This scene from end of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring (aka Ringu, which is just the Japanese romanization of “Ring”), has been edited to show only Sadako Yamamura emerging from the well and right through the television screen. The odd shots of the male viewer watching it and dying of cardiac arrest have been cut out. If you want to see the face that he saw hidden behind that long, black hair, and feel you can handle it, see it after the jump ….but brace yourself. Probably not what you were expecting, but this is sort of the “treat;” then 31-year-old actress Rie Inô, who played Sadako. (Sadako’s unobstructed face was never shown in the movie.) Miss Inô has seemingly disappeared from the public eye since her appearance in this film, and she now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..?” file.

I suppose the “trick” is on those who didn’t click on the “more” link, concerned that they would see something like this if they did.

Happy Halloween.

Here’s Betty, played by America’s only Asian Scream Queen icon, Debra Lamb, meeting her demise in the 1990 comedy-horror film, The Invisible Maniac. For just about everything you’d like to know about Debra, see my June 2011 interview with her.

Serial killer Jason Voorhees isn’t a discriminating slayer, but to date, his only Asian female victim has been Eva Watanabe (played by a then-unknown Kelly Hu and first featured here), in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989). As you can see, Eva’s death sure wasn’t merciful, but at least it was “splatter-free.”

As I’ve stated before; when it comes to horror flicks with film school production, cheesy, blood-spurting gore effects, laughable scripts, and casts full of former and/or current AV and gravure idols, the Japanese are second to none. And as this is the Halloween season, it’s time to feature another one of these gems from Japan that contains most of the above. (I say most because none of the girls in this one is a JAV alumna.)

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead, has exactly what you’d expect it to have with a title like that, as evident by the film’s official website. However, since this site is only about beautiful Asian women, its female cast members are the focus here and I’ll leave the splatter descriptions and toilet humor for a future review at another site. Featured on the above poster is Arisa Nakamura, who plays the film’s heroine, Megumi.

Arisa Nakamura stars as Megumi …

…and when she’s not blowing away and kicking zombie ass …

…she has this horrified look on her face.

Mayu Sugano is Aya, who spends most of the film running from the zombies and eventually falls prey to the parasites within the zombified Maki, who’s played by …

…gravure idol Asana Mamoru. (First featured here)

Of all the ladies in the cast, 22 year-old Asana has the most impressive physical stats. At 171 cm tall with a 35-22-34 figure (depending on which profile you read), she’s become quite popular since making her modeling debut three years ago. She meets with an very undignified end fairly early in the film but later returns as one of the zombie ….uh, asses. More flattering photos of her can be found here ….and a few hundred other sites around the net, including this one.

Veteran AV and splatter film actress Asami (aka Asami Sugiura) has a small role as a featured zombie. Surprisingly small, since she’s already made quite a name for herself in this genre, with titles like RoboGeisha, Mutant Girls Squad, and Horny House of Horror under her belt.

Mayu Sugano and Arisa Nakamura in one of the film’s more “touching” scenes

Official Trailer. The DVD is available outside of Japan but (as of this writing) without English subtitles.

(Note: I’ve intentionally omitted one of the starring actresses from this post because she was only 16 at the time of her appearance in this film.)