Yonimo Osoroshii Nihon Mukashibanashi

(The Truth of Japanese Fairy Tales)

Type

OVA

Episodes

3

Status

finished

Ep.Length

18 Min

Rating

PG

Aired

2000-01-01

Season

Winter 2000

Description:

The horrible truths behind Japanese Fairy Tales from the ancient times are finally revealed! This title includes three episodes: "The Monkey and the Crab", "Click-Crack Mountain" and "Urashima and the Kingdom beneath the Sea". (Source: Official Website)

Alternative Titles:

世にも恐ろしい日本昔話, Otona no Douwa, Otona no Dowa, Otono no Douwa, Otono no Dowa, Adult Fairytales, Adult Fairy Tales

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Yami Shibai 2

(Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 2)

6.26

Description:

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off rumors and urban legends throughout the history of Japan. (Source: Crunchyroll)
Type

TV

Episodes

13

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2014-07-07

Kyougoku Natsuhiko: Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari

(Requiem from the Darkness)

6.93

Description:

Tired of writing riddles for children, Yamaoka Momosuke plans on gathering spooky and gruesome stories and publishing them in an anthology called Hyakumonogatari ("One Hundred Tales"). While researching these old myths and legends he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths...and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, but he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing... (Source: ANN)
Type

TV

Episodes

13

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2003-10-04

Yami Shibai

(Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories)

6.88

Description:

The mysterious, yellow-masked Storyteller is a man whose true name and origin are both unknown. He appears at dusk where children gather and recites sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends, to which his young audience eerily intakes. However, the Storyteller is no ordinary teller of tales. He incorporates a kamishibai, a traditional paper-scrolling device, to add visuals to his already demented narration. A series of short horror stories, Yami Shibai begins with a bachelor who, after moving into a new apartment, immediately starts sensing a malevolent glare being pressed into him. A single talisman rests on his ceiling, but he has no way of knowing it is one of the few safeguards that separate him from a bottomless pit of suffering. Each story is more terrifying, more appalling, and more sickening than the last as the Storyteller's audience find themselves being sucked into the vicious world of his words. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Type

TV

Episodes

13

Ep.Length

4 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2013-07-15

Yonimo Osoroshii Grimm Douwa

0

Description:

The truth behind the well-known Grimm's Tales is cruel and full of blood and lust! Episode 1: "Hansel & Gretel": Two brothers lost in the woods were actually criminals... Episode 2: "The Blue Beard": The true character of the Blue Beard was a cannibal who was unable to tolerate his wife's adultery. Episode 3: "Cinderella": Actually Cinderella had abnormal affections toward the prince.
Type

OVA

Episodes

3

Ep.Length

20 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2000-01-01

Inaka Isha

(Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor)

6.35

Description:

A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything. (Source: ANN)
Type

movie

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

21 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2007-10-02

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