ghosts and spirits

His films like 'A City of Sadness' and 'The Assassin' weave ghosts and spiritual presences into narratives about memory, loss, and historical trauma with poetic subtlety.

Best known for 'The Grudge' series, he explores how vengeful spirits and supernatural forces manifest from human suffering and unresolved emotional wounds.

His films like 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'The Shape of Water' blend magical realism with spectral imagery to examine how ghosts represent displaced histories and lost souls.