“Tales of the Moon After the Rain”, although published in 1776, left a strong mark in the twentieth century, which is manifested not only in the film Kenji Mizoguchi (“Ugetsu Monogatari”, 1953), inspired by two stories from the collection and won an Oscar for foreign language film, but also modern Japanese masterpieces such as Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2002), which won the 2002 Oscar for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year. . There, Ueda Akinari continues to inspire 21st-century stories, “yomihon” becomes “anime”, Japan’s awe-inspiring future becomes one with its mysterious past, and an army of otherworldly beings emerges into the present through the gripping, profound traditions of the ages. .