Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horrror

last SG · 2008-08-19T22:32:59+00:00

is showing later on animax at 11.30pm..lookin forward to it

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This was posted by allentby in 2007. I have recently watch it and would like to recomended it too

Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Supernatural

Plot Summary: A collection of three classic Japanese horror stories: "Yotsuya Kaidan," the story of a wife betrayed by her husband who seeks vengeance even in death, "Tenshu Monogatari," the story of forbidden love between a goddess and a human, and "Bakeneko," the story of a mysterious cat monster with a vendetta against a certain family.

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I personally enjoy this horror anime, very much, it is a well detail horror flick.

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I like the ending songs. here are the relics

In Romanji

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In English

The color of falling blossom fills the sky
Which lingers with end of my selfish love
Eventually, after everything has passed away
I will think of nobody but you

Once upon a time during spring, we kissed for the
First time underneath the evening twilight
Developed within an illusion of fragrance
I thought of nobody but you

We found each other in our sadness
And in the pouring rain we held one another
Before I can no longer breathe or see
I will think of nobody but you

This fleeting memento of spring
Is the most beautiful thing I have
And I want to leave it here, just for you
Just for you

A party of fluttering, dancing,
Blossoms make the moon stop its orbit
Without being afraid of losing their way
They just keep flowing

As I rest my body against your chest
I relinquish my life

Before I can no longer breathe or see
I think of nobody but you

Eventually, after everything has passed away
I will think of nobody but you

Oh if you can somehow hear my voice
Know that it’s a voice that thinks only of you

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Yotsuya Kaidan

This story takes place during the Edo period and revolves around the tragic love story of Oiwa-sama and Tamiya Iemon. Although married and pregnant with Tamiya’s child, her father did not approve of their relationship due to Tamiya’s reputation as a shady bandit and ordered his daughter never to see him again, which resulted in his unfortunate death by the hands of Tamiya himself. It’s unfortunate that Oiwa-sama never discovers that she’s living with her father’s murderer or that she’d have to live out the remainder of her life in misery as we’ll see later. It turns out that their love affair doesn’t even last that long since he loses interest in her after she has their child, leaving her to care for the baby herself while he’s out entertaining himself with alcohol and other women. He even blames her for baring a child knowing that they are poor and are unable to provide for their offspring, but shouldn’t he shoulder some responsibility in this as well? He really has lived up to his reputation as a shady bandit, and I feel especially bad for Oiwa-sama because she doesn’t know that he’s secretly poisoning her as well.

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Tenshu Monogatari

This arc is based on a play of the same name by Kyoka Izumi that tells the story of a forbidden love between a god and a human. In medieval Japan, Himekawa Zushonosuke is a falconer who is sent by his master Lord Harima to retrieve a precious falcon named Kojiro.

Zushonosuke's search is initially fruitless, though it leads him to a chance encounter with a beautiful woman bathing in a lake. Zushonosuke more or less falls in love with her at first sight.

When news reaches Lord Harima that the falcon has in fact fled to the castle keep of Shirasagi-jo, Zushonosuke is ordered there to bring the falcon back.

Accompanied by two friendly demons, Zushonosuke makes his way to Shirasagi-jo, which is rumored to be inhabited by beings called Wasuregami (Forgotten Gods). At the castle, Zushonosuke is surprised to find the same beautiful woman he encountered before, who introduces herself as Tomihime (Princess Tomi), beginning their forbidden romance.

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Bake Neko

In the Edo period, a granddaughter of the master of a samurai family was planning to marry.

However, at the moment they were to celebrate the wedding, she was killed miserably. A traveling medicine-seller said it was the work of a bakeneko, or cat monster. As if prophesied by his words, the other members of the family began to be killed, one after another.

The medicine seller claims to have the means to destroy the bakeneko, but to do so, he must know not only the monster's form but the truth about what it wants and the reason for its appearance. That was when the family's dark secrets begin to surface.