J-Horror response


This week I read Kwaidan from Koizumi Yakumo, I heard about this book a long time ago form a friend, she told me it is the Japanese of the 聊斋志异 (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio).
   
After reading it I felt even Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and Kwaidan based two different cultural backgrounds but the concept is extremely similar. In both of the Books is a collection of the folk legend based on the superstitions. Both books portrait the “Monster” as a spirit of nature, and the story is always about karma or breaking the taboo. Therefore, in this response I want to compare and contrast the female ghost character in both of the novels, In Kwaidan there is two story about female ghost  痴女纲目and 毁约 (I read both books in Chinese so I’m not sure with the translation) the common between this 2 female ghost is they were in a relationship of marriage with a human male, they become to a ghost they were abandoned or betrayed, their hate gives them the power to hurt. Same with Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The female ghosts in both novels are not portraited as a monster, they are just like a human or used to be one, they have all the feeling we have. In both of the novel the female ghost kind of stand at the moral high ground, they only give their revenge to the people who against morality.

In some way both of the novels were influenced by the religion, there exist is not just to scare people, their existence is a warning to people if you break your promise or taboo what kind of consequences you will be facing, with relates to the casual cycle and karma in the religion.




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