Shiro, a reporter, interviews Shinobu, a Noh mask artist of the Karasuma school ... Later, Kazuhiko is found murdered at the Kamo River... “Kyoto Yokai Map” film series.

He claims he wears the Hannya mask, which is not typically used ... dealing with a physical transformation into Yokai, which are, in Japanese folklore, spirits, ghosts, and monsters.

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Japanese Folklore, we track down the legend of the ferocious Ushioni, a Yokai with the hulking body of a bull and an ogre-like face. In certain regions of Ehime ...

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we follow the cry of the Konakijiji, a Yokai that resembles an old man but with a voice like a weeping infant. It's said to lure ...

Yokai" who gives serious thought to these folklore creatures. He is Masanobu Kagawa, the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in ...