Kowabana in order

Each volume contains three to five episodes of approximately 45 to 60 minutes each. Some volumes also include special features such as ghost submissions. 17 films, 15h 45m in all, in release order.

Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana
2011 · 54 min
Psychic experiences, bizarre phenomena, and the darkness that eats away at people's hearts... With the keyword "scary" in mind, this film recreates horror stories collected from all over Japan, focusing on the inner lives of the people who experienced them!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Ghost Hotel
2012 · 65 min
A new type of horror omnibus drama that focuses on the fears that creep into the crevices of the mind that sprout in everyday life. A letter from his grandmother arrives for Hiroshi, a prep school student, asking him to find a place that holds memories of his deceased friend.
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Nightmare Weather
2012 · 46 min
This horror omnibus focuses on the fears that creep into the crevices of the mind that sprout in everyday life. A young boy is left alone by his mother and leads a lonely life. He is about to cry when he drops some coins for lunch, when a beautiful woman in the next room calls out to him.
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Dark Room
2012 · 50 min
Chika moved to Tokyo over her parents' objections and rented a room from her landlord. Chika was creeped out by the unfriendly and sometimes even hostile landlady, but one day a trivial incident leads to a trouble with her. One day, a small matter causes trouble with her, and over the next few days, she experiences a night of shivers.... Yukari has a crush on her tutor Miyashita. She has a crush on her tutor, Miyashita, but his girlfriend has been ill for a long time. When a classmate hears about it from Yukari, he says, with a light heart, "If she dies, Yukari could be his girlfriend... Haruka, an office worker, forgets something important at her office late at night. The company is an abandoned building that is rumored to be haunted. Unable to enter the building alone, she tries to find someone to help her and discovers a name in the address book of her cell phone that she had almost forgotten...
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Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories
2012 · 45 min
A number of terrifying experiences unfold in a school setting! A mysterious transfer student comes to a high school girl who is aiming for a contest. In "Koisuru Jinbutsu Modeki (Human Body Model in Love)," a girl on the class committee tries to stop a prank on a rag doll in the science lab. Three stories, including "Ghost Club Members," which depicts an apparition that occurred in the art room !
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Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 2
2012 · 40 min
A number of terrifying experiences unfold in a school setting! Someone's shadow casts a shadow over a student dozing in the classroom, "Don't look back". Invisible people attack a man who lives alone; "Female Death Society". A high school girl who loves to read is choosing a book as usual, "Book Ghost Story" and three other stories!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Stories from the Studio
2012 · 45 min
This is the sixth installment in the horror omnibus series from director Kazuhiro Yokoyama of This time, he recreates a true story of horror that occurred in the mass media industry.
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Midnight Ward
2012 · 45 min
The setting of this classic horror drama is a "hospital"! There, a number of shivering anecdotes are spun out!
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Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 3
2012 · 57 min
A number of terrifying experiences take place in a school! The mysterious incident "The Day You Were There" at a closed-down alma mater, "The Day of the Dead" in which an older sister in despair after losing her only living relative, her younger sister, and a former teacher standing in a school building just before it was demolished. A former teacher stands in a school building just before its demolition. What is the abominable event he had sealed away ?
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Beauties Collection
2013 · 100 min
This is the most beautiful horror entertainment with 6 episodes featuring selected idols from the popular horror series "Shiver Short Shorts Kowabana", plus a newly shot episode starring Haruka Obara!
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Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 4
2013 · 51 min
A number of terrifying experiences take place in a school! In "Toilet Hair", a girl in a school uniform talks to a stranger in the school bathroom. When she goes to school one day, she sees a girl who looks exactly like the girl she saw in her dream in "MAGIC" and 4 other stories.
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Woman
2013 · 48 min
In a horror genre where psychic images, interviews/documents, and fakementaries are all competing with each other, this is the latest in a series of authentic drama-based horror omnibus films, This is the latest in a series of omnibus horror films based on authentic dramas! The most terrifying shivers in the history of the series will attack you! It's not just spirits that are scary!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Curse
2013 · 54 min
Don't stop at "scary"! For those who want to experience the true essence of a ghost story with gusto!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Queens Collection
2013 · 89 min
Kowabana series horror queen best selection! A masterpiece selection of episodes from each film in the series starring idols who have been active in gravure and other media!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Woman Kyō
2014 · 47 min
The monster medium who appeared in the previous film is back again! Cunning and greedy, is this woman a rare impostor or a real medium?
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: It's Behind You
2014 · 47 min
Dramatization of an original story by Aruji Kuroki, a young and talented ghost story writer!
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Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: The Reserved Seat of the Dead
2017 · 62 min
One night, he wandered into a seedy bar in a small building. The frightening and bittersweet experience he had there changed his life.... The crevices in the heart that sprout in everyone's daily life... This is an omnibus horror film with a new sense of horror, in which a variety of stories unfold by capturing the horrors that creep into the cracks in everyone's daily life!
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Frequently asked questions

What order should I watch Kowabana in?

1. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana (2011), 2. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Ghost Hotel (2012), 3. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Nightmare Weather (2012), 4. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Dark Room (2012), 5. Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories (2012), 6. Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 2 (2012), 7. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Stories from the Studio (2012), 8. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Midnight Ward (2012), 9. Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 3 (2012), 10. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Beauties Collection (2013), 11. Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 4 (2013), 12. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Woman (2013), 13. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Curse (2013), 14. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Queens Collection (2013), 15. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: Scary Woman Kyō (2014), 16. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: It's Behind You (2014), 17. Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana: The Reserved Seat of the Dead (2017).

How long does it take to watch all of Kowabana?

About 15h 45m across 17 released films.

Do any Kowabana films have post-credit scenes?

None are listed on TMDB.