NP: a super dooper scary movie

[Dave Monroe]

Interestingly (?), adapted from adaptations of
Japanese myth/legend/folklore/what have you by
turn-o'-the-century Irish Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn. 
Kwaidan (1904) = "ghost stories," no?  Let me know ...


http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext98/kwidn10.txt

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1210

Kodansha still has it in print as well, I believe.  On
the film front, see as well, e.g., Throne of Blood
(dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1957; cf. Macbeth) ...

http://musicboxtheatre.com/NowPlaying.html

... Onibaba (dir. Kaneta Shindo, 1960), Moju, The
Blind Beast (dir. Yasuzo Masumura, 1969, based on a
story by Edagawa Rampo), Dreams (dir. Akira Kurosawa,
1990) and The Mystery of Rampo (dir. Rintaro Mayuzumi
and Kazuyoshi Okuyama, 1994; for Edagawa Rampo, cf.
Edgar Allen ...).  And that's not even to mention the
more contemporary Japanese horror films of which the
U.S. Ring remake is a pale imitation at best ...

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> One of the best scary movies I've ever seen,
> "Kwaidan" ...

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