A DEAD WOMAN, HER FACE disfigured by poisoned makeup, returns to take revenge on the husband who murdered her. A samurai is beheaded in a failed rebellion, his head put on display in a town square, where it bellows for the return of his body. In the wake of a nobleman’s exile and death, pestilence and disease spread throughout a kingdom, as rainstorms flood the cities, lightning strikes the palace, and the emperor’s sons die, one by one.
The Japanese tradition of ghost stories is rich with tales of yurei, roughly translating to “dim spirits”—among them, the onryō, or “vengeful spirits.” They recur again and again in the Japanese narrative tradition, from ancient poetic epics, to stirring theatrical productions, to modern, international horror blockbusters…
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