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Originally Posted by asami_kayako
... what is with Asian horro movies and long-haired female ghosts (Sadako, Kayako, Kyung-ah)? (Looks to omcdave for assisetnce)
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Curiously, in the writer-director's follow-up to NIGHTMARE - called PHONE - there's a scene where a child psychologist interprets a drawing a little girl has made of herself with long hair. The kid's shrink interprets the long hair as representing sexual maturity.
In the book THE RING COMPANION, the author writes about the long tradition in Japan of regarding women as not just second-class citizens but as barely human. Within that kind of cultural framework, it is almost inevitable that the group being repressed will return in popular art as some kind of monster.