J-horror Inquirer article

[Mathieu St-Pierre]

So, then again what is a J-Horror film?

a ghost story from JAPAN featuring the typical vengeful woman with the hair 
that cover her face?
Maybe that's what the U.S. term for J-Horror describe. Because we have to 
admit that this wasn't the trend at all in any american film...

But this caracteristic is also present in countless South-East asian films. 
For example, the myth of the Aswang (Philippines) or the "flying heads" from 
Indonesia, Malaysia... It's all about a woman who seeks vengeance after 
death. And the story is always about something local. As opposed to the 
american film where the "evil" is always from somewhere else (frankenstein, 
dracula, Alien, whatever..).

Mathieu St-Pierre


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>There are two schools on that: There are some who would assume as you
>describe, there are others who lean to far towards assuming it all comes
>from the Western masters. I don't think foreign cinema is completely
>isolated, however, I think some tend not to recognize that indigenous
>culture has a stronger impact than they believe, certainly as strong as the
>impact of which film maker the "foreigner" watched in their youth.
>
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>This kind of brings up a point that I've discussed
>with several people. There is a tendency to assume
>that "foreign" (i.e. non-American) cinemas are
>completely isolated, drawing only on influences within
>their respective cultures, but the impact of American
>films on any cinema cannot be denied. Film makers are
>like anybody else, they like to imitate their favorite
>film makers, so it comes to, who laid the chicken and
>who cracked the egg?