Within East Asian cultures, on the other hand, movie monsters usually manifest as an ethereal spirit whose physical whereabouts are a mystery. Most are ordinary people who became ghosts after their death. From that perspective, East Asia's "monsters" are typically just humans in another form, though their reasons for being involved with living people are usually unclear.
東方文化中，鬼通常以魂魄的形式出現，行蹤飄渺成謎，大多是凡人死亡後轉化而成，東方的「鬼」，常是「人」的另一種面貌，並和活在世間的人們牽扯不清。