Yurei is the Japanese word for ghost. It s as simple as that. They are the souls of dead people, unable or unwilling to shuffle off this mortal coil. The general concept is similar to that of ghosts in the Western world: an ethereal essence of a formerly living being that remains after death. Just as in the West, some yurei haunt a specific person or place; others tend to roam freely. But the similarities with foreign ghosts end there. Yurei are many things, but fri... >Voir plus