Sensei Sensibility

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour Asian horror cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Hair We Are Now - Entertain Us? Whether you're on Team Sadako or Team Kayako, it's fair to say that not many J-Horror fans were on Team Koji Shiraishi after his 2016 release: Sadako VS Kayako . Both Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki are undisputed icons of the J-Horror genre, inspiration for the (now) over-used hair-scare in Western horror, and the cause of many a bedroom light to be left on since 1998.  Victims of male violence, these women now wreak spectral, and psychological, vengeance on any innocent party who stumble across either their Cursed Video Tape or House of Death.  Regardless of who you personally find scarier, we can all agree that being haunted by one of these ghouls on their own is bad enough. The big screen union of these two titans of t...

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour Asian horror cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. J-horror found footage shocker Occult (2009) by controversial director  Koji Shiraishi - is it scarier than Noroi: The Curse ? That's exactly what we're here today to find out. You may or may not be already familiar with the 2005 J-horror found footage Noroi: The Curse   A supernatural  documentary style  murder-mystery; focusing on ancient demonic entities, enraged at the forward march of time and subsequent desecration of their old sacred sites.  Due to the slow-burn menace, masterful unfolding of the plot and downright unsettling events within the film, Noroi has garnered quite the reputation on the underground Asian horror scene as being the most terrifying Japanese horror of (nearly) all time. Yes, it initially took me three...