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Old 02-16-2007, 10:21 AM
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If you're going to stick to Japan, you'll probably want to get some films with drastically different portrayals of women so you can compare and contrast. If you can watch it, Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh & Blood (faux snuff) & Ichi the Killer (extremely violent black horror/comedy) are going to give you different messages than traditional Japanese ghost stories. I'm not trying to bring you down, but you're probably going to want to watch 10+ J-Horrors before you're ready to start comparing.

Also, you're going to need to define what you mean by 'Western Horror' You'll find that stuff like the Italian Giallo genre are going to FAR differ in their treatment of women as apposed to some US/Canadian flicks.
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