J-horror en · NOUN
Etymology
From J- (“Japanese”) + horror.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked by psychological tension and supernatural elements.
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.
2001 September 23, TetsuwanATOM, “Re: Memento Mori”, in alt.asian-movies (Usenet), retrieved 05 Oct 2018, message-ID <_Ger7.48534$xB1.12794429@news1.rdc1.tn.home.com>:While everyone into J-Horror is gushing over the zombie mayhem that is Junk, I think Wild Zero is a far better movie.
2000 November 1, Latte Thunder, “Wild Zero - More Japanese Zombies!!”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 05 Oct 2018, message-ID <8totmb$v8c$1@murdoch.harvard.net>: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.
2018 June 7, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024: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).
2021 December 13, Josh Slater-Williams, “Where to begin with Shinji Somai”, in British Film Institute, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024: