The Great Horror Family
TV ShowEnded

The Great Horror Family

5.0 / 10
2004
1 season
13 episodes
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Horror! The Cursed Imawano Family

    03-10-200430m

    The Imawano family move into their new home and soon discover that it's no ordinary house. The whole family start to see and hear strange things, especially Kiyoshi. What is behi...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Horror! The World Osamu Doesn't Know About

    10-10-200430m

    Kiyoshi is coming to terms with his new psychic abilities and seems to have a new room-mate, the ghost Asami. The rest of the family discuss their various spooky encounters but co...

  • Ep 3

    3.Horrifying! Kiwa's Tea Drinking Friend

    17-10-200430m

    When Kaoruko (an old friend of Grandmother Kiwa) comes to visit, Kiyoshi immediately suspects that she's far from being the frail old lady she appears to be. With the rest of the...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Horror! The Cursed Portrait

    24-10-200430m

    Osamu causes more problems for the family when he discovers a peculiar antiques shop (with an equally peculiar owner) and brings home two items - a cursed portrait that likes a goo...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Horror! The Alien You Prefer

    31-10-200430m

    Fed up of being mocked by the rest of his family because he can't see ghosts, Osamu decides he'll impress them by summoning a UFO. However, when his plan actually works and a UFO...

  • Ep 6

    6.Ghost Story! Red Light Spirit Tsuyako

    07-11-200430m

    The ghost of a prostitute, Tsuyako, has been murdering male virgins! Kyoshi's Grandfather, Fuchio, who seems to know something of this woman's past, manages to stop her from makin...

  • Ep 7

    7.Grotesque! The Cursed Gothic Lolita

    14-11-200430m

    Kyoko is troubled by repeated dreams of a girl dressed in black calling her a traitor. She's even more troubled when the same girl joins her class at school! The girl, Satsuko, c...

  • Ep 8

    8.True Story! Afterlife of Honor

    21-11-200430m

    Fed up with life in a haunted house (and finding ghost hair on his bedroom floor), Kyoshi decides to run away from home. After being beaten up and mistaken for a corpse, he ends u...

  • Ep 9

    9.Escape! The Imawano Family and the Cursed Maze

    28-11-200430m

    Inspired by a TV show they saw, the family have a light-hearted discussion about remodelling the house. When a ghostly engineer arrives the following morning to survey the house,...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Horror! Kiyoshi's Cursed Countdown

    05-12-200430m

    The Men in Black, with the help of Osamu, continue to investigate spatial anomolies. Meanwhile, Kiyoshi starts to see visions telling him that he will die in 4 days! Fortunately...

  • Ep 11

    11.Extreme! Kiyoshi's Family and the World Over There

    12-12-200430m

    Powerless to prevent his foretold death, Kiyoshi finds himself on the bank of the Sanzu river with fellow ghosts Asami and Hachikuro. Asami is delighted that she and Kiyoshi can n...

  • Ep 12

    12.Bizarre! ...the original Great Family

    19-12-200430m

    When Kiyoshi's idea to walk up-stream doesn't quite go as planned, he washes ashore 300 years in the past and meets a family that seem very familiar to him. The fraudulant exorcis...

  • Ep 13

    13.A Bizarre! ...and Great Family

    26-12-200430m

    The Men in Black, the priests, the Imawano family and assorted spirits, aliens and demons all assemble in the 'room that will not open' (now opened) to witness the fulfillment of t...

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