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The video is a compilation of six short stories based on Japanese folklore legends. Each story is approximately 15 minutes long and are briefly introduced by a host. "Peony Lamp" is a story of love, death and ghosts. "She Bear" tells the story of a monster lady who terrorizes passers of a city tunnel. "Yamamba" is a spirit living in the depths of the forests waiting to feed on anyone who ventures there. "Nurarihyon" tells us of a playful spirit visiting a family's restaurant. "Heartbroken trip", a young woman visits a spa not knowing what awaits her. "Lost Souls" a stop during a long car ride turns into a nightmare.

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

First story is "Chainmail" where three friends use a fellow student's death to send a chainmail phone message with unintended results. Next is "Left Behind on the Mountain" where an arrogant guy picks up girls and leaves them on a deserted mountain. However, one girl comes back. Then is "Tattoo", in which a girl gets a tattoo and more than she bargained for. Next comes "Viewfinder's Memory" where three friends visit a beach and meet a familiar, but strange girl. Then is "Guardian Angel" where destitute Yumiko attempts to pay off her debts with her life. Lastly is "Mortuary" where an intern has to deal with a grieving mother in a hospital mortuary.

Six short stories: Chain Mail, Left Behind, Tattoo, Viewfinder's Memory, Guardian Angel, and Mortuary

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.

In the office - in the bathroom - in bed - the women encounter deformities. But it's not them that are truly terrifying, it's the humans.

She has a marriage intended for money. Her husband invites her for a drive and she follows him deep into the mountains. She is trapped in the car...

A woman steps into a large countryside. A man covered in mud appears behind her. The woman desperately tries to escape, but the man catches up with her. She is astonished by the man's words.

Jake Feldman is a furrier struggling to build a business while being tormented by his obsession with a stripper. When a sadistic backwoods trapper kills a strange group of pet raccoons, Jake knows their luxurious hides could make a coat that will change his fortunes forever. Only these are no ordinary pelts: the cursed furs will wreak vengeance on anyone who touches them.

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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Spin-off film in Kōji Shiraishi's "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series. Broadcast on NicoNico.

Video essay by Jasper Sharp about Japanese horror.

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A boy enjoys his day off by watching his favorite movie. But one event, causes him to realized that there would be no day off for him.

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A girl fears that the repeated knocks on her door are the beginning of a terror that will soon follow her.

A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for the SEGA Dreamcast console. It tells the story of Nao Tsunoda, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who moves to Tokyo’s Grauenheim apartment complex. One day, Nao’s life turns into a nightmare when she suddenly discovers the headless corpse of her neighbor on the roof of the house — and a chain of brutal murders continues, becoming clear that a psychopath is hunting the apartment building's inhabitants.

An affable caregiver watches over a mysteriously ill young woman. As the two develop their relationship with one another, strange occurrences unravel a far more sinister hand underneath their façades.

VHS OVA in a moving manga style based on the works of horror comedy artist Yumeji Tanima. Contains 2 stories. 1 "初恋のゾンビ" 2 "墓地の秘密" In the first segment, Yuki, a young student, suffers an accident at school but is soon ressurected, however she fell in love with a spirit during her quick visit to the world of the dead. In the second segment, 3 close friends plan a courage test in a haunted graveyard, Ryoko who is afraid of cemeteries, Toshiko who doesn't believe in paranormal phenomena, and Masako who lives in a house inside a cemetery.

A man wakes up in a strange place, it's familiar to him but he doesn't know why. He has no memory of who he is or what happened to him, all he knows is that needs to take back what he lost.

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