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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.Edited by Lin Yu 01 Aug `08, 10:49PM
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I like the ending songs. here are the relics
In Romanji
Sora wo umeru hana no iro
Utsuri ni kerina waga koi
Yagate subete ga sugi saru ato mo
Anata dake wo omou
Itsuka haru no yuumagure
Hajimete kuchiduke shita
Maboroshi no you na kaori no naka de
Anata dake wo omou
Motome atta kanashi sa yo
Furi shikiri tsutsunde yo
Mae mo miezu, iki mo dekizu
Anata dake wo omou
Hakanai haru no katami ni wa
Ichiban kirei na watashi wo
Anata dake ni, anata dake ni
Todometai to omou
Mai odoru hana no utage
Tsuki wa tomatta mama
Mou osore mo tomadoi mo naku
Nagare yuku mama
Anata no mune ni kono mi wo makase
Watashi wa shinde yukou
Mae mo miezu, iki mo dekizu
Anata dake wo omou
Yagate subete ga sugi saru ato mo
Anata dake wo omou
Aa kono koe ga kikoe masu ka
Anata wo omou koe ga
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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.
Edited by Lin Yu 01 Aug `08, 4:54PM
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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.
Edited by Lin Yu 01 Aug `08, 4:54PM
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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.
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While spending the night in a traditional inn, the Medicine Seller stumbles upon a strange phenomenon. A pregnant woman who is desperately seeking shelter at the inn is led to a strange room upstairs. There, she is attacked by an assassin, who is then mysteriously and gruesomely killed. A group of Zashiki Warashi are haunting the room the pregnant Shino is sleeping in. They dispose of the assassin when he tries to kill her. Apparently, the inn used to be a brothel.
Back then, the inn's owner routinely aborted her worker's children so the girls could keep working. The unborn were then encased in small hollow dolls and kept in the ceiling, trapping their souls. The unborn are drawn to Shino because of her determination to save her own child and decide they'd like her to be their mother. After saving her, they cause a bunch of weird events which drag the Medicine Seller into the middle of the whole affair.
The Zashiki Warashi want Shino to give birth to them, and she agrees (to the Medicine Seller's dismay). She pulls a sutra off her stomach (after taking a beating from the inn's owner who was trying to abort her baby) and ends up seemingly miscarrying her infant five months into the pregnancy.
At the end of the episode, the Medicine Seller seems to have saved Both Shino and her child since she is seen with a big belly, knocked out on the floor. However, some speculate that the final scene after the ending credits implies that the child she is about to give birth to is in fact the Mononoke, having taken the place of her own miscarried child.
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Umibōzu
Traveling on a merchant's luxurious ship, the Medicine Seller and the ship's other passengers end up stranded in the middle of a sea full of ayakashi. Among the passengers, the Medicine Seller has had a previous encounter with Kayo, a servant girl who helped him during his confrontation with the Bakeneko. Some very strange events occur, including the passengers of the ship being asked what their worst fear is by the ayakashi and having to experience it. In the end, though, the conflict is solved when Genkei comes to terms with his past. His sister was in love with him and to ease his conscience, he thought that he was in love with his sister, but the truth was that he was happy when she decided to sacrifice herself in his place. This is the first arc in which the sword the Medicine Seller is actually unsheathed on screen.
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Umibōzu (Japanese: 海坊主 sea bonze) is a spirit in Japanese folklore. The Umibōzu is said to live in the ocean and capsize the ship of anyone who dares speak to it. This spirit's name, which combines the character for "sea" with the character of "Buddhist monk," is possibly related to the fact that the Umibōzu is said to have a large, round head, resembling the shaven heads of Buddhist monks. Alternatively they are enormous Yokai (spectres) that appear to shipwreck victims and fishermen. They are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head and typically appears to be praying. It is usually reported as having a grey, cloud-like torso and serpentine limbs.
According to one story, if angered, they ask that the crews provide a barrel that it proceeds to fill with sea water to drown them. To avoid this disastrous fate, it is necessary to give him a bottomless barrel.
This folktale is likely related to another Japanese tradition, which says that the souls of people who have no one to look after their graves take refuge at sea.
Umibōzu
Edited by Lin Yu 21 Aug `08, 7:30PM
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