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The yeren (Chinese: 野 人, 'wild man') is a cryptid apeman reported to inhabit remote, mountainous regions of China, most famously in the Shennongjia Forestry District in the Hubei Province. Sightings of "hairy men" have remained constant since the Warring States Period circa 340 BC through the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), before solidifying ...
Academic Yuqiao Liu, in the International Journal of Role-Playing, noted that script murder games initially originated in the West with games, such as Death Wears White in 2013, that were translated into Chinese. [6] The genre "grew rapidly in China's role-playing game market" and the term jubensha (lit. ' scripted murder ') was coined then. [6]
Yaoguai (Chinese: 妖怪; pinyin: yāoguài) represent a broad and diverse class of ambiguous creatures in Chinese folklore and mythology defined by the possession of supernatural powers [1] [2] and by having attributes that partake of the quality of the weird, the strange or the unnatural.
Movies such as Mr. Vampire and its various spin-offs Mr. Vampire II, Mr. Vampire III, and Mr. Vampire IV became cult classics in comedy-horror and inspired a vampire craze in East Asia, including Taiwan and Japan. Today, jiangshi appear in toys and video games. Jiangshi costumes are also sometimes employed during Halloween.
In the science fiction horror game SOMA, there are reanimated corpse monsters who act like ghosts and are referred to as jiangshi. An insect ( praying mantis ) inspired version of the jiangshi appears in Sucker Punch Productions ' 2005 video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves in the heist episode A Cold Alliance, they are the only non- Chinese ...
Devotion (Chinese: 還願; pinyin: Huányuàn; lit. 'Fulfilling a vow') is a first-person psychological horror video game developed by Red Candle Games. It is set in Taiwan in the 1980s, with a majority of the game happening in an apartment complex in Taipei. The game also incorporates elements based on Taiwanese culture and folk religion.
A Chinese Ghost Story (Chinese: 倩女幽魂; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien-nü Yu-hun; lit. 'The Ethereal Spirit of a Beauty') is a 1987 Hong Kong horror film starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong and Wu Ma, directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark.
Nie Xiaoqian based on Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. The Enchanting Shadow (1960) A Chinese Ghost Story I (1987) A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991) A Chinese Ghost Story (2011) The Mr. Vampire Series. The Mr. Vampire Series by Ricky Lau films. Mr. Vampire I (1985) Mr. Vampire II (1986) Mr ...