J-horror
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English
Etymology
From J- (“Japanese”) + horror.
Noun
- Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked by psychological tension and supernatural elements.
- 2000 November 1, Latte Thunder, “Wild Zero - More Japanese Zombies!!”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <[email protected]>:
- While everyone into J-Horror is gushing over the zombie mayhem that is Junk, I think Wild Zero is a far better movie.
- 2001 September 23, TetsuwanATOM, “Re: Memento Mori”, in alt.asian-movies (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <[email protected]>:
- I've given myself the task of tying modern feminism in Japan to the trend in the new wave of J-horror flicks . . . I'd love to be able to include MEMENTO MORI in the discussion, but . . . so I'm holding off ordering a copy.
- 2018 June 7, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian:
- Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.
- 2021 December 13, Josh Slater-Williams, “Where to begin with Shinji Somai”, in British Film Institute:
- Even a particularly high interest in contemporary Japanese cinema in Britain in the early 2000s – the time of the J-horror boom – didn’t result in distribution for Somai’s final features, Wait and See (1998) and Kaza-hana (2000).