Yesterday it snowed, which is highly unusual since it was mid April. It was, altogether, a bleak and miserable day. Cold, wet, icy and dark. The seasons on which we depend for everything are at best an unlikely blessing. We’re destroying our planet, slowly but surely, and in time even days like yesterday will be a fond memory.
Yesterday
To distract yourself from the grim future, how about a trip to a grim present. In recent years there has been a strong wave of creepy Japanese horror films. Often they are remade (The Ring, The Grudge) but I assure you they are usually better in the original Japanese. Many of the have the same theme (even plot…), and the following example distills the genre down well into a bite-sized portion.
The film is called Black Hair Woman and is only about twelve minutes long. It is divided into two parts on youtube (in Japanese, with subtitles):
< Part One
< Part Two
I highly recommend this short film. Not only is it quite scary for how short it is (watch it in a dark room with the volume high), but it features the lovely Aya Matsuura (very famous Japanese idol singer) in a starring role.