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Japanese films featuring ghosts. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. H. Japanese haunted house films (12 P) J. Ju-On films ...
School Ghost Stories; Gekijōban Zero; Gemini (1999 film) The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen; The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond; Ghost Cat of Yonaki Swamp; Ghost of Chibusa Enoki; Ghost of Saga Mansion; The Ghost of Yotsuya (Daiei film) The Ghost of Yotsuya (Shintoho film) Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo; Ghost Theater; Ghost Train (2006 film)
Yūrei from the Hyakkai Zukan, c. 1737. Yūrei are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western concept of ghosts.The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".
The TV series was originally a video software called "Shin Mimibukuro: Kihara Hirokatsu's Beautiful Women Ghost Stories" (2002), in which the original author Kihara tells ghost stories to the actress Miwa Hitomi, and was made into a TV drama with the cooperation of Suzuki Kosuke, the director of "Beautiful Women Ghost Stories".
A type of ghost that is bound to a specific place or situation. Jigoku The Japanese Buddhist version of Hell, where the freshly dead go after receiving judgment from Datsue-ba and Keneō. They pay for their sins there, then await reincarnation. Jikininki Ghosts of evil people, that have been condemned to eat human corpses. Jinmenju
One of the first major Japanese horror films was Onibaba (1964), directed by Kaneto Shindo. [10] The film is categorized as a historical horror drama where a woman and her mother-in-law attempt to survive during a civil war. [10] Like many early Japanese horror films, elements are drawn largely from traditional Kabuki and Noh theater. [9]
Dark Tales of Japan (日本のこわい夜, Nihon no Kowai Yoru) is a 2004 made-for-TV film anthology of five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus travelling on a long isolated mountain road.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's portrait of Oiwa.. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.