Hideo Nakata
Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker.
Works
The Supernatural Sweet Shop The Movie
Zenitendo is a mysterious candy store that only lucky people can reach. All the candy recommended by Beniko, the owner of the store, is perfectly suited to the buyer's troubles. However, it depends on whether the candy will be used or eaten correctly that it can bring happiness or misfortune.
Release Date:2024-12-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker
Genius hacker and murderer Urano escaped from prison and fled to South Korea. Urano was hired by a South Korean anti-government organization to set a trap targeted for the Korea-Japan summit meeting. Sumin is assigned to watch over Urano but is intimidated by his frantic behavior. Urano distrusts her, but gradually their feelings begin to change a little.
Release Date:2024-11-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
Release Date:2023-10-12
Character:Himself
The Forbidden Play
A boy, after tragically losing his mother in an accident, performs a resurrection spell in the hope of reviving her. However, he ends up awakening something evil.
Release Date:2023-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:30
THE DAYS
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Release Date:2023-06-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:113
It's in the Woods
Set in an actual forest said to be rife with supernatural phenomena, this next-gen horror film is based on witness accounts of people who saw "It" and the protagonists’ encounter with the mysterious "It".
Release Date:2022-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Shōtai
Keiichi Kaburagi is arrested as a suspect in a murder case and sentenced to death. He escaped from prison during the transfer, but while fleeing, he rescues the people he meets in his hiding place from the predicament. And when the rescued people realize that Kaburagi is a wanted death-row prisoner, they begin to wonder, "Is he really a murderer?"
Release Date:2022-03-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Usogui
Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers vie to become the best in their profession. Seeing through the lies of others, Madarame Baku challenges a variety of high stakes games at Club Kakerou.
Release Date:2022-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
Fear Newspaper
Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening one after the other. Murders, accidents, abuse, natural disasters, injustice... these newspapers predict all sorts of tragedies. What is the truth behind them?
Release Date:2020-08-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:4
Stigmatized Properties
Yamano Yamame, an entertainer who can't sell, is unreasonably told by his seniors that he should live in the accident property because he will put it on TV, and he moves to the property where the murder occurred due to his appearance on TV and the low rent. At first glance, the room was a normal room, but a mysterious white object was reflected in the image of the room, and the sound was disturbed. The program in which Yamame appeared became lively, and Yamame moved around the accident property in search of new material. Yamame, who encounters various mysterious phenomena in the room where he lives, makes a big break as an "entertainer who lives in the accident property".
Release Date:2020-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Remotely Killed: Behind the Scenes of Murder
This is the 58 minutes Hulu version which contains spoiler/reveals throughout the special.
Release Date:2020-07-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Remotely Killed
During the stay home period after the declaration of a state of emergency, six high school classmates gather remotely and discuss the truth of a former classmate who died from suicide. However, they begin to get involved in a real-time serial murder.
Release Date:2020-07-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Stolen Identity 2
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Release Date:2020-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Sadako
A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.
Release Date:2019-05-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:115
The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer
Sexually abused as a child by her step-father, Kyoko is now an adult who lives with three other roommates, one of them a lesbian who's attracted to her. Amidst misunderstandings and more abuse at the hands of her mother, Kyoko is faced with a wave of murders, her mental state worsening.
Release Date:2019-04-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
Stolen Identity
After a man accidentally leaves his smartphone in a taxi, he and his girlfriend are plagued by stalkers and cybercrimes.
Release Date:2018-11-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:23
Life in Overtime
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.
Release Date:2018-06-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Lovers in the Attic
A housewife, Saijo Kinuka lives with her husband Makoto and her high school daughter Honoka and her middle school son, Yuto. Due to the death of Makoto's father, they decide to move to a large European style house in Kamakura, with the second wife of Makoto's father, Saijo Chizuko. There, they host a home welcoming party, at which Kinuka invites her guests such as Suganuma Kyoko and company peers of Makoto. To every sense of the word, it is a perfect party in a perfect new environment. Like Chizuko will show-off her belly dance skills in front of everybody. This is when something shocking happens. While Kinuka is preparing for the party, suddenly her ex-boyfriend Seno Itsuki appears out of the blue. Due to loan payments which he has to deal with, he had decided to live in the attic of her new house!
Release Date:2017-06-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Hideo Nakata: Ghosts, Rings and Water
Documentary about the director's films.
Release Date:2016-10-25
White Lily
Two women, Tokiko, a ceramic artist, and her apprentice, Haruka, are in a relationship. The couple is not an intrinsic lesbian, but they fell for each other by chance.
Release Date:2016-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:35
Like a Girl Playing House
Onchi Eiko, the proprietress of a bar, is trapped in a sad, hidden past. One day, an old friend Shigeko shows up with her 5-year-old son Daiji in tow. Shigeko entrusts him to Eiko and disappears after she leaves a farewell letter. As Eiko looks at the innocent Daiji, she is reminded of her own past. The two of them who have no one to turn to, begin a life together as fake mother and son in this peculiar and yet heartrending story.
Release Date:2016-08-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Somewhere in Kamakura
Nakata Hideo enlists Kagawa Kyoko, who immortalizes the youngest sister Kyoko in Ozu’s "Tokyo Story", to play an 80-year-old who suddenly receives a letter from her first love.
Release Date:2016-03-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection
"Box" Shuko Yoshino (played by Yuko Takeuchi), a researcher at a medical university, was suddenly hit in the head while working. When she woke up, she found herself locked in a sealed metal box. Ryota Murakami (played by Satoshi His Wife), a single office worker in "Glasses Bring Happiness", accidentally received a smart glasses. With the help of the glasses, he began to interact with the beautiful woman. Ayumu Miura (played by Mizuki Yamamoto); "Fierce House" Yukiko (Played by Miki Nakatani) Moved into a new house with her daughter Zhuli, but there seemed to be a terrible grudge living here; Hatsuno (played by Takashi Abe), the head of the financing department of "×", accidentally found a × on his forehead, but the people around him couldn't see it at all. Shotaro (played by Shinnosuke Manjima) is experiencing a difficult moment in life. When he was pushed to the extreme, he suddenly told the first lie in the world, and he and his two friends embarked on a magical journey.
Release Date:2015-11-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Ghost Theater
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Release Date:2015-11-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:20
Ghost Theater
The extra-biography TV series of the movie "Theatrical Spirit". The 11 heroines selected from the AKB group, in the daily and adjacent world, such things "may also happen to me", an unreasonable horror experience.
Release Date:2015-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:3
Words with Gods
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Release Date:2014-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Monsterz
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive?
Release Date:2014-05-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:22
Shinigami-kun
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.
Release Date:2014-04-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
The Complex
Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
Release Date:2013-05-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:61
The Complex: Prologue
"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.
Release Date:2013-04-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:7
The Incite Mill
Drawn by the exorbitantly high hourly wage of 112,000 Japanese yen, ten men and women gather at a mansion. Everyone thinks the simple psychology experiment will get them some quick cash... until one of them winds up dead. The participants are overcome with frenzied suspicion. Various deadly weapons are left in their rooms and they are killed off one by one.
Release Date:2010-10-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:65
Chatroom
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
Release Date:2010-08-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:290
Don't Look Up
While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.
Release Date:2009-09-24
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:48
Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood
Hideo Nakata was invited from the J-Horror boom to helm The Ring 2, the American-made sequel to a remake of his own film Ring. In this documentary, Nakata details the never-ending difficulties he dealt with in Hollywood.
Release Date:2009-03-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
Release Date:2008-02-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:278
The Man who was Made a Fool by L the Most - Detective Matsuda's Case File
Matsuda's signature is needed on some final documents to wrap up the Kira case. However, Matsuda refuses to sign. Seeking closure, Soichiro Yagami tells him to visit Ryuzaki so that he may understand L's sense of justice.
Release Date:2007-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kaidan
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead
Release Date:2007-08-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:28
Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
Modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI (Science Research Institute) is investigating mysterious cases.
Release Date:2007-04-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
True Asian Horror
A new wave of Asian horror movie filmmakers is capturing the attention of film studios desperate for box office success. From Tokyo to Hong Kong and Bangkok to Seoul, this two-part documentary describes how Asian directors have successfully married the power of local myths and superstitions with cutting-edge filming techniques and innovative storytelling, producing some of the scariest moments in the history of cinema. True Asian Horror includes scenes from The Ring - the movie voted by cinemagoers around the world as the scariest movie ever - and modern horror classics such as The Eye and Phone. Sit back as the directors of these classic films reveal how they manage to frighten the life out of their audiences and hear film critics explain why Hollywood is terrified to turn its back on Asian moviemakers whose meteoric rise to the top has been just plain scary.
Release Date:2007-03-07
Character:Self
The Ring Two
After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.
Release Date:2005-03-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2290
Dark Water
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.
Release Date:2002-01-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:618
Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Release Date:2001-11-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Sadistic and Masochistic
Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.
Release Date:2001-01-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vote Count:1
Gore from Outer Space
A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
Release Date:2001-01-01
Vote Count:2
Chaos
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?
Release Date:2000-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:31
Curse. Death. Ling Gaiden 2. A scary story that really happened Cursed Spirit Gaiden 2
A horror drama presented by Hideo Nakata, the mastermind of the Japanese horror boom, with a group of gorgeous actors. A total of 2 episodes are included, including the story of a teacher who is troubled by spirits and a dropout student "The 5th Tatari in 6 rows".
Release Date:2000-06-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Take It
A horror drama presented by Hideo Tanaka, the mastermind of Japan's horror boom, with a group of luxurious actors. A total of 3 episodes are included, including "Ghost Classroom", which depicts the resentment of a student who lost his life due to bullying.
Release Date:2000-04-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Sleeping Bride
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
Release Date:2000-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Ring 2
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Release Date:1999-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:416
Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names
Documentary about director Joseph Losey featuring many of his collaborators.
Release Date:1998-06-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ring
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.
Release Date:1998-01-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1457
Tokyo Fair Weather
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Release Date:1997-10-18
Vote Count:6
School Ghost Story F
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Release Date:1997-07-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Don't Look Up
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
Release Date:1996-03-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Back) Voyeur pick-up road
Although he graduated from the Department of Photography at a university, Tatsuya, who had been living a agonizing life without getting a job, accidentally ended up working as a photographer for a sex posting magazine. Pick-up, Aokan, SM, soap, but all the sex photos taken by Tatsuya are inked on the model's face, processed as amateur posts and incorporated into the magazine...
Release Date:1996-03-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Female Teacher's Diary Forbidden Sex
The film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the teacher about his feelings using an answering machine, and a high school student who bets on whether she can have a relationship with a male teacher. This is the debut full-length work by Hideo Nakata.
Release Date:1995-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Curse, Death & Spirit
This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie, a widowed mother brings her children to a house in the woods to help them forget the death of their father. While in the woods one of the children meets a ghost that wants more than just to be friends. The last movie tells the story of three teen-aged girls who go on vacation, only to find themselves at a haunted inn.
Release Date:1992-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Rinbu
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.
Release Date:1988-01-09
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice
A young virgin is captured by an abnormal couple. The girl is kept locked in a wooden box, and subjected to sexual torture and abuse. Loosely inspired by the real-life case of Colleen Stan.
Release Date:1985-09-07
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:9