Unbelievable(Chinese Edition)

Based on the most popular folktales in Japan, the book includes wide range of contents such as ghosts of the Heike family that were exterminated after their defeat, fairy foxes, willow ghosts as well as ghosts redressing their injustice. Without beautiful rhetoric, the book brims with a strong and unique style of Japanese traditional literature and local flavor: it presents an aesthetic combination of western and eastern civilizations with the tones of humor, caution or allegory. The horrifying atmosphere and cultural conception created by the book deeply affects the recognition on horrific aesthetics of the Japanese. The film adopted from the book and directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1964 got the Jury price at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. "本书取材于日本本土最广为流传的民间故事，涉及的内容极其丰富，譬如日本历史上因战败而被灭族的平家怨灵，狐仙、柳树精报恩的故事，幽灵伸冤的秘闻......全篇没有华丽的辞藻，却弥漫着强烈的日本传统文学的独特风味以及浓厚的扶桑国乡土汁味，或诙谐，或警示，或讽喻，丰富多彩，形态多变，呈现出东西方文明交融的美学境界。 本书所构建的恐怖氛围和文化意境，深刻影响了日本人对恐怖美学的认识。它曾在1964年被改编成电影，由小林正树导演，该片获得了戛纳国际电影节评审团大奖，奥斯卡最佳外语片提名。 "