Japanese Horror
differences japan and foreign horror
This page we discover the horror difference between Japan and other countries and tell the attraction about Japanese horror from dimension of kinds of ghost.
This paragraph tells attraction of Japanese ghost. As Japanese ghost, “yokai” is well-known. “Yokai” has a meaning that causes difference in nature.
he difference between Japanese yokai and foreign ghost is radical problem.
Yokai is born from prodigy and weird thing beyond human understanding. On the other hand, ghost is a fatality that can’t attain for gall or regret.
Folloings are typical examples of Yokai. We raise three kinds of “yokai”.
RESEARCH
At first, we researched differences in characteristics of the ghosts appears in the Japanese horror through questionnaire survey in twitter. The table 1 shows that the opinions of the people about difference between Japanese and horrors in other countries.
The result indicates that items like “whether it is visible” and “sound effect, volume of sound” can be identified as difference of horror in Japan and other countries. Actually, while “zombie” appear in foreign movies, invisible ghosts often appear in the Japanese movies. In addition, the movies of foreign continuously unfold action situation.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "YOKAI" and GHOST
(1) Oni
So menacing looks!
(2) Nine-tailed-fox
It disguise as beautiful woman, but her true character is fox has nine tails.
(3)Tengu
It has long-nose.
These are bad character, but every “yokai” has an interesting part, such as one-eye, stretching neck and so on.