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ほんとにあった怖い話 2016

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Kento Nakajima, Emi Takei

For this 17th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast. A young man trying to become a hairstylist finds the run-down apartment he's in may have a troubled past; A new nurse finds work with an old hospital where her young patient moves a coin around pointing to who will die next; clumsy businessman finds his clumsiness being transmitted to others when he's given a cursed votive tablet; several high school girls visit a friend at the hospital only to find "something" may have gotten on the elevator with them; a pond out in the country sends a strange call out to a man on vacation with his family and finally a young woman having difficulty at her job worries she's seeing images of her dead father everywhere.

Z～ゼット～果てなき希望

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Mayu Kawamoto, Noriko Kijima

A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?

新 ホント に あった 怖い 話： 有限-会

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Four more paranormal narratives: Be Gone, Crone!: My Friend at the Stairwell; Paralysis; The Black Hair at the Abandoned Building.

Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Natsu No Tokubetsu Hen 2011

Norio Tsuruta, Tomonobu Moriwaki

Mana Ashida, Kazuaki Hankai

While Suzaki Saika (Ashida Mana) is hospitalised for poor health, her father, Tamotsu (Totsugi Shigeyuki) feels torn that he has to leave here and go on a business trip. A portrait of Saika’s late mother is placed beside her bed. Her mother had died in exchange for bringing her into this world. Tamotsu puts a paper with his mobile phone number written on it inside an amulet and hands it to Saika. He asks the nurse Tokunaga Maki (Minamisawa Nao) to keep an eye on Saika, and leaves for his trip. One night, a young girl calls out to a lonely Saika who cannot get to sleep. A long-haired girl in a wheelchair in the old wing befriends Saika and plays with her everyday. However, by the time Saika realises it, she has awaken from her sleep. Was that a dream? When she talks about the girl in the wheelchair, Maki’s expression freezes. What happened at this hospital?

おろち

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Yoshino Kimura, Noriko Nakagoshi

The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.

Premonition

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Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai

While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.

ホント に あった 怖い 話： 大-に-や

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Three more paranormal narratives, from the folks who presented "Scary True Stories": The Gymnasium in Summer House of Restless Spirits The Hospital at Midnight.

Ringu 0

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Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro

Norio Tsuruta, Kei Horie

Rina Uchiyama, Satomi Ishii

An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.

ほんとにあった怖い話15周年スペシャル

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Ayame Gouriki, Satomi Ishihara

Seven scary true horror stories in this 15th anniversary special. The stories are: S Douzan no Onna (Woman from Copper mine S); Satoru-kun; Hannin wa Dare da (Who's the Crmininal?); Sasoi no Mori (Forest invitation); Ude wo Choudai (Give me your arm); Takushi Doraiba wa Kataru (A story from taxi driver) and Yami e no Shikaku (Vision to the Darkness)

日本のこわい夜

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Kayoko Shiraishi, Shôzô Endô

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

POV～呪われたフィルム～

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Haruna Kawaguchi, Mirai Shida

Mirai and Haruna are shooting a show streamed on smartphones which introduces different viewer submitted videos. That day the videos were all of paranormal phenomena, carefully selected alleged accurate accounts of haunted occurrences. In the middle of one video, the image gets interrupted, immediately turning back on to show a footage that was not in the script. The video capture an urban legend rumoured at Haruna’s school. A psychic on the show assesses that a certain demonological ritual must be performed in order to rid the school of this phenomena. The director, agents and the two girls go to the school accordingly to find there is more to the video than meets the eye…

ほんとにあった怖い話

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Tesshou Genda, Junko Asanuma

True ghost stories described and/or narrated by the survivor involved and commences with the name and location of the one submitting the story. Each of the three collections begins with a series of creepy real-life photographs in which strange appendages or faces appear while a rather ominous narrator suggests you are now entering the highway to HELL. Three stories in the first TV-movie: The Lonely Girl Spiritual Flight Mystery of the Red Earring

亡霊学級

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Juri Miyazawa, Kei Ishibashi

Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako.

王様ゲーム

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Yurina Kumai, Dôri Sakurada

One night, Chiemi Honda and childhood friend Nobuaki Kanazawa receive an email. The sender is the King and the subject of the email is "King Game." The email states that if the recipient does not complete the king's order within 24 hours then they will be punished. Since that first email all of Chiemi's classmates receive an email from the King. At first, students think it's a joke, but perform the orders anyways. Gradually, the orders become worse. Finally, 2 classmates who do not follow the orders are punished. Then classmates start to disappear in sequence. Maria Iwamura stares at one classmate coldly. With Maria Iwamura, Chiema Honda gets closer to uncovering the identity of the King, but tragedy is about to come to Chiemi..

カカシ

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Maho Nonami, Kou Shibasaki

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?