Sometimes I wrote about Japanese horror movies in my blog. Actually because of hits like The Ring, and The Grudge, people in other countries are familiar with Japanese horror, and it's gloomy. wet , resentful, wet mood. :-)
There are two types of horror characters in Japan. One of them is called "YUREI". Basically they were human beings before they died, so that they have the shape of human body . They still haunt this world because of a grudge, some annoyance, a regret, or misundersting ( I am still living ). I think the English Ghost are slmost the same concept as the Yurei. Basically Yurei stories are so scary because of their realistic background story, but this Izakaya Yurei is a comedy movie, in which the Yurei appears as a main character. Taira no Masakado may be a Yurei story too.
Another type is the Yokai. I wrote about Bake neko and Zashiki Warashi before. The Yokai are a kind of creature like those found in Japanese folklore, Many of those stories tend to be comical.
KOWAI is a name for the yokai who appeared in the old folklore stories "絵本百物語". Natsuhiko Kyogoku rewrote one of these old stories to be featured as horror entertainment "KOWAI", and that novel has been remade into an movie for a pay channel wowow.
UEMON is one of whom it is said "Never dies and always revives" even though he is killed again and again. This time is third his beheading. In Edo, a rumor goes around. The day of Uemon's beheading, people have gathered to see him beheaded. Then....Here is the trailer.
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