Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night(2010)
2010 · Toshikazu Nagae · 91 min
Koichi takes care of his sister, who has recently returned from a trip abroad in the United States as she is not well. While caring for her, he records evidence of ghosts in their home.
Horror · Thriller
6.0475 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
0/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night scares
Watching this feels like sitting in a quiet apartment waiting for something to shift just slightly out of the corner of your eye. The found-footage style keeps things grounded and intimate, with long stretches of ordinary home life before small, unsettling details creep in. There's little violence or blood here, it's more about a slow, creeping unease building inside a domestic space than big scares. Good for fans of quiet dread rather than loud jolts, though a few sudden moments do break the calm.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night rates psychological 4/5, visceral 2/5, gore 0/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 0 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 10 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 45 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, quiet found-footage build with small unsettling moments that only really erupts in the last stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5.
How scary is Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night rates 2/5 — moderately scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be restrained with gore and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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