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Top 10 Japanese Horror Films
Guess whoooo~? This post is one in a series leading up to Halloween. Check out the scary tag to see all of them! Nothing says Halloween quite like creepy little Japanese girls. Japanese horror films...
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Junji Ito: Master of Japanese Horror
No Koichi, don’t go! The Japanese are known for their manga; comics and animation are arguably a much bigger part of Japanese culture than other countries. Part of that means that there’s all types of...
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Japan’s Terrifying Manga
When I was a kid, I was over at a friend’s house and found a magazine with a bunch of comics in it. As I started looking through it, I found a horrifying comic. I’d never really seen a comic like it...
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Japan is home to many an urban legend, some of which end up being turned into popular horror films. The Slit-Mouthed Woman (Kuchisake-onna) is one such legend. Conveniently enough, it’s also one of the...
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Summer: Japan’s Ghost Season
If you happen to be a ghost hunter and you’re in Japan for the summer, there’s no need to worry about job security. Summer is Japan’s ghost season, and the month of August is when it peaks. August is...
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Kyoto Nagaoka Unsolved Murder Case Itching My Teeth
Sadly, the final episode of Attack on Titan was aired on my husband’s birthday, September 28th and the final episode of Breaking Bad followed the very next day. I know this is a lot to digest all at...
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Kashima Reiko, Just Another Reason Public Bathrooms are Terrifying
Halloween week is here! What better way to get you in the spirit than with a creepy Japanese ghost story? Well, Kashima Reiko is the Japanese urban legend of a ghost woman with no legs. Most often she...
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What Sadako Taught Me About Love: A Cross-Culture Comparison of Ringu and The...
Great. Another gasbag movie-nerd is gonna talk about the American version of The Ring and how it pales in comparison next to its seminal Japanese horror inspiration Ringu (or vice-versa). Maybe he’ll...
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Why Japan Laughs At Zombies
If you think about it, Japan is almost the perfect setting for zombie fiction: densely populated cities, sprawling subway system, small island nation—add a zombie outbreak and I’d watch that movie....
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Hell’s Bells: Gamers Steer Animal Crossing up a Silent Hill
There’s no wrong way to play Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which, depending on the kind of person you are, can be extremely frustrating or tremendously liberating. In this Nintendo 3DS game, you are the...
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The Skeletal Structure of Japanese Horror Fiction
Mankind has been telling scary stories ever since we decided to start telling stories at all. It only makes sense—a lot of scary crap happens in life. The horror genre was born from folklore and oral...
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Japanese Horror Fiction: Emotions Unearthed
The New Year is bright and shiny and new and you’re probably thinking about your resolution to study more kanji, while Halloween is far in the rear-view mirror. Well, I’m firmly of the belief that...
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