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	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	Plot	Links
	I.K.U.	2000	Shu Lea Cheang		Reiko is a sex robot programmed to accumulate sexual experience. She goes through seven body types to experiences a variety of couplings...	IMDB
	Ichi 1	2003	Masato Tanno		Based on the original manga, 1-ICHI is a prequel to Takashi Miike's ICHI THE KILLER. Nao Omori reprise the role of Ichi, who we follow during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is laughing at him but in fact he enjoys watching the violence. Everyone is bullying, taunting and making fun of Ichi... even little kids from his karate class. This is the story of how Ichi became Ichi, how he lost it for the first time and grew to be the man we love from the earlier film!	IMDB
	Ichi the Killer	2001	Takashi Miike		Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with 100 million yens. His loyal gang members, lead by the masochist Kakihara...	IMDB
	The Imp	1996				All Movie Guide
	In The Realm of the Senses	1976	Nagisa Oshima	6.4	Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their...	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Incredible Kung Fu Mission	1982		6.3	It's The Deadly Half Dozen - Hong Kong Style! Mix an impregnable fortress prison, a garrison of highly trained soldiers, a legendary martial arts master and a rag tag group of mercenaries, add one bad ass warlord and you've got the recipe for mayhem, Hong Kong style. John Liu, a kung fu master, is hired to rescue a revolutionary agent from the fortress of an evil warlord. To help him are five mercenaries trained in the deadly art of kung fu fighting. Disguised as a traveling acrobatic troupe, thi8s Dirty Half Dozen sets out on their rescue mission and inevitably, the fists start to fly!	DVD Empire; IMDB
	Infection	2004	Masayuki Ochiai	4.7	Evil is contagious A patient in a hospital dies due to malpractice. In a panic, the doctors responsible stage a cover-up. Shortly thereafter, another patient is left at the hospital doors dying of bizarre symptoms. When the patient dies, the doctors involved in the cover-up begin acting strangely...then one by one develop the same mysterious and deadly symptoms.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide
	Infernal Affairs	2002	Wai Keung Lau; Siu Fai Mak		A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.	IMDB
	Into the Mirror	2003	Seong-ho Kim	6.3	An ex-cop now working as a security guard in a shopping mall tries to uncover the secret behind a series of mysterious deaths linked to mirrors	IMDB
	Inugami	2001	Masato Harada		Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving...	IMDB
	The Isle	2000	Kim Ki-Duk		Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the korean wilderness; selling baits, food...	IMDB
	Isola: Multiple Personality Girl	2000	Toshiyuki Mizutani		When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake...	IMDB
	Izo	2004	Takashi Miike			IMDB
	Jam Films	2002	Daizaburo Hanada; Jôji Iida		"The Messenger" is a mysterious woman who appears to a mobster hiding underground to tell him about his ultimate fate...	IMDB
	Jam Films 2	2005	Eiki TAKAHASHI; Junji KOJIMA		Omnibus films have undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, particularly in Asian cinema. Makoto Shinozaki's Cop Festival (Deka Matsuri) project shows no signs of hanging up its holsters, the pan-Asian horror tryptich Three will soon receive a sequel in the shape of Asian Curse Story (with Takashi Miike handling the Japanese entry) and no lesser figure than Shohei Imamura contributed to the French September 11 meditation 09'11"01 September 11. Several other omnibus projects are in the works as we speak, and with the format proving to be commercially viable it's anyone's guess how long the phenomenon will continue to run. The 2002 short film compilation Jam Films was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon in Japan. Uniting six filmmakers of established name and reputation, the results seemed exciting on the surface, but unfortunately most of the directors involved came up with little more than watered down retellings of their then current project. Ryuhei Kitamura's opening tale of a sultry Jane the Ripper was more than a bit similar to his then current feature Sky High, George Iida delivered post-apocalyptic sci-fi in the vein of his own Dragonhead, 2LDK director Yukihiko Tsutsumi came up with another one-set dialogue driven black comedy and Shunji Iwai did his usual girlish infantilism shtick. Only GO director Isao Yukisada and Onibi's Rokuro Mochizuki managed to stand out from the crowd with shorts that might have been variations on their earlier work, but which were at least lively and original. Quality notwithstanding, the names involved guaranteed commercial success. Jam Films 2, then, was a virtual inevitability. To the credit of project mastermind Shunya Kawai, the sequel doesn't take the easy route of simply throwing together another bunch of reputable helmers, but instead allows four newcomers to show their stuff. Newcomers is a relative term, though, since each man has a long list of credits in the field of music video. This certainly takes care of the danger of another collection of rehashes. With each of the four directors delivering a film of between 20 and 30 minutes, the project also demands a different mindset than the 4-minute format they are normally used to working with. This makes Jam Films 2 an in-between phase on the road to feature filmmaking, an entrance exam if you will, immediately rendering this sequel much more intriguing and ambitious than its predecessor. If we hand out the report cards, then it's immediately clear that one member of the quartet has flunked mercilessly. Hide Inoue's Hoops Men Soul is a lazy underdog vs. villain yarn whose Nike-commercial visual style wears out its welcome in the first thirty seconds. Filled with basketball playing Japanese hiphoppers with wardrobes straight from a Harajuku street wear store, it plays like Inoue's desperate attempt at claiming some street cred. Eiki Takahashi's Clean Room gets points for its effort, but its story of a hypersensitive girl's phobia for the world outside the plastic bubble she lives in just doesn't become interesting at any point. Aside from its lovely images, Takahashi's entry is so low key it crosses the line into being inconsequential. Junji Kojima's opening piece Armchair Theory, on the other hand, is a laugh-a-minute comedy in the shape of video course of pick-up techniques. In nine quick and easy lessons we get to master the "Japanese Tradition" of wooing, conquering and marrying the woman of your dreams, followed by a practical example with a sting in its tail. Armchair Theory is a funny and original approach to the format, but the question of whether Kojima is ready for the big leagues remains unanswered. Which brings us to the only candidate to pass with flying colours, Kouki Tange. His film Fastener forms the tail end of the compilation and it's well worth sitting through Hoops Men Soul and Clean Room to see this little marvel. Taking a dying man's memory of his first kiss as its premise, Fastener deals with the impact of a child's realisation that adults spend most of their lives hiding behind a variety of disguises. Taking his inspiration from a song by pop band Mr. Children, Tange explores this concept in a succession of surrealist imagery, whose stunning beauty in no way detracts from their functionality. Leading us along subjectively distorted recollections of first experiences with sex and cigarettes, with a sidestep into the realm of TV superheroes, Fastener evokes Terry Gilliam at some moments, Tim Burton at others. Tange furthermore not only displays great sense for casting (Audition's Eihi Shiina, Ichi the Killer scribe Sakichi Sato and Japan's leading bit actor Taro Suwa all pop up in small roles) but also shows that he can actually direct his actors. If we give Junji Kojima the benefit of the doubt, Jam Films 2's score of two out of four may be only an average result. However, in revealing the talents of Kouki Tange to the world, the existence of this particular sequel is certainly not in vain. The prospect of seeing Tange helm a feature film in the not too distant future is a thrilling one indeed. taken from midnighteye
	Jam Films S	2005	Ryuhei Kitamura		This is the latest DVD release in this fascinating anthology series, where each segment is made by a different filmmaker. The overall theme here is the letter "S" which stands for Succession (AKA Inheritance), Success and Special. Each of the seven segments, produced under the supervision of Ryuhei Kitamura ("Versus," "Godzilla Final Wars"), run from 12 to 18 minutes. Contains "Tuesday" (starring Zeebra/directed by Kenji Sonoda), "Heaven Sent" (starring Kenichi Endo/directed by Ryuichi Takatsu), "Blouse" (starring Koyuki and Ren Osugi/directed by Hitoshi Ishikawa), "New Horizon" (starring Haruya Ayase/directed by Ryo Teshima), "Suberidai" (starring Satomi Ishihara and Masayoshi Yamazaki/directed by Yuichi Abe), "Alpha" (starring Rina Uchiyama and Suneohair/directed by Daisaburo Harada), and "Suit" (starring Naoto Fujiki and Manami Konishi/directed by Masaki Hamamoto)
	Jigoku	1960	Nobuo Nakagawa		A high school student has a friend who is pure evil. Him and his friend are outdriving one night when they hit a drunkard and the friend leaves him to die. The student's life then goes down hill from there.	IMDB
	Jigoku	1999	Teruo Ishii	3.5		IMDB
	Joint Security Area	2000	Chan-wook Park	7.5	In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier...	IMDB
	Judgement	1999	Chan-wook Park	7.4		IMDB
	Junk	2000	Atsushi Muroga			IMDB
	Ju-on	2000	Takashi Shimizu			IMDB
	Ju-on: The Grudge	2003	Takashi Shimizu		It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once...	IMDB
	Ju-on: The Grudge 2	2003	Takashi Shimizu		The JU-ON: THE GRUDGE curse takes shudder-inducing fear to new heights: more intense, persistent, hideous...	IMDB
	Ju-rei	2004	Koji Shiraishi	5.5	A group of high school girls discover the truth to an urban legend when one by one, each begins to die under mysterious circumstances after witnessing a black hooded figure. Who is the black hooded figure and will these girls be able to escape death? <br>	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	Juvenile	2000	Takashi Yamazaki	6.6	11-year-old Yusuke and his classmates camp in the woods and see a strange light. They discover a small metallic object like a robot which talks...	IMDB
	Kagemusha	1980	Akira Kurosawa	7.9	In 1572, there is a civil war in Japan, and three powerful clans, leaded by the lords Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai), Nobunaga Oda (Daisuke Ryu) and Ieyasu Tokugawa (Masayuki Yui), dispute the conquest of Kyoto. When Shingen is mortally wounded, the Takeda clan hides the incident and uses a poor thief to be the double of the strategist Shingen and keep the respect of their enemies. Along the years, Kagemusha incorporates the spirit of the warrior of the dead warlord.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Kaïro	2001	Kiyoshi Kurosawa		After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents...	IMDB
	Kakashi	2001	Norio Tsuruta		The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the japanese back-land...	IMDB
	Kanto Wanderer	1963	Seijun Suzuki			IMDB
	Kanto Wanderer	1963	Seijun Suzuki	7.3	A Film By Seijun Suzuki Gamblers and card sharps, prostitution, and Yakuza-style vengeance: the mainstays of many films by Japanese auteur Seijun Suzuki. Kanto Wanderer is no exception. Yakuza icon Akira Kobayashi (Bloody Territories) is boss Izu's bodyguard Katsuta, who finds himself at the center of a violent power play by the greedy rival boss Yoshida. When Katsuta encounters a mysterious and beautiful femme fatale from his past, he must decide to act upon his own desires or pay his debt of honor to boss Izu. A stylistic gem, Suzuki's fast-paced melodrama unfolds in choreographed bursts of color and action.	DVD Empire; IMDB
	Karate Ghostbuster	1978	Wei Lo	5.3	Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen....	IMDB
	Karisuma	1999	Kiyoshi Kurosawa		A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainly...	IMDB
	Kibakichi	2003	Tomo-O Haraguchi; Tomoo Haraguchi	4.5	When monsters meld with humans, the sky will split and eternal darkness will cover the earth. A lone samurai walks the countryside. His name is Kibakichi and his mouth hides sharp fangs. When he reaches a desolate village he finds geisha who turn into giant carnivorous spiders and man-eating demons disguised as humans. Their hunt for human flesh was in fact a contract with the town crime boss. What is the boss's plan? When the secret is revealed, Kibakichi goes into a rage and his body starts to mutate. Limbs will fly and heads will roll in a final showdown between good and evil.	DVD Empire; IMDB
	Kichiku	1997	Kazuyoshi Kumakiri		While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective...	IMDB
	Kikoku	2003	Takashi Miike		Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader...	IMDB
	Killer Pussy	2004	Takao Nakano	5.5	I watched this unsubbed so a few plot details could be slightly wrong,but what this basically is,is a rip-off of David Cronenberg's Shivers complete with bath scene but the sex is more hardcore,four back packers travel to the Amazon and end up picking up a parasite that lives inside woman's vagina's,this is going to be a sure fire hit among horror genre fans when a distributer picks it up for outside the Asian market. Sex'n'gore galore and coming in at around the hour level,which is my only problem really with it,as you feel like you want more,and I guess some people won't like its low grade look,but proper fans will overlook that,body horror fans will lap this up. theNomad	IMDB
	The Killer Snakes	1975	Chin Hung Kuei	6.0		IMDB
	Koma	2004	Chi-Leung Law			IMDB
	Kôrei	2000	Kiyoshi Kurosawa			IMDB
	Krasue	2002	Bin Bunluerit		In this ghastly revenge tale from the ancient past, Arawati, a Khmer princess, is forced to marry the conquering tyrant of the new Thai regime...	IMDB
	Kumamoto Monogatari	2001	Takashi Miike			IMDB
	Kung Faux, Vol. 1	2003			It might look like a vintage martial artis movie ... but it sure doesn't SOUND like one. Kung Faux, Vol. 1 is the first in a series of comedy videos in which classic kung fu films are edited down to 30 minutes, redubbed with soundtracks in which hip-hop artists turn the tense thrillers into wild comedies, and tricked out with eye-popping graphic effects. Kung Faux Vol. 1 features two stories, Ill Master and Boxcutter. — Mark Deming	All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	Kung Fu Hustle	2004	Stephen Chow	7.9	Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious "Axe Gang." Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire
	Kyoko Vs Yuki	2000	Daisuke Yamanouchi			IMDB
	Labyrinth of Dreams	1997	Toshihiro Ishii		Veteran indie filmmaker Sogo Ishii spins this dream-like pulpy yarn about death and buses. Tomiko Tomonari (Rena Komine) works as a bus conductress, and though she gets to wear a spiffy uniform, she is thoroughly bored with her job and her life. One day, a new bus driver named Tatsuo Niitaka (Tadanobu Asano) starts working at her company. Mysterious, moody, and silent, he has garnered the notice of almost all the women in the company — but Tomiko has a particular interest in him. Tomiko's best friend was once engaged to Niikata, before she died in an accident while he was at the wheel. Even more unnerving, her best friend sent her a letter before she died, talking much about death at the hands of her lover. Instead of going to the police, Tomiko purposefully falls for the guy. This, she tells herself, is the adventure she as been looking for. — Jonathan Crow	All Movie Guide
	Lady Snowblood	1973	Toshiya Fujita		A young girl is born and raised to be an instrument of revenge.	IMDB
	Lady Snowblood 2 - Love Song Of Vengeance	1974	Toshiya Fujita		Lady Snowblood is caught in the politics of 19th century Japan.	IMDB
	A Lamb in Despair	1999	Tony Leung Siu Hung			IMDB
	Last Life In The Universe	2003	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	7.9	A suicidal, obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to hide out with a pot-smoking Thai woman at her shabby beachside home.	IMDB
	Legend: Part 2	1990	Scotty Fox; Cory Yuen	6.5	Now He Must Face An Unstoppable Enemy! Martial arts sensation Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die) kicks back into action as the heroic Fong Sai Yuk in this explosive follow-up to the powerfully entertaining original, The Legend! Having fought to save his father from the wrath of the Chinese government, Fong Sai Yuk joins his father's underground revolutionary organization, the Red Flower Society! But in the camp of rebels, a traitor lurks! Now, at a time when few can be trusted, Fong Sai Yuk must utilize his every skill in the fight to overthrow his nation's brutally powerful empire! With the incomparable Jet Li performing all of his own martial arts in spectacular fight scenes, The Legend 2 is another valuable addition to the thrilling Jet Li Film Collection!	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Ley Lines	1999	Takashi Miike			IMDB
	License to Live	1998	Kiyoshi Kurosawa			IMDB
	Lies	1999	Sun-Woo Jang	5.7	A conscious exploration of fantasy and flesh. The director talks about the novel upon which the film is based...	IMDB
	Living Hell	2000	Shugo Fujii	6.4	Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Texas...	IMDB
	Lizard Woman	2004			A group of archeologists is exploring a cave in northern Thailand. They find an old, sacred wooden box that seems to be used in spiritual ceremonies. On the way back to their base camp, the box is accidentally dropped and its black magic is unleashed. Subsequently, all the archeologists are found dead in suspiciously circumstances...Back in Chiang Mai, Kwanpailin is promoting her new book about haunting tales. During her trip, she buys an old wooden box as souvenir. She then starts to dream of geckos attacking her.
	Locker 1	2003	Horie Kei		Yowza!! Make way for another VERY CREEPY little kid! There is an urband legend circulating around Shibuya regarding its coin lockers. Rumor has it that by placing a gift and a prayer in a coin operated locker, your chances of catching the boy or girl of your dreams is miraculously enhanced. Thus young people throughout Shibuya eagerly place their gifts inside these lockers and wait for the romantic outfall. There will soon be another legend circulating, one of a haunted locker which, once opened, brings a terrifying curse. Shibuya Kaidan tells the tale of how six young people unwittingly open this pandora's box and find themselves within a nightmare of hauntings, madness and possession. Sitting around a campfire, our six main characters (three boys and three girls) swap spooky stories until Erika (Mizukawa Asami) hears an infant's cry coming from the woods. Unable to hear it, the other five giggle at Erika's vulnerabililty to getting scared after such campfire stories and quickly shrug the incident off. Returning to Shibuya the next morning, they all walk to a rather remote collection of coin lockers under the Shibuya station to retrieve the handbags the girls left behind before the trip. On their separate ways home from the station, two of the others, Akihiko (Wada Toshihiro) and Ai (Suzuki Mayuka) hear an overpowering cry of an infant's voice and feel a wave of terror spread over them. When the group meets together after a couple days, both Akihiko and Ai have turned up missing and are not answering their calls. A visit to Akihiko's apartment brings them face to face with a psychotically terrified Akihiko, who screams in terror as his spine literally snaps from no apparent cause as they look on in horror. In just a short while each of the others will have heard the same chilling cry, and soon thereafter catch elusive glimpses of a ghostly child. When they mention this to each other, Keitarou (Yuge Tomohisa) confesses that he defaced a small statue of Buddha at the campsite and believes this may have caused the hauntings. Racing back to the site, they search for and then reattach the stone head, saying prayers that the curse might be lifted. Later that night all seems back to normal, until Keitarou's countenance suddenly shifts from that of laughter to fearful panic as his head suddenly moves as if out of his control. As the others look on is shock, Keitarou seems to succumb to an overpowering force. In the reflection of the window, Erika can see a small child manipulating Keitarou as if a puppet. During all of this Erika maintains her responsibility of tutoring Aya (Horikita Maki), a junior high school student. Through Erika's friendship, Aya finds some respit from an otherwise gloomy outlook on life. Aya is convinced that she is unwanted in this world, since her mother died giving birth to her, and in a fit of anger her seldomly present father accused Aya of "killing" her mother. Erika can only attempt to assure her that there is no such things as an unwanted birth. Later, when Yuuna (Morishita Chisato) is grotequely transformed in front of the terrified Erika, only two of the original six friends remain. Erika and Ryouhei (Kashiwabara Shuuji) see no other recourse than to go back to the locker in an attempt to confront, if not merely understand, the curse that has befallen them. Their visit not only reveals the cause of the evil, but also proves to be their undoing. Shibuya Kaidan is a rather impressively polished urban horror tale which contains plenty of creepy moments. Director Horie Kei (who appeared in Juon 2) effectively leads audiences from one set of assumptions to the next as the reality of the curse unfolds. A strong underlying theme here is that of being loved. This is manifested initially in the simplistic desire to obtain a boyfriend/girlfriend via the locker legend, but quickly shifts to a much deeper nuance through the discussions of Erika and Aya regarding the existential importance of being loved by at least someone in this world. This existential implication not only comes back to haunt Erika, but is also used to establish the cause for the evil lurking in Shibuya coin locker # 0009. Shibuya Kaidan is followed by a sequel, Shibuya Kaidan 2 (also directed by Horie) which picks up precisely where this film leaves off and advances the story using several of the same characters appearing here. This is definitely one to check out if you enjoyed the type of horror contained in Juon or Ringu. Though perhaps not quite as groundbreaking or accomplished as these prior horror tales, director Horie creates a very effective atmoshpere and storyline which will undoubtedly satisfy those who enjoy a good chill.
	Locker 2	2004	Horie Kei.		There is an urband legend circulating around Shibuya regarding its coin lockers. Rumor has it that by placing a gift and a prayer in a coin operated locker, your chances of catching the boy or girl of your dreams is miraculously enhanced. Thus young people throughout Shibuya eagerly place their gifts inside these lockers and wait for the romantic outfall. There will soon be another legend circulating, one of a haunted locker which, once opened, brings a terrifying curse. As you may have guessed, Shibuya Kaidan 2 is the sequel to Shibuya Kaidan, also directed by Horie Kei. This sequel relies heavily on the preceding storyline and characters of Shibuya Kaidan. Thus, the early minutes of this film are spent reacquainting the audience with key developments of the first film. The main character here is Kubo Aya(no) (Horikita Maki), the junior high student being tutored by Erika (Mizukawa Asami) in the previous film. The story opens with Aya sitting at the hospital bedside of an unconscious Erika who was found sprawled under the Shibuya station. The calm of the room is broken when Erika suddenly grabs Aya's hand. Thinking Erika has awakened to consciousness, Aya quickly looks into Erika's face, only to see that she remains unresponsive. Looking down to her hand, she sees that Erika has handed her a small key to Shibuya coin locker # 0009. As she wonders at the meaning of this, Erika grows increasingly agitated, groaning and then screaming. As the doctor and nurse rush in, Erika convulses violently as she appears to be thrown by an invisible force. As Aya looks on helplessly, the shocked medical staff pronounce Erika dead. Thinking that perhaps Erika has left something for her in the locker, Aya begins to methodically search for locker #0009. When at last she finds it, in a neglected section under the Shibuya station, she hesitates to open it, but eventually unlocks the little door and slowly opens the locker. In a mixture of relief and diappointment, she finds the locker empty. As she stands there trying to understand why Erika had given her the key, two junior high girls run up to the lockers with a small present, hoping to invoke the relational powers of the Shibuya lockers. Seeing that locker #0009 is open, they quickly place the present inside, leave a small offering and say a quick prayer, and close the locker. On the way home, Aya is overcome with the intense shriek of a child's voice and out of the corner of her eye she can make out the image of a small ghostly child. Aya is soon confronted by an incredibly terrified girl who she recognizes as one of the girls at the locker. The terrified girl hysterically questions Aya regarding the locker and blurts out that the other girl is dead because of it. Through the girls eyes, the audience can see a small ghostly girl standing behind Aya peering at the girl. Seeing this, the girl screams loudly and runs into the crowded street. When several more of Aya's classmates, including her closest friends, turn up missing or dead, she is forced to reconsider the possibility of a haunted locker. The unusually high number of dead and dying young people showing up at the hospital not only alarms the supervising doctor, Kakezawa (Nagasawa Toshiya), but also quickly comes to the attention of the Shibuya police. In questioning Aya, they learn of the rumored haunted locker, and after a little investigation realize that each of the victims had contact with the Shibuya locker. And yet, the cause of the deaths or their relation to the locker remains a mystery. Things take a drastic turn for the worse when the good doctor takes it upon himself to locate the notorious locker and investigate. What transpires brings him face to face with the formidable presence. Though substantially dependent upon its prequel, Shibuya Kaidan 2 is a thoroughly spooky and effective film. As in the prequel, director Horie pulls off some clever plot twists which lead the audience in one direction only to suddenly reveal a different reality. Several of the scenes are truly creepy and creative cinematic effects substantially enhance the demonic nuance of the creepy little girl. Although her identity and history are hinted at in the prequel, Shibuya Kaidan 2 thoroughly identifies and defines this little ghoul, now known to be Sachiko or Sa-chun. Shibuya Kaidan and Shibuya Kaidan 2 can easily be recommended to fans of Japanese horror. These films are quite reminiscent of Juon or Ringu. And while perhaps not quite as groundbreaking or accomplished as these prior horror tales, director Horie creates a very effective atmoshpere and storyline which will undoubtedly satisfy those who enjoy a good chill.
	Lolita Vibrator Torture	1987	Hisayasu Sato		One of Sato's most repellent and excessive pinku-eiga films, this offering from the famed Nikkatsu film studios deals with a perverted psychopath who lives in a box and performs gruesome acts upon young women before bloodily murdering them. Sayaka Kimura stars with Takeshi Ito (Akai Joji), Rio Hashikawa, and Kiyomi Ito. The focus here is on sadism and gore rather than erotica, a fairly common occurrence in Japanese softcore during the latter part of the decade. — Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Lone Wolf and Cub 1 : Sword of Vengeance	1972	Kenji Misumi		The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.	IMDB
	Lone Wolf and Cub 2 : Baby Cart at the River Styx	1972	Kenji Misumi		In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan...	IMDB
	Lone Wolf and Cub 3 : Baby Cart to Hades	1972	Kenji Misumi		In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute...	IMDB
	Lone Wolf and Cub 4 : Baby Cart In Peril	1972	Buichi Saito		In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin...	IMDB
	Lone Wolf and Cub 5 : Baby Cart in Land of Demons	1973	Kenji Misumi		Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's...	IMDB
	Lone Wolf and Cub 6 : White Heaven in Hell	1974	Yoshiyuki Kuroda		In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.	IMDB
	Long Dream	2000	Higuchinsky			IMDB
	Longinus	2004	Ryuhei Kitamura			IMDB
	Lorelei The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	2005	Shinji Higuchi	5.2	A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.	IMDB
	Lost Paradise	1990	Masami Akita			IMDB
	Lost Souls	1980	Tun Fei Mou	3.6	Prize exploitation classic TF Mous' unique style of exploitation kicked off with this grim gem which centres around the unfortunate travails of a group of Chinese boat people who arrive in Hong Kong by stealth and are immediately targeted by low-level people traders. The director of the superb MEN BEHIND THE SUN and the equally downbeat BLACK SUN has a knack for legitimizing his sex and violence with politically and culturally sensitive subject matter. This Shaw Brothers production, produced in 1980, bears the admirable hallmarks of Mous' later work. The action is well staged, the set-ups are creatively photographed, and the pacing is brisk. There is a solidity and sharpness present in the work of this fine director that places him in the top ten per cent of exploitation masters. He has more in common with Japanese pinku directors such as Teruo Ishii than his Hong Kong contemporaries such as King Hu, Chang Cheh and Jimmy Wang Yu. His art is gruesome, extreme and almost fetishistic in its intensity. The "lost souls" of this cinematic bad dream are a ragged group of male and female refugees who find themselves shackled in a makeshift prison run by a bisexual warden and his rape-loving cohorts. The women, in particular, are subjected to a Marquis de Sade-approved catalog of abuse and torture. The male of the species doesn't get off lightly, either; one character is graphically sodomized with an intensity that is rare for any Hong Kong film, let alone one greenlit by Run-Run Shaw (bless his adventurous hide!). There is a surplus of lurid nudity (I'm not complaining, mind you) and much bloodshed and general nastiness. Everything is lovingly lensed in appropriately grotty locations and Mous never gets shy about his more extreme depictions or the sexualization of the abuse. In fact, it's quite clear that Mous revels in the sadistic excesses of this less-than-cheerful exercise and I, for one, respect him for it. Mous' cinema is a cinema of transgression masquerading shamelessly as social comment. One can only admire such audaciousness. IMDB User Comment - fertilecelluloid	IMDB
	Love To Kill	1993	Siu Hung Cheung; Kirk Wong	5.7	A woman and her young son are terrorized by her psychotic, sadistic husband, who enjoys the punishments he inflicts on them.	IMDB
	Lustful Revenge	1996	Masaru Konuma		A female reporter tries to track down a gruesome serial killer, not realizing that he has already picked her as his next target. A tense thriller from Japan.	IMDB