Horror/Mystery/Drama Titles

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Horror: (Genre) Self-explanatory.

Mystery: (Genre) The old "who-done-it" type titles should go here.

Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".

Title Rating Synopsis
A
Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror Buy See Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror
B
Box of Goblins See Mouryou no Hako
Box of Spirits See Mouryou no Hako
D

Death Note
Buy Light Yagami (Or Raito) is an ace student who`s bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note - a notebook held by a shinigami (or Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world - A world without crime or criminals. However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.

Death Note (live-action movie #1)
Rent Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective who lives in secrecy, rises from the shadows and puts his life on the line trying to capture Light. Both L and Light believe themselves on the side of Justice, and the two match wits trying to show exactly which of them is "good" and which of them is "evil."
I

Interlude
Buy For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares.
J
Japanese Classic Horror - Ayakashi Buy See Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror
M
Mermaid's Scar Buy See Ningyo no Kizu

Monster
The Japanese Neurosurgeon Dr Kenzo Tenma had everything going for him in his position as lead surgeon of neurosurgery at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. His genius as a surgeon had attracted, not only, the attention of the director of surgery at the hospital, but also an engagement to a beautiful Eva, the director's daughter. On one fateful dark evening, he defies the instructions of the director to abandon his current patient, a 12-year-old gunshot victim, to an almost certain death and refuses to performs surgery to save the life of the town mayor. He does what does what he thinks a true doctor should do and his young patient survives, the mayor dies, and in his decision, he has ignored the politics at the hospital, sacrificing all of his successes.

Mouryou no Hako
The story follows a series of bizarre murders of schoolgirls who have been dismembered and stuffed into boxes. The private investigator hired by a missing daughter's mother joins forces with an antique book seller and others to unravel the murder spree.
N

Ningyo no Kizu
Buy A legend speaks that if you eat the flesh of a Mermaid, you will gain eternal youth and longevityMana and Yuta are living proof. As these to immortal companions travel Japan in search of a cure to return them to mortals, Yuta and Mana encounter a mother who is trying to kill her own son. Does the flesh of a Mermaid have something to do with this?
S

Suika
Rent Souji Kamishiro is pursuing his dream of being a painter under the unsteady hand of a dark moody, but brilliant art professor. While staying over at his house, Souji has become very close to his sensi’s daughter Sayaka Shirakawa, but there appears something very wrong within the family. Sayaka bitterly hates her father, refusing to even be in the same room with him. Later, someone confronts Souji with rumors that his sensi is a murderer. And then Mie Wakabasyashi, a cute young neighborhood girl appears to both give warning about his sensi one moment and then trys to steal a kiss from him the next. But Sayaka interrupts them and chases Mie away. She takes advantage of the situation to share her feelings for Souji in the form of a passionate kiss. But the tensions and uncertainty are quickly rising to a dangerous climax that is certain to claim another life and explode into a passionate release.
W
Wet Summer Days Rent See Suika
もうりょうのはこ See Mouryou no Hako
インタールード (Japanese) Buy See Interlude
Genre
Action(3) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(6) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(1)
Demographic
Style
Creepy(3) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Dark(4) Hentai(1) Live Action(1)
Magic(1) Police(1) Samurai(1) Shinigami(1)
Supernatural(4) Video-game inspired(1)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(2) TV(4)
Release Year
2008(1) 2006(3) 2004(2) 2003(2) 1993(1)
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