Chiaki Kuriyama

In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards?

A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of Persona, which boasts early appearances from Battle Royale stars Tatsuya Fujiwara and Chiaki Kuriyama.

A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.

A group of students from a Japanese high school are forced to compete in a battle, killing one another until only one is left standing.

In Feudal Japan, a skilled samurai warrior helps a woman avenge her parents’ death in a bloody battle and becomes cursed with a life of immortality.