Hello! The topic of this blog is “horror
movie of Japan”. I will talk about Japanese horror movie through 10 weeks. So, I’m
sorry for you if you are surprised by pictures and movies.
By the way, do you think of the most famous
horror movie of Japan? For example, “Ring”, “Juon”, “Honogurai-mizu-no-sokokara”,
“Tyakusin-ari”, etc... Those works are called J-horror. But, J-horror is not
traditional horror movies genre. This genre started to be made from 1990’s.
Before then, Japanese horror movies were not “J-horror” correctly.
A horror movie is one genre of movie. It
was made to give enjoyment feeling horror, fear, and terror for watcher. For
that purpose those movies can are called horror that including suspense, thriller,
splatter, panic and zombie. (But they are not always frighten for people like a
grade-B zombie movie.) Foreign horror movies have a lot of times to be made.
But in Japan, many movies of those genres are made.
Also, Japanese horror movies are not only
ghost stories. For example, you can watch an movie the subject of Japanese
monsters. One of the most famous movies is “Youkai-daisenso”. This is the movie
which has a scene of numerous strange-looking people acting in a group and strange
things. As resemble genre, you can watch the changing by an animal or person of
its original form
to a different visible form,
too. A raccoon dog and a fox assume another form, or a goblin cat changes form
of human and attacks people. Not only animals, a human often change into something.
“Transformed human series” is strange movie. This series were made by Toho Movie
Company in 1950’s. I will write about this in another week. This genre is
remade many times, so I think this is more popular.
Next week, I will talk about the history of
Japanese horror movie in detail. I would like to use more picture and movies.
But, I’m careful to not choose too much terrifying pictures. See you again :)!
(Souses)
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