Asia has given world cinema such luminaries as Akira Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray.
But in recent decades, Asia's prolific directors have made meaningful contributions to films of a more spooky variety.
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Many of the movies have set box office records, won critical acclaim, and in some cases received the highest possible accolade: A Hollywood remake.
Here is a list of some of the scariest films made in Asia in the past 25 years with a chance for you to pick your scariest film at the end of the list:
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)
Plot: After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old boy she didn't commit, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the real culprit.
Country: South Korea
Box office: $23.81 million
Director: Park Chan-wook
The Ring (1998)
Plot: The ghost of a brutally murdered girl kills all those who watch a weird video after seven days.
Country: Japan
Box office: $13.31 million
Director: Hideo Nakata
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Plot: A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer.
Country: South Korea
Box office: $12.77 million
Director: Jee-won Kim
Dark Water (2002)
Plot: A mother and her six-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is covered in water.
Country: Japan
Box office: $3.56 million
Director: Hideo Nakata
Shutter (2004)
Plot: A young couple discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can't escape your past.
Country: Thailand
Box office: $3.09 million
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom
Pizza (2012)
Plot: A pizza delivery boy lands in a mysterious situation that results in a dramatic change in his life.
Country: India
Box office: $2.29 million
Director: Karthik Subbaraj
The Eye (2002)
Plot: A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she starts to see ghosts.
Country: Hong Kong/Singapore
Box office: $1.8 million
Director: The Pang Brothers
Three... Extremes (2004)
Plot: An Asian cross-cultural compilation of three separate films: Dumplings, Cut and Box.
Country: Hong Kong/South Korea/Japan
Box office: $509,486
Director: Fruit Chan/Park Chan-wook/Takashi Miike
*Sources: IMDB, Box Office Mojo
Audition (1999)
Plot: In an attempt to find a new wife, a widower takes up a friend's offer to hold a special audition. But the girl he picks is not all that she appears to be...
Country: Japan
Box office: $131,926
Director: Takashi Miike
The Maid (2005)
Plot: A maid arrives from the Phillipines to work for a mysterious Singaporean family just in time for the Chinese ghost month.
Country: Singapore
Box office: NA
Director: Kelvin Tong