Skelet

Description: an integral part of their daily lives In the program Japanese filmmakers Hollywood producers and scholars talk about the traditions of horror in Japanese writing from the past which often featured demons hell vengeful spirits and other supernatural entities From the US in English and Japanese English subtitles The ubiquitous Japanese Horror boom is a film world phenomenon What is this fascination with J horror The origin of J Horror can be traced to the ghost story classics popularized during the Edo period known as Kwaidan Indigenous to Japan Kwaidan culture has a history of over 1000 years Belief in ghosts and demons has been deep rooted in Japanese folklore throughout history SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET will demystify the extraordinary thousand year history of the supernatural as experienced by the Japanese and celebrate this culture of horror that has always been an unrelenting part of Japanese life Coproduced by NHK Plug In2 This 90 minute English language documentary was a co production of NHK Television in Japan and a Canadian production company I actually appear in this film as myself along with film producer Roy Lee THE RING and other scholars and J Horror luminaries It is a weird film The thesis put forward by the producers which I totally agree with is that the J Horror boom of the 1990s and early 2000s was a modern iteration of the collections of ghost stories that were compiled by the likes of Lafcadio Hearn a contemporary folk mythology So to explore that idea they have an actor playing Lafcadio Hearn in a sort of mini biopic and then that leads into an Amicus like horror anthology film that turns some of Hearn s stories into short ghost movies which are then woven into a more traditional documentary about J Horror films that has talking heads like me and behind the scenes footage of the making of some of the films and faked behind the scenes footage of a made up film used as a generic example

Country:  Japanese

Released: 2010

Genre: Drama

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