watch: ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
Women as Ghosts in Japanese movies and Tradition
The origins of Japanese Horror
We’ve just watched one of the classics of Japanese Cinema – Ugetsu.
But this comes from a long tradition of Female Ghost Stories. For this essay, you are to EXPLORE the role of Female Ghosts in Japan, and what this might say about the role of women in general as they are used for the surface on which to explore gender relations in modern day Japan.
Your reference materials include watching another movie – Either Masaki Kobayashi’s 1965 Kwaidan (4 ghosts stories), or Nichiei Shinsha’s Kuroneko (1968), or the early horror film Ghost of Oiwa (1961).
Analyze how women are portrayed, why they are vengeful, why they are to be feared, and WHY this has currency in the 1960s? In Contrast, who are the villians in US horror?
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