Westerners may not know the works of Ueda but will now the other source Maupassant, though perhaps only for his realist pearls, though he was cousni to Poe in horror. Consider the horla, its aire more terrifying than its manifestation. Now consider Ugetsu one of the most amazing films ever produced. Mizoguchi's Japanese source, Ueda's yomihon (moral history) Tales of Moon and Rain, no doubt lent ideas about witchdom and weather.
Humans are the real terror. Few of us wish to be ghosts but one character wished to join the samurai. The potter's kiln cannot redeem him, for he must make it to market. It is the women who pay, though it is 'nice' to think one can always be bought back. I must admit my powerlessness to describe the visuals. This is so much more than a folktale.
I am not one to fear that folktales will ever die. Long winter nights and starry skies are still our best canvasses. Therefore I can say without fear that this work shows how good it is that there is a new art of the silver screen.
Humans are the real terror. Few of us wish to be ghosts but one character wished to join the samurai. The potter's kiln cannot redeem him, for he must make it to market. It is the women who pay, though it is 'nice' to think one can always be bought back. I must admit my powerlessness to describe the visuals. This is so much more than a folktale.
I am not one to fear that folktales will ever die. Long winter nights and starry skies are still our best canvasses. Therefore I can say without fear that this work shows how good it is that there is a new art of the silver screen.
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