290A/241C - Deck 3

Question 1

This shot shows the character ___________ from Audition.

Answer 1

Aoyama

Question 2

The teenager in this stil is _____________ from Audition.

Answer 2

Shigehiko

Question 3

The man in this stil is ____________ from Audition.

Answer 3

Yoshikawa

Question 4

The woman below is ___________ from Audition.

Answer 4

Asami

Question 5

___________ Takashi is the director of Audition.

Answer 5

Miike

Question 6

_______________ is a classic J-horror film by Miike.

Answer 6

One Missed Call

Question 7

___________ is a “zombie musical” directed by Miike.

Answer 7

Happiness of the Katakuris

Question 8

_________________ is a children’s fantasy-horror film directed by Miike.

Answer 8

The Great Yōkai War

Question 9

Miike’s film Audition is based on a novel of the same name by ______________ Ryū.

Answer 9

Murakami

Question 10

_________________ refers to a pre-WW II ideal of Japanese womanhood.

Answer 10

yamato nadeshiko

Question 11

The narrator of the novel Audition is a 3po or______________________________________.

Answer 11

third-person omniscient narrator

Question 12

In a ________________ film, a woman who has been raped is avenged by herself or her family

Answer 12

rape revenge

Question 13

The 1968 film ____________ relates a tale of rape and revenge in medieval Japan.

Answer 13

Kuroneko

Question 14

The 2000 film ____________ is a rape revenge film set in 21st century Tokyo.

Answer 14

Freeze Me

Question 15

_____________________(1978) is an iconic rape revenge film from the US.

Answer 15

I Spit on Your Grave

Question 16

Meir _______ is the Israeli-American director of I Spit on Your Grave.

Answer 16

Zarchi

Question 17

The director of Kuroneko is ______ Kaneto.

Answer 17

Shindō

Question 18

In horror films based on _____________ ,

physical forms undergo drastic change.

Answer 18

body horror

(The image is from the 1989 Japanese cult classic, Tetsuo the Iron Man.)

Question 19

The early twentieth-century Japanese literature movement known as ____________________________ included elements of the erotic and grotesque.

Answer 19

ero guro nansensu

(On quizzes, I’ll accept the common abbreviation for this term: ero guro.)

Question 20

Edogawa _________, a famous writer of ero guro nansensu, took his pen name from Edgar Allan Poe.

Answer 20

Rampo

Question 21

In Edogawa Rampo’s gruesome story, ____________________, a wife tortures her husband, who returned home a paraplegic after the Russo-Japanese war.

Answer 21

“The Caterpillar”

Question 22

The body horror appearing in Audition recalls the _______ of Kabuki theater.

Answer 22

keren

Question 23

A famous Kabuki play that features keren (often-gorey special effects) is ______________________.

Answer 23

The Ghost of Yotsuya