>>281719391
Japanese horror is inherently steeped in absurdity. See Junji Ito's entire body of work. Or, for a more traditional example that may show where it came from and why it's so different from western horror, consider the Japanese ghost stories. Many of them read like absurd jokes. Like the one where a dude meets a nudist at night, the nudist shows him his ass and an eye looks at him from the anus. That's the whole horror story. It is a pretty fucked up situation to end up in, but I dare you to read it without cracking up.