A still from the 1964 horror film Fathers [en, come tutti i link successivi, salvo diversa indicazione]. Source: YouTube.
For fans of Japanese horror films, the Youtube channel One Hundred Years of Cinema (“One Hundred Years of Cinema”) offers an overview of this genre with a short 15-minute video documentary.
“A Brief History of Japanese Horror” analyzes the genre in Japanese culture from its roots in folk tales and Kabuki performances, throughout the centuries.
The video references many Japanese horror classics, including “Kaidan” e “Fathers” dating back to the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, but also works of contemporary cinema such as “Tetsuo: Man of Steel” e “Ring“.
Among other short documentaries on the YouTube channel, we have “How Metropolis Changed the Way We See the Future“, “The invention of cinema (1888 to 1914)” e “What a Movie About a Possessed Hand Can Tell Us About Our Fears“.