For fans of Takashi Shimizu: what to watch, read & play next

A psychologist probing her brother's disappearance uncovers a horror tied to a girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.

A college student's unsettling encounter with a barefoot, convulsing stranger on a bus sets off a creeping, inexplicable dread.

An internet video rumoured to compel suicides draws a sceptical teacher into a nightmare of contagious, unstoppable evil.

A teenage girl's nightmares begin bleeding into waking life after her family returns to a childhood city.

A woman's strange habit of calling strangers turns lethal when a pre-recorded voice announces her own death.

A nursing student in a new apartment is woken nightly by a mysterious scratching from her reclusive neighbour's unit.

Friends visiting a remote Japanese shrine find strange occurrences escalating from unsettling to genuinely dangerous.

A criminal psychology lecturer who barely survived a psychopath finds his past pulling him back into danger.

A bizarre internet video is the only clue to a terrorist attack that has decimated Tokyo in an alternate present.

A student entangled in serial murders finds reality and delusion dissolving dangerously into each other.

Two sisters — one who sees ghosts, one who is haunted by them — navigate a world where the supernatural is inescapable.

Classic Japanese school-ghost folklore plays out with eerie warmth, centred on the legend of Hanako-san.

A buried domestic atrocity — parents concealing their daughter's body for sixteen years — resurfaces to haunt a community.

A spiritual war beneath early-modern Tokyo pits tradition against violent industrial transformation at the turn of the century.

After moving into a quiet village, a young man stumbles on news of a murder lurking beneath the idyllic surface.

A paranormal researcher's obsessive hunt for a cursed house where a mother and child met a terrible end.

A cicada-loud summer in Hinamizawa slowly reveals a hidden violence you must piece together chapter by chapter.

Another summer in Hinamizawa, another descent into the village's cycle of dread and unexplained deaths.

The curse over Hinamizawa deepens as the village's cycle of violence claims more lives in the summer of 1983.

The festival of Watanagashi casts a shadow of ritual dread over Hinamizawa's deceptively quiet summer.

Hinamizawa's long summer of violence and mystery reaches a reckoning in this concluding chapter.

A 1956 Tokyo ex-cop turned private detective joins an investigation into a series of bizarre murders.

A psycho-suspense visual novel where delusion is the key — and the protagonist cannot trust what he sees.

Back in Hinamizawa for another summer, the village's dread accumulates with new deaths and new unanswered questions.

Three men driven by revenge, ambition and old scores collide in a crime story of lyrical, mounting violence.

Five years on, Shoya Ishida reckons with the damage his childhood bullying of deaf classmate Shoko left behind.

Facing Shoko again forces Shoya to confront a past he has spent years trying to leave behind.

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service's newest client turns out to be Sasaki's father's murderer — a far darker case than usual.

Yoshie's father died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman; grief and unresolved strangeness pull her toward Tokyo's quieter streets.

A young man is summoned to another world and immediately faces life-threatening situations he cannot escape.

Mundane moments — a bakery visit, a birthday treat — carry an undertow of wrongness that quietly unsettles.

A woman drawn to a seaside town begins to unravel buried memories of a husband who vanished twelve years ago.