Movies Like Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Kasane Swamp

If you liked Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Kasane Swamp (1979), a tv movie and horror movie directed by Junji Kurata, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
2
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007)
★ 7.9/10Also tv movie and drama
When rogue shinigami Ryuk leaves his Death Note in the human world, he has no idea how far the one who finds it will take his new-found power. With the Death Note in hand, brilliant high school student Light Yagami…
3
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)
★ 7/10Also tv movie and drama
A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.
4
Locke & Key (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and drama
Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.
5
Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie and drama
L's successor must ponder L's defeat if he hopes to succeed where his famed predecessor failed. At the headquarters of the SPK, he calls upon the Japanese task force to declare war on Light. A recap of Death Note…
6
Hello (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie
An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her…
7
The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and tv movie
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…
8
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
9
If There Be Thorns (2015)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and drama
Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and…
10
A Sister's Secret (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie
Twin sisters secretly swap places on their thirtieth birthday. The harmless prank becomes a nightmare when one of them is murdered.
11
Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and tv movie
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…
12
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movie and drama
Aurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill.
13
Roadkill (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and tv movie
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
14
Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and drama
Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all.
15
Megaboa (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and tv movie
On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.
16
The Bad Seed (2018)
★ 7/10Also horror and tv movie
A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
17
TalhotBlond (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
18
The Neighbor in the Window (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie
A suburban wife finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
19
Imprint (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and tv movie
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
20
A Warning to the Curious (1972)
★ 7/10Also tv movie and horror
Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown…