I put this in the Almost Heart-Warming pool because it's a tender love-making scene with a woman who is self-conscious because she's a decaying corpse.

In Chinese, that character is pronounced "Qian" which can be translated as front, forward, future. Not sure how close the meanings of Kanji are to their original Chinese counterparts.

absnocon said:
In Chinese, that character is pronounced "Qian" which can be translated as front, forward, future. Not sure how close the meanings of Kanji are to their original Chinese counterparts.

It means it is a traditional Chinese monster.
Its a dead body brought back alive, and it can only go forward (no sideways, no backward). Basically is a Chinese version of Zombie.