Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.

Machida, an aspiring filmmaker, heads to the room of a stranger where he thinks his girlfriend Yukiko might be in there, while rolling his brand new video camera. The two end up breaking up, but Machida thinks that he may have been the main cause of the breakup. Newly equipped with a new video camera, he sets out to make a film to reevaluate their relationship. As he continues to film, the lines between fiction and reality become hard to understand.

Machida, an aspiring filmmaker, heads to the room of a stranger where he thinks his girlfriend Yukiko might be in there, while rolling his brand new video camera. The two end up breaking up, but Machida thinks that he may have been the main cause of the breakup. Newly equipped with a new video camera, he sets out to make a film to reevaluate their relationship. As he continues to film, the lines between fiction and reality become hard to understand.

Machida, an aspiring filmmaker, heads to the room of a stranger where he thinks his girlfriend Yukiko might be in there, while rolling his brand new video camera. The two end up breaking up, but Machida thinks that he may have been the main cause of the breakup. Newly equipped with a new video camera, he sets out to make a film to reevaluate their relationship. As he continues to film, the lines between fiction and reality become hard to understand.

An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.

A group of high school girls discover the truth to an urban legend when one by one, each begins to die under mysterious circumstances.

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.

Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.

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.