Read book - Japanese Horror Cinema
Published by Edinburgh University Press IN 2005
ISBN 9780748619955

After learning that the film "Ringu" was an adaption of a horror novel by Koji Suzuki, I searched his name on google and found an online interview.

(source: http://int.kateigaho.com/win05/horror-suzuki.html)

Found article entitled "Too Many Horror Remakes" by Merlin Harries after typing "post vietnamese horror remakes" into google and clicked on the first link.
(source: http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature.php?id=288)

Found another article after typing in "horror remakes" into google entitled

Horrors! Attack of the remakes

by Jay A. Fern
(source: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/09/entertainment/et-scriptland9)

• Searched in google.com for other Hideo Nakata interviews, clicked on the second link because it looked the most promising.
  (Source: http://madeinatlantis.com/interviews/hideo_nakata_3.htm)
• Reserched the western influence of the Japanese film Battle Royal in the booke "The Cinema of Japan and Korea" on page 225
  (Cinema of Japan first published in 2004 by Wallflower Press, edited by Justin Bowyer,
  ISBN: 1 - 904764-11-8)
• Also researched the horror-film genre on wikipedia.
  (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film)
• Found a link entitled "J-Horror, an alternative guide" in the references section of the horror film wikipedia page.
  (source: http://www.seekjapan.jp/article-1/765/J-Horror:+An+Alternative+Guide)

Today I collected my results from a short questionnaire I posted on various message boards. The message boards I posted on were American remakes of Japanese films on imdb.com. I used these message boards because the people with imdb accounts are usually avid film fans. The people would also be interested in Japanese remakes because the posts would be on specific films message boards (The Ring, The Grudge, Silent Hill and The Eye).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/board/nest/123905667?d=123905667&p=1#123905667

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/board/nest/123905803

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406759/board/nest/123905851

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/board/nest/123905725

I also collected in the results from 10 questionnaires I gave to people in my college to get the views of the average Western peoples views of Japanese cinema.

I then analysed the results by writing up an evaluation of the results. Since the questionnaire was mostly people's opinions, i included the revelavant points in the evaluation.

Continued Researching how Silent Hill was adapted to western cinema.
I then researched an article
“Remaking Corporeality and Spatiality:
U.S. Adaptations of Japanese Horror Films”http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/special2/Ozawa.pdf, an article written by
Eimi Ozawa from the University of Japan and began writing out a questionnaire to find out general western peoples views of Western/Japanese cinema.

Researched Silent Hill (game) on Wikipedia (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill)
and researched the American film version (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_(film)

• Looked up Japanese Cinema on wikipedia (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cinema) and found out about other films that have influenced American cinema.
• One of them was a film called "Yojimbo". So i researched the film on the internet movie database (source=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/)
• Also researched Yojimbo's influence on westerns on wikipedia (source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)#Influence)

• I typed "Americanized versions of Japanese horrors" into google and clicked on the first link entitled "The Current Influence of Japanese Horror Movies on American Horror ..." (source = www.associatedcontent.com/article/245835/the_current_influence_of_japanese_horror.html).
• The article on the page was written by L. Vincent Poupard and published May 17th 2007.
• www.echostation.com/features/japanese.htm - japanese influences on star wars.
• Need to research a broader range of genres that have been Americanized.

Today I typed up notes on the Hideo Nakata interview i found last lesson. I also researched the American version of Ringu which is the Ring on imdb and wikipedia.
(sources http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/ imdb and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film) wikipedia)

Beginning Research

Today I begun researching "The influence of Japanese horror films on modern western cinema".

I first typed in "japanese horror films influence on western horror films" into google search engine and clicked on the first link which was an interview for the famous Japanese Horror Director called Hideo Nakata. (Source: http://int.kateigaho.com/win05/horror-nakata.html)