Weird Stories

"Keidan" is based on the most widely circulated folk tales in Japan, and covers extremely rich contents, such as the resentful ghosts of the Heike family who were exterminated due to defeat in Japanese history, stories of fox fairies and willow spirits repaying kindness, and the secret story of ghosts redressing their grievances... The entire article is not available. There are gorgeous words, but it is filled with a strong unique flavor of traditional Japanese literature and a strong local flavor of Fuso. It is either humorous, warning, or allegorical. It is colorful and changeable, presenting an aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations. The horror atmosphere and cultural artistic conception constructed in the book "Ghost Story" have profoundly affected Japanese people's understanding of horror aesthetics. It was adapted into a movie in 1964, directed by Kobayashi Masaki. The film won the Cannes International Film Festival Jury Prize and was nominated for the Oscar* Foreign Language Film. Many classic scenes and passages in the book "Ghost Stories" are often seen in major Japanese movies, TV series, and animations. Even many famous writers' novels have more or less quoted allusions from it. It is a well-deserved classic of supernatural literature.