Her classical prototype, as “Ring” series director Hideo Nakata readily acknowledged, was the unfortunate Oiwa. The first type, however, is by far the most common in the popular culture, including the unforgiving ghost-in-the-well Sadako of the “Ring” films, which launched the J-horror boom in the late 1990s. The stories mostly center on women who become vengeful, restless or protective spirits after their untimely deaths.
Davisson also gives a concise history of the Japanese ghost (pardon me, “yūrei”) in all its fictional and nonfictional guises, from ancient legends and Kabuki plays to the sort of urban (and rural) legends that have been a fruitful source for contemporary Japanese horror films, now known throughout the world as J-horror.
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