Chapter 46 Wraith

It is said that when the economic crisis happened, it was not only the golden age of movies, but also the golden age of horror movies, such as Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, and South Korea after the financial crisis in 1997.But Japan has never been bound by this rule. Regardless of the off-season or peak season, it will always launch horror films without any change, and most of them are haunted by grievances as the main clue. Six years after the movie "The Grudge", the sequels "The Grudge: The White Old Woman", " The Grudge: Black Girl was launched at the same time, and it is still related to the wraith--to understand Japanese horror movies, the wraith is a link that cannot be bypassed anyway.

In the concept of the Orientals, only a smooth passing away and a smooth death can pave the way for entering the next reincarnation. An overly miserable death, too strong resentment and nostalgia of the deceased will cause them to stop between the two worlds and become Wraiths, from time to time, come to the world of the living to make trouble and take revenge. The Japanese developed this concept into a system and continued to carry it forward.Most of their vengeful spirits are female, and the more representative "daughter of ugly time" became a vengeful spirit because she was abandoned. She has her own uniform, wearing red or white clothes, "hanging a bronze mirror on her chest, Wearing single-tooth wooden clogs, holding a wooden comb in his mouth, wearing a pig iron ring on his head, holding three candles representing the three fires of emotion, hatred and resentment, holding a hammer in one hand and a five-inch five-inch stick in the other. "Nail", casting spells everywhere, seeing young and beautiful women, especially dissatisfied, and must be ruthless.Other representative figures of female vengeful spirits include A Yan and A Ju, who encountered a catastrophic disaster during the war, and so on.

Sadako in Suzuki Koji's works, Kayako in Takashi Shimizu's film, the woman in red in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Scream", and the ghosts in "Girl with the Gap" and "Half-body Necromancer" are all modern examples of female grievances. Urban variants, they never change from their roots, they basically dress in the same way and act in the same way. To get rid of their scourge, the unified method is to get rid of their depression and resentment.Most of their grievances are related to love. It seems that "men don't have a good thing" is not just a common phrase used by senior staff in Tianxiang Building to educate newcomers who are new to the workplace. If there are rules for female grievances, the first one should be This is the first famous sentence in history.

Since all the ghost stories may eventually become a sad love story, some people joked that Abe Seimei, who appeases the ghost and eliminates visions, is actually playing the role of a psychoanalyst or an expert on gender relations. There are also male wraiths.It is based on the introduction of the most famous vengeful spirit in Japan, the unjustly died Prince Sara, who became an evil spirit and continued to cause trouble. The Japanese Heian period (400 years after 794 A.D.) on which the story is based. In the eyes of the Japanese, not only the war There are constant disputes, and it is also an era where resentful spirits are rampant, and Prince Sara is only the most well-known one among them.

The dynasties in which our ghost stories were the most prosperous were also the kind of "semi-chaotic times"-chaotic enough, but not to the point of burning oil, which can be tolerated, but it is almost unbearable. In such an era, standing on the brink of chaos and being stimulated by possible crises, we are more willing to imagine the coming of fear. There is probably a kind of stimulation of looking into the abyss without falling into it. If you really fall into it, you may not be so leisurely.