The missing link here is Nobuo Nakagawa’s Ghost of Yotsuya—which desperately deserves a restoration, alongside other greats of Kaiki cinema
Michael FeinbergI might go further; I mean, I’m not even entirely certain that there’s a direct line of continuity between, say, “Kwaidan” or “Ugestsu” and the tropes people now think of when they hear the term “J-Horror.”