title: Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand
author:  Patrick Galloway 
description: <div>Film critic Patrick Galloway won over readers with film guides Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook, and Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand. A lifelong student of Asian philosophy and culture, Galloway has traveled in Japan, Hong Kong, India and Nepal. He lives in the Bay Area.</div>
zlib_text: EXTREME ASIA
  The Rise of Cult Cinema 
  from the Far East
  Daniel Martin
  
  Extreme Asia
  The Rise of Cult Cinema from the Far East
  Daniel Martin
  
  For Monty
  © Daniel Martin, 2015
  Edinburgh University Press Ltd 
  The Tun – Holyrood Road 
  12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry 
  Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
  www.euppublishing.com 
  Typeset in 11/13 Monotype Ehrhardt by
  Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, 
  and printed and bound in Great Britain by 
  CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY
  A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
  ISBN  978 0 7486 9745 8 (hardback)
  ISBN  978 0 7486 9746 5 (webready PDF)
  ISBN  978 1 4744 0360 3 (epub)
  The right of Daniel Martin to be identified as author of this work has been 
  asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 
  and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).
  
  Contents
  Acknowledgements 
  iv
   
  Introduction 
  1
  1 Chilling Beginnings: Japanese Horror and the British Critical 
  Reception of Nakata Hideo’s Ring 
  22
  2