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If youre not familiar with the horror anime subgenre, then Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is a good place to start.

There are a great many classic Japanese films that werent directed by Akira Kurosawa. Here are just a few of them.

“The books I try not to pick up, and don’t want to read, are ones I wrote myself and published in the past,” says the Japanese writer, whose new book is “Novelist as a Vocation.” “Though it does make me want to do better with my next work.”

From AUDITION to zombie metafiction. Wired women, vengeful spirits and other transmissions.

Feudal Japan was a time of warriors, ghosts and wandering samurai. The turbulence has inspired some of the country’s greatest filmmakers, from Kurosawa to Miyazaki.

Get ready for Halloween with this selection of 13 classic Japanese horror movies. From ghosts and ghouls to body snatchers from hell.

25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News On 8/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time immemorial for recording information, teaching morality, and untangling some of lifes greatest mysteries. Stacker surveyed film history and compiled a list of movies across decades, countries, a...