DARK TALES OF JAPAN

Dark Tales Of Japan is a 2004 Japanese horror film. It comprises 5 different unconnected short stories directed by five notable Japanese directors.

The Spiderwoman: directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura; starring Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yoko Maki, Anri Sugihara, and Kanako Fukaura.
In this first short film, a journalist is tracking down a legend of a woman who after an encounter with a spider has become a horrible creature with a growing hunger for human flesh. Without knowing it, the young man will be closer than anybody else to the horrific creature.

Crevices: directed by Norio Tsuruta; starring Shunsuke Nakamura, Shigenori Yamazaki, and Kyusaku Shimada.
While visiting the apartment of a friend that's gone missing, a young man finds that every crack and crevice inside the apartment has been sealed with red tape. After checking in the computer and a video camera, it seems that his friend suffered some kind of nervous breakdown and was completely obsessed with the idea that someone was watching him. It will be up to the young man to find out the truth about his friend's disappearance and the dark secret of the apartment.

The Sacrifice: directed by Kôji Shiraishi; starring Yû Yamada, Moro Morooka, and Megumi Asaoka.
The third story is about a young woman who after receiving a message has to return to her rural home town outside Tokyo; it seems that her mother has fallen sick and wants to see her. Once there, she finds out that her troubles with a stalker might have followed her to her family home. Haunted by a scary childhood memory and the growing fear of the obsessed co-worker who is stalking her, she wakes in the middle of the night only to discover a terrifying truth about her family.

Blonde Kwaidan: directed by Takashi Shimizu; starring Tetta Sugimoto.
A Japanese businessman has to visit Hollywood, California as part of his job. It seems that he has an obsession with natural blond white women. Unfortunately for him, the house he has to stay at is haunted by a blond woman.

Presentiment: directed by Masayuki Ochiai; starring Teruyuki Kagawa and Hijiri Kojima.
The fifth and last tale is about a Japanese businessman who after stealing sensitive data from his employer, boards the elevator to make his escape. When the elevator stops, three unusual passengers are already inside it. The three persons mysteriously display a deep knowledge about himself and what he has juts done. When the elevator suddenly breaks down, a real nightmare begins. The time passes and things become really creepy inside the elevator with his strange company.