The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit". Alternative names include Bōrei (亡霊), meaning ruined or departed spirit, Shiryō (死霊), meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing Yōkai (妖怪) or Obake (お化け)...
The character is a knife-wielding serial killer whom the narrator meets in the second novel and describes as his own mirror image. His name is so ridiculous that even other characters in the book find it ridiculous. I looked up the kanji and the first kanji can be read as "rei", which...
Synopsis:Two 20-year-old women called Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu meet for the first time on a bullet train to Tokyo. While they have the same name, the pair couldn’t be more different in their personalities. The excitable Nana Osaki is a bubbly character who envisions moving in with ...
Takashi Miike is a jaw-droppingly productive director, with over 100 titles to his name since 1991. Although he makes movies in a wide variety of genres, he shot to worldwide fame in 1999 with “Audition,” and has been celebrated as a master of Japanese “new wave” horror ever since....
This isn’t a mystery in the conventional sense where we happen upon a dead body and the detectives look for clues to unravel the killer. We already know who died and who killed him and who disposed of the body. What I found interesting was the way Higashino goes through the detectives ...
Jimmu Tennō (the posthumous reign name by which he is generally known) is said to have been a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu through her celestial grandson Ninigi, whom she sent down to govern earth, and he married a descendant of the storm god Susanoo. Despite Jimmu’s importance...
"The tranche of grilled sea bass with salty crisp skin alongside leaves of pungent kimchi – Korean fermented cabbage – is a killer combination." Jay Rayner - The Guardian “The pork belly hirata was wobbly, decadent and glorious and arrived with a mustard miso.” ...
Anime has been one of Japan’s greatest entertainment exports, with Hayao Miyazaki’s films (Spirited Away,Princess Mononoke) at the forefront. Other prominent animation directors include Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies,The Tale of Princess Kaguya), Makoto Shinkai (Your Name,Weathering With ...
In real life this fact was true for the real life Yumi, as she has star in different Japanese movies such as playing Dendou-Jitensha in the 2002 film Copycat Killer, playing Ryoko Tajima in the 2004 film Walking the Dog and as Nozomi Akai in the 2005 horror film The Neighbor No. 13....
A-listersTakyua KimuraandMasami Nagasawarespectively star as a police detective named Kosuke Nitta and a hotel concierge named Naomi Yamagishi. Nitta is chasing down a serial killer, and discovers the next killing will occur at the fancy hotel Yamagishi works at. To catch the killer, Nitta goes...