The essay discusses the relationship between urban environments, Asian cultures, and the presence of ghosts. The article also discusses a very interesting concept about “living ghosts”. In ghost movies in Asian cities, there is a clear distinction between the apartment where the living ghost is located and the traditional haunted house. Traditional haunted houses often have clear boundaries that should not be broken and are often associated with a specific family or person. In contrast, living ghosts in apartments are linked to factors such as economic status, social isolation, or health problems that make the ghosts in the apartment not

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“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.”——Friedrich Nietzsche Since World War II, Tokyo seems to be more often depicted as the object of destruction, which may related to Tokyo’s historical disaster experience, reflecting Japan’s postwar society’s trauma and uneasy emotions about war and nuclear weapons. Japanese films and movies reflect the state of mind of the Japanese people to a certain extent – a contradictory state of mind that combines pessimism and optimism. On the one hand, the scars that the war has burned on them and the horror and darkness of the movie image can be seen as a

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