12 Facts About Japanese horror

Japanese horror is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror.

Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror, tension building, and supernatural horror, particularly involving ghosts (yurei) and poltergeists.

Forms of Japanese horror fiction include artwork, theater, literature, film, anime and video games.

Origins of Japanese horror can be traced back to the horror fiction and ghost stories of the Edo period and the Meiji period, which were known as kaidan.

Japanese horror was a painter during the Edo period famous for his block prints of Mt Fuji.

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Japanese horror culture has seen increased focus on family life, where loyalty to superiors has been de-emphasized.

Ring, whose release in Japan roughly coincided with The Blair Witch Project in the United States, helped to revitalise the genre by taking a more restrained approach to Japanese horror, leaving much of the terror to the audience's imagination.

Many of the original directors who created these Asian Japanese horror films have gone on to direct the English-language remakes.

Japanese horror described Godzilla as "the most masterful of all the dinosaur movies" because "it made you believe it was really happening.

These graphic novels usually deal in historical tropes of Japanese horror that are based on Buddhism rokudo and the frightening notion of fluidity, that one can move between these realms unintentionally, like moving between heaven, earth and hell, and non-duality, that the realms are intermingled.

Some popular Japanese horror films are based on these manga, including Tomie, Uzumaki, and Yogen.

Examples of Japanese horror based video games include Ghost House, Castlevania, Silent Hill and Fatal Frame.