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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 ...
The Ghost of Yotsuya (東海道四谷怪談, Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1959 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. [1] It was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of the play.
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".
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The film was released in Japan in 2005. [4] Since its release, distribution of the film outside of Japan has been limited. [4] On June 1, 2017, it was made available for streaming in Canada on the video on demand service Shudder. [5] The film was released on Blu-ray through Arrow Video as part of their J-Horror Rising Box set. [6]
The film was shot at the Inba Marsh in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Onibaba was inspired by the Shin Buddhist parable of yome-odoshi-no men (嫁おどしの面, bride-scaring mask) or niku-zuki-no-men (肉付きの面, mask with flesh attached), in which a mother, disgusted by her daughter's affair with a priest, used a mask to pose as a demon and frighten the girl into believing that she was cursed.
All Japanese ghosts are called yūrei, and there are several types within this classification. However, a given ghost may be described by more than one of the following terms, as the following terms are used differently depending on which elements of a ghost's characteristics are focused on:
Ju-On: The Grudge is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.It is the third installment in the Ju-On series and the first to be released theatrically (the first two being direct-to-video productions).