The Japanese "School Strange Talk" series of movies is based on the novel of the same name by Tokimitsu Toki, the film takes the children as the protagonist to fight off the yokai as the main content, the method of repelling the yokai is recognized as a creative story, there is a common point is that there is always a ghost among the companions, the ghost here will not grow old, it will always be a child's appearance, the world in the mirror, the completely subversive life, is there really a ghost in Japanese schools?
1. School Ghost Story 1 School Ghost Story (1995)
Also known as: Gakkou no Kaidan / School Ghost / School Grotesque / Gakkô no kaidan
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
Writers: Sadoko Okusera
Starring: Hironobu Nomura / Masumi Toyama / Fumiaki Yone / Kazu Atsuta / Koichiro Tsukada / Many...
Type: Family
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Synopsis: Located in an ordinary town, Ginkgo Apricot Hill Primary School, like other schools, the strange talk about the old school building arouses the children's greatest curiosity. When the annual summer vacation arrives, Misha, a second-grade girl, returns to school with a drawing kit forgetting to bring her on her way home, but accidentally sees a soccer ball that jumps on her own. Misha followed the football into the old school building and never returned. Misha's sister, a 5th-grade student, Yashu, comes to the school to look for her, only to be locked up in the old school building with Shota, Kensuke, Aichi, and Kaori, who is in the 6th grade, desperate, and encounters a red monster suspended in the air. As night falls, all kinds of terrifying supernatural phenomena occur one after another around the teenagers...
2. School Ghost 2 School Ghost Story 2 (1996)
Also known as: Gakkô no kaidan 2 / Campus Grotesque 2
Starring: Nomura Hironobu / Nishida Naomi / Kyôko Kishida / Masakane Yonekura / Hironobu Nomura
Genre: Horror / Family / Fantasy
Synopsis: During the spring break, students at a primary school in Tokyo go to a temple camp under the guidance of Mr. Kirika Oda. The boys and girls laughed and quarreled, and the abbot of the monastery was kind and approachable. On April 4, the last day of the camp, as a reserved program for the camp, the night of the test game is naturally indispensable. The children prepare carefully, while the temple thief Asano kazunari takes advantage of the chaos to steal the treasure of the town mountain. A student enters a nearby elementary school and accidentally stops the gears of the bell tower. Darkness instantly envelops the hill, and Mami, Asi, and others who are busy crashing into the school building, as well as thieves, will encounter legendary evil spirits such as the Human-Faced Dog and Hanako. The Night of the Hundred Ghosts, the Night of Terror begins...
3. School Ghost 3 School Ghost Story 3 (1997)
Also known as: Campus Weird Talk 3
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Writers: Shusuke Kaneko / Man Shimada
Starring: Naomi Nishida / Hitomi Makigi / Yuki Maeda / Takuma Yoshizawa / Takeru Higa / Sarata...
Type: Horror
Synopsis: Makicho Elementary School has a tragic and terrifying legend that 20 years ago, a boy named Oshi was unable to participate in the school sports meeting because he was too ill to participate, and then after his death, the undead stayed in a mirror. It is said that at the following sports meeting, if any student accidentally falls, they may be taken away by Dazhi. After the new year's sports day, The boxing-loving Sensei Yatsuhashi accidentally flipped from the storage room to the mirror of Oshi, and before she knew it, she moved the mirror to her office. And all this happened to be seen by the girls Lan Zi and Akane. At the Games, the duo of Lan Zi and Liang accidentally fell. In order to prevent Dazhi from making trouble, Lan Zi, Akane, Liang, and the little fat man Zhenqin meet at the night diving school building. They will go on a magical adventure like never before...
4. School Ghost 4 School Ghost Story 4 (1999)
Also known as: Campus Grotesque 4 / Gakkô no kaidan 4
Starring: Shofukutei Matsunosuke / Koda Mayu / Harada Mieko / 广濑辉
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Horror
Synopsis: When the summer vacation of the new year arrives, two brothers and sisters, Heng and Yae, come to the uncle's house in the seaside town of Tomonozaki for a vacation. On their first day, they caught a rare typhoon. I heard relatives and children say that whenever a typhoon makes landfall, the undead in the sea will land on the shore. It seems to be an unfounded legend, but from this day on, the children in the town have seen strange scenes one after another, such as the ghosts of children hiding in the water playing hide-and-seek, and the death train to the sea... At the same time, children disappeared one after another. All of this reminds them of a long time ago, many years ago, when the town's primary school was built on the seashore. One day, several students were playing hide-and-seek in the empty school building, but who knew that they encountered an unprecedented tsunami, and the children and the school building were all buried at the bottom of the sea. It seems that these dead students still want to continue their unfinished game...