{"id":35,"date":"2007-04-20T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T20:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/04\/20\/kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T20:51:49","slug":"kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/04\/20\/kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiri Kiri Kiri Kiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The essay discussing women in horror films today made me really intrigued on what the writer&#8217;s perspective would be on the recent wave of Japanese horror films. Before the new type of gore and torture based horror films (Thanks to <em>Saw<\/em> and Eli Roth) the main influence of horror films in the early part of the decade were those like <em>Ring<\/em> and <em>Dark Water<\/em> which often feature female protagonists who are mothers, which often offers an easy vulnerability when they deal with supernatural forces. One could also see that not as an vulnerability but a determined altruism. I think the remake of <em>The Omen<\/em> tried to take from this style even moreso than from the original film. Another very different kind of Japanese horror film that I was really mulling over during the presentation though was Takashi Miike&#8217;s <em>Audition<\/em>, a 1999 film that acts as a &#8220;romantic dramedy&#8221; (what a cruddy word) until the final 35 minutes or so. The basic premise is a guy who lost his wife years ago ends up holding an audition to find a new romantic interest. He thinks he has found a perfect match in a shy ex-ballet dancer, but things turn progressively odder until a wretching climax. I don&#8217;t wish to give any more a way, but it definitely makes me ponder the issues of gender identity in Asian horror a bit more.<br \/>\nAlso:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-519.ak.facebook.com\/photos-ak-sf2p\/v75\/95\/3\/26005742\/n26005742_30805519_3312.jpg\" alt=\"Weee!\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essay discussing women in horror films today made me really intrigued on what the writer&#8217;s perspective would be on the recent wave of Japanese horror films. Before the new type of gore and torture based horror films (Thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/04\/20\/kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}