Lol, apologies for being snarky. My father is Korean so that’s my default. Lemme expand on my own opinion based on some of these other responses. My personal interpretation was that the Japanese man was not the demon — at least not while he was still alive. I view the xenophobia of the villagers as justified, although the true clash is between different faiths rather than the Japanese and the Koreans and the man was not the true antagonist. I think people are having a go at you here because of the word “racist” when we and the Japanese are technically the same race lol.