J-horror

English

Etymology

From J- (“Japanese”) +‎ horror.

Noun

J-horror (uncountable)

1. 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^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <8totmb$v8c$1@murdoch.harvard.net>:

     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^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2018-10-05, message-ID <_Ger7.48534$xB1.12794429@news1.rdc1.tn.home.com>:

     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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

     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).

See also

• J-pop