Hideo Nakata Filmography

Born:: July 19, 1961
Occupation:: Director
Biography:: The most phenomenally successful Japanese horror film ever produced, Hideo Nakata's Ringu spawned no less than a television series, two sequels, and an American remake during the four short years following it's original release. In addition to igniting a trend of what many now refer to as...Read More

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L: Change the World

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A detective has a tight deadline to crack a case that could claim the lives of millions in this crime drama, a spin-off from the Desu Notu (Death Note) franchise. L (Kenichi Matsuyama) is a cop with a serious sweet tooth and a fondness for gadgets who has been handed a very important assignment. A Read More

2008
Kaidan

Crew: Director

2007
The Ring Two

Crew: Director

Actors: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole

Synopsis: A terrifying legacy haunts a single mother in this sequel to the frightening box-office hit The Ring. Hoping to leave their terrifying experiences in Seattle behind them, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son, Aidan (David Dorfman), move to the small town of Astoria, OR, where Rachel takes a job Read More

3/18/05
Last Scene

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yumi Aso, Kumiko Aso, Johnny Yoshinaga, Mayumi Wakamura

Synopsis: An elderly actor makes a belated effort to revive his career in this sentimental drama. In 1965, Ken Mihara (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an young leading man whose career is on the rise after a series of increasingly successful movies in which he co-stars with actress Keiko Yoshino (Yumi Aso). Read More

2003
Dark Water

Crew: Director

Actors: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

Synopsis: Following up on his horror smash hits Ringu and Ringu 2, Hideo Nakata directs this supernatural psychological drama about a middle aged woman struggling to cling to her sanity. Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) is the midst of a nasty divorce with her thuggish, abusive husband over the custody of Read More

2002
Ringu 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyoko Fukada, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: Hideo Nakata follows up on the phenomenal success of Ringu -- the highest grossing Japanese film up to that point -- with this effort. In the previous film, Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) was a television reporter doing a piece on a videotape that seemed to kill those who watched it. Not long after Read More

1999
Chaos

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Following up on the wild success of Ring and Ring 2, Hideo Nakata takes a break from spine-chilling horror to direct his labyrinthine postmodern crime thriller based on a book by Shogo Utano. After wealthy businessman Takayuki Komiyama (Ken Mitsuichi) finishes lunch with his beautiful wife Saori Read More

1999
Ringu

Crew: Director

Actors: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yoichi Namata

Synopsis: In this psychological horror story from Japan, a legend circulates among teenagers that if one watches a certain video at a certain time of the night, the telephone will ring right afterward, and one week later, you will die. When Masami (Hitomi Sato) tells her friend Imako this story, she scoffs Read More

1998
Joyurei

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hideo Nakata, director of the Japanese horror phenomenon, Ringu, made his feature debut with Joyurei, or Ghost Actress, also known as Don't Look Up. Nakata worked from a screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi, who also wrote the screenplay for Ringu 2. On the set of a dark WWII drama, a young director Read More

1996
The Spirit of the Dead

Crew: Director

1992
The Cursed Doll

Crew: Director

1992
The Haunted Inn

Crew: Director

1992