Japanese Horror Shorts
Description: Japanese Horror - The Ghost of the Well (Banchō Sarayashiki) is one of Japan's most famous ghost stories (onryō). Okiku was a servant accused of losing a valuable heirloom plate by a samurai whose romantic advances she rejected. Distraught, she threw herself into a well; her ghost famously rises at night to count plates from one to nine before wailing. This legend heavily inspired modern J-horror tropes, including the iconic imagery in The Ring.
Description: Inspired by the 1977 off-the-wall Japanese horror movie "House" or "Hausu" "ハウス" The film stars mostly amateur actors with only Kimiko Ikegami and Yōko Minamida having any notable previous acting experience. The film is about a schoolgirl traveling with her six classmates to her ailing aunt's country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.
Description: Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script; Shusett was executive producer.
Description: A bento box with a morbid twist. The bento box is divided into compartments, each containing different food items: dumplings with skull faces, halved eggs, red balls, and tempura. One compartment contains a skull-shaped rice ball. Above the bento box, the words "MEMENTO BENTO" are written in a distressed, vintage font, with Japanese text below.
