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I've been reading a lot of Japanese crime and horror fiction, and a lot of it seems concerned with the nature of evil as a kind of intellectual and psychological contagion, that evil spreads in a repressed society. Is this a distinctly Japanese line of thought? If it is, where does it stem from? If not, what other country's lit focuses on the nature of evil so much?

>> No.21306611

>>21306603
This book
Ringu
Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
And Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure film are the things I've been reading/watching

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>>21306603
> I've been reading a lot of Japanese crime and horror fiction, and a lot of it seems concerned with the nature of evil as a kind of intellectual and psychological contagion, that evil spreads in a repressed society

>> No.21306945

>>21306603
Looks kino.

>> No.21307009

It's religious.

>> No.21307016

>>21306603
>If not, what other country's lit focuses on the nature of evil so much?
Germans, Mexicans, some Russians, and of course the French.