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Mari Asato (安里 麻里) is a Japanese film director born in Okinawa on March 14, 1976. Primarily known for the film Ju-On: Black Ghost (2009) as part of The Grudge film installments. Other films include the politically undertoned Samurai Chicks (Dokuritsu Shôjo Gurentai) (2004), the cinematic rendition Boy From Hell (2004), Twilight Syndrome: Dead Go Round (2008), Ring of Curse (2011), Bilocation (2012), and Fatal Frame (2014).

Early Life
Asato began her career as a photographer working as an apprentice under Kiyoshi Kurosawa during the filming of Barren Illusions in 1999. A few years later she worked under Hiroshi Takahashi as an assistant director on the production of Sodom the Killer (2004). It was after this time Asato began directing her own films, mostly contributing to already well-known horror franchises. In 2011, she entered her most successful and active phase of film-making, continuously releasing sequels and feature films.

Ring of Curse (Gomennasai) (2011)
Gomennasai (ごめんなさい )

Also known as Gomennasai, Ring of Curse literally means “I’m sorry”. The film is an adaptation of Yuka Hidaka’s mobile phone novel Gomennasai. Structured similarly to the original novel, the film follows a chaptered structure of diary entries.

Bilocation (2012)
Asato’s second feature film, released in 2012, is based on an award-winning novel by Hojo Haruka in 2010 which won best Japanese Horror novel of the year. Noted for its near all-female production team and cast, Bilocation is a revolution to the doppelgänger genre. Directed by a women and starring a female lead, as well as being an adaptation drawing from the works of Hojo, the female-authored Bilocation distinguished itself from the male-dominated genre.

Composed on the basis Freudian themes of human desire, Bilocation or ‘the state of being in two places simultaneously’ is the overriding theme of the film. Starring a veteran of Japanese horror (Asami Mizukawa) the film draws multiple hidden parallels to doppelgänger tropes and religion (specifically the story of Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis).

Fatal Frame (Gekijoban Rei: Zero) (2014)
Otherwise known as Gekijoban Rei: Zero, Fatal Frame is a dark horror film playing with themes of sexuality and intense atmospheric tones. Drawing direct inspiration from the original Fatal Frame video-game franchise also known as Project Zero for PlayStation 2, Fatal Frame's horror experience mimics the atmosphere of the game, a style that is well known in contemporary Japanese horror genre. Also an adaptation of Eiji Otsuka’s original novel Fatal Frame: A Curse Affecting Only Girls, Asato uses the graphic description and contents to build a greater horror base in visual effects.

Set in an all-girls high school, Asato plays with both underlying and prominent aspects of homosexual interactions. With an all-female cast, Fatal Frame actively presents a classic horror genre film in a pro-female light. Regarding the Bechdel Test, the female interactions coincide with the lack of male presence and minimal verbal mention of male characters. In reference to the all-girl high school, Asato either builds upon or avoids generalized female gender tropes while casting new unknown actresses.

The story is comparable to Arthur Millers’ play The Crucible (1953) on the Salem Witch Trials. Reminiscent of the Millerian study of the vulnerability of young minds to become clouded to unrealistic fears.

The film often references John Everett Millais’s famous painting Ophelia, the mid-Victorian piece in which Shakespeare’s famous character Ophelia, from his play Hamlet, drowns herself in a stream due to madness. Asato's style is directly referencing the eerie beauty of Ophelia’s corpse floating in the river. She has been referred to as creating an ‘Ophelia’ world in rural Japan.

Filmography

 * Jigoku Kozō (2004)
 * Dokuritsu Shôjo Gurentai (2004)
 * Twilight Syndrome: Dead Go Round (2008)
 * Ju-on: Black Ghost (2009)
 * Gomennasai (2011)
 * Bilocation (2014)
 * Gekijōban Rei ~Zero~ (2014)

Article evaluation
The wording of some sentences makes the article uneasy to read.

Links and citations both work.

Small section that speaks about Joyce Borenstein's parents and members of the (ASIFA), perhaps unnecessary and off topic.

Borenstein's films are noted but underrepresented; they are the basis of her character but are not referenced anymore than a simple mention. What was her film style (if she had one)? Though the article does well define her major accomplishments and their specific meaning in her life.

References, specifically from 'the 65th Oscar awards' although precedent in her accomplishments, is reliable but biased since her film was a both nominated and won an Oscar, they are not inclined to say anything against the film. No referral to any dislike of her films or down moments in her life, the page recalls only her accomplishments. Were there any films that were not received well or were otherwise unsuccessful?

Talk page has only one conversation about the use of reliable sources and well-defined page structure. Some criticism of 'hard to read' sections and 'tweaking' of headings.

We discussed the use of Wikipedia to be a neutral, well presented and reliable source of information about a single subject. Tihs article has both reliable sources and citations as well as working links, however, the introduction is a little long and the main contents contain some unneeded or distracting information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Borenstein

Rainyflower (talk) 21:09, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Choosing a Filmmaker
Megan Amram Introduce her works, what work she has done as well as more of her personal life. How she affects the present world, especially in social media.

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/the-good-place-season-2-episode-3-writer-megan-amram-interview-1201881531/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/14/megan-amran-things-that-make-you-go-boom

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/nov/14/-sp-science-for-her-megan-amram-parks-and-recreation

http://www.harvardwood.org/mp201507

Ami Thompson Her bio and works, she does not have a Wikipedia page at the moment.'''

http://greatwomenanimators.com/ami-thompson/

https://books.google.ca/books?id=-bqrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=ami+thompson&source=bl&ots=E6ZPafnCsR&sig=d0qvV3lvnsMonaS6eMNpNTvjTd4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqvK_8h-3YAhUsyoMKHbitCMU4FBDoAQhUMAk#v=onepage&q=ami%20thompson&f=false

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/promote-article/ami-thompson-83453.html

Mari Asato: Top Choice More of her bio, where she came from and her genre of film she directs. Including her most famous works and how they are derived from her.

http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/bilocation-2013/

https://books.google.ca/books?id=tfasDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Mari+Asato&source=bl&ots=pPr3euDD2y&sig=tJ2VjE19G1W29xOWfexV2UHRVaw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb6rPUkO3YAhUr9YMKHSfdCoM4FBDoAQhFMAY#v=onepage&q=Mari%20Asato&f=false

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/09/24/films/film-reviews/fatal-frame-mari-asatos-uncanny-ghostly-dopplegangers/

http://www.fantasiafestival.com/2015/en/films-schedule/11/fatal-frame

https://thebechdelscream.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/fatal-frame/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainyflower (talk • contribs) 03:38, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Rainyflower (talk) 00:56, 27 January 2018 (UTC)