While watching the movie, Kwaidan, in class, you can see a difference between western and eastern horror just by the way supernatural beings act. Yuki, the woman of the snow, will kill a human but she kills for a good meal, which is not very often. Compared to western horror, demons or evil spirits usually posses, or do something to harm many people at once.
Eastern culture has a good balance of good and evil spirits, just as western culture does. Western cultures believe in angels and demons, expressing how demons can harm humans and only do evil, while angels protect. In comparison to eastern cultures, they believe in beings that take different shapes like demons, ogres, or trolls, whether good or bad, and welcome the good spirits with shrines and open arms.
While reading a bit of the book, A Wild Sheep Chase, I only felt very anxious and unsettled by the story. It doesn't start out positive. The narrator is divorced with no kids, and his girlfriend at the time is a prostitute and ear model. No one had names, except for Rat who began to write him from weird locations. It seemed like the Sheep-man was just stalking him almost over a couple of days.
This story and the movie shows that an eastern spirit can be harmful to a human, making them want to harm themselves just to get rid of it, or follow them for an intended purpose, but their not always pure evil.
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