Movies by Hideo Nakata
As a director:
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Chatroom (2010)
Cast: Aaron Johnson, Imogen Poots, Matthew Beard …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Five teenage chat buddies engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse as charismatic online predator William (Aaron Johnson) discovers his next victim in Jim (Matthew Beard), and Jim's…
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Death Note: L: Change the WorLd (2008)
Cast: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Fresh off the heels of the Kira case, detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) finds himself on the hunt for a group of bioterrorists that's plotting to release a powerful virus -- 100…
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Kaidan (2007)
Cast: Kumiko Aso, Takaaki Enoki, Reona Hirota …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
After a young man inadvertently causes the death of his wife, her jealous ghost comes back to haunt him -- the unfortunate result of an ancient family curse incurred by an ancestor who…
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The Ring Two (2005)
Cast: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Six months after Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son, Aidan (David Dorfman), survived their horrifying run-in with the supernatural in Seattle, the two have relocated to Astoria, Oregon,…
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Dark Water (2002)
Cast: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Thrill-master Hideo Nakata takes another chilling novel by Koji Suzuki and adapts it for the screen. This time, Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is fighting for the custody of her daughter, but more…
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Chaos (1999)
Cast: Masato Hagiwara, Miki Nakatani, Ken Mitsuishi …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata (Ringu) directs this crime thriller in which wealthy businessman Takayuki Komiyama must untangle a web of conspiracy and lies when his wife, Saori, suddenly disappears. He…
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Ringu 2 (1999)
Cast: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyko Fukada …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Stringy-haired Sadako returns in this chilling sequel to the film that spawned a fear of unlabeled videotapes. On a quest to find out what happened to her beau (Hiroyuki Sanada), Mai Takano…
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Ringu (1998)
Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Based on the book by Koji Suzuki, this earlier Japanese version of the hit American movie The Ring is creepy in the extreme. After watching a mysterious videotape, a group of teenagers die…
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Curse, Death & Spirit (1992)
Cast: Miki Nakatani, Jun Kunimura, Masato Hagiwara …
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
In this spine-tingling collection of films, Japanese director Hideo Nakata (Ringu) delivers a trio of haunting tales. In The Cursed Doll, a girl is haunted by a toy that contains the spirit…