New J Horror Movies & Films

Top 21 must-see new j horror movies from j horror movies, including Bloat, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Re/Member, Sadako DX, Suicide Forest Village, Brutal, Innocent Curse, One Cut of the Dead, Creepy, and Gantz: O ranked and rated by release date, new j horror movie releases first.


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New J Horror Movies List

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1). Bloat (2025) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on Bloat (2025)Bloat poster
Score: 4.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 882 | Rotten Tomatoes: 2.9/10 | Metascore: 4.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A military officer stationed in Turkey while his wife (Novakovic) is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy. From a producer of Searching and Unfriended, Ben McKenzie (“Gotham”) and Bojana Novakovic (Birds of Prey) star...

Director: Pablo Absento
Stars: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic, Sawyer Jones, Malcolm Fuller, Kane Kosugi


2). Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (2023) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead poster
Score: 6.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,658 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5/10 | MPAA Rating: TV-MA
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: Surviving a zombie apocalypse beats being a wage slave any day. After spending years slaving away for a soul-crushing company, Akira's life has lost its luster. He lives in a trash-filled apartment, his pay is abysmal, and he can't even muster up the nerve to confess his love to his beautiful co-worker. But when a zombie apocalypse ravages his...

Director: Yûsuke Ishida
Stars: Eiji Akaso, Mai Shiraishi, Shuntarô Yanagi, Yui Ichikawa, Kazuki Kitamura


3). Re/Member (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.45/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,332 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Re/Member is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: High school student Asuka, at school, sees the apparition of a dead student named Haruka, asking Asuka to find her body. Asuka and her friends attempt to find the eight scattered pieces of Haruka's corpse in the school, and learn more about the Red Person ghost that took Haruka. The Red Person hunts students who are alone at school...

Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
Stars: Kanna Hashimoto, Gordon Maeda, Maika Yamamoto, Fûju Kamio, Kotaro Daigo


4). Sadako DX (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 620 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: People who watch a cursed video suddenly die. These deaths take place all over Japan. Ayaka Ichijo (played by Fuka Koshiba) is an extremely smart graduate student with an IQ of 200. Her younger sister happens to watch the cursed video for fun. Ayaka Ichijo tries to reveal the mystery of the cursed video...

Director: Hisashi Kimura
Stars: Fuka Koshiba, Kazuma Kawamura, Mario Kuroba, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yuki Yagi


5). Suicide Forest Village (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.11/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 957 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out...

Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Yumi Adachi, Hideko Hara, Fûju Kamio, Haruka Kudo, Jun Kunimura


6). Brutal (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.77/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 501 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Following a rampage of extreme prejudice, a savage killer targets women as he tries to find a compatible one to engage his fantasies of torture and murder in. With the body count mounting and no one being able to stop him, he grows bolder and goes to more extreme measures to carry out his rampage, eventually catching the eye...

Director: Takashi Hirose
Stars: Asami, Katrina Grey, Shinsuke Kato, Shigeo Ôsako, Takashi Nishina


8). One Cut of the Dead (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Honest Review: One Cut of the Dead (2017)One Cut of the Dead poster
Score: 8.07/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 33,492 | Rotten Tomatoes: 10.0/10 | Metascore: 8.6/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $52,406
Plot / Synopsis: Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies...

Director: Shin''ichirô Ueda
Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Hiroshi Ichihara


9). Creepy (2016) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.7/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,525 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1/10 | Metascore: 7.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier... Tagline: That man isn't my father, he is total stranger. Check this article for the top creepy actors...

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino, Masahiro Higashide


10). Gantz: O (2016) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.42/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 17,465 | MPAA Rating:
Gantz: O is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: Gantz: O (2016) is a 3DCG film based on the popular manga series Gantz where this film covers the events in the Osaka Arc. Gantz: O is co-directed by Yasushi Kawamura and Keiichi Saito with visuals that will make your mouth water. Netflix released Gantz: O on their streaming platform this past February 18, 2017, after originally releasing in Japan...

Directors: Yasushi Kawamura, Kei''ichi Sato
Stars: Chris Jai Alex, Tony Azzolino, Austin Nash Chase, Lucien Dodge, Doug Erholtz


12). Shin Gojira (2016) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.24/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 41,632 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.6/10 | Metascore: 6.7/10 | MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Gross: $1,918,403
Plot / Synopsis: Shin Godzilla (2016) will release in limited US movie theaters starting October 11 - 18, 2016. Press Release: LOS ANGELES, CA - September 9, 2016. The iconic science-fiction monster Godzilla makes land fall in the U.S. and Canada this October with the North American theatrical release of "SHIN GODZILLA" from Toho Company, Ltd--and you can score your tickets now! Fans...

Directors: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Osugi, Akira Emoto


13). Terra Formars (2016) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.62/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,528 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: In an attempt to colonize Mars, 21st century scientists seed the planet with algae to absorb sun light and purify the atmosphere, and cockroaches who in turn spread the algae as they feed. 500 years later, the first manned mission to Mars loses contact with Earth, and a second ship is sent to investigate...

Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Tomohisa Yamas**ta, Hideaki Itô, Shun Oguri


14). Shingeki no kyojin (2015) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 16,194 | Rotten Tomatoes: 4.7/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $449,523
Plot / Synopsis: In a world where giant humanoid Titans prey on humans, Eren joins the scouting legion to get revenge on the monsters who killed everyone in his town...

Director: Shinji Higuchi
Stars: Ashly Burch, Bryce Papenbrook, Monica Rial, Brandon Potter, Josh Grelle


15). Attack on Titan Part 2 (2015) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 4.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,351 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $305,934
Plot / Synopsis: A continuation of the ongoing battle between the Scouting Regiment and the Titans. As the battle continues to unravel, Eren Jäeger, a soldier fighting the Titans for vengeance, is finding out an incredible secret that'll leave the whole Scouting Regiment confused, but unsure on what to do and if it's really Eren. Will the Scouting Regiment realize what he...

Director: Shinji Higuchi
Stars: Haruma Miura, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kanata Hongô, Kiko Mizuhara, Takahiro Miura


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