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Kaidan: Traditional Japanese Ghost Tales and Japanese Horror Film : : Japanese Movies at Saru. Dama. What is Kaidan?

In. Japanese, the term Kaidan (怪談) literally means “supernatural tale”. Edo Era (1. 60. 3 - 1.

A. D.) the term became widespread through a popular party. Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. Gathering of One Hundred. Supernatural Tales”). In the game participants would try to tell 1.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. With Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama. A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural. Ring 2 (リング2, Ringu 2) (1999), directed by Hideo Nakata, is the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring. Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki. Replicants, superheros, and reboots await you in our Fall Movie Guide. Plan your season and take note of the hotly anticipated indie, foreign, and documentary.

Of course, it. was very hard to remember 1. Kaidan emerged. These printed collections of Kaidan were. Japan. creating a new literary genre focusing specifically on supernatural stories and. Hyakumonogatari. events.

In order to meet the demand of the public’s increasing appetite for new. Japan. to find strange or unusual material. Gradually, Kaidan contained supernatural.

Japan. In many cases Kaidan also contain specific, historical references to major. These important events. Noh and Bunraku plays, making them. Kaidan audiences. For this reason, several. Kaidan collections are.

Edo Era and represent more ancient superstitions and legends. West three centuries later with the. Lafcadio Hearn’s “Kwaidan” in 1. Hearn was an incredibly. Japanese culture and. Western accounts of Japan during. His collection of traditional Japanese ghost tales entitled “Kwaidan”.

Japanese superstition to European and. American audiences. The different spelling of the term “Kwaidan” resulted from.

Romanize the Japanese word “Kaidan” for his book’s title. He decided. on “Kwaidan”, an English alternative which persists to this day. Classic Kaidan. in Japanese film. From the description above, you can see that the term Kaidan. Japanese ghost tales with specific. These stories have been told and retold. Japanese audiences are.

Unsurprisingly, these classic supernatural. Japanese horror in the modern. During the Edo Era a well known collections of Kaidan was.

Asai. Ryoi entitled “Nursery Tales” (Otogi Boko, 1. A. D.). It contained the story. Botan. Doro (“Peony Lantern”), perhaps originally based on a Chinese tale.

Japanese authors such as Sanyutei Encho. Lafcadio Hearn. Its widespread popularity resulted in its. Japanese cinema with a. A translated Western version was released much later with. Masaru Tsushima’s 1. The Haunted Lantern”.

In 1. 77. 6. author Akinari Ueda wrote a three story collection of Kaidan entitled Ugetsu. Monogatari upon which the. Kenji Mizoguchi is based. I’ve personally. reviewed Japanese horror films for many years and have yet to find a decent.

Mizoguchi’s historical depiction of Edo Era fear and superstition. If you haven’t already, this is a film you should definitely see for.

Perhaps the most beloved Kaidan tale is Yotsuya Kaidan is based on the nationally beloved story of. Chushingura, an actual historical episode constituting one of. Japan's favorite samurai stories. Better known in the West as the story of the “4. Ronin”, it involves an extensive plot of revenge.

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As early as 1. 74. Takeda. Izumo II wrote "Chushingura," originally a Bunraku play to memorialize the heroic samurai. In 1. 82. 5 Tsuruya. Nanboku wrote Yotsuya.

Kaidan, a (fictitious) ghost story taking place within the context. Chushingura. tale. The term "Yotsuya" refers to the geographic region of. Since then, this tale has been adapted to film in. Japanese. cinematic history. Several very good subtitled versions of this tale have been. DVD for quite a. while.

In 1. 96. 4 Masaki Kobayashi. Kwaidan” based specifically on Lafcadio Hearn’s 1. The film is an excellent depiction of four traditional tales. Hoichi the Earless” and.

Snow Woman” (Yuki Onna). This film. has been available to Western audiences in a subtitled version for quite a. Kaidan tales. One of the.

Edo Era Kaidan was a simple prison guard. A high ranking samurai named. Negishi Shizue began collecting the local ghost stories he encountered amongst. Japan. Over. time, his collection eventually contained more than 1. Japanese. Islands which he. Mimi Bukuro. or "Bag of Ears".

The title. of Negishi’s collection, Mimi. Bukuro, recently entered contemporary. Japanese mainstream with a long running series entitled Shin Mimi Bukuro Kaidan (“New Ghostly Tales: Bag of Ears”). This. popular 4- year series, broadcast on national Japanese television and made into. Japan in. the same manner Negishi’s original collection had, with the important.

Several. subtitled versions from this series have already been released in the West. Tales of Terror from Tokyo”. Watch The Devil Rides Out Online Facebook.

Contemporary Kaidan? By. definition, Kaidan are generally. Some popular alternative titles include. Honto ni Atta! (“True Happenings!”). Kowai Hanashi (“Scary Stories”). Under these, a huge wave of contemporary tales has been released, several of. West. Though all contemporary tales, each one.

Kaidan formula of a. Japanese superstitions and beliefs. Carved” (Kuchisake Onna) by.

Kôji Shiraishi is an example. Kaidan. It is. based on a well- known modern urban.

It is a story. which nearly all Japanese audiences are already familiar with but has been. Watch American Wedding Online Free 2016. Shiraishi. This is already. Director. Yoshihiro Hoshino’s 2. Cursed” tells a far less familiar contemporary. From start to finish this tale has a very modern feel to it, but all the. Kaidan elements are present if you are looking for them.  Even the genre- busting J- Horror films such as.

Hideo Nakata’s “Ring” or Takashi Shimizu’s “Ju- On” have been said to borrow. Kaidan formula. with their geographically- based ghost stories which begin as localized urban. Japanese. horror clearly has a long- running fascination with local stories of the supernatural. In many cases these recent. Kaidan while incorporating contemporary ghosts and victims.

Whether. or not the word “Kaidan” appears explicitly in the titles is perhaps no longer important. The critical element is that these films continue to convey Japan’s. Shinto- based perspective on the supernatural realm, malevolent. Author information: Scott David Foutz teaches courses in. World Religions and computer technology at a university in Chicago, Illinois.

USA. He is also webmaster of. Saru. Dama. com, a website dedicated to Japanese history, superstition, religion.