Asian films and stories in general are usually much slower in their pacing, compared to those from the West. For example, the film I watched, Audition, actually played out like a quiet romance film for the first half before slowly getting scarier and scarier, showing off the story's true colors.
J-horror is a lot more focused on ghost stories that don't always explain situations or why certain things happen, unlike their American counterparts, which tend to over-explain certain things or mysteries. These are put in place to help rationalise these stories and make them feel more realistic, unlike the supernatural stories of the East.
J-horror is, however, very similar to Gothic stories in that both are embedded in the idea that their "scary" stories have a grand backstory. However, their romance-heavy stories usually differ from the J-horror stories. Authors such as Anne Rice and Edgar Allen Poe have written stories that are good examples of gothic stories, but they also show how they're different from J-horror, which isn't always about the romance aspect but instead exorcisms, ghosts, and rituals.
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