"Kwaidan Live Bar Thriller Night" in Roppongi, Japan

Here's a bit off season but cool enough episode, which has to do with a scary house in Roppongi, Tokyo. Kwaidan is for scary stories as Lafcadio Hearn coined it.

A rumor flew about, there opened last May a super scary house in Roppongi. Curious, a reporter dared an interview with the house owner. Kwaidan Live Bar Thriller Night, what a name for a joint, is in the basement of Roi Bldg.

A charming lady, Ayako Yamaguchi, 26, received him at the door. The program lists kwaidans once in every hour for 15 minutes each - told live. Three kwaidan storytellers take turn. Miss Yamaguchi is one of them.
That day, a group of six female customers came in as the house opened; another group, this time, of male and female customers followed. The curtain rose, Miss Yamaguchi clad in kimono walked out of the dark and stood in the spot light, with beaming smiles.

"My buddy Matsumoto told me.....", I started to say, and suddenly her expression changed, into that of a kwaidan storyteller with both eyes wide open, murmuring something inaudible. The show started.
The house turned  a live stage of horrors; some screaming and others dumbfounded......

A round of show done, Miss Yamaguchi resumes her charming self again and throws her comforting smiles to everybody in sight. No wonder she has so many fans and her house so popular.

The reporter got to work off stage:

Asked how she has come to stage horror stories that way, she confided:

"I'm a scary cat in real life."

"I had a rather strange mother; she would expose me to horror stories and horror situations. She would videotape horror movie films and let me watch them always.

"My mother must have had some inspiration of her own; she often told me of her strange experiences.
"She gave me some sort of education for the gifted."

Miss Yamaguchi went on to tell her most extraordinary story of her past, how she found her way into this profession, what she envisions to do in years ahead, and so on.

Kwaidan is the art of storytelling with remote roots in Japanese culture. If you happen to pass by Roppongi, give yourself a treat at "Kwaidan Live Bar Thriller Night".

News Souce: Withnews