul-human hybrid. As he adjusts to his new life, ghoul hunters target his friends.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:59:54
Netflix ID: 80217701 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this chiller based on the Japanese comic, new residents of a strange town are greeted by a series of creepy and unexplainable phenomena.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.6
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:26:59
Netflix ID: 80141990 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An art student murders his model after she ridicules his work. After seeking help disposing her body, those involved succumb to mysterious deaths.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:41:56
Netflix ID: 60036734 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yakuza boss Hiroya Munakata's younger brother Takashi gets out of prison after 10 years. Takashi's daughter Hyuga runs away, and they chase after her.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:48:56
Netflix ID: 80135521 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On the vampire island Higanjima, Akira allies with the human resistance to confront the vampires, including his brother Atsushi, for the final time.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.4
Runtime: 01:57:21
Netflix ID: 80152584 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating the murder of teen girl Tomie Kawakami, police uncover a slew of girls also named Tomie who were slain years and decades earlier.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 01:34:56
Netflix ID: 60033881 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Elementary school teacher Yui Shono investigates her student Toshio Saeki's weeklong absence and finds a web of horrors anchored to his household.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:30:41
Netflix ID: 80145287 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three classmates enter a haunted house and are pursued by a horrific demon. The setting is shockingly similar to a video game their friend developed.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:10:22
Netflix ID: 80152706 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school girl Reo's orphaned cousin Toshio comes to live with her and her mother, bringing hauntings and havoc into all their lives.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 4.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:30:38
Netflix ID: 80145508 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a blend of reality and fiction, manga legend Kazuo Umezu directs this loose autobiography chronicling a disturbing relationship with his mother.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 4.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:23:35
Netflix ID: 80097356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bullied from a young age, Juzo has major anger issues. After learning that his upstairs neighbor -- and new boss -- is a former tormentor, he snaps.

Year: 2005
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:54:32
Netflix ID: 70045970 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Based on Fuyumi Ono's best-selling books, these 10 tales of spookiness by six Japanese horror directors are designed to chill viewers to the bone.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:40:30
Netflix ID: 80099270 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of high school students must play the 'werewolf game,' with their lives at stake. Ayaka holds the fox card, and she can't trust anyone.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:37:34
Netflix ID: 80114356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seven strangers find themselves trapped together in an abandoned school where a demented game of impending starvation and death awaits those inside.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:38:36
Netflix ID: 80127557 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Determined to create a world without adults, nine junior high boys plot world domination, building an AI robot weapon to do their bidding.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:54:04
Netflix ID: 80196882 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Once again, high school students are abducted and forced into a brutal game of murder. But this time, two of the players aren't strangers.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:39:42
Netflix ID: 80152608 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb