20 Best Japanese Zombie Movie List
For years now, zombie movies have owned the silver screen. Moreover, while zombie movies fluctuate in popularity globally, Japan has been going high! Here are best Japanese zombie movies of all time.
Just like or dislike them, But in a movie script, zombies do have so much potential! In addition, this is one genre where logic will fly out of the window right away. This gives way to some of the most bizarre plots, , a lot of action, and occasionally even a few laughs sneaked in with a little bit of romance. What’s not to love
We will present you our top 20 Best Japanese Zombie Movie list that worth watching.
Best Japanese Zombie Movies List
Japanese title: カメラを止めるな! [Don’t Stop the Camera!]
Directed by: Shin’ichiro Ueda
Produced by: Koji Ichihashi
Cast: Mao, Takayuki Hamatsu, Harumi Syuhama
Release date: November 2017
Running time: 97 minutes
Box office: ¥3.12 billion With a Budget of ¥3 million
Ratings: IMDb (7.7), Rotten Tomatoes (100%), Metacritic (86%)
Plot: This low-budget Japanese zombie movies has an exciting plot. The crew and cast of a low-budget zombie movie called One Cut of the Dead shoot at an abandoned water filtration plant in the first chapter. The producer debates and finally leaves the actors. To the joy of Higurashi, who demands that the camera operator continue to film of an actual zombie apocalypse suddenly begins.
19- Versus
Japanese title: ヴァーサス [Vasasu]
Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura
Produced by: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki and Others
Release date: October 29, 2000
Running time: 120 minutes
Budget : $10,000
Ratings: IMDb (6.4), Rotten Tomaotoes (71%),
Different plots carry to this place an escaped prisoner, a Yakuza fighting gang, and a mystery child. The door to the portal will open when the buried dead wake up like zombies, but why and what will happen when the gateway opens? This forms the zombie movie’s plot as a mystery.
18- Junk — Resident Zombie
Japanese title: 死霊狩り[(Junk: Shiryōgari]
Directed by: Atsushi Muroga
Produced by: Isao Kurosu
Cast: Nobuyuki Asano, Tate Gouta, Yuji Kishimoto
Release date: January 22, 2000
Running time: 83 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (5.4), Rotten Tomaotoes (42%), Moviepilot (4.4)
Why: It is a good enough movie, compared to many other Japanese zombie movies that have way too much comedy in them. If you enjoy zombie movies and haven’t already seen “,” it is well worth watching, and it is good entertainment.
Japanese title: 怪談 [Kaidan, Aka “ghost stories]
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Produced by: Shigeru Wakatsuki
Cast: Rentarō Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurō Tamba
Release date: December 29, 1964
Running time: 182 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (8), Rotten Tomaotoes (90%), Letterboxd (4.1/5)
Plot: In Kyoto, An poor swordsman gets divorced his wife and leaves her to gain greater social standing as a woman of a rich background. However, despite his new wealthy class, the swordsman’s second marriage proves to be unhappy. It is shown that his new wife is cruel and greedy- the swordsman repentant leaving his ex-wife, who is more dedicated and supportive.
Japanese title: 鬼婆 [Demon Hag]
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Produced by: Toshio Konya
Cast: Jitsuko Yoshimura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satō
Release date: November 21, 1964
Running time: 102 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (8), Rotten Tomaotoes (83%), Deep Focus (4/4)
Plot: This is a , set in the fourteenth century during a civil war. The story starts with two women who kill soldiers to rob their belongings and a man who eventually comes among them. Women’s loot the dead soldiers, strip them of their armor and weapons, and hide the bodies in the field. The next day, they take the armor and weapons to a merchant and trade them for food.
He tells the news of the war, which is driving people across the country to fear. As they leave, The two women ask a neighbor, who returns from war, about the older woman’s son and younger woman’s husband. The Neighbor tells them that they abandoned the war, and he was killed when stealing food from farmers. The older woman warns the younger woman to stay away from him, whom she blames for her son’s death.
Japanese title: アイアムアヒーロー [Ai Amu A Hiro]
Directed by: Shunsuke Sato
Cast: Yô Ôizumi, Kasumi Arimura,
Release date: 2016
Running time: 126 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (6.8), Rotten Tomaotoes (90%),
Japanese title: オーディション [Ōdishon]
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Produced by: Satoshi Fukushima
Cast: Eihi Shiina,Ryo Ishibashi
Release date: October 2, 1999
Running time: 113 minutes
Box office: $131,296
Ratings: IMDb (7.2), Rotten Tomaotoes (82%), Empire(5/5)
However, He is so enthralled by her that he pursues her anyway. She lives in an empty apartment containing a sack and a phone and decides to join him at a seaside hotel after many dates, where this smitten man dreams of proposing to marry him. She shows burning wounds on her body at the hotel, and before having sex, she insists that he promise to love her and no one else. A profoundly moved man accepts, and she is nowhere to be found in the morning.
Directed by: Tetsuro Takeuchi
Produced by: Kaichiro Furata
Cast: Masashi Endō, Guitar Wolf
Release date: August 8, 1999
Running time: 98 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (6.4), Rotten Tomatoes (100%), Letterboxd (3.4/5)
Japanese title: キュア [Kyua]
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by: Junyuki Shimoba
Cast: Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Kōji Yakusho
Release date: 1997
Running time: 111 minutes
Box office: Unknown with Budget of $1,000,000 (JPY)
Ratings: IMDb (7.4), Rotten Tomaotoes (92%), Metacritic (70%)
Title: [*REC]
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Produced by: Julio Fernández
Cast: Ferrán Terraza, Manuela Velasco
Release date: 23 November 2007
Running time: 78 minutes
Box office: $32.5 million With a Budget of $2 million
Ratings: IMDb (7.4), Rotten Tomaotoes (89%), Filmaffinity (6.6/10)
Directed by: Teppei Nakamura
Cast: Eric Feliciano, Thomas Downey
Release date: October 2014
Running time: 54 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (6.4)
Plot: Six young friends have been falsely charged with a crime they have never committed. As the world is in the middle of a zombie outbreak, they are trapped, and one of them gets infected. They have really no choice but to find an antidote or risk themselves being infected. What are they going to do to avoid propagating the zombie infection?
Directed by: Sabu
Produced by: Yoshiki Kumazawa
Cast: Ayaka Komatsu, Toru Tezuka
Release date: September 9, 2013
Running time: 85 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (6.3), Rotten Tomaotoes (44%)
Well, this movie is weird! Nevertheless, the point where it uses the zombie dilemma as a metaphor is also impressive! It does not have anything to do with any zombie movie I’ve ever seen. It’s almost a poetic film about zombies! The shot of this Japanese zombie movie is completely in black and white, which enhances the impression of sadness and poetry.
Japanese title: リング [Ringu]
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Produced by: Shinya Kawai
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Nanako Matsushima
Release date: January 31, 1998
Running time: 95 minutes
Box office: $19.4 million
Ratings: IMDb (7.2), Rotten Tomaotoes (97%)
Why: Many friends convinced me to watch this Zombie movie, but I regret it because it kept looking back as I felt that . I didn’t sleep well for a long time and kept on having this terrible nightmare. I never watched such a and if you want to damage your life, go ahead and watch it. Haha, That’s was a joke. An excellent ghost story with believable characters and a compelling mystery, even though the third act’s impact is lessened due to over-exposure in pop-culture.
In the meantime, Tomoko’s aunt is investigating this cursed video story, so when “Reiko” and her young son “Yoichi” attend Tomoko’s funeral, she finds from some of Tomoko’s friends that three of Tomoko’s friends died the same night. With their faces contorted in fear, their bodies were found. The next day in Tomoko’s place, Reiko found a receipt from a photo production shop. Will, she discovers the story behind it.
Japanese title: 仄暗い水の底から, [Honogurai Mizu no soko kara]
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Produced by: Takashige Ichise
Cast: Rio Kanno, Hitomi Kuroki
Release date: January 19, 2002
Running time: 101 minutes
Box office: $1.4 million
Ratings: IMDb (6.7), Rotten Tomaotoes (80%), Letterboxd (3.4/5)
Plot: Yoshimi leases a rundown flat with her child, “Ikuko”, during divorce proceedings. She enrolls Ikuko in a nearby preschool and finds a job in a local publishing business as a proofreader. There is a leak in the roof of their apartment that increases every day. The building supervisor reports to Yoshimi, but he does nothing to repair it.
Japanese title: 血まみれスケバンチェーンソ, [Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw]
Directed by: Hiroki Yamaguchi
Produced by: Ryo Yukizane
Cast: Mari Yamachi , Rio Uchida
Release date: February 20, 2016
Running time: 76 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (4.5)
Japanese title: セーラー服黙示録, [Sērā-fuku mokushiroku]
Directed by: John Cairns
Produced by: Yuki Kito
Cast: Mai Tsujimoto, Higarino
Release date: July 2011
Running time: 86 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (5.4), Letterboxd (3.1/5)
Japanese title: リアル鬼ごっこ, [Riaru Onigokko]
Directed by: Sion Sono
Produced by: Sedic Deux Inc.
Cast: Mariko Shinoda, Reina Triendl
Release date: July 11, 2015
Running time: 85 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (6.1), Rotten Tomaotoes (92%), FilmAffinity (5.4/10)
Plot: Mitsuko, a shy high school student, survives a wind gust that cuts through her school bus, bisecting everybody on board. The wind is chasing her and killing all the other girls with whom she comes into contact. Dazed, she stumbles on the campus of a high school. Some girls are greeting her, and some girls are cutting out a class and going to the woods. With different versions of themselves, they muse on whether there are many realities.
Japanese title: 回路 [Kairo]
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by: Shun Shimizu
Cast: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Asō
Release date: 3 February 2001
Running time: 119 minutes
Box office: $51,420
Ratings: IMDb (6.5), Rotten Tomaotoes (74%), Letterboxd (3.6/5)
Japanese title: 自殺サークル [Jisatsu Sākuru]
Directed by: Sion Sono
Produced by: Seiya Kawamata
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Ryō Ishibashi
Release date: October 29, 2001
Running time: 99 minutes
Budget: $250,000
Ratings: IMDb (6.6), Rotten Tomatoes (57%),
1- Tokyo Gore Police
Japanese title: 東京残酷警察, [Tōkyō Zankoku Keisatsu]
Directed by: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Produced by: Satoshi Nakamura
Cast: Itsuji Itao, Eihi Shiina
Release date: 1 January 2008
Running time: 110 minutes
Box office: Unknown
Ratings: IMDb (5.9), Rotten Tomaotoes (82%)
She is now searching for her father’s murderer, who was assassinated by a mysterious gunman in full daylight. Ruka soon gets a new case to track down Key Man, but once she meets him, he infects her with the virus. Meanwhile, a police officer becomes infected while visiting a strip-club filled with Engineers and massacres the central precinct.
Zombies have become a household name. These flesh-eating undead creatures enjoy popularity in cinema, TV, and other popular media. This article by Zain Mumtaz Summaries the Japanese zombie movie genre. Although zombie movies’ interest seemed to have been going down everywhere, even now, Japan is going high.
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