You sympathies with the spirit (or what not) in J-horror. Because of this nature of there stories there tends to be a much more rich background story (from what I have seen anyhow) or at lest there's more to there story than "it's just evil because it is". Which I think most people enjoy more its more relatable to a real lives. We can make the connection to how such things "could" be real, and that i think is much more creepy.
(The Ring (2002 film) by, Gore Verbinski.)
Even though this movie was a remake and has been americanized it still has good core elements to J-horror. The little girl herself was not evil at first, she was just a baby. A baby that was subjugated to abuse by her insane mother (if I remember correctly). In turn her spirit was cursed so to speak. Hungry, constantly looking for a new mother a "good" mother. You end up feeling sorry for the girl and then wounder, "wait who here really is the evil doer?" That's something I just love it's more of a psychological mystery a moral story of ones soul or something deep like that haha.
(Kwaidan)
I really enjoyed these story's as well. They seemed vary easy to read to me or comprehend. Some of them ended vary abruptly but I really like that, made you wounder "..whit..what just happened?" Some of the stories also had a comedic affect to them which was great. Like the story with the guy who got his ears ripped off by the ghost, it was just super funny how that all played out in the end. How some of the other characters didn't think much of it.
On another note about j-horror books/graphic novel, there creatures are really unique to the j-horror seen. For example I believe in Kwaidan one of the first stories talked about crabs with human faces on there backs. I've never seen/heard of any type creatures other than in j-horror, they seem to be vary creative about that.
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