For fans of Hideo Jojo: what to watch, read & play next

A bored Tokyo housewife takes inspiration from a TV chainsaw-murder story to seek a lover, blending suburban dread with transgressive desire.

Cross-cultural marriage unravels through infidelity, exploring desire and betrayal with frank, unsentimental directness.

A housewife's midnight encounter with a ghostly double turns domestic routine into something sinister and deeply unsettling.

Two brothers hit the road through violent encounters to find a missing wife, mixing yakuza menace with raw emotional need.

A traumatised young Japanese woman wrestles with autonomy, sexuality, and self-worth in a psychologically fractured setting.

Power, debt, and exploitation intersect when a young woman is drawn into a world of coercion she cannot easily escape.

Beneath a respectable marriage and a reformer's public persona, nocturnal tensions quietly pull everything apart.

A nurse living alone in her late father's home navigates her clinic director's unwanted attention in a slow-burn domestic drama.

Unrequited love between two girls unfolds with gentle tension, each too guarded to speak the feelings everyone else can see.

A reunion with a former classmate-turned-monk sparks forbidden attraction, wrapping desire in ritual constraint and longing.

A woman's escape from an unfulfilling life is derailed by an intensely persistent monk, mixing comedy with real romantic tension.

A notorious womanizer repays a schoolgirl's kindness with relentless courtship, charting the uneasy line between flattery and pressure.

A masochist's self-aware misery loops into absurdist comedy, poking at desire, shame, and the perversity of human psychology.

A sheltered, naively overprotected young woman collides with the real world, exposing the fragile structures of modern Japanese family life.

An airhead martial-arts bride pursues a thoroughly unwilling groom, playing arranged-marriage obligation for anarchic comic effect.

In a near-future Japan where sex is a criminal act, an honour student confronts a society that has legislated desire out of existence.

A 1950s Tokyo ex-cop investigates bizarre murders while searching for a missing girl, combining noir atmosphere with psychological horror.

A tight-knit rural village harbours escalating paranoia and violence, where trust dissolves chapter by chapter in 1983 Japan.

Players take the detective role themselves, making choices that determine whether a killer is caught in this atmospheric Japanese mystery.

Guilt and confession drive this chapter, as the village's cycle of violence is examined from a wholly different perspective.

With the truth now in reach, the story shifts from horror to something closer to tragedy as characters fight to break the cycle.

The original chapter that sparked the franchise drops a newcomer into Hinamizawa's summer heat and barely-concealed dread.

The concluding chapter brings Hinamizawa's long nightmare toward resolution, weaving together every thread of grief and survival.

A summer festival becomes a fulcrum for mistrust and murder, ratcheting paranoia to an unbearable pitch in this second chapter.

Three men pursue revenge, ambition, and old debts in a thriller where their colliding motives trigger irreversible consequences.

Five years after bullying a deaf classmate, a boy tries to rebuild what he destroyed — quietly devastating and emotionally precise.

A young Chinese man recuperating in pre-war coastal Japan finds stillness disrupted by hidden grief, illness, and buried longing.

A poor girl navigates an absurdly wealthy school disguised as a boy, playing class anxiety and gender confusion for warm comic effect.

A boy committed to making amends must face old wounds head-on, balancing guilt and genuine connection across a painful divide.

Post-quake Tokyo hums with virtual celebrity and shifting reality in a cyberpunk novel that makes the city feel genuinely strange.

An American teenager stranded in rural Japan navigates grief, language barriers, and unexpected belonging in a quietly moving story.

A woman haunted by her husband's disappearance returns to a coastal town, chasing memories that refuse to stay buried.