Meaning of J-horror | Babel Free

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Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked by psychological tension and supernatural elements.

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Examples

“While everyone into J-Horror is gushing over the zombie mayhem that is Junk, I think Wild Zero is a far better movie.”

“I've given myself the task of tying modern feminism in Japan to the trend in the new wave of J-horror flicks . . . I'd love to be able to include MEMENTO MORI in the discussion, but . . . so I'm holding off ordering a copy.”

“Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.”

“Even a particularly high interest in contemporary Japanese cinema in Britain in the early 2000s – the time of the J-horror boom – didn’t result in distribution for Somai’s final features, Wait and See (1998) and Kaza-hana (2000).”

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